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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
Idea
Sonnet 12. That learned Father, which so firmly proves
Michael Drayton (15631631)
[First printed in 1599 (No. 14), and in all later editions.]
To the Soul
THAT learned Father, which so firmly proves | The Soul of Man immortal and divine, | And doth the several Offices define: Anima, | Gives her that Name, as she the body moves. Amor, