So (though the instruments by which we liue, And view the world, the bodie's death doe kill;)[154] Yet with the body they shall all reuiue, And all their wonted offices fulfill. OBJECTION III. _But how_, till then, shall she herselfe imploy? Her spies are dead which brought home newes before; What she hath got and keepes, she may enioy, But she hath meanes to vnderstand no more. Then what do those poore _soules_, which nothing get? Or what doe those which get, and cannot keepe? Like buckets[155] bottomlesse, which all out-let Those _Soules_, for want of exercise, must sleepe. ANSWERE. _See how_ man's _Soule_ against it selfe doth striue: Why should we not haue other meanes to know? As children while within the wombe they liue, Feed by the nauill: here they feed not so. These children, if they had some vse of sense, And should by chance their mothers' talking heare; That in short time they shall come forth from thence, Would feare their birth more then our death we feare. They would cry out, 'If we this place shall leaue, Then shall we breake our tender nauill strings; How shall we then our nourishment receiue, Sith our sweet food no other conduit brings?' And if a man should to these babes reply, That into this faire world they shall be brought; Where they shall see the Earth, the Sea, the Skie, The glorious Sun, and all that God hath wrought: That there ten thousand dainties they shall meet, Which by their mouthes they shall with pleasure take; Which shall be cordiall too, as wel as sweet, And of their little limbes, tall bodies make: This would[156] they thinke a fable, euen as we Doe thinke the _story_ of the _Golden Age_; Or as some sensuall spirits amongst vs bee, Which hold the _world to come, a fainèd stage_: Yet shall these infants after find all true, Though then thereof they nothing could conceiue; As soone as they are borne, the world they view, And with their mouthes, the nurses'-milke receiue. So, when the _Soule_ is borne (for Death is nought But the _Soule's_ birth, and so we should it call) Ten thousand things she sees beyond her thought, And in an vnknowne manner knowes them all. Then doth she see by spectacles no more, She heares not by report of double spies; Her selfe in instants doth all things explore, For each thing present, and before her, lies. [Footnote 154: The parenthetic marks are as _supra_: but perhaps they ought to begin at 'by' and end with 'world.' G.] [Footnote 155: Davies and Southey, as before, oddly misprint 'bucklers.' G.]