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 "The great Corporeall world, which doth appear In divers forms, of Aire, Earth, Sea, and Fire, A divine soul doth rule, a Diety Doth wisely govern -"

Also Lucan,

"The Earth that's weigh'd i'th aire, 's sustained By great Jove -"

And Boetius

"Thou dost joyn to the worl a soul, that moves All things of threefold nature, and diffuse It through the members of the same, and this Into two Orbs of motion rounded is Being divided, and for to return Into it self makes haste -"

And Virgil most full of all Philosophy, sings thus,

"And first the Heaven, Earth, and liquid plain, The Moons bright Globe, and Stars Titanian A spirit fed within, spread through the whole And with the huge heap mix'd infused a soul; Hence man, and beastsm and birds derive their strain, And monsters floating in the marbled main; These seeds have fiery vigor, and a birth Of heavenly race, but clog'd with heavy earth."

For what do these verses seem to mean, then that the world should not only have a spirit soul, but also to partake of the divine mind: and that the originall, vertue, and vigour of all inferiour things do depend on the soul of the world? This do all Platonists, Pythagorians, Orpheus, Trismegistus, Aristotle,