_This power is Sense_, which from abroad doth bring[126] The _colour_, _taste_, and _touch_, and _sent_,[127] and _sound_; The _quantitie_, and _shape_ of euery thing Within th' Earth's center, or Heauen's circle found. This power, in parts made fit, fit obiects takes, Yet not the things, but forms of things receiues; As when a seale in waxe impression makes, The print therein, but not it selfe it leaues. And though things sensible be numberlesse, But onely fiue the _Senses'_ organs be; And in those fiue, all things their formes expresse, Which we can _touch_, _taste_, _feele_, or _heare_, or _see_. These are the windows throgh the which she views The _light of knowledge_, which is life's loadstar: "And yet while she these spectacles doth vse, "Oft worldly things seeme greater then they are. [Footnote 124: St. Luke, x. 40, 41. G.] [Footnote 125: On the Dryads Cf. Paus. viii. 4. § 2 Apollon. Rhod. ii. 447, &c. G.] [Footnote 126: Misprinted 'spring,' but corrected in the errata of 1622 edition, as above. G.] [Footnote 127: Scent. G.] SIGHT. First, the two _eyes_ that haue the _seeing_ power, Stand as one watchman, spy, or sentinell; Being plac'd aloft, within the head's high tower; And though both see, yet both but one thing tell. These mirrors take into their little space The formes of _moone_ and _sun_, and euery _starre_; Of euery body and of euery place, Which with the World's wide armes embracèd are: Yet their best obiect, and their noblest vse, Hereafter in another World will be; When God in them shall heauenly light infuse, That face to face they may their _Maker_ see. Here are they guides, which doe the body lead, Which else would stumble in eternal night; Here in this world they do much knowledge _read_, And are the casements which admit most light: They are her farthest reaching instrument, Yet they no beames vnto their obiects send; But all the rays are from their obiects sent, And in the _eyes_ with pointed angles end: If th' obiects be farre off, the rayes doe meet In a sharpe point, and so things seeme but small; If they be neere, their rayes doe spread and fleet, And make broad points, that things seeme great withall. Lastly, nine things to _Sight_ requirèd are; The _power_ to see, the _light_, the _visible_ thing, Being not too _small_, too _thin_, too _nigh_, too _farre_, _Cleare_ space, and _time_, the forme distinct to bring. Thus we see how the _Soule_ doth vse the eyes, As instruments of her quicke power of sight; Hence do th' Arts _opticke_ and faire _painting_ rise: _Painting_, which doth all gentle minds delight. HEARING.