4 2 Hydriotaphia, 



red unto the dead .- It is not injuftice 

 cake that which none com plains tolofc, 

 and no man is wronged where no man is 

 pofleflbr. 



What virtue yet fleeps in this tend 

 dAmntt* and aged cinders, were petty 

 magick to experiment ; Thefe crumb 

 ling rdiques and long-fired particles fu- 

 perannate fuch expeditions * Bones, 

 hairs^ nails, and teeth of the dead, were 

 taw* the treafures of old Sorcerers. In vain 

 wc rcv * ve ^ uc k pra6Hces 5 Prefcnt fuper- 

 ftition too vifibly perpetuates the folly 

 of our Fore- fathers, wherein unto old 

 oWervation this Ifland was fo corn- 

 pleat, that it might have inftrufted 

 Terfia. 



Plato's hiftorian of the other world, 

 lies twelve dayes incorrupred, while his 

 foul was viewing the large ftations of 

 the dead. How to keep the corps feven 

 dayes from corruption by anointing and 

 wafting, without exenteration 3 were 

 anhazardable peeceof art 3 inourchoi- 

 feft pra&ife. How they made diftinft 

 reparation of bones and aflies from fiery 

 admixture, hath found no hiftoricall fo- 

 lution. Though they feemed to make a 



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