give a greater Air of Dignity and Aw&longs;ulne&longs;s to <lb/>
a Place than &longs;ome artful Laws made by the <lb/>
Ancients; &longs;uch as the&longs;e: That nothing Male <lb/>
&longs;hould pre&longs;ume to &longs;et Foot in the Temple of <lb/>
the <emph type="italics"/>Bona Dea,<emph.end type="italics"/> nor in that of <emph type="italics"/>Diana<emph.end type="italics"/> in the Pa<lb/>
trician Portico; and at <emph type="italics"/>Tanagra,<emph.end type="italics"/> that no Wo<lb/>
man &longs;hould enter the &longs;acred Grove, nor the in<lb/>
ner Parts of the Temple of <emph type="italics"/>Jeru&longs;alem;<emph.end type="italics"/> and <lb/>
that no Per&longs;on what&longs;oever, be&longs;ides the Prie&longs;t, <lb/>
and he only in order to purify him&longs;elf for Sa<lb/>
cri&longs;ice, &longs;hould wa&longs;h in the Fountain near <emph type="italics"/>Pan<lb/>
thos;<emph.end type="italics"/> and that nobody &longs;hould pre&longs;ume to &longs;pit <lb/>
in the Place called <emph type="italics"/>Doliola<emph.end type="italics"/> near the great Drain <lb/>
at <emph type="italics"/>Rome,<emph.end type="italics"/> where the Bones of <emph type="italics"/>Numa Pompilius<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>
were depo&longs;ited; and upon &longs;ome Chapels there <lb/>
have been In&longs;criptions, &longs;trictly forbidding any <lb/>
common Pro&longs;titute to enter; in the Temple of <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Diana<emph.end type="italics"/> at <emph type="italics"/>Crete,<emph.end type="italics"/> none were admitted, except <lb/>
they were bare-footed; it was unlawful to bring <lb/>
a Bond-woman into the Temple of the God<lb/>
de&longs;s <emph type="italics"/>Matuta;<emph.end type="italics"/> and all common Cryers were ex<lb/>
cluded from the Temple of <emph type="italics"/>Orodio<emph.end type="italics"/> at <emph type="italics"/>Rhodes,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>
and all Fiddlers from that of <emph type="italics"/>Temnius<emph.end type="italics"/> at <emph type="italics"/>Te<lb/>
nedos.<emph.end type="italics"/></s><s> So again, it was unlawful to go out of <lb/>
the Temple of <emph type="italics"/>Jupiter Alfi&longs;tius<emph.end type="italics"/> without &longs;acri<lb/>
ficing, and to carry any Ivy into the Temple <lb/>
of <emph type="italics"/>Minerva<emph.end type="italics"/> at <emph type="italics"/>Athens,<emph.end type="italics"/> or into that of <emph type="italics"/>Venus<emph.end type="italics"/> at <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Thebes.<emph.end type="italics"/></s><s> In the Temple of <emph type="italics"/>Fauna,<emph.end type="italics"/> it was not <lb/>
lawful &longs;o much as to mention the Name of <lb/>
Wine. </s> <s>In the &longs;ame Manner it was decreed, <lb/>
that the Gate <emph type="italics"/>Janualis<emph.end type="italics"/> at <emph type="italics"/>Rome<emph.end type="italics"/> &longs;hould never <lb/>
be &longs;hut, but in Time of War, nor the Temple <lb/>
of <emph type="italics"/>Janus<emph.end type="italics"/> ever opened in Time of Peace; and <lb/>
that the Temple of the Godde&longs;s <emph type="italics"/>Hora<emph.end type="italics"/> &longs;hould <lb/>
&longs;tand always open. </s> <s>If we were to imitate any <lb/>
of the&longs;e Cu&longs;toms, perhaps it might not be a<lb/>
mi&longs;s to make it criminal for Women to enter <lb/>
the Temples of Martyrs; or Men, tho&longs;e dedi<lb/>
cated to Virgin Saints. </s> <s>Moreover there are &longs;ome <lb/>
Advantages very de&longs;irable, &longs;aid to be procured <lb/>
by Art, which when we read of, we could <lb/>
&longs;carcely believe, unle&longs;s we &longs;aw &longs;omething like <lb/>
it in &longs;ome particular Places even at this Day. <lb/>
</s> <s>We are told that it was brought about by hu<lb/>
man Art, that in <emph type="italics"/>Con&longs;tantinople<emph.end type="italics"/> Serpents will <lb/>
never hurt any body, and that no Daws will fly <lb/>
within the Walls; and that no Gra&longs;shoppers <lb/>
are ever heard in <emph type="italics"/>Naples,<emph.end type="italics"/> nor any Owls in <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Candy.<emph.end type="italics"/></s><s> In the Temple of <emph type="italics"/>Achilles,<emph.end type="italics"/> in the <lb/>
I&longs;land of <emph type="italics"/>Bori&longs;thenes<emph.end type="italics"/> no Bird what&longs;oever will <lb/>
enter, nor any Dog or Fly of any Sort in the <lb/>
Temple of <emph type="italics"/>Hercules<emph.end type="italics"/> near the <emph type="italics"/>Forum Boarium<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>
