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iftghly gilt and filvered, in which lay the corpfe arrayed 

 in white, and decked all over with rofe-coloured rib- 

 bands. At all the four corners of this cafe flood 

 angels, about two foot high, holding in their hands 

 large nofegays @£ flowers over the child ; and, as they 

 were only fixed on wires beneath* lb, as the bier mo- 

 ved oa, they made correfpondent motions, andfeemed 

 to fprinkle the child with the odoriferous dew of the 

 flowers. The falter the .carriage proceeded ,along the 

 road, the quicker was .the movement of the -angels 

 and the priefts that went before, and the torch-bearers 

 by the lides, might more properly b.e laid to run than 

 to walk. 



There is no feafon of the year, but one is fur- 

 rounded with eatables at every turn ; and the Neapoli- 

 tan not only delights in eating, in common with all 

 ■other mortals, but- lie will have his food adorned be- 

 fore he buys it. 



At Sancta Lucia, the fifh in their various afibr.t- 

 ments, are put in clean and neat bafkets ; crabs, oyfters, 

 fhads, muilels, each apart, fpread upon a nice board, 

 with green leaves under them. The fhops for dried 

 fruits and pulfe are ornamented in the great-eft variety 

 of ways. The oranges and lemons, of all forts, dis- 

 played with green twi^s a frock between them, tempt 

 the eye of the paiTenger. But nowhere do they fhew 

 a greater talte for ornament than in the butchers 

 meat, by which the fight of die populace is par- 

 ticularly caught ; as the appetite is ftiarpened by 

 periodical abfrinence. 



In the fhambles ? the parts of oxen, calves, ffieep, are 

 never expofed to the public view, without having, the 

 fcorder of fat or the caul highly gilt. Several dzlys in 



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