When in th' effects she doth the causes know, And seeing the stream, thinks wher the spring doth rise; And seeing the branch, conceiues the root below; These things she views without the bodie's eyes. When she, without a _Pegasus_, doth flie Swifter then lightning's fire from _East_ to _West_, About the _Center_ and aboue the _skie_, She trauels then, although the body rest. When all her works she formeth first within, Proportions them, and sees their perfect end, Ere she in act does anie part begin; What instruments doth then the body lend? When without hands she doth thus[93] _castles_ build, Sees without eyes, and without feet doth runne; When she digests the world, yet is not fil'd: By her owne power these miracles are done. [Footnote 93: In 1st edition 'she thus doth.' G.] When she defines, argues, diuides, compounds, Considers _vertue_, _vice_, and _generall things_, And marrying diuers principles and grounds, Out of their match a true conclusion brings. These actions in her closet all alone, (Retir'd within her selfe) she doth fulfill; Vse of her bodie's organs she hath none, When she doth vse the powers of Wit and Will. Yet in the bodie's prison so she lies, As through the bodie's windowes she must looke, Her diuers powers of _sense_ to exercise, By gath'ring notes out of the _World's_ great book. Nor can her selfe discourse or iudge of ought, But what the _Sense_ collects and home doth bring; And yet the power of her discoursing thought, From these collections, is a diuers thing. For though our eyes can nought but colours see, Yet colours giue them not their powre of sight; So, though these fruits of _Sense_ her obiects bee, Yet she discernes them by her proper light. The workman on his stuffe his skill doth show, And yet the stuffe giues not the man his skill; _Kings_ their affaires do by their seruants know, But order them by their owne royall will. So, though this cunning mistresse and this queene, Doth, as her instrument, the _Senses_ vse, To know all things that are _felt_, _heard_, or _seene_, Yet she her selfe doth onely _iudge_ and _chuse_: Euen as our great wise _Empresse_[94] that now raignes By _soueraigne_ title ouer sundry Lands; Borrowes in meane affaires her _subiects_ paines, Sees by their eyes, and writeth by their hands; But things of waight and consequence indeed, Her selfe doth in her chamber them debate; Where all her Counsellers she doth exceed As farre in iudgement, as she doth in State. Or as the man whom she doth now aduance,[95] Vpon her gracious _mercy-seat_ to sit; Doth common things, of course and circumstance, To the reports of common men commit: