Vrne-BwiaU. 69 



CHAP, V. 



NOw fince thefe dead bones have 

 already out-lafted the living ones of 

 cthufcltht and in a yard under ground, 

 and thin walls of clay 3 out-worn all the 

 ftrong and fpecious buildings above it , 

 and quietly refted under the drums and 

 iramplings of three conquefts 5 What 

 I Prince canpromife fuch diuturnity un 

 to his Reliques, or might not glad 



* Sic ego cowponi verfits in off* wlim. 



Time which antiquates Antiquities, and M/ * 

 bath an art to make duft of all things, 

 hath yet fpared thefe minor Monuments. , Oracu i* 

 In vain we hope to be known by o- chidaica 

 pen and vifible confervatories, when to 

 be unknown was the means of their coo- 

 tinuationand obfcurity their prote&ion : 

 If they dyed by violent hands, and were 

 tbruft into their Urnes, thefe bonesfbe- 

 come confiderable, and fome old Phi- 

 lofophers would honour a thcm> whofe 



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