What? Are Panthea or Pergamus still sitting by their masters' tombs today? Are Chabrias or Diotimus still by Hadrian's tomb? How foolish! Even if they were, would their dead masters know it? And if they knew, would they care? And if they cared, would that make these servants live forever? Weren't they also meant to grow old and die? And once they're dead, what happens to all that devotion? In the end, what is this all for? Just a bag of blood and rot.
What? are either Panthea or Pergamus abiding to this day by their masters' tombs? or either Chabrias or Diotimus by that of Adrianus? O foolery! For what if they did, would their masters be sensible of It? or if sensible, would they be glad of it? or if glad, were these immortal? Was not it appointed unto them also (both men and women,) to become old in time, and then to die? And these once dead, what would become of these former? And when all is done, what is all this for, but for a mere bag of blood and corruption?