The Mind

Nosce Teipsum: The Intellectuall Powers of the Soule

by Sir John Davies 1569–1626

From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)

The Mind

But now I haue a will, yet want a wit,
To expresse the working of the wit and will;
Which, though their root be to the body knit,
Vse not the body, when they vse their skill.

These powers the nature of the Soule declare,
For to man's soule these onely proper bee;
For on the Earth no other wights there are
That haue these heauenly powers, but only we.

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Davies, John. “Nosce Teipsum: The Intellectuall Powers of the Soule.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies/59/.

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