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compofure 5 whether from any myfte- 

 ry, beft duration or capacity, were but 

 a conjefture. But the common form 

 with necks was a proper figure, making 

 our laft bed like our firft 5 nor much un 

 like the Urncs of our Nativity, while 

 we lay in the nether part of the Earth c, *&* ** 

 and inward vault of our Microcofme* 

 Many Urnes are red, thefebut of a black 

 colour, (bmewhat fmooth, and dully 

 founding, which begat fome doubt, 

 whether they were burnt, or only baked 

 in Oven or Sunne : According to the 

 ancient way, in many bricks, tiles, pots* 

 and teftaceous works ; and as the word 

 tetfa is properly to be taken, when oc 

 curring without addition : And chiefly 

 intended by Pliny 9 when he commend- 

 eth bricks and tiles of two years old,and 

 to make them in the fpring. Nor only 

 thefe concealed peeces, but the open 

 magnificence of Antiquity, ran much in 

 the Artifice of Clay. Hereof the houfe 

 ofMatfite was built, thus old Jupiter 

 flood in the Capitoll, and the Statua of 

 Hercules made in the Reign of Tarqnini*$ 

 was extant in P/^wdayes. And 



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