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tell who vouchsafeth that honour unto them. Though the Number of the blessed must be compleat before the World can pass away, yet since the World it self seems in the wane, and we have no such comfortable prognosticks of Latter times, since a greater part of time is spun than is to come, and the blessed Roll already much replenished; happy are those pieties, which solicitously look about, and hasten to make one of that already much filled and abbreviated List to

come.

SECT. XXIX. Think not thy time short in this World since the World itself is not long. The created World is but a small parenthesis in Eternity, and a short interposition for a time between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it. And if we should allow of the old Tradition, that the World should last Six Thousand years, it could scarce have the name of old, since the first man lived near a sixth part thereof, and seven Methuselas would exceed its whole duration. However to palliate the shortness of our Lives, and somewhat to compensate our brief term in this World, it's good to know as much as we can of it, and also so far as possibly in us lieth to hold such a Theory of times past, as though we had seen the same. He who hath thus considered the World, as also how therein things long past have been answered by things present, how matters in one Age have been acted over in another, and how there is nothing new under the Sun may conceive himself in some manner to have lived from the beginning, and be as old as the world; and if he should still live on, 'twould be but the same thing.

SECT. XXX. Lastly, if length of Days be thy Portion, make it not thy Expectation. Reckon not upon long Life: think every day the last, and live always beyond thy account. He that so often surviveth his Expectation lives many Lives, and will scarce complain of the shortness of his days. Time past is gone like a Shadow; make time to come present. Approximate thy latter times by present apprehensions of them: be

like a neighbour unto the Grave, and think there is but little to come. And since there is something of us that will still live on, join both lives together, and live in one but for the other. He who thus ordereth the purposes of this Life will never be far from the next, and is in some manner already in it, by a happy conformity, and close apprehension of it. And if, as we have elsewhere declared, any have been so happy as personally to understand Christian Annihilation, Extasy, Exolution, Transformation, the Kiss of the Spouse, and Ingression into the Divine Shadow, according to Mystical Theology, they have already had an handsome Anticipation of Heaven; the World is in a manner over, and the Earth in Ashes unto them.

J.-Johnson.

GLOSSARY

ABBREVIATIONS, ETC.

H. É. D. New "English Dictionary on Historical Principles" (Murray, Bradley).

Webster = International Dictionary.

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Greenhill Glossary to edition of "Hydriotaphia and Garden of Cyrus" (1896).

ABRUPT, to break off.

ABSTERSION, cleansing.

ABSUMPTION, Consumption.

ACCEPTIONS, acceptations.

ACCUMINATED, sharp-pointed.
ACTIVES, sub., active principles.
ACULEOUS, needle-like.

ADAM, QUID FECISTI? Adam, what hast thou done? 2 Esdras vii. ADRASTE AND NEMESIS, the powers of vengeance (J.).

ADRIANUS ("the moles of "), “A stately mausoleum or sepulchral pile, built by Adrianus in Rome, where now standeth the castle of St. Angelo." [Note by Sir T. B.] ADUMBRATION, faint resemblance, as of a shadow to the object it repre

sents.

ADVISOES, admonitions.

ÆQUICRURAL, of equal length of leg. ESON'S BATH. Son of Cretheus and Tyro, and father of Jason; according to Ovid, he survived the return of the Argonauts, and was made young again by Medea, AFFECTION, influence. AFFECTIONS, qualities, passions, feelings, men of affection.

ALCMENA'S nights, "one night as long as three." [Note by Sir T. B.] AMAZED, Confounded.

AMBIDEXTEROUS, able to use both hands alike.

AMBITIONS, ambitious men. This use of the abstract for the concrete in the plural occurs frequently in Sir Thomas Browne, as desires," "affections," ," "devotions," "zeals,"

etc.

AMISSION, loss.

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AMPHIBOLOGY, an ambiguous phrase.

AMPHIDROMICAL FEASTS, held at the naming of a child.

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ANAXAGORAS. Several editors have
wrongly printed "Anaxarchus,'
who actually held the opinions at-
tributed by Browne to Anaxagoras.
ANGUSTIAS, agonies (J.).
ANIMA EST DEI, "the soul is the angel
of man, the body of God."
ANIMOSITY, Courage.
ANTICHRIST ("should be born of the
tribe of Dan"). A belief held by
the Ancient Church, based partly
on the omission of the name of Dan
from the list of tribes in the
Apocalypse, and partly on the men-
tion of him as "adder" and "ser-
pent" in Jacob's last blessing of his
sons. [Condensed from Greenhill.]
ANTICIPATIVELY, prematurely.
ANTICKS, clowns.

ANTINOMIES, contradictions to law.
ANTIPODES, Opposites (J.).

APOGEUM, to the utmost point of distance from earth and earthly things (J.).

APPARITIONS, appearances without realities (J.).

APPREHEND, to dread, to conceive, comprehend.

APPREHENSION, reason, conception; PASSED APPREHENSION,

former

opinion; GROSSER APPREHENSIONS, men of grosser apprehension. ARCANA, mysteries.

ARCHIDOXIS, a work of Paracelsus,
translated into English in 1662.
ARCHIMIME, chief jester.
AREFACTION, drying.

AREOPAGY, the great court, like the
Areopagus at Athens (J.).
ARUSPEX, Soothsayer, diviner.

ASCENDENS... NATURÆ (i.e., OPERA DEI). "A planet in the ascendant reveals to those who seek many of the great things of nature (i.e., the works of God)." Paracelsus, 66 De Imaginibus." "Thereby is meant

our good Angel appointed us from our nativity." [Note by Sir T. B.]

ASPEROUS, rough. ASPHALTICK LAKE, Lake of Sodom, the waters of which, being very salt, and therefore heavy, will scarcely suffer an animal to sink (J.). ASPIRES, aspirations.

