Yet who have been the proprietaries of those bones, or what our bodies those ashes made up, have been a query above Antiquarism. to not be resolved via guy, nor simply might be by way of spirits, other than we seek advice the Provinciall Guardians, or tutellary Observators. Had they made nearly as good provision for his or her names, as they've got performed for his or her Reliques, that they had now not so grosly erred within the paintings of perpetuation. yet to subsist in bones, and be yet Pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in length. useless ashes, which within the oblivion of names, folks, instances, and sexes, have came across unto themselves, a fruitlesse continuation, and simply come up unto overdue posterity, as Emblemes of mortall vanities; Antidotes opposed to satisfaction, vain-glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain-glories which inspiration the realm could final for ever, had encouragement for ambition, and discovering no Atropos unto the immortality in their Names, have been by no means dampt with the need of oblivion. Even outdated goals had the benefit of ours, within the makes an attempt in their vain-glories, who appearing early, and sooner than the possible Meridian of time, have by way of this time discovered nice accomplishment in their designes, wherein the traditional Heroes have already out-lasted their Monuments, and Mechanicall preservations. yet during this latter Scene of time we can't count on such Mummies unto our stories, whilst ambition may perhaps worry the Prophecy of Elias,i and Charles the 5th can by no means desire to reside inside Methusela’s of Hector. j And as a result restlesse inquietude for the diuturnity of our thoughts unto current issues, turns out a conceit nearly old-fashioned, and superanuated peece of folly. we can't wish to dwell goodbye in our names, as a few have performed of their folks, one face of Janus holds no percentage unto the opposite. ’Tis too overdue to be formidable. the good mutations of the realm are acted, or time should be too brief for our designes. to increase our stories via Monuments, whose demise we dayly pray for, and whose length we won't desire, with out harm to our expectancies, within the introduction of the final day, have been a contradiction to our ideals. We whose generations are ordained during this surroundings a part of time, are providentially taken off from such imaginations. And being necessitated to eye the rest particle of futurity, are certainly constituted unto strategies of the following global, and can't excusably decline the dignity of that period, which maketh Pyramids pillars of snow, and all that’s previous a second. Circles and correct traces restrict and shut all our bodies, and the mortall right-lined circle,k needs to finish and close up all. there is not any antidote opposed to the Opium of time, which temporally considereth all issues; Our Fathers finde their graves in our brief stories, and unfortunately let us know how we should be buried in our Survivors. Grave-stones inform fact scarce fourty years:l Generations passe whereas a few bushes stand, and previous households final now not 3 Oaks. To be learn through naked Inscriptions like many in Gruter,m to wish for Eternity via Ænigmaticall Epithetes, or first letters of our names, to be studied by way of Antiquaries, who we have been, and feature new Names given us like a few of the Mummies, are chilly consolations unto the scholars of perpetuity, even via eternal Languages.