The Mind
Nosce Teipsum: The Answere to the Obiection
From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)
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.
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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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