at <emph type="italics"/>Rome.<emph.end type="italics"/></s><s> But what &longs;hall we &longs;ay of this &longs;ur<lb/>
prizing Particularity, that at <emph type="italics"/>Venice,<emph.end type="italics"/> even at <lb/>
this Day, no Kind of Fly ever enters the pub<lb/>
lick Palace of the <emph type="italics"/>Cen&longs;ors?<emph.end type="italics"/> And even in the <lb/>
Fle&longs;h-market at <emph type="italics"/>Toledo,<emph.end type="italics"/> there is never more than <lb/>
one Fly &longs;een throughout the Year, and that a <lb/>
remarkable one for its Whitene&longs;s. </s> <s>The&longs;e <lb/>
&longs;trange Accounts which we find in Authors, <lb/>
are too numerous to be all in&longs;erted here, and <lb/>
whether they are owing to Nature or Art, I <lb/>
&longs;hall not now pretend to decide. </s> <s>But then, <lb/>
again, how can we, either by Nature or Art, <lb/>
account for what they tell us of a Laurel-tree <lb/>
growing in the Sepulchre of <emph type="italics"/>Bibrias<emph.end type="italics"/> King of <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Pontus,<emph.end type="italics"/> from which if the lea&longs;t Twig is brok<lb/>
en, and put aboard a Ship, that Ship &longs;hall ne<lb/>
ver be free from Mutinies and Tumults till the <lb/>
Twig is thrown out of it: Or for its never <lb/>
raining upon the <emph type="italics"/>Altar<emph.end type="italics"/> in <emph type="italics"/>Venus's<emph.end type="italics"/> Temple at <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Paphos:<emph.end type="italics"/> Or for this, that whatever Part of the <lb/>
Sacrifice is left at <emph type="italics"/>Minerva's<emph.end type="italics"/> Shrine in <emph type="italics"/>Phrygia <lb/>
minor,<emph.end type="italics"/> will never corrupt: Or this, if you <lb/>
break off any Part of <emph type="italics"/>Anteus's<emph.end type="italics"/> Sepulchre, it <lb/>
immediately begins to rain, and never leaves off <lb/>
till it is made whole again? </s> <s>Some indeed af<lb/>
firm, that all the&longs;e Things may be done by an <lb/>
Art, now lo&longs;t, by means of little con&longs;tellated <lb/>
Images, which A&longs;tronomers pretend are not <lb/>
unknown to them. </s> <s>I remember to have read <lb/>
in the Author of the Life of <emph type="italics"/>Apollonius Tyaneus,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>
that in the chief Apartments of the Royal Palace <lb/>
at <emph type="italics"/>Babylon,<emph.end type="italics"/> &longs;ome Magicians fa&longs;tened to the <lb/>
Cieling four golden Birds, which they called <lb/>
the Tongues of the Gods, and that the&longs;e were <lb/>
endued with the Virtue of conciliating the Af<lb/>
fection of the Multitude towards their King: <lb/>
And <emph type="italics"/>Jo&longs;ephus,<emph.end type="italics"/> a very grave Author, &longs;ays that <lb/>
he him&longs;elf &longs;aw a certain Man named <emph type="italics"/>Eleazer,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>
who in the Prefence of the Emperor <emph type="italics"/>Ve&longs;pa&longs;ian<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>
and his Sons, immediately cured a Man that <lb/>
was po&longs;&longs;e&longs;&longs;ed, by fa&longs;tening a Ring to his No&longs;e; <lb/>
and the &longs;ame Author writes that <emph type="italics"/>Solomon<emph.end type="italics"/> com<lb/>
po&longs;ed certain Ver&longs;es, which would give Ea&longs;e <lb/>
in Di&longs;tempers; and <emph type="italics"/>Eu&longs;ebius Pamphilus<emph.end type="italics"/> &longs;ays, <lb/>
that the <emph type="italics"/>Ægyptian<emph.end type="italics"/> God <emph type="italics"/>Serapis,<emph.end type="italics"/> whom we call <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Pluto,<emph.end type="italics"/> invented certain Charms which would <lb/>
drive away evil Spirits, and taught the Methods <lb/>
by which <emph type="italics"/>Dæmons<emph.end type="italics"/> a&longs;&longs;umed the Shapes of brute <lb/>
Bea&longs;ts to do mi&longs;chief. <emph type="italics"/>Servius<emph.end type="italics"/> too &longs;ays, that <lb/>
there were Men who u&longs;ed to carry Charms <lb/>
about them, by which they were &longs;ecured a<lb/>
gain&longs;t all unhappy Turns of Fortune; and that <lb/>
tho&longs;e Charms were &longs;o powerful, that the Per<lb/>
&longs;ons who wore them could never die till they <lb/>
were taken from them. </s> <s>If the&longs;e Things could <lb/>
be true, I &longs;hould ea&longs;ily believe what we read <lb/>
in <emph type="italics"/>Plutarch,<emph.end type="italics"/> that among the <emph type="italics"/>Pelenei<emph.end type="italics"/> there was <lb/>
an Image, which if it were brought out of the