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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.634#0307
282 travels into PERSIA.
Letter V. Through all these Scenes, Time keeps jogging on, and it is ap.
s~v~\_j pointed sor all men once to dye; at which Article the Neighbours and
TheirFunc- Acquaintance, especially those of the Blood, come to bewail and
weep for the loss of their Friend or Relation; when, and not till
then, the Parilh-Priesf is sent for, that he mould pray by him, and
put him into an happy Posture of Departure, by minding him of his
* Soul's Health, norwithstanding his Bodily Indisposition j which being
recommended into the same Hands that bellowed it, and having ta-
ken its Flight from Earth to its assigned Place, ■ there are no Words
madeof Anatomizingor Embalming the Body; but warning it often
with Aromatick Waters while it is purified and kept clean, and then
apparelling it as when alive, in its best Cloaths, it is wrapped about
withaSheet, and bound with Swathings to the Bier, his Arms being
first placed across, over which is thrown a Pall of divers Colours.
The Pariih-Priest with his Collegues and others bearing Ensigns of
Saints, and the Chanters singing, manage the Solemnity, and lead
the Way to the Church, no matter whether before or after Noon;
immediately after these the Bearers bring the Corps, when many of
the Funeral Train with Heads hung down, and smiting of their
Breasts, make a distnal Cry: Being cntred the Church-Porch, the
Prior of the Convent with his Asiociates receive the Procession, a
Vortobeed being present, who leads the Choir up to the High Altar,
the Body being left on the Bier among the Women, while they say
High Mass, and perform the Osfice for the Dead. In the mean
time the Relict or next of Kin to the Defunct, uncovering his Face
and throwing by the Burial-Cloaths, with neglected Drels and dis-
mevel'd Hair falls on the Face of the Dead, deploring the Loss of her
Father, Husband, or Relation, by often hiding his cold Lips, and
piteoussy lamenting; which is seconded in so mournful a Consort by
all the other Women, that one would think the Shades themselves
could not entertain their new-come Guesrs with a more doleful
Dirge: Thus shexontinues, and hardly suffers her self to be pulled
away, till Mass is said, and the Vortobeeds are turning towards the
Coarse, when all the Women are driven out of the Church, and
Candles lighted are given to every Man there: The Vortobeed (land-
ing at the Head, the other Clergy posless the Sides, and the Prior
with his Fellows enclose the Feet.
At the Reading the Epistle andGospel, they change their Cope,
Mantle, and Hood, and Whine them forth; as also does the Prior
when he chants the Liturgy, to whose Key the other Priefls tune the
Responses: In the Interim they Fumigate the Body with holy Tncense,
and sprinkle it with holy Water; which Ceremonies being ended, the
Bearers are ready to carry the Body to the Burial-place, Tar from the
Town ; before which only one Vortobeed with the Parilh Pricsts in
course, and their Clerks with Tapers lighted compleat the Exequies,
and commit it to the Ground: As if they had respe<9: to the Law of
the Twelve Tables, Mortmtm infra Vrbem ne fipelito, neve unto;
Though more truly to the Emperor's Commands, who has granted
them Ground for that piirpase, with a itriift Injiinstion to bury no
where tlse.
Those
Letter V. Through all these Scenes, Time keeps jogging on, and it is ap.
s~v~\_j pointed sor all men once to dye; at which Article the Neighbours and
TheirFunc- Acquaintance, especially those of the Blood, come to bewail and
weep for the loss of their Friend or Relation; when, and not till
then, the Parilh-Priesf is sent for, that he mould pray by him, and
put him into an happy Posture of Departure, by minding him of his
* Soul's Health, norwithstanding his Bodily Indisposition j which being
recommended into the same Hands that bellowed it, and having ta-
ken its Flight from Earth to its assigned Place, ■ there are no Words
madeof Anatomizingor Embalming the Body; but warning it often
with Aromatick Waters while it is purified and kept clean, and then
apparelling it as when alive, in its best Cloaths, it is wrapped about
withaSheet, and bound with Swathings to the Bier, his Arms being
first placed across, over which is thrown a Pall of divers Colours.
The Pariih-Priest with his Collegues and others bearing Ensigns of
Saints, and the Chanters singing, manage the Solemnity, and lead
the Way to the Church, no matter whether before or after Noon;
immediately after these the Bearers bring the Corps, when many of
the Funeral Train with Heads hung down, and smiting of their
Breasts, make a distnal Cry: Being cntred the Church-Porch, the
Prior of the Convent with his Asiociates receive the Procession, a
Vortobeed being present, who leads the Choir up to the High Altar,
the Body being left on the Bier among the Women, while they say
High Mass, and perform the Osfice for the Dead. In the mean
time the Relict or next of Kin to the Defunct, uncovering his Face
and throwing by the Burial-Cloaths, with neglected Drels and dis-
mevel'd Hair falls on the Face of the Dead, deploring the Loss of her
Father, Husband, or Relation, by often hiding his cold Lips, and
piteoussy lamenting; which is seconded in so mournful a Consort by
all the other Women, that one would think the Shades themselves
could not entertain their new-come Guesrs with a more doleful
Dirge: Thus shexontinues, and hardly suffers her self to be pulled
away, till Mass is said, and the Vortobeeds are turning towards the
Coarse, when all the Women are driven out of the Church, and
Candles lighted are given to every Man there: The Vortobeed (land-
ing at the Head, the other Clergy posless the Sides, and the Prior
with his Fellows enclose the Feet.
At the Reading the Epistle andGospel, they change their Cope,
Mantle, and Hood, and Whine them forth; as also does the Prior
when he chants the Liturgy, to whose Key the other Priefls tune the
Responses: In the Interim they Fumigate the Body with holy Tncense,
and sprinkle it with holy Water; which Ceremonies being ended, the
Bearers are ready to carry the Body to the Burial-place, Tar from the
Town ; before which only one Vortobeed with the Parilh Pricsts in
course, and their Clerks with Tapers lighted compleat the Exequies,
and commit it to the Ground: As if they had respe<9: to the Law of
the Twelve Tables, Mortmtm infra Vrbem ne fipelito, neve unto;
Though more truly to the Emperor's Commands, who has granted
them Ground for that piirpase, with a itriift Injiinstion to bury no
where tlse.
Those