In odour of sweet sanctity).
2 ¶ It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
(3.) Good is it to go to the house of mourning, rather than to go to the house of feasting; because therein is the end of every human thing, and the living should lay it to his heart.
(2.) Good is it to go to the house of mourning, more than to go to the house of feasting, in which (full relative) is (emphatic) the end of all the man (the end of all humanity generally: every real biography is a tragedy and ends with a death), and the living one will give it to his heart.
3 [¹]Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
[¹] Or, anger.
(4.) Good is disappointment above laughter; for by spoiling the features the heart is improved.