Nor were only many customes questionable in order to their Obsequies, but also sundry practises, fictions, and conceptions, discordant or obscure, of their state and future beings; whether unto eight or ten bodies of men to adde one of a woman, as being more inflammable, and unctuously constituted for the better pyrall combustion, were any rational practise: Or whether the complaint of _Perianders_ Wife be tolerable, that wanting her Funerall burning she suffered intolerable cold in Hell, according to the constitution of the infernal house of _Pluto_, wherein cold makes a great part of their tortures; it cannot passe without some question. Why the Female Ghosts appear unto _Ulysses_, before the _Heroes_ and masculine spirits? Why the _Psyche_ or soul of _Tiresias_ is of the masculine gender; who being blinde on earth sees more then all the rest in hell; Why the Funeral Suppers consisted of Egges, Beans, Smallage, and Lettuce, since the dead are made to eat _Asphodels_ about the _Elysian_ medows? Why since there is no Sacrifice acceptable, nor any propitiation for the Covenant of the grave: men set up the Deity of _Morta_, and fruitlesly adored Divinities without ears? it cannot escape some doubt. The dead seem all alive in the humane _Hades_ of _Homer_, yet cannot we speak, prophesie, or know the living, except they drink blood, wherein is the life of man. And therefore the souls of _Penelope's_ Paramours conducted by _Mercury_ chiriped like bats, and those which followed _Hercules_ made a noise but like a flock of birds. The departed spirits know things past and to come, yet are ignorant of things present. _Agememnon_ fortels what should happen unto _Ulysses_, yet ignorantly enquires what is become of his own Son. The ghosts are afraid of swords in _Homer_, yet _Sybilla_ tells _Æneas_ in _Virgil_, the thin habit of spirits was beyond the force of weapons. The spirits put off their malice with their bodies, and _Cæsar_ and _Pompey_ accord in Latine Hell, yet _Ajax_ in _Homer_ endures not a conference with _Ulysses_: And _Deiphobus_ appears all mangled in _Virgils_ Ghosts, yet we meet with perfect shadows among the wounded ghosts of _Homer_.