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344 A DISCOURSE 



BOOK IV. Thus, with the incomparable Sannazarius, N^on mihi fornicihus pa- 

 ^-"^^r^^ rlis. — Sculptures and titles, preferable to the proudest mausoleums, 

 I should choose. 



The late elegant and accomplished Sir W. Temple, though 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 desired, I 

 wish my corpse may be interred as I have bespoken them ; not at all 

 out of singularity, or for want of a dormitory, (of which there is an 

 ample one annexed 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, we adorn their groves 

 with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which 

 has been compared in Holy Scripture to those fading beauties, whose 

 roots being buried in dishonour, rise again in glory. Of such hortulan 

 instances, Gruter gives us this inscription : 



V. F. 



T. VETTIUS. T. L. 

 HERMES 

 SEPLASIARIUS 

 MATER. GENUIT. MATER. RECEPIT 

 HI. HORTI. ITA. UTI. OPT. MAXIMIQ. SUNT 

 CINERIBUS. SERVIANT. MEIS 

 NAM. CURATORES. SUBSTITUAM 



QUI. VESCANTUR 

 EX. HORVM HORTORUM REDITU 

 NATALI. MEO 

 ET. PRAEBEANT. ROSAM. IN. PERPETUUM 

 HOS. NEQUE. DIVIDI 

 NEQUE. ALIENARI. VOLO. 



This sweet flower, borne on a branch full set with thorns, and accom- 

 panied with the lily, are natural hieroglyphics of our fugitive, umbratile. 



