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"TSJE LIFE OF SJETHOS . " ( Continued from page 121 . )
€ | gN the meantime _ ihe Queen ' s household , consisting of six thousand £ § " £ horse , marched in the front , leaving the care of the royal corpse to ^ J | g the priests . These officers were ranged four and four , with their arms pointed downwards . The din of their warlike instruments sounding in mournful tone , and mixed with periodical intervals of silence , ierced to the sold Next to these followed the societies of the citof
p . - y Memphis , distinguished by proper habits , but covered with black crape ' , on horseback , as the former . And among this number of people , which already amounted to twelve thousand , not a single word was uttered during the whole procession . The great officers of the court , and after them the princes , excepting the king and the presumptive heir to the crown , who never appeared publicly at funeralscame nextfour and fouras the former
, , , clad in purple robes , sitting in a kind of niches , covered with black , and placed upon shafts , having the ensigns of their dignities at their feet , and carried each upon the shoulders of ei ght slaves . These three numerous troops began their march by day ; and at the close of the evening the ladies , who made the most doleful part of the procession , began to appear . They were seated four and four in sixty chariots , covered above , but open
on the sides , and drawn each by eight horses , two and two . Both horses and chariots were in a manner buried under their coverings of black silk , strewed all over with tears of silver . These ladies , muffled up in their veils from head to foot , resembled so many spectres . In the last chariot sat the chief lad y of the deceased queen ' s court , holding before her a child , whobeing veiled like herselfwas known by nonebut respected by all
, , , . HoweA'cr , the most prudent did imagine that Amedes , not only willing to let the young prince see the solemnity of a trial of the dead in the bloom of his youth , Avas . at the same time cautious of leaving him in the palace in the absence of all his deceased ' s mother ' s servants .
After these ladies , whose sobs and groans heightened the griefs of the spectators , and Avho Avere continually seen drying away their tears under then- veil , as . a contrast which could not he but very affecting , immediately followed all those instruments of music which in Egypt were made use of at their highest festivals , as the citterns , shalms , and hautboys ; Avhich were answered periodically by trumpets and kettle-drums , to proclaim the approach of the queen ' s chariot . Those who sounded these instruments , and
even the leaders of the chariot , and the twelve body-slaves who marched on the right and on the left of it , were clad in their festival habits , which contradiction to their mournful aspects and profound silence , was to the spectators a lively emblem of the deceitfulness and brevity of human joy . The queen herself was adorned with a sort of scarf of flowers , which , crossing OA er her left shoulder , met and joined under her ri ght arm ; and in her hands she held festoons , -which , hanging over her knees , reached down to her feet . This custom of the Egyptians Avas to signify , that though the
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Reprint Of Scarce, Orcurious , Books On Freemasonry .
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"TSJE LIFE OF SJETHOS . " ( Continued from page 121 . )
€ | gN the meantime _ ihe Queen ' s household , consisting of six thousand £ § " £ horse , marched in the front , leaving the care of the royal corpse to ^ J | g the priests . These officers were ranged four and four , with their arms pointed downwards . The din of their warlike instruments sounding in mournful tone , and mixed with periodical intervals of silence , ierced to the sold Next to these followed the societies of the citof
p . - y Memphis , distinguished by proper habits , but covered with black crape ' , on horseback , as the former . And among this number of people , which already amounted to twelve thousand , not a single word was uttered during the whole procession . The great officers of the court , and after them the princes , excepting the king and the presumptive heir to the crown , who never appeared publicly at funeralscame nextfour and fouras the former
, , , clad in purple robes , sitting in a kind of niches , covered with black , and placed upon shafts , having the ensigns of their dignities at their feet , and carried each upon the shoulders of ei ght slaves . These three numerous troops began their march by day ; and at the close of the evening the ladies , who made the most doleful part of the procession , began to appear . They were seated four and four in sixty chariots , covered above , but open
on the sides , and drawn each by eight horses , two and two . Both horses and chariots were in a manner buried under their coverings of black silk , strewed all over with tears of silver . These ladies , muffled up in their veils from head to foot , resembled so many spectres . In the last chariot sat the chief lad y of the deceased queen ' s court , holding before her a child , whobeing veiled like herselfwas known by nonebut respected by all
, , , . HoweA'cr , the most prudent did imagine that Amedes , not only willing to let the young prince see the solemnity of a trial of the dead in the bloom of his youth , Avas . at the same time cautious of leaving him in the palace in the absence of all his deceased ' s mother ' s servants .
After these ladies , whose sobs and groans heightened the griefs of the spectators , and Avho Avere continually seen drying away their tears under then- veil , as . a contrast which could not he but very affecting , immediately followed all those instruments of music which in Egypt were made use of at their highest festivals , as the citterns , shalms , and hautboys ; Avhich were answered periodically by trumpets and kettle-drums , to proclaim the approach of the queen ' s chariot . Those who sounded these instruments , and
even the leaders of the chariot , and the twelve body-slaves who marched on the right and on the left of it , were clad in their festival habits , which contradiction to their mournful aspects and profound silence , was to the spectators a lively emblem of the deceitfulness and brevity of human joy . The queen herself was adorned with a sort of scarf of flowers , which , crossing OA er her left shoulder , met and joined under her ri ght arm ; and in her hands she held festoons , -which , hanging over her knees , reached down to her feet . This custom of the Egyptians Avas to signify , that though the