3 6 Hydriotaphia, 



not Obfervations of Coals found frefli, 

 fa of Bmn- after four hundred years. In along 

 M. deferred habitation , even Egge-fhels 

 At Elm- have been found frefh> not tending to 

 corruption. 



In the Monument of King Cbitteric^ 

 the Iron Reliques were found all rufty 

 and crumbling into peecees* But our 

 little Iron pins which fattened the Ivory 

 works , held well together, and loft not 

 their Magneticall quality, though want 

 ing a tenacious moifture for the firmer 

 union of parts, although it be hardly 

 drawn into fufion, yet that metall foon 

 fubmitteth unto reft and diflblution. In 

 the brazen peeces we admired not the 

 duration but the freedome from ruft* 

 and ill favour; u pont he harde ft attriti 

 on, but now expo fed unto the piercing 

 Atomes of ayre 5 in the fpaceof a few 

 moneths, they begin to fpot and betray 

 their green entrals. We conceive not 

 thefe Urncs to have defcended thus naked 

 as they appear, or to have entred their 

 graves without the old habit of flowers. 

 The time of Pbilopamen was fo laden 

 with flowers and ribbons, that it afford 

 ed no fight of it felt The rigid L/w- 



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