(a) They who have no being, cannot be so much as miserable] Nothing is more certain; as the Action at Law dies with the Person, so if the Subject cease to be, all the Accidents depending on it fall together. Death is a Dissolution of the whole compound: but this Argument is intended to re∣prove the Vulgar, who foolishly pittied the dead only for their loss of these worldly Advantages, to which indeed the dead are utterly lost; but he afterwards retrieves the Soul. The drift of these two Sections is, to disprove Death's being evil or miserable to them that are already dead, which was the second Member of the disjunctive.
(b) As ye go out at the Capuan Gate.] It was a Law among the Romans (taken from the Attick) to bury none within the City: but without the several Gates by the High-way∣side. Monuments erected for the dead, were admonitions to the Passengers, and Ornaments of the Publick.