Playstered and whited Sepulchres, were anciently affected in cadaverous, and corruptive Burials; And the rigid Jews were wont to garnish the Sepulchres of the righteous;[37] _Ulysses_ in _Hecuba_[38] cared not how meanly he lived, so he might finde a noble Tomb after death. Great Princes affected great Monuments, and the fair and larger Urnes contained no vulgar ashes, which makes that disparity in those which time discovereth among us. The present Urnes were not of one capacity, the largest containing above a gallon, Some not much above half that measure; nor all of one figure, wherein there is no strict conformity, in the same or different Countreys; Observable from those represented by _Casalius_, _Bosio_, and others, though all found in _Italy_: While many have handles, ears, and long necks, but most imitate a circular figure, in a spherical and round composure; whether from any mystery, best duration or capacity, were but a conjecture. But the common form with necks was a proper figure, making our last bed like our first; nor much unlike the Urnes of our Nativity, while we lay in the nether part of the Earth,[39] and inward vault of our Microcosme. Many Urnes are red, these but of a black colour, somewhat smooth, and dully sounding, which begat some doubt, whether they were burnt, or only baked in Oven or Sun: According to the ancient way, in many bricks, tiles, pots, and testaceous works; and as the word _testa_ is properly to be taken, when occurring without addition: And chiefly intended by _Pliny_, when he commendeth bricks and tiles of two years old, and to make them in the spring. Nor only these concealed peeces, but the open magnificence of Antiquity, ran much in the Artifice of Clay. Hereof the house of _Mausolus_ was built, thus old _Jupiter_ stood in the Capitol, and the _Statua_ of _Hercules_ made in the Reign of _Tarquinius Priscus_, was extant in _Plinies_ dayes. And such as declined burning or Funeral Urnes, affected Coffins of Clay, according to the mode of _Pythagoras_, and way preferred by _Varro_. But the spirit of great ones was above these circumscriptions, affecting Copper, Silver, Gold, and _Porphyrie_ Urnes, wherein _Severus_ lay, after a serious view and sentence on that which should contain him.[40] Some of these Urnes were thought to have been silvered over, from sparklings in several pots, with small Tinsel parcels; uncertain whether from the earth, or the first mixture in them. [37] _Matt._ 23. [38] Euripides. [39] _Psa._ 63. [40] Χωρήσεις τὸν ἅνθρωπον ὅν ἤ οἰκουμένη οὐκ ἠχώρησεν. Dion.