The Mind

Nosce Teipsum: The Answere to the Obiection

by Sir John Davies 1569–1626

From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)

The Mind

Thus these good men with holy zeale were blind,
When on the other part the truth did shine;
Whereof we doe cleare demonstrations find,
By light of Nature, and by light Diuine

None are so grosse as to contend for this,
That soules from bodies may traducèd bee;
Betweene whose natures no proportion is,
When roote and branch in nature still agree.

But many subtill wits haue iustifi'd,
That soules from soules spiritually may spring;
Which (if the nature of the soule be tri'd)
Will euen in Nature proue as grosse a thing.

MLA

Davies, John. “Nosce Teipsum: The Answere to the Obiection.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies/40/.

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Davies, John. “Nosce Teipsum: The Answere to the Obiection.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies/40/.

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