Befide, to prcferve the living, and 

 make the dead to live, to keep men out 

 of their Urnes. and difoourfe of humane 

 fragments in them, is not impertinent 

 -unroourprofcffion* whofe ftudyis life 

 and death, whodaily behold examples 

 of mortality, mdof all menleaft need 

 artificial memento t^vr coffins by our bed 

 fide, to minde us of our graves. 



'Tb time to obferve Occurrences, and 

 let nothing remarkable efcape us; The 

 Supinity of elder dayes hath left fo much 

 infilence, 01 time hathfo martyred the 



J^Vl!? fhe raoft h >nduftrious 

 hath excel- heads do nnde no cane work to ereft a 



Jendywcll new 



" 



3,73" ' Tis opportune to look back upon old 

 worthy to times, and contemplate our Forefathers 

 Great examples grow thin, and to be 



, 

 ingenuous fetched f rom the paffed world. Simpli- 



I flics awflj and inkit at 



long Itrides upon us. We have enough 

 to do to make up our felves from prefent 

 and paffed times, and the whole ftage of 

 things fcarcefervcth for our inftruaion. 

 A compleat peece of vertue muft be 

 made up from the c*r* of all ages, as 



as 



