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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