384. THAT AFTER DEATH THE AVARICIOUS SEEM TO THEMSELVES TO BE ENCLOSED IN SUBTERRANEAN CELLS WHERE THERE ARE MICE There are degrees of avarice, and there are also [various] ends of avarice. There are those who are avaricious for the sake of money alone, which also they bury in cells. They seem to themselves to stay in the cells where their wealth is, and there indeed to be infested with mice - as it were mountainous and great ones - in order that they may go away from there: but still they do not go away until they are worn out; so at length they roll themselves out of these their sepulchres. 1747, Dec. 24.