Infusing part in beasts, and part in men,
And as unwilling farther pains to take,
Would make no more, than those He framèd then.
So that the widow Soul, her Body dying,
Unto the next born Body married was;
And so by often changing and supplying,
Men's souls to beasts, and beasts' to men did pass.
(These thoughts are fond! for since the bodies born
Be more in number far than those that die;
Thousands must be abortive, and forlorn,