But as the world's sunne doth effects beget,
Diuers, in diuers places euery day;
Here Autumnes temperature, there Summer's heat,
Here flowry Spring-tide, and there Winter gray:
Eere Euen, there Morne, here Noone, there Day, there Night;
Melts wax, dries clay, maks flowrs, som quick, som dead;
Makes the More black, and th' Europ[oe]an white,
Th' American tawny, and th' East-Indian red:
So in our little World: this soule of ours,
Being onely one, and to one body tyed,
Doth vse, on diuers obiects diuers powers,
And so are her effects diuersified.
THE VEGETATIUE OR QUICKENING POWER.
Her quick'ning power in euery lining part,
Doth as a nurse, or as a mother serue;
And doth employ her oeconomicke art,
And busie care, her houshold to preserue
Here she attracts, and there she doth retaine,
There she decocts, and doth the food prepare;
There she distributes it to euery vaine,
There she expels what she may fitly spare.
This power to Martha may comparèd be,
Which busie was, the houshold-things to doe;
Or to a Dryas, liuing in a tree:
For euen to trees this power is proper too.
And though the Soule may not this power extend
Out of the body, but still vse it there;
She hath a power which she abroad doth send,
Which views and searcheth all things euery where.