90With them, whom heavy chance has cast away,
With no solemnities at all interr'd,
To roam unburied on the sea:
No—'tis all one where we receive our doom,
Since, somewhere, 'tis our certain lot
Our carcases must rot,
And they whom heaven covers need no tomb.
Petronius Arbiter's Satyricon.] This translation-amplification of one of the most famous passages of the Satyricon is the piece referred to by Nahum Tate at the opening of his commendation (sup., [p. 290]).
39 'breath', as in l. 72, a seventeenth-century form.
88 A good line, if I mistake not. There is no suggestion even of it in the original, but, as often in Flatman, much of Sir Thomas Browne.