Chapter XVII: Letter II: The Church

... Festinat enim decurrere velox
Flosculus angustæ miseræque brevissima vitæ
Portio! dum bibimus, dum serta, unguenta, puellas
Poscimus, obrepit non intellecta senectus.

_Juvenal._ Satir. ix. lin. 126.

And when at last thy love shall die,
Wilt thou receive his parting breath?
Wilt thou repress each struggling sigh,
And cheer with smiles the bed of death?

_Percy_ [?].

Several Meanings of the word _Church_--The Building so called, here
intended--Its Antiquity and Grandeur--Columns and Ailes--The
Tower: the Stains made by Time compared with the mock Antiquity of
the Artist--Progress of Vegetation on such
Buildings--Bells--Tombs: one in decay--Mural Monuments, and the
Nature of their Inscriptions--An Instance in a departed Burgess---
Churchyard Graves--Mourners for the Dead--A Story of a betrothed
Pair in humble Life, and Effects of Grief in the Survivor.