Note 160 — ACT II.
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A ridiculous supposition to any one who considers the great and extensive largeness of hell, says a commentator; but not so to those who consider the great expansion of immaterial substance. Mr. Banks makes one soul to be so expanded, that heaven could not contain it.
"The heavens are all too narrow for her soul."—"Virtue Betrayed."
The Persian Princess hath a passage not unlike the author of this:
"We will send such shoals of murder'd slaves, Shall glut hell's empty regions."
This threatens to fill hell, even though it was empty; Lord Grizzle, only to fill up the chinks, supposing the rest already full.