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THE SECOND BOOKE 289
sophicall discourses. What regiment my life was of,
I never knew nor learned hut after it was much worne
and spent. A new iigure: an unpremeditated philosopher
and a casuall. But to returne unto our soule,
where Plato hath seated reason in the hraine; anger
in the heart; lust in the liver ; it is very likely that it
was rather an interpretation of the soules motions than
any division or separation he meant to make of it, as of
a body into many members. And the likeliest of their
opinion is that it is alwayes a soule, which by her
rationall faculty remembreth her selfe, comprehendeth,
judgeth, desireth, and exerciseth all her other functions,
by divers instruments of the body, as the pilote ruleth
and directeth his ship according to the experience he
hath of it; now stretching, haling, or loosing a cable,
sometimes hoy sing the mainyard, removing an oare,
or stirring the rudder, causing severall effects with
one only power; and that she abideth in the braine,
appeareth by this, that the hurts and accidents which
touch that part doe presently offend the faculties of the
soule, whence she may without inconvenience descend
and glide through other parts of the body :
medium non desertt unquam
COELI Phoebus iter: radus tamen omnia lustrat: 1
Never the Sunne forsakes heav'ns middle wayes,
Yet with his rayes he lights all, all survayes:
As the sunne spreadeth his light, and infuseth his power
from heaven, and therewith hlleth the whole world.
Coeter apars animaper totum disstta corpus
Paret, et ad numen mentis nomenque movetur,*
Th' other part of the soule through all the body sent
Obeyes, and moved is. by the mindes government.
Some have said that there was a generall soule, like
unto a. great body, from which all particular soules
were extracted, and returned thither, alwayes reconjoyning
and entermingling themselves unto that universall
matter:
1 CLAUD, vi. Hons. Cons, Pan. 411.
² LUCR. 1. iii. 144.
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