44 Hydriotaphia, 



on. Even bones themfel ves reduced in 

 toafhes,doabate a notable proportion 

 And confiding much of a volatile (alt* 

 when that is fired out, make a light kind 

 of cinders. Although their bulkbedif- 

 proportionable to their weight , when 

 the heavy principle of Salt is fired out* 

 and the Earth almoft only remainetb $ 

 Obfervablc in fallow, which makes more 

 A flies then Oake ; and di (covers the com 

 mon fraud of felling Afhes bymeafure, 

 and not by ponderation, 



oidbonc* Some bones make bcft Skeletons a, 

 according feme bodies quick and fpeedieft afbes : 

 Sffirf" Who would expcft a quick flame from 

 young Hydropicall HcrAclttw? The poyfoncd 

 Sou'dier when his Belly brake, put out 

 two pyre in Ptetarcb b 4 But in the plague 

 of Attxm c 9 ode private pyre ftrved 

 two ^ e ^ rcc Intruders $ and the Sara- 

 cem burnt in large heaps, by the King 

 d Unrest. ofc*ftile d i (hewed how little Fuell fuf- 

 ficetb^ Though the Funerall pyre of) 

 Vatrocltb took up an hundred foot e , a 

 peece of an old boat burnt Pttoptji And 

 if the burthen of Jftac were fufficient for 

 an holocauft, a man may carry his owne 

 pyie. 



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