or revoke them unto life again, w* a 

 vanity ofafFeftion$ as not prefumably 

 ignorant of the critical! teib of death* 

 by appofition of feathers, glafltes, and 

 reflexion of figures, which dead eyesie- 

 prefentaot ; which however not ftrifr- 

 ly verifiable in freffa and warm cdtkvtrs 

 could hardly elude the teft, in corps of 

 tour or five day es. 



That they fuck'd in the laft breath of 

 their expiring friends, was furely a pra 

 ctice of no medicall inftitution, but a 

 loofe opinion that the foul pafled out 

 that way, and a fondnefle of affe&ion 

 from fome * Pjthagoricall foundation, 

 that the fpirit of one body pafled into 

 another; which they wilhcd might be 

 their own* 



That they powred oyleupon the pyre, 

 was a tderablc praftife, while the inten 

 tion relied in facilitating the accenfion $ 

 But to place good Omens in tbcquick and 

 Jpeedy burning, to facrifice unto the 

 wmdes for a difpatch in this office, was a 

 low form of fuperftition. 



The Arcbimime Or Je&er attending 



Funcrall train, and imitating the 



Fccches, gefture, and manners of the 



de- 



