Then what vast body must we make the _mind_ Wherin are men, beasts, trees, towns, seas, and lands; And yet each thing a proper place doth find, And each thing in the true proportion stands? Doubtlesse this could not bee, but that she turnes Bodies to spirits, by _sublimation_ strange; As fire conuerts to fire the things it burnes As we our meats into our nature change. From their grosse _matter_ she abstracts the _formes_, And draws a kind of _quintessence_ from things; Which to her proper nature she transformes, To bear them light on her celestiall wings: This doth she, when, from things _particular_, She doth abstract the _universall kinds_; Which bodilesse and immateriall are, And can be lodg'd but onely in our minds: And thus from diuers _accidents_ and _acts_, Which doe within her obseruation fall, She goddesses, and powers diuine, abstracts: As _Nature_, _Fortune_, and the _Vertues_ all." (pp. 42-44.) Again:-- _Are they not sencelesse_ then, that thinke the Soule Nought but a fine perfection of the _Sense_; Or of the formes which _fancie_ doth enroule, A _quicke resulting_, and a _consequence_? What is it then that doth the _Sense_ accuse, Both of _false judgements_, and _fond appetites_? What makes vs do what _Sense_ doth most refuse? Which oft in torment of the _Sense_ delights? _Sense_ thinkes the _planets_, _spheares_ not much asunder; What tels vs then their distance is so farre? _Sense_ thinks the lightning borne before the thunder; What tels vs then they both together are? When men seem crows far off vpon a towre, _Sense_ saith, th'are crows; what makes vs think them men? When we in _agues_, thinke all sweete things sowre, What makes vs know our tongue's false iudgement then? What power was that, whereby _Medea_ saw, And well approu'd, and prais'd the better course, When her rebellious _Sense_ did so withdraw Her feeble powers, as she pursu'd the worse? Did _Sense_ perswade _Vlisses_ not to heare The mermaid's songs, which so his men did please; As they were all perswaded, through the eare To quit the ship, and leape into the _seas_? Could any power of _Sense_ the _Romane_ moue, To burn his own right hand with courage stout? Could _Sense_ make _Marius_ sit vnbound, and proue The cruell lancing of the knotty gout? Doubtlesse in _Man_ there is a _nature_ found, Beside the _Senses_, and aboue them farre; 'Though most men being in sensuall pleasures drownd, 'It seems their _Soules_ but in their _Senses_ are.' If we had nought but _Sense_, then onely they Should haue sound minds, which haue their _Senses_ sound; But _Wisdome_ growes, when _Senses_ doe decay, And _Folly_ most in quickest _Sense_ is found.