BUT

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,
Ioy, griefe, and feare, and hope, and hate, and loue.

These passions haue a free commanding might,
And diuers actions in our life doe breed;
For, all acts done without true Reason's light,
Doe from the passion of the Sense proceed.

But sith the braine doth lodge the powers of Sense,
How makes it in the heart those passions spring?
The mutuall loue, the kind intelligence

"Twixt heart and braine, this sympathy doth bring.

From the kind heat, which in the heart doth raigne,
The spirits of life doe their begining take;
These spirits of life ascending to the braine,
When they come there, the spirits of Sense do make.

These spirits of Sense, in Fantasie's High Court,
Iudge of the formes of obiects, ill or well;

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:

If it bee ill, then doth it hatred moue,
And trembling feare, and vexing griefe's annoy.

Yet were these naturall affections good :

(For they which want them, blockes or deuils be)
If Reason in her first perfection stood,
That she might Nature's passions rectifie.

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,
Continuall motion to all parts doe bring.

THE LOCALL MOTION.

'HIS makes the pulses beat, and lungs respire,

TH

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;
These harmonies she makes with life and sense;
The organs fit are by the body lent,

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,
For to man's soule these onely proper bee;
For on the Earth no other wights there are
That haue these heauenly powers, but only we.

THE WIT OR UNDERSTANDING.

'HE WIT, the pupill of the Soule's cleare eye, And in man's world, the onely shining starre;

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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,
And them within her passiue part receiues;

Which are enlightned by that part which acts,
And so the formes of single things perceiues.

But after, by discoursing to and fro,
Anticipating, and comparing things;
She doth all vniversall natures know,
And all effects into their causes brings.4

REASON, VNDERSTANDING.

WHEN 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 OPINION5 light:

4 Thomas Davies, as before, mis-prints 'bring.' G.

5 Thomas Davies and Southey, as before, read 'opinion's light :'

But when she doth by principles define

A certaine truth, she hath true Judgement's sight.

And as from Senses, Reason's worke doth spring,
So many reasons understanding gaine;
And many understandings, knowledge bring ;
And by much knowledge, wisdome we obtaine.

So, many stayres we must ascend vpright

Ere we attaine to Wisdome's high degree ;6
So doth this Earth eclipse our Reason's light.
Which else (in instants) would like angels see.

Yet hath the Soule a dowrie naturall,

And sparkes of light, some common things to see;
Not being a blancke where nought is writ at all,
But what the writer will, may written be

For Nature in man's heart her lawes doth pen ;
Prescribing truth to wit, and good to will;
Which doe accuse, or else excuse all men,
For euery thought or practise, good or ill:

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but in all the Author's editions it is as above = light opinion or query is 'hight': named, meant? G.

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• Davies, as before, 'decree.' G.