FROM

Nosce Teipsum

by Sir John Davies


WHAT THE SOULE IS.

The soule is a substance, and a spirit is,
   Which God Himselfe doth in the body make ;
   Which makes the Man : for euery man from this,
   The nature of a Man, and name doth take.

And though this1 spirit be to the body knit,
   As an apt meane her powers to exercise ;
   Which are life, motion, sense, and will, and wit,
   Yet she suruiues, although the body dies.



1   'The' in Ist edn.   G.


Source:
Davies, Sir John. The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Vol I.
Rev. Alexander B, Grosart, ed. London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly, 1876. 29.


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