Contents.

Those marked with [*] are herein printed for the first time, or
published for the first time among Davies' Poems.

*DEDICATION OF A GIFT-COPY (IN MS.) IN THE POS-

SESSION OF HIS GRACE THe Duke of NORTHUM-

BERLAND, AT ALNWICK CASTLE .

IMMORTALITIE

That the soule is a thing subsisting by it selfe

without the body

That the soule is more then a perfection or reflec-

tion of the sense

That the Soule is more then the Temperature of

the Humors of the Body

That the Soule is a Spirit

That it cannot be a Body

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That the Soule is created immediately by God
Erronious opinions of the Creation of Soules
Objection :-That the Soule is Extraduce
The Answere to the Obiection

Reasons drawne from Nature

Reasons drawne from Diuinity

In what manner the Soule is united to the Body 61

How the Soul doth exercise her Powers in the

Reason I-Drawne from the desire of Knowledge 83

Reason II-Drawn from the Motion of the Soule

The Soul compared to a Riuer .

Reason III-From Contempt of Death in the

better Sort of Spirits

Reason IV-From the Feare of Death in the

Wicked Soules

Reason V-From the generall Desire of Immor-

talitie

93

NOSCE TEIPSUM (continued)

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

Shee cannot Die for want of Food

The Generall Consent of All

Three Kinds of Life answerable to the three

APPENDIX-REMARKS PREFIXED TO NAHUM TATE'S

EDITION (1697) OF NOSCE TEIPSUM '

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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

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DEDICATIONS.-1. To his VERY FRIEND, MA. RICH.

Memorial-Introduction.

I. BIOGRAPHICAL.

AS 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