To be knav'd out of our graves, to have our sculs made drinking-bowls, and our bones turned into Pipes, to delight and sport our Enemies, are Tragicall abominations, escaped in burning Burials.
Urnall enterrments, and burnt Reliques lye not in fear of worms, or to be an heritage for Serpents…
- Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia: Urne-Buriall. Or, A Brief Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk. 1658
Urnall enterrments, and burnt Reliques lye not in fear of worms, or to be an heritage for Serpents…
- Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia: Urne-Buriall. Or, A Brief Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk. 1658
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