Vnte-Bwiatt* 



Antiquity held too light thoughts 

 from Obje&s of mortality* while fome 

 drew provocatives of mirth from Ana- *sicfrimu 

 tomies d , and Joglerslhewed tricks with ^^' 

 Skeleton?. When Fidlers made not fo i/n//mww- 

 pleafant mirth as Fencers, and men could 

 fit with quiet ftomacks while hanging 

 was plakd e before them, Old confide- 



barbarous 



paftimeatFeafts, when men flood upon a rolling Globe, with their 

 necks in a Rope, and a knife in their hands, ready to cut it when the 

 (tone was rolled away, wherein if ihey failed^ they loft their lives to 

 the laughter of their fpeftacprs Athtnats. 



rations mide few mementos by fculs and 

 jones uoon their monuments* In the 

 ./Egyptian Obelisks and Hieroglyphicall 

 igurcs it is noteafie to meet with bones* 

 The fepulchrall Lamps fpeak nothing 

 efle then fepulture , and in their literall 

 draughts prove often obfcene and antick 

 >eeces: Where we finde D.M. f it is ob- 

 ious to meet with facrificing p*tera*s 9 

 and veflels of libation, upon old fepul 

 chrall Monuments. |m the Jewifli HJ- 



&nm g and fubterranean Cell ac Rome* fi r 

 pas little obfervable befide the variety of 8 



mps, and frequent draughts of the 

 holy Candlcftick. In authentick draughts 

 f Anthony and Jerome* we meet with 

 D4 thigh- 



