Hydriotaphia, 



but once, the difmall ftatc is the fccond 

 and living death, when life puts def pair 

 on the damned; when men (hall wifii 

 the coverings of Mountains*, not of 

 Monuments, and annihilation (hall be 

 courted. 



While feme have ftudied Monuments, 

 others have ftudioufly declined them : 

 and fame have been fo vainly boifte- 

 rous, that they durft not acknowledge 

 their Graves 5 wherein b Abricm feems 

 mpft fubtle, who had a River turned 

 to hide his bones at the bottome. E- 

 ven Sjtta that thought himfelf fafe in 

 his Urne, could not prevent revenging 

 tongues, and ftones thrown at his Mo 

 nument. Happy are they whom pri 

 vacy makes innocent, who deal fo with 

 men in this world, that they are not a- 

 fraid to meet them in the next,who when 

 they dye, make no commotion among 

 the dead,and are not toucht with that po- 

 i 4. eticall taunt of Jfatah c. 



Pjranids, Arches^ obtlitks^ were but 

 the irregularities of vain-glory ,and wilde 

 enormities of ancient magnanimity. But 

 the 'me ft magnanimous refolution lefts 



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