ASQUINT, askance.

ASSASSINE, vb., to assassinate.

ASSIZE ("to call to "), to summon to

judgment.

ASSUCFACTION, habituation.
ASTERISK, Small star.

ATTENDANCE, accompaniment.

ATTENUABLE, liable to diminution.
ATTRITION, friction.
AUDACITIES, bold persons.
AUDITORIES, lecture-rooms.
AURELIA, chrysalis, "aurelion."
AVE-MARY bell. "A church-bell,
that tolls every day at six and
twelve of the clock, at the hearing
whereof, everyone, in what place
soever, either of house or street,
betakes himself to his prayer, which
is commonly directed to the Virgin."
[Note by Sir T. B.]

BASILISO, a piece of ordnance.
BELIEFS, believers.

BELISARIUS AND BAJAZET, the former,
after many victories, said, owing to
incurring the Emperor's displeasure,
to have been reduced to beggary;
the latter to have been Lade cap-
tive by Tamerlane and sh it up in
cage; "both stories are faise "(J.).
BENEPLACIT, good pleasure.
BENEVOLOUS, favourable.
BEVIS, a famous giant-killer of South-
ampton, a hero of medieval English

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CACUS'S OXEN, stolen from Hercules, and drawn backwards by Cacus into his cave to avoid suspicion of theft.

CALDA, warm water (J.).

CALICULAR, in form of calix or cup. CALLOSITIES," calluses," or hard spots in the soul.

CANDLE, "by the candle," term bor

rowed from the auction-room where certain sales were held, at which the bidding went on as long as a small piece of candle continued to burn. CANDOUR, Whiteness.

CANTONS, Corners of a shield in heraldry.

CARIOLA. "That part of the skeleton of a horse which is made by the haunch-bones." [Note by Sir T. B.] CARNOUS, fleshy.

CARRACK, large merchantman. CASTRENSIAL, belonging to a camp. CATHOLICON, universal medicine." CAUSALLY, for a special reason (Greenhill).

CAUSES ("four second "), of all things. That is, the "efficient," the "material," the "formal," and the "final."

CAUTELOUS, cautious.

CEBES' TABLE, an allegorical repre sentation of the characters and conditions of mankind (J.). CENTOES, patched garments, used metaphorically.

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CERTUM EST QUIA IMPOSSIBLE, “it is
certain, because it is impossible
(i.e., to human reason). Tertullian,
De Carne Christi," c. 5.
CHIASMUS, decussation (Greenhill).
CHIONIA ("the King of "), Gum-
brates, King of Chionia, a country
near Persia.

CHIROMANCY, palmistry.
CHORAGIUM, dance (J.).

CHOROGRAPHY, description of places and countries.

CHYMICKS, chemists.

CIRCENSES, Roman horse-races (J.).
CIRCINNATIONS, spherical

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CLAMATION, shouting.

CLAWING, tickling, flattering. CLIMACTER, the point in a man's life (supposed to be his sixty-third year) when his powers begin to fail. CODRUS, the last King of Athens. COMMISSURE, juncture, joining. COMMODITIES, advantages.

COMPAGE, framework or system of conjoined parts (H. E. D.). COMPLEMENT, completeness. COMPLEMENTAL, slight and subsidiary, merely making up weight. COMPLEXIONALLY, by temperament. COMPOSITION, compounding, but in the next line (by a play of words) composed created.

COMPRODUCTION, joint production.
COMPROPORTIONS,

gether.

proportions

COMPUTE, Computation.

CONCEIT, Conception, idea, jest. CONCEIT, to imagine.

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DAMOCLES, a flatterer of Dionysius (J.). DASTARD, vb., to make craven. DECIMATION, selection of every tenth man for punishment (J.).

DECIPIENCY, state of being deceived, hallucination (Webster).

DECUSSATION, crossing of lines in the form of the figure X. DELATOR, informer.

DEMONSTRATIONS, truths capable of demonstration.

DEPRAVE, to malign, to spoil; DEPRAVEDLY, in a corrupt form. DERIVED, Secondary in source (i.e., from the sun?)

DESIRES, desirers.

DEVOTIONS, devout men.

DIAMETER WITH (to stand in), to be diametrically opposed to. DICHOTOMY, division into two. DIFFERENCE, vb., to show the difference between, to define. DIGLADIATION, fencing match (J.). DIOGENES (testament of). "Who

willed his friend not to bury him, but to hang him up, with a staffe in his hand, to frighten away the crowes. [Note by Sir T. B.] DISCRUCIATING, excruciating. DISSENTANEOUS unto, contrary to. DITTY, speech.

DIUTURNITY, long duration.
DONATIVES, gifts.

DORADO, a fish, probably either the gilt-head or dorade or the gold-fish. IGNORANT DORADOES are rich men of no education. [Condensed from Greenhill.]

DORMATIVE, sleeping draught.
DRAUGHT, drawing.

ECLIPTICALLY, in the direction of the
sun's apparent motion.
EDIFIED, formed.

EFFRONT, to embolden.

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ELATER, spring," 'elasticity' (H. E. D.). ELEEMOSYNARIES, beggars.

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ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION, composition of elements" (Greenhill). ELIAS (prophecy of), "That the world may last but six thousand years.' [Note by Sir T. B.] EMPHATICAL, designated emphatically, or par excellence" (H. E. D.). EMPYREAL, in old astronomy, all beyond the tenth heaven. ENOCH'S PILLARS. "Josephus does not mention Enoch, but says the descendants of Seth erected two pillars, on which were engraven all the discoveries then known to mankind. [Condensed from Green. hill.]

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