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planted on their turfy hillocks ; like what is yet ex- 

 stant in propylio D. Ambrosei a porto Vercelli. 



PETRONIO JUCN VI. VIR. 



SENI 



PETRONIA MIRA L. F. 

 PATRONO QUJE H. S. 

 Cccc LES POSSORIB 

 VICI BERDOMAS IN HERM. 

 TUENDO, ET ROSA QUOTANNIS 

 ORNANDUM. 1 



Of these and the like antiquity, we could multiply 

 instances, the custom not yet altogether extinct in my 

 own native county of Surrey, and near my dwelling ; 

 where the maidens yearly plant and deck the graves 

 of their defunct sweet-hearts with rose-bushes ; of 

 which I have given account in the learned Mr. Gib- 

 son's edition of Camden; and for the rest, see Mr. Sum- 

 ner, of Garden-Burial^ and the learned Dr. Cave's 

 Primitive Christianity. 



And now let not what I have said concerning the 

 pious Dr. Hammond's paraphrase in the text, of 

 hortulan burial, be thought foreign to my subject ; 

 since it takes in the custom of it in groves, and shady 

 and solemn places, as I have already shew'd ; and thus 

 the yew-trees at present growing, and planted in our 

 countrey church-yards, cypress, and other perennial 

 greens, emblems of immortality, and a reflourishing 

 state to come, were not less proper to shade our natural 

 beds, (would our climate suffer it) growing so like a 

 shrowd, as does that sepulchral tree. 



To return then to that of groves, and for diversion 



1 There is a white amaracus, $ xp&vrai Trepl rdfyovQ used in funerals, v. Theoph. 

 de Plant. Athenaeus, 1. 15. c. 7. 



