To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their pro-
ductions, to exist in their names and predicament of
chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations,
and made one part of their Elysiums. But all this
is nothing in the metaphysicks of true belief. To live
indeed, is to be again ourselves, which being not only an
hope, but an evidence in noble believers, 'tis all one to
lie in St Innocent's# church-yard as in the sands of
* Isa. xiv. 16. + The least of angles.
# In Paris, where bodies soon consume.
Egypt. Ready to be anything, in the ecstasy of
being ever, and as content with six foot as the
molesof Adrianus.*
--
"Tabesne cadavera solvat,
An rogus, haud refert."--LUCAN. viii. 809.
* A stately mausoleum or sepulchral pile, built by Adrianus
in Rome, where now standeth the castle of St Angelo.
A LETTER TO A FRIEND,
UPON OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF HIS INTIMATE FRIEND.
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LETTER TO A FRIEND.
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