Often considered the most well-written prose in English, for 10 points, name this 1658 essay inspired by the discovery of funeral containers in Norfolk by Sir Thomas Browne.
In Middlemarch, Will Ladislaw invokes its phrase "passionate prodigality" in reference to Dorothea, and the narrator later cites it to note that casual letters may "rest quietly under the drums and tramplings of many conquests." Its fifth chapter claims that "What Song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself," are not beyond conjecture, while this essay's preface urges Thomas Le Gros to "remember the civility" brought to England by those discovered, and "piss not upon their ashes."  Often considered the most well-written prose in English, for 10 points, name this 1658 essay inspired by the discovery of funeral containers in Norfolk by Sir Thomas Browne.
In Middlemarch, Will Ladislaw invokes its phrase "passionate prodigality" in reference to Dorothea, and the narrator later cites it to note that casual letters may "rest quietly under the drums and tramplings of many conquests."
{Hydriotaphia}, or {Urn-Burial} (accept either)