_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?[97] 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?[98] Could _Sense_ make _Marius_ sit vnbound, and proue The cruell lancing of the knotty gout?[99] Doubtlesse in _Man_ there is a _nature_ found, Beside the _Senses_, and aboue them farre; "Though most men being in sensuall pleasures drownd, "It seemes 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. If we had nought but _Sense_, each liuing wight, Which we call _brute_, would be more sharp then we; As hauing _Sense's apprehensiue might_, In a more cleere, and excellent degree. But they doe want that _quicke discoursing power_, Which doth in vs the erring _Sense_ correct; Therefore the _bee_ did sucke the painted flower, And _birds_, of grapes, the cunning shadow, peckt.[100] _Sense_ outsides knows; the Soule throgh al things sees; _Sense_, _circumstance_; she, doth the _substance_ view; _Sense_ sees the barke, but she, the life of trees; _Sense_ heares the sounds, but she, the concords true. But why doe I the _Soule_ and _Sense_ diuide? When _Sense_ is but a power, which she extends; Which being in diuers parts diuersifide, The diuers formes of obiects apprehends? This power spreds outward, but the root doth grow In th' inward _Soule_, which onely doth perceiue; For th' _eyes_ and _eares_ no more their obiects know, Then glasses know what faces they receiue. For if we chance to fixe our thoughts elsewhere, Although our eyes be ope, we cannot see; And if one power did not both see and heare, Our sights and sounds would alwayes double be.