Nosce Teipsum: The Vegetatiue or Quickening Power

Her quick'ning power in euery lining part,
Doth as a nurse, or as a mother serue;
And doth employ her oeconomicke art,
And busie care, her houshold to preserue

Here she attracts, and there she doth retaine,
There she decocts, and doth the food prepare;
There she distributes it to euery vaine,
There she expels what she may fitly spare.

This power to Martha may comparèd be,
Which busie was, the houshold-things to doe;
Or to a Dryas, liuing in a tree:
For euen to trees this power is proper too.

And though the Soule may not this power extend
Out of the body, but still vse it there;
She hath a power which she abroad doth send,
Which views and searcheth all things euery where.