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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666

Note 5 — Royal Funeral Rites at Manila

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This fatal urn encloses a dead majesty, but yestreen a reverenced deity, now a mere heap of earth. Little gains he, and much he errs, who, cautious, does not note the mutability of his lot; for Fate does not exempt the successor of a monarch from the tribute of death.”5

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