red Divinities without ears ? it cannot 

 efcape fome doubt. 



The dead Teem all alive in the hu 

 mane Hades of Homtr, yet cannot well 

 fpeak, prophefie,or know the living, ex 

 cept they drink bloud, wherein is the 

 life of man. And therefore the fouls of 

 Penelope's Paramours conduced by Mer- 

 txrj chirped like bats , and thofe which 

 followed Hercules made a noife but like a 

 flock of birds. 



The departed fpirits know things part 

 and to come, yet are ignorant of things 

 prefent, 4gAmemnonfoi&c\s what fhoul 1 

 happen uutoVfyffes^ yet igporantly en 

 quires what is become of his own Son. 

 TheChofts are afraid of fwords inH*- 

 mer> yet Sybil* tels JEntas in Vtfgil) the 

 thin habit of fpirits was beyond the force 

 of weapons. The fpirits put off their 

 malice with their bodies, and Ce/ir and 

 fvtipey accord in Latine Hell, yet Ajax 

 in Homer endures not a conference with 

 Vljffes : And Dexphokw appears all man 

 gled in Virgils Gbofts, yet we meet with 

 perfeft ftadows among the wounded 

 ghofts of Homer < 



Since Chtron in Luci&n applauds his 



condi- 



