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 Of the Nature of Spirits. 1 2 1

jih Jove Neptuno,facrt Cuff-ode Tarenti.

Negligis immeritU nociturtm ,

Poft medo te natU fiaudem committcre : fors &)

Debit* Jura v>cefa 3 [Hpcrl>&

Te manent ipfum prstcibtu non linquar mult is

Tefypiacula nulla refolvent.

And Palinurus to <s£ncas in the fixth book of Virgils e/£- ncids.

Nunc mefiu&us habettt verfatitfy in lit tore venti, Qjfodte per Cali jucundum lumen & atirai "Per genitorem oro y pcrfpemfurgentis Juli. Eripe me his invitte malts-) ant tu miht terram Injice namtfe petes.

C"Stor. Have the Gentiles fo greatly efteemed the ceremo- The vain ny of burials? Religion

Pollux. Yes, very much ; for their Religion did hold that ° f the. the Soul of a body which was uninterred,was void of any in- telligible effence, and left to the power and command of a raging furious phanfie, and fubje& to the torment and afflicti- on ot corporal qualities ; fo that it being an aiery body,fom- times the departed fhadow would fpeak unto his remaining friends, and fomtimes evilly vex and torment his enemies with revenge, as in the Poet, Dido threarneth c/£neas, faying,

Omnibus umbra locis adero dub is improbe penas, vfjuid.^,

Suetonius, as we have fliown before, addeth the like con- TheHiAo- cerning the dead body of C.Caligula the Emperour in the 7 of c.c»- Garden of Lamianm, being noc duly buried ; for this body, l 'V^ a * becaufe it was onely covered with a light turff,did very much difquiet and trouble the poffeflbrs of the Garden, with vio- lent incurfions in the night ; until by his fifters,who were re- turned from banifbmenr, it was taken up again and ritely and duly by them buried.

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