[_And every business of the following day As soon as by the morn awak'd, dispose_] These two lines I have inserted upon the authority of _Porphyrius_, [Greek: Pro men oun tou hypnou tauta heautô ta epê epadein hekaston. Mêd' hypnon malakoisin], &c. [Greek: Pro de tês exanastaseôs ekeina: Prôta men ex hypnoio meliphronos exypanistas Eu mala poipneuein hos' en hêmati erga telessei]. _He advised every one before he slept to repeat these verses to himself, Nor suffer sleep at night, &c. And before he rose these, And every business, &c._ How much this confirms _Pythagoras_ the author, and his scholars but disposers of the verses (who, as it appears, forgot these two), is evident enough. The main argument they insist upon, who labour to prove the contrary, is derived from these words, [_Nature's eternal fountain I attest, Who did the soul with fourfold power invest_] Where _Marcilius_ expounds [Greek: paradonta tetrakên][2] _illum a quo scientiam_ [Greek: tetraktyos], _acceperant, is autem doctor eorum Pythagoras_, as if it were _Him who the Tetrad to our souls exprest, (Nature's eternal fountain) I attest;_ And then takes pains to show that his scholars used to swear by him. But [Greek: paradidonai psychê mathêtôn] for [Greek: didaskein] is not without a little violence to [Greek: hametera psycha] (which makes _Iamblic[h]us_ read [Greek: hameteras sophias]) _Marcilius_ in this being the less excusable for confessing immediately, _Animae vero nostrae dixerunt Pythagorei quoniam quaternarius animae numerus est_, an explanation inconsistent with the other, but (as I conceive) truer; _Macrobius_ expressly agreeth with it; _Iuro tibi per eum qui dat animae nostrae quaternarium numerum_; or, as others, _Per qui nostrae animae numerum dedit ipse quaternum._ _By him who gave us life--God._ In which sense, [Greek: pagan aennaou physeôs] much more easily will follow [Greek: paradonta] than [Greek: tetrakên]. The four powers of the soul are, _mens_, _scientia_, _opinio_, _sensus_, which _Aristotle_ calls _the four instruments of judgement_, _Hierocles_, [Greek: kritikas dynameis]. The _mind_ is compared to a unit, in that of many singulars it makes one. _Science_ to the number _two_ (which amongst the Pythagoreans is _numerus infinitatis_), because it proceeds from things certain and granted to uncertain and infinite. _Opinion_ to _three_, a number of indefinite variety. _Sense_ to _four_, as furnishing the other three. In this exposition I am the more easily persuaded to dissent from _Plutarch_, _Hierocles_, _Iamblichus_, and other interpreters, since they differ no less amongst themselves. [_Within is a continual hidden fight_] Betwixt Reason and Appetite. [_how little trouble_] As _Marcilius_ reads, [Greek: Ê pollôn], &c. [_their genius_]