The heathens had also their aqua lustralis , that is to say, “holy water.” The Church of Rome imitates them also in their “holy days.” They had their bacchanalia ; and we have our “wakes,” answering to them; they their “saturnalia,” and we our “carnivals,” and Shrove Tuesday’s liberty of servants: they their procession of Priapus; we our fetching in, erection, and dancing about Maypoles; and dancing is one kind of worship: they had their procession called Ambarvalia; and we our procession about the fields in the Rogation Week. Nor do I think that these are all the ceremonies that have been left in the Church, from the first conversion of the Gentiles; but they are all that I can for the present call to mind; and if a man would well observe that which is delivered in the histories, concerning the religious rites of the Greeks and Romans, I doubt not but he might find many more of these old empty bottles of Gentilism, which the doctors of the Roman Church, either by negligence or ambition, have filled up again with the new wine of Christianity, that will not fail in time to break them.