As an apt meane her powers to exercise;
Which are Life, Motion, Sense, and Will, and Wit:
Yet she survives, although the Body dies.
That the Soul is a thing subsisting by itself, without the Body.
She is a Substance, and a real thing,
1. Which hath, itself, an actual working Might,
2. Which neither from the Sense's power doth spring,
3. Nor from the Body's humours tempered right.
She is a Vine, which doth no propping need,
To make her spread herself, or spring upright;