When She from sundry acts, one Skill doth draw; Gathering from divers fights, one Art of War; From many Cases like, one Rule of Law: These, her collections, not the Sense's, are. When in th'Effects, She doth the Causes know; And seeing the stream, thinks where the spring doth rise; And seeing the branch, conceives the root below: These things She views, without the Body's eyes. When She, without a Pegasus, doth fly Swifter than lightning's fire, from East to West; About the Centre, and above the Sky: She travels then, although the Body rest. When all her works She formeth first within; Proportions them, and sees their perfect end, Ere She in act, doth any part begin: What instruments doth then, the Body lend? When without hands, She thus doth castles build; Sees without eyes, and without feet doth run; When She digests the world, yet is not filled: By her own power, these miracles are done. When She defines, argues, divides, compounds; Considers Virtue, Vice, and General Things; And marrying diverse principles and grounds, Out of their match, a true conclusion brings: These actions, in her closet, all alone, (Retired within herself) She doth fulfil; Use of her Body's organs, She hath none, When She doth use the powers of Wit and Will. Yet in the Body's prison, so She lies, As through the Body's windows She must look, Her divers powers of Sense to exercise, By gathering notes out of the world's great book. Nor can herself discourse, or judge of ought, But what the Sense collects, and home doth bring, And yet the Power of her discoursing Thought, From these Collections, is a diverse thing. For though our eyes can nought but colours see, Yet colours give them not their Power of Sight; So, though these fruits of Sense, her objects be, Yet She discerns them by her proper light. The workman on his stuff, his skill doth shew, And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill; Kings, their affairs, do, by their servants know, But order them by their own royal will. So though this cunning Mistress, and this Queen Doth, as her instruments, the Senses use, To know all things that are Felt, Heard, or Seen; Yet She herself doth only Judge and Choose: Even as our great wise Empress (that now reigns By sovereign title over sundry lands) Borrows, in mean affairs, her subjects' pains, Sees by their eyes, and writeth by their hands: But things of weight and consequence indeed, Herself doth in her chamber them debate; Where, all her Councillors she doth exceed As far in judgement, as she doth in State.