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.
This makes the pulses beat, and lungs respire,
This holds the sinewes like a bridle's reines;
And makes the Body to aduance, retire,
To turne or stop, as she them 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.
But now I haue a will, yet want a wit,
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.
The WIT, the pupill of the Soule's cleare eye,
And in man's world, the onely shining starre;
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.