"Ah! weak and foolish men are they Who lightly deem of Poet's lay, That turns e'en winter months to May, And makes the whole year warm: 'Tis this that brings back Paradise, Reveals its bowers by Art's device, Instructs the fool, delights the wise, And gives to Life its charm. (Stephen Jenner.) ALEXANDER B. GROSART.

St. George's Vestry,
Blackburn, Lancashire.

[Contents.]

Those marked with [*] are herein printed for the first time, or published for the first time among Davies' Poems.

Dedication[i]
Preface[iii]
Memorial-Introduction--i. Biographical[xi]
Memorial-Introduction--ii. Critical[lvii]
Memorial-Introduction--iii. Postscript[cvi]
Nosce Teipsum
[1]-118
Note[3]
Royal Dedication[9]
*Dedication of a Gift-Copy (in MS.) in the possession
of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, at Alnwick Castle		[12]
Of Humane Knowledge[15]
Of the Soule of Man and the Immortalitie thereof[25]
What the soule is[29]
That the soule is a thing subsisting by it selfe without the body[29]
That the soule is more then a perfection or reflection of the sense[35]
That the Soule is more then the Temperature of the Humors of the Body[39]
That the Soule is a Spirit[41]
That it cannot be a Body[42]
That the Soule is created immediately by God[45]
Erronious opinions of the Creation of Soules[46]
Objection:--That the Soule is Extraduce[47]
The Answere to the Obiection[49]
Reasons drawne from Nature[49]
Reasons drawne from Diuinity[52]
Why the Soule is United to the Body[60]
In what manner the Soule is united to the Body[61]
How the Soul doth exercise her Powers in the Body[63]
The Vegetatiue or quickening Power[63]
The power of Sense[64]
Sight[65]
Hearing[67]
Taste[68]
Smelling[69]
Feeling[70]
The Imagination or Common Sense[70]
The Fantasie[71]
The Sensitiue Memorie[72]
The Passions of Sense[73]
The Motion of Life[74]
The Locall Motion[74]
The intellectuall Powers of the Soule[75]
The Wit or Understanding[75]
Reason, Vnderstanding[76]
Opinion, Judgement[76]
The Power of Will[78]
The Relations betwixt Wit and Will[78]
The Intellectuall Memorie[79]
An Acclamation[81]
That the Soule is Immortal, and cannot Die[82]
Reason I--Drawne from the desire of Knowledge[83]
Reason II--Drawn from the Motion of the Soule[85]
The Soul compared to a Riuer[85]
Reason III--From Contempt of Death in the better Sort of Spirits[90]
Reason IV--From the Feare of Death in the Wicked Soules[92]
Reason V--From the generall Desire of Immortalitie[93]
Reason VI--From the very Doubt and Disputation of Immortalitie[95]
That the Soule cannot be destroyed[96]
Her Cause ceaseth not[96]
She hath no Contrary[96]
Shee cannot Die for want of Food[97]
Violence cannot destroy her[98]
Time cannot destroy her[98]
Objections against the Immortalitie of the Soule[99]
Objection I[100]
Answere[100]
Objection II[104]
Answere[105]
Objection III[106]
Answere[106]
Objection IV[108]
Answere[109]
Objection V[110]
Answere[110]
The Generall Consent of All[111]
Three Kinds of Life answerable to the three Powers of the Soule[113]
An Acclamation[114]
Appendix--Remarks prefixed to Nahum Tate's edition (1697) of 'Nosce Teipsum'[118]
Hymnes to Astraea[125]
Note[127]
Of Astraea[129]
To Astraea[130]
To the Spring[131]
To the Moneth of May[132]
To the Larke[133]
To the Nightingale[134]
To the Rose[135]
To all the Princes of Europe[136]
To Flora[137]
To the Moneth of September[138]
To the Sunne[139]
To her Picture[140]
Of her Minde[141]
Of the Sun-beames of her Mind[142]
Of her Wit[143]
Of her Will[144]
Of her Memorie[145]
Of her Phantasie[146]
Of the Organs of her Minde[147]
Of the Passions of her Heart[148]
Of the innumerable vertues of her Minde[149]
Of her Wisdome[150]
Of her Justice[151]
Of her Magnanimitie[152]
Of her Moderation[153]
To Enuy[154]
Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing[155]
Note[157]
Dedications.--i. To his Very Friend, Ma. Rich. Martin[159]
Dedications.--ii. To the Prince[160]
Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing[161]

[Memorial-Introduction.]

I. BIOGRAPHICAL.