Note 70 — Chapter II
Reading edition
Cf. Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus:—
“Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul? Or why is this immortal that thou hast? Ah, Pythagoras’ metempsychosis, were that true This soul should fly from me, and I be changed Unto some brutish beast! All beasts are happy, For when they die, Their souls are soon dissolved in elements; But mine must live still to be plagued in hell.”