England's beauty in seeing King Charles the Second restored to majesty . The Dead Manfpcaking, &c. Andb]ithebeingAead,jetfpeaketh,}lzb. Am this day to prefent you with a Deaths-head , noveiy pleafing fight. If it be mors atra , blac\^deathythen a Deaths-head is Spettaculum [qualldum , *grifly , hideous ftettacle ; a Gorgons head, and aDeaths-head, are much alike; yea Caput mortuum , the Dealheady which by the Chymifts is called terra damnata, the dam-ned earth doth carry fome femblance with it, only here is the dif-ference , that there all virtue is extracted , but here much virtuedoth r

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England's beauty in seeing King Charles the Second restored to majesty . The Dead Manfpcaking, &c. Andb]ithebeingAead,jetfpeaketh,}lzb. Am this day to prefent you with a Deaths-head , noveiy pleafing fight. If it be mors atra , blac\^deathythen a Deaths-head is Spettaculum [qualldum , *grifly , hideous ftettacle ; a Gorgons head, and aDeaths-head, are much alike; yea Caput mortuum , the Dealheady which by the Chymifts is called terra damnata, the dam-ned earth doth carry fome femblance with it, only here is the dif-ference , that there all virtue is extracted , but here much virtuedoth remain ; for this Deaths-head doth ft>eak, yea fpeak with-out a tongue. It is rare to hear the dead fpeak, efpecially tofpeak when the Organ of fpeech is wanting; for living men tobe dumb , is a judgement, for dead men to fpeak , is a Brazen head of Albertus Magnus, fpeaking, fo aftonifhedThomas Aquinas, that he brake it in pieces, and his Mailer gavehim a bitter check for it, faying, that he had deftroyed the workof thirty years invention ; The head

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