Thomas Browne — the text of the folio of 1686, as J. W. Willis Bund printed it in 1869, from Project Gutenberg.
Occasioned by some urns dug up in a Norfolk field, and turning, by way of the burial customs of every nation Browne had read of, into a meditation on death, oblivion and the resurrection of the body. The last chapter is the most famous prose Browne wrote: But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. Printed with The Garden of Cyrus, which is not theology and is not given.
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