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 BUR ( 692 ) BUR of felf-murder were privately depofited in the ground, cy, makes not a pleafant impreflion. The mind is without the accuftorned folemnities. Among the Jews, foon difgufted by being kept long on the ftretch. Mathe privilege of burial was denied only to idt'-murder- chinery may be employed in a burlefque poem, fuch ers, who were thrown out to rot upon the ground. In as the Lutrin, the Difpenfary, or Hudibras, with the Chriftian church, though good men always defired more fuccefs and propriety than in any other fpethe privilege of interment, y. t they were not, like the cies of poetry. For burlefque poems, though they heathens, fo concerned for their bodies, as to think it aflume the air of hiftory, give entertainment chiefly by any detriment to them, if either the barbarity of an e- their pleafant and ludicrous pidtures: It is not the aim oemy, or fome other accident, deprived them of this pri - of fuch a poem to raife fympathy; and for that reavihge. The primitive Chriftian church denied the more fon, a ftridi imitation of nature is not neceflary. And fuiemn rites of burial only to unbaptized perfons, felf- hence, the more extravagant the machinery in a ludiinurderers, and excommunicated perfons who continued crous poem, the more entertainment it affords. obilinate and impenitent, in a manifeit contempt of the BURLINGTON, a fea-port town in the Eaft Riding church’s cenfures. of Yorklhire, fituated on the German ocean, about The place of burial among the Jews was never par- thirty-feven miles north-eaft of York : E. long, ic/, ticularly determined. We find they had graves in the and N. lat. 540 15'. It gives the title of earl to a branch of the noble town and country, upon the highways, in gardens, and upon mountains. Among the Greeks, the temples were family of Boyle. made repofitories for the dead in the primitive ages ; Nt-w Burlington, the capital of New-Jerfey, in yet the general cuftom in latter ages, with them, as North America ; fituated in an ifland of Delawar riwell as with the Romans and other heathen nations, ver, about twenty miles north of Philadelphia : W. was to bury their dead without their cities, and chief- long. 74°, and N. lat. 40° 4c/. ly by the highways. Among the primitive Chriftians, BURMANNIA, in botany, a genus of the bexandria burying in cities was not allowed for the firft three monogynia clafs. The calix is fhaped like a prifm, hundred years, nor in churches for many ages after, coloured and divided into three ferments, with memthe dead bodies being firft: depofited in the atrium or branaceous angles ; the petals are three ; the capfule church yard, and porches and porticos of the church : is three-celled ; and the feeds are very fmall. There hereditary burying-places were forbidden till the 12th are only two fpecies, none of them natives of Britain. century. As to the time of burial, with all the cere- BURN, in medicine and forgery, an injury received in monies accompanying it, fee the article Funeral- any part of the body by fire. See Medicine, and Surgery. rites. BURICK, a town of the duchy of Cleves, in the circle BURNET, in botany. See Poterium, and Sangui • of Weftphalia in Germany, fituated on the river Rhine, SORBA. about twenty miles fouth of Cleves : E. long. 6° s', BURNHAM, a market-town of Norfolk, about 25; miles north-weft of Norwich : E. long, yo', and N, N. lat. 5 1 0 35'. 0 BURLESQUE, a fpecies of compofition, which, tho’ lat. 53. a great engine of ridicule, is not confined to that fub- BURNING, the aftion of fire on fome pabulum, or by which the minute parts thereof are put into a jedt; for it is clearly diftinguifhable into burlefque fuel, that excites laughter merely, and burlefque that excites violent motion, and fome of them afluming the nature derifion or ridicule. A grave fubjedt, in which there of fire themfelves, fly off in orbem, while the reft are in form of vapour, or reduced to afhes. is no impropriety, may be brought down by a certain diflipated colouring fo as to be rifible, as in Virgil Traveftie; See Fire. or Brenning, in our old cuftoms, denotes the author firft laughs at every turn, in order to 'make Burning, difeafe, got in the ftews by converfing his readers laugh. The Lutrin is a burlefque poem anwithinfectious lewd women, and fuppofed to be the fame with of the other fort, laying hold of a low and trifling in- what we now call the venereal difeafe. cident to expofe the luxury, indolence, and contentious In a manufcript of the vocation of John Bale to fpirit of a fet c.f monks. Boileau, the author, turns the fubjedf into ridicule by drefling it in the he- the bifhopric of Offory, written by himfelf, he fpeaks roic ftyle; and affedting to confider it as of the utmoft of Dr. Hugh Wefton, who was dean of Windfor, in dignity and importance. Though ridicule is the poet’s 1556, but deprived by cardinal Pole for adultery,
 * “ At this day is leacherous Wefton, who is

aim, he always carries a grave face, and never once thus bewrays a fmile. The oppofition between the fubjedt more praftifed in the arts of breech-burning, than all whores of the ftews. He not long ago brent a and the manner of handling it, is what produces the the beggar of St. Botolph’s parilh.” See Stews. ridicule; and therefore, in a compofition of this kind, Burning, in antiquity, a way of difpofing of the dead, no image profefledly ludicrous ought to have quarter, much praftifed by the ancient Greeks and Romans, becaufe fuch images deftroy the contraft. Though the burlefque that aims at ridicule, produ- and ftill retained by feveral nations in both the Eaft Weft Indies. ces its effedts by elevating the ftyle far above the fub- andEuftathius afligns two reafons why burning came to jedt, yet the poet ought to confine himfelf to fuch images as are lively, and readily apprehended. A ftrain- be of fo general ufe in Greece; the firft is, becaufe deed elevation, foaring above the ordinary reach of fan- bodies were thought to be unclean after the foul’s parture.