This busie power is working day and night; A thousand dreames, fantasticall and light, THE SENSITIUE MEMORIE. YET alwayes all may not afore her bee; Successiuely, she this and that intends; Therefore such formes as she doth cease to see, To Memorie's large volume shee commends. The lidger-booke lies in the braine behinde, Like Ianus' eye, which in his poll was set; Heere Sense's apprehension, end doth take; Till the last circle touch the banke at last.9 8 Cf. Milton's Il Penseroso, lines 5-10. G. 9 Cf. Phineas Fletcher: Purple Island c. v., stanza 47. G. BU THE PASSIONS OF SENSE. UT though the apprehensiue1 power doe pause, The motiue vertue then begins to moue; Which in the heart below doth PASSIONS cause, Toy, griefe, and feare, and hope, and hate, and loue. These passions haue a free commanding might, But sith the braine doth lodge the powers of Sense, "Twixt heart and braine, this sympathy doth bring. From the kind heat, which in the heart doth raigne, These spirits of Sense, in Fantasie's High Court, 1 Misprinted 'apprehension ;' corrected in the errata of 1622 edition from 1599 and 1608 editions. G. 2 In 1599 and 1608 editions' since,' as before. G. And so they send a good or ill report Downe to the heart, where all affections dwell. If the report bee good, it causeth loue, And longing hope, and well-assurèd ioy: Yet were these naturall affections good: (For they which want them, blockes or deuils be) THE MOTION OF LIFE. BESIDES, another motiue-power doth rise Out of the heart; from whose pure blood do spring The vitall spirits; which, borne in arteries, THE LOCALL MOTION. 'HIS makes the pulses beat, and lungs respire, THIS This holds the sinewes like a bridle's reines; And makes the Body to aduance, retire, To turne or stop, as she them3 slacks, or straines. Thus the soule tunes the bodie's instrument; But th' actions flow from the Soule's influence. THE INTELLECTUALL POWERS OF THE SOULE. UT now I haue a will, yet want a wit, BUT To expresse the working of the wit and will; Which, though their root be to the body knit, Vse not the body, when they vse their skill. These powers the nature of the Soule declare, THE WIT OR UNDERSTANDING. THE And in man's world, the onely shining starre; 3 Misprinted 'them' in 1622 edition, corrected as above from 1599 and 1608 editions. G. Lookes in the mirror of the Fantasie, Where all the gatherings of the Senses are. From thence this power the shapes of things abstracts, But after, by discoursing to and fro, WHEN REASON, VNDERSTANDING. HEN she rates things and moues from ground to ground, The name of Reason she obtaines by this; But when by Reason she the truth hath found, And standeth fixt, she VNDERSTANDING is. OPINION, JUDGEMENT. HEN her assent she lightly doth encline WHEN To either part, she is OPINION 5 light: 4 Thomas Davies, as before, mis-prints 'bring.' G. 5 Thomas Davies and Southey, as before, read 'opinion's light :' |