The many men that every man is by the great varietie of tempers, inclinations, opinions, and apprehensions unto the age of man, makes a kind of metempsychosis before death, and makes good that Pythagoricall opinion in one generation and the same habitation of flesh. Time brings not only frequent repentancie in actions butt iterated resipiscency in opinions thoughts and notions. Even of what I now apprehend I have no settled assurance. These are my present thoughts this night in England; what they will prove tomorrow when I arise toward China, I may bee yet to determine.