SYLVA 239 



Thus with the incomparable Sannazarius ; non mihi 

 fornicibus Pariis. Sculptures and titles preferrable to 

 the proudest mausoleums I should chuse. 



The late elegant and accomplished Sir W. Temple, 

 tho' he laid not his whole body in his garden, deposited 

 the better part of it (his heart) there ; and if my 

 executors will gratify me in what I have desir'd, I wish 

 my corps may be interr'd as I have bespoke them : 

 Not at all out of singularity, or for want of a dormitory, 

 (of which there is an ample one annext to the parish- 

 church) but for other reasons, not here necessary to 

 trouble the reader with ; what I have said in general, 

 being sufficient : However, let them order it as they 

 think fit, so it be not in the church or chancel. 



Plato (as we noted) permitted trees to be planted 

 over sepulchres, to obumbrate the departed : But with 

 better reason ; with flowers and redolent plants, emblems 

 of the life of man, compar'd in Holy Scripture, to those 

 fading beauties, whose roots being buried in dishonour, 

 rise again in glory ; and of such hortulan instances, 

 Greuter gives us this inscription, 



Hi horti ita uti opt. maximiq. sunt, 



Cineribus serviant meis. 

 Nam curatores substituam, 



Qui vescantur 

 Ex horum hortorum reditu 



Natali meo. 

 Et praebeant rosam in perpetuum. 



This sweet flower, born on a branch full set with 

 thorns, and accompany'd with the lilly, natural hi- 

 eroglyphicks of our fugitive umbratile, anxious and 

 transitory life, making so fair a shew for a time, is not 

 without its thorn and crosses : These they therefore 



