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•burial!'of the corps j for it hath left many teares to the parents and friends, with dolefull heapes of sorrowe and heauinesse. But whosoeuer shall doe otherwise than the present griefe requireth, let him die a shame-full death, and let there be none to burie his bodie. And as soone as he had read ouer the writing, he said vnto his servants : now let vs perfourme unto the bodie that which the sorrowe requireth ; and I sweare to you, by the hope which I haue to Hue, that I will bestow more money vpon the accomplishing of the same, than the sorrowful scedul requireth. Wherfore, according to the maner of the buriall which was at that time to burn the bodies of the dead, and to burie the ashes, gathered vp and put into pottes, he com-maunded a pile of wood to be erected, and vpon the top thereof he caused the body to be layed.
Nowe Cerimon had a scholler in Physicke, whose name was Machaon very towardly in his profession, of yeres but yong, but antient in wit and experience, who comming in while these things were doing, and beholding so beautifull a corps layd vpon the pile, hee stoode still and wondered at it. Which thing Cerimon perceiuing, Thou art come in good time said he to Machaon, and I looked for thee about this time. Take this flagon of precious ointment, and powre it vppon the corps, being the last ceremonie of the sepulture. Then came Machaon vnto the corps, and pulled the clothes from the ladies bosome, and poured foortli the ointment, and bestowing it abroad with his had, perceiued some warmth in her breast, and that there was life in the body. Machaon stoode astonished, and hee felt her pulses, and layde his cheeke to her mouth, and examined all other tokens that he coulde deuise, and he perceiued how death striued with life within her, and that the conflict was daunger-ous and doubtful!, who should preuaile. Then saide he vnto the seruants: set fire vnto the wood at the