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Hydriotaphia. Urn-Burial
or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk.
by
Sir Thomas Browne
[Hydriotaphia. Urn-Burial]
To my worthy and honoured friend, Thomas Le Gros, of Crostwick, Esq.
When the funeral pyre was out, and the last valediction over, men took a lasting adieu of their interred friends, little expecting the curiosity of future ages should comment upon their ashes; and having no old experience of the duration of their relics, held no opinion of such after-considerations.
But who knows the fate of his bones, or how often he is to be buried? Who hath the oracle of his ashes, or whither they are to be scattered? The relics of many lie, like the ruins of Pompey's,
“Pompeios juvenes Asia atque Europa, sed ipsum terra tegit Libyæ.”
in all parts of the earth; and these may seem to have wandered far, when they arrive at your hands, who, in a direct and meridian travel, have but a few miles of known earth between yourself and the pole.
Little directly but sea betw . . .
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