[Footnote 94: Q. Eliz[abeth]. H. [Davies and Southey, as before, substitute 'a prudent emperor.' G.]] [Footnote 95: Davies and Southey, as before, substitute 'whom princes do.' Ellesmere. See sonnet addressed to him among 'Minor poems.' G.] But when the cause it selfe must be decreed, Himselfe in person, in his proper Court, To graue and solemne hearing doth proceed, Of euery proofe and euery by-report. Then, like God's angell he pronounceth right, And milke and hony from his tongue doth flow; Happie are they that still are in his sight, To reape the wisedome which his lips doe sow. Right so the _Soule_, which is a lady free, And doth the iustice of her _State_ maintaine; Because the senses ready seruants be, Attending nigh about her Court, the braine: By them the formes of outward things she learnes, For they returne into the fantasie, What euer each of them abroad discernes, And there inrole it for the Minde to see. But when she sits to iudge the good and ill, And to discerne betwixt the false and true; She is not guided by the _Senses'_ skill, But doth each thing in her owne mirrour view. Then she the _Senses_ checks, which oft do erre, And euen against their false reports decrees; And oft she doth condemne what they preferre, For with a power aboue the _Sense_, she sees. Therefore no _Sense_ the precious ioyes conceiues, Which in her priuate contemplations bee; For then the rauish't spirit the _Senses_ leaues, Hath her owne powers, and proper actions free. Her harmonies are sweet, and full of skill, When on the Bodie's instrument she playes; But the proportions of the _wit_ and _will_, Those sweete accords, are euen the angel's layes. These tunes of _Reason_ are _Amphion's_ lyre, Wherewith he did the _Thebane_ citie found; These are the notes wherewith the heauenly _quire_, The praise of Him which made[96] the heauen doth sound. [Footnote 96: 'Spreads' in 1st edn. G.] Then her _selfe-being nature_ shines in this, That she performes her noblest works alone; "The _worke_, the touch-stone of the _nature_ is, "And by their operations, things are knowne. THAT THE SOULE IS MORE THEN A PERFECTION OR REFLECTION OF THE SENSE. _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?