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-Why the Soule is United to the Body .

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In what manner the Soule is united to the Body .

How the Soul doth exercise her Powers in the

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That the Soule is Immortal, and cannot Die

Reason I-Drawne from the desire of Knowledge

Reason II-Drawn from the Motion of the Soule

The Soul compared to a Riuer

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Reason III-From Contempt of Death in the

better Sort of Spirits

Reason IV-From the Feare of Death in the

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Reason VI-From the very Doubt and Disputa-

tion of Immortalitie

That the Soule cannot be destroyed

Her Cause ceaseth not.

She hath no Contrary

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Shee cannot Die for want of Food

Violence cannot destroy her.

Time cannot destroy her

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EDITION (1697) OF NOSCE TEIPSUM '

HYMNES TO ASTRAEA.

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Of her Memorie

Of her Phantasie

Of the Organs of her Minde.

Of the Passions of her Heart

Of the innumerable vertues of her minde

Of her Wisdome

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Of her Justice

Of her Magnanimitie

Of her Moderation

To Enuy

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ORCHESTRA, OR A POEME OF DAUNCING

DEDICATIONS.-I. TO HIS VERY FRIEND, MA. RICH.

MARTIN

II. TO THE PRINCE

ORCHESTRA, OR A POEME OF DAUNCING

Memorial-Introduction.

As

I. BIOGRAPHICAL.

S in other instances, the first thing to be done in any Life of our present Worthy, is to distinguish him from other two contemporary Sir John Davieses— non-attention to which has in many biographical and bibliographical works led to no little confusion. There

was

I. Sir John Davis (or Davys or Davies) of Pangbourne, Berkshire, who 'sleeps well' under a chalkstone monument in the parish church there. He was mixed up with the 'Plots' (alleged and semi-real), of the Elizabethan-Essex period. Many of his Letters— various very long and matterful and pathetic-are preserved at Hatfield among the Cecil-Salisbury MSS. The Blue-Book report of the "Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts" (3rd, 1872), makes a strange jumble of our Sir John and this Sir John's Letters (see Index, s. n.). He was Master of the Ordnance 31st January, 1598, and was knighted at Dublin 12th July, 1599. His Will is dated 6th April, 1625, and it was

proved at London.

May, 1626. Our Sir John

was appointed one of his executors. Arms: Sable, a griffin, segt., or. He is supposed to have been of Shropshire descent.

II. Sir John Davies (or Davys or Davis) KnightMarshal of Connaught and Thomond: temp. Elizabeth. He had large grants of lands in Roscommon. He is now represented by the family of Clonshanville (or Loyle) in Roscommon, who are of Shropshire descent (see Archdall's Peerage of Ireland.) His Will is dated 14th February, 1625. He died 13th April, 1626. His Will was not proved (at Dublin) until 17th November, 1628. Arms Sable, on a chevron, argent, three trefoils slipped, vert.: crest; a dragon's head erased, vert.

According to Mr. J. Payne Collier, the following entry is found in the register of S. Mary, Aldermanbury: "Buried Sir John Davyes, Knight, May 28, 1624." (Bibliographical Account of Early English Literature, i., 193). If there be no mistake here, we have another contemporary Sir John Davies. Certainly it was not ours, and as certainly neither of the two preceding.1

1 Through B. H. Beedham, Esq., as before, I have many details on the two contemporary Sir John Davieses from Sir Bernard