The 

 chariftcr 

 of ckitb. 



Old ones 

 being ta 

 ken upland 

 other bo 

 dies laid 

 under them 

 Grttfri In- 



providentially taken off from fuch i* 

 imaginations. bAnd eing neccffltatcd to 

 eye the remaining particle of futurity, 

 are naturally conftituted unto thoughts 

 of the next world., and cannot excufa- 

 bly decline the confederation of that du 

 ration , which maketh Pyramids pil 

 lars of (how, and all that's pad a mo 

 ment. 



Circles and right lines limit andclofe 

 all bodies, and the mortal! right-lined 

 circles, muft concludeand (hut up all. 

 There is no antidote againft the Opium 

 of time, which temporally confidereth 

 all things ; Our Fathers finde their graves 

 in our ihort memories, and fadly tell us 

 how we may be buried in our Survi 

 vors. Grave-ftones tell truth fcarcc 

 fburty years h : Generations pafle while 

 fomc trees ftand, and old Families laft 

 not three Oaks. To be read by bare 

 Infcriptions like many in Grater 1 9 to 

 hope for Eternity by ^Enigmatical! E- 

 pithetes, or firft letters of our names, 

 to be ftudied by Antiquaries, who we 

 were, and have new Names given us 

 like many of the Mummies^ are cold 



con- 



