4.8 Hydriotaphia, 



diftinftion from longitude or dixnen 



To be koav'd out of our graves, to 

 have our foils made drinking-bo wls, and 

 our bones turned into Pipes, to delight 

 and fport our Enemies, are Tragical! a- 

 bominations, elcaped in burning Bu 

 rials* 



Urnall enterrments, and burnt Re 

 liques lye not in fear of worms, or to be 

 an heritage for Serpents; In carnall fe- 

 pulture, corruptions feem peculiar unto 

 parts, and fome fpeak of fhakes out of 

 the fpinall marrow. But while we fup- 

 pofe common wortnes in graves, 'tis not 

 eafie to finde any there 5 few in Church 

 yards above a foot deep, fewer or none 

 in Churches, though in frefh decayed 

 bodies. Teeth, bones, and hair, give 

 the moft tailing defiance to corruption. 

 In au Hydropicall body ten years bu 

 ried in a Church-yard, we met with a 

 fat concretion, where the nitre of the 

 Earth 5 and the (alt and lixivious liquor 

 of the body, had coagulated large lumps 

 of fat, into the confluence of the bard- 

 eft cafHe-foap 5 whereof part remaineth 

 with us. After a battle with the Ptr* 



