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firmable alfo from things contained in 

 diem: In moft were found fubftances re- 

 fembting Combes, Plates like Boxes, 

 fattened with Iron pins, and handfome- 

 ly overwrought like the necks or Brid 

 ges of Muficall Inftruments, long braOe 

 plates overwrought like the handles of 

 eat implements, brazen nippers to pull 

 away hair, and in one a kinde of Of ale yet 

 maintaining a b!e wilh colour* 



Now that they accuftomed to burn 

 or bury with them, things wherein they 

 excelled, delighted, or which were dear 

 unto them, either as farewells unto all 

 pleafiire, or vain apprehenfion that they 

 might ufe them in the other world, is te- 

 ftified by all Antiquity. Obfervable 

 from the Gemme or Berill Ring upon 

 the finger of Cynthia 9 the Miftrefle of 

 Vropcrtiu*, when after her Funerall Pyre 

 ber Ghoft appeared unto him. And no 

 tably illuftrated from the Contents of 

 that Rowane lime preferred by Cardi- 

 nall Farnefc , wherein befides gre^t g 

 number of Gemmes with beads of Gods 

 and Goddefles, were found an Ape of 

 Agatb, a Grafhopper , an Elephant of 

 Ambre 3 a Cryftall Ball, three glafles , 

 4 two 



