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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	caesar_n	great_a	pompey_n	781	5	11.2029	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77689	Hydriotaphia, urne-buriall, or, a discourse of the sepulchrall urnes lately found in Norfolk. Together with the garden of Cyrus, or the quincunciall, lozenge, or net-work plantations of the ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically considered. With sundry observations. / By Thomas Browne D. of Physick.	Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.	1658 (1658)	Wing B5154; Thomason E1821_3; ESTC R202039	74,321	222

quenching the fire with wine Manlius the Consul burnt the body of his Son Numa by speciall clause of his Will was not burnt but buried And R●mus was solemnly buried according to the desoription of Ovid Cornelius Sylla was not the first whose body was burned in Rome but of the Cornelian Family which being indifferently not frequently used before from that time spread and became the prevalent practice Not totally pursued in the highest runne of Cremation For when even Crows were funerally burnt Poppaea the Wife of Nero found a peculiar grave enterment Now as all customes were founded upon some bottome of Reason so there wanted not grounds for this according to feverall apprehensions of the most rationall dissolution Some being of the opinion of Thales that water was the originall of all things thought it most equall to submit unto the principle of putrefaction and conclude in a moist relentment Others conceived it most natural to end in fire as due unto the master principle in the composition according to the doctrine of Heraclitus And therefore heaped up large piles more actively to waft them toward that Element whereby they also declined a visible degeneration into worms and left a lasting parcell of their composition Some apprehended a purifying virtue in fire refining the grosser commixture and firing out the Aethereall particles so deeply immersed in it And such as by tradition or rationall conjecture held any hint of the finall pyre of all things or that this Element at last must be too hard for all the rest might conceive most nanaturally of the fiery dissolution Others pretending no natural grounds politickly declined the malice of enemies upon their buried bodies Which consideration led Sylla unto this practise who having thus served the body of Marius could not but fear a retaliation upon his own entertained after in the Civill wars and revengeful contentions of Rome But as many Nations embraced and many left it indifferent so others too much affected or strictly declined this practice The Indian Brachmans seemed too great friends unto fire who burnt themselves alive and thought it the noblest way to end their dayes in fire according to the expression of the Indian burning himself at Athens in his last words upon the pyre unto the amazed spectators Thus I make my selfe Immortall But the Chaldeans the great Idolaters of fire abhorred the burning of their carcasses as a pollution of that Deity The Persian Magi declined it upon the like scruple and being only sollicitous about their bones exposed their flesh to the prey of Birds and Dogges And the Persees now in India which expose their bodies unto Vultures and endure not so much as feretra or Beers of Wood the proper Fuell of fire are led on with such niceties But whether the ancient Germans who burned their dead held any such fear to pollute their Deity of Herthus or the earth we have no Authentick conjecture The Aegyptians were afraid of fire not as a Deity but a devouring Element mercilesly consuming their bodies and leaving too little of them and therefore by precious Embalments depositure in dry earths or handsome inclosure in glasses contrived the notablest wayes of integrall conservation And from such Aegyptian scruples imbibed by Pythagoras it may be conjectured that Numa and the Pythagoricall Sect first waved the fiery solution The Scythians who swore by winde and sword that is by life and death were so farre from burning their bodies that they declined all interrment and made their graves in the ayr And the Ichthyophagi or fish-eating Nations about Aegypt affected the Sea for their grave Thereby declining visible corruption and restoring the debt of their bodies Whereas the old Heroes in Homer dreaded nothing more than water or drowning probably upon the old opinion of the fiery substance of the soul only extinguishable by that Element And therefore the Poet emphatically implieth the totall destruction in this kinde of death which happened to Ajax Oileus The old Balearians had a peculiar mode for they used great Urnes and much wood but no fire in their burials while they bruised the flesh and bones of the dead crowded them into Urnes and laid heapes of wood upon them And the Chinois without cremation or urnall interrment of their bodies make use of trees and much burning while they plant a Pine-tree by their grave and burn great numbers of printed draughts of slaves and horses over it civilly content with their companies in effigie which barbarous Nations exact unto reality Christians abhorred this way of obsequies and though they stickt not to give their bodies to be burnt in their lives detested that mode after death affecting rather a depositure than absumption and properly submitting unto the sentence of God to return not unto ashes but unto dust againe conformable unto the practice of the Patriarchs the interrment of our Saviour of Peter Paul and the ancient Martyrs And so farre at last declining promiscuous enterrment with Pagans that some have sussered Ecclesiastical censures for making no scruple thereof The Musselman beleevers will never admit this fiery resolution For they hold a present trial from their black and white Angels in the grave which they must have made so hollow that they may rise upon their knees The Jewish Nation though they entertained the old way of inhumation yet sometimes admitted this practice For the men of Jabesh burnt the body of Saul And by no prohibited practice to avoid contagion or pollution in time of pestilence burnt the bodies of their friends And when they burnt not their dead bodies yet sometimes used great burnings neare and about them deducible from the expressions concerning Jehoram Sedechias and the sumptuous pyre of Asa And were so little averse from Pagan burning that the Jews lamenting the death of Caesar their friend and revenger on Pompey frequented the place where his body was burnt for many nights together And as they raised noble Monuments and Mausolaeums for their own Nation so they were not scrupulous in erecting some for others according to the practice of Daniel who left that lasting sepulchrall pyle in Echbatana for the Medean and Persian Kings But even in times of subjection and hottest use they conformed not unto the Romane practice of burning whereby the Prophecy was secured concerning the body of Christ that it should not see corruption or a bone should not be broken which we beleeve was also providentially prevented from the Souldiers spear and nails that past by the little bones both in his hands and feet Not of ordinary contrivance that it should not corrupt on the Crosse according to the Laws of Romane Crucifixion or an hair of his head perish though observable in Jewish customes to cut the hairs of Malefactors Nor in their long co-habitation with Aegyptians crept into a custome of their exact embalming wherein deeply slashing the muscles and taking out the brains and entrails they had broken the