i39n 
per commodita delli pouveri veki, qvando affiebolano del vede-^ 
re. And alfo from a Sermon ot Fryar or dan de l{ivalto 
th^t died at P lac en^^a Jnno iSii, which is quoted in the 
Didlionary de la Crujca.'m t\\2 word Occhiale, vi:^. It is not 
zo years fince the Art of making Spedacles was found 
out , which much mends the fight • and is indeed one of 
the beft and moft neceflary inventions in the world. 
Soone after isoy. Mr Bernard Gordon inhisLilium medi- 
cine thus commends a certain Eye-falve: Et efitantcevir' 
tutis^ quod deer epitum facer et legere literas minutas abfque 
ocularibus, Kwd Anno iS6S.Guide the Chirui'gian, after 
propofing feveral Collyria , faith : If thefe or the like 
will not do, you muftmake ufe of Spectacles. 
17 This renders an account to the moft illuftious Ange- 
lo Maurojini^ of Antoninus Pius his Bra (s Coy n, from his 
Cabinet, prefenting tlie three Godefles on mount Ida, and 
Mercury with the Shepherd P^r/V ftandmg below, having 
on a Phrygian Cap, not unlike the Ducal Crown of 
Venice. 
18 The Z)//' manes employ this diflertation, being ra- 
ther a Roman then a Grecian fuperftition^ whence the 
Anthropomorphites took their Hasrefie. 
19. The Brazen Urn of moft elegant Scluptme here 
defcribed , T>T,Spon gave to Mr. Gal Hardy and tor this 
caufe treats at large of SepuchraleVrnes-.^hcxthj f after 
the Romans had introduc d from Greece the falhion of 
burning their dead ) both infedion was avoided, and 
theafhes of their friends preferved in the family. They 
likewife fometimes made ufe of Albejios and Amianthus^ 
fpun into tiread for napkins, to preferve in the midft of the 
flames the feperate and intire alhes of their relations. 
'Dv.Gunebault, who hath defcribed the Tomb of Xhyndo- 
nax, fawin a Venetian cabinet aquarter of an ell 
of thatLinnen. Such ftonesare frequent enough in A^^v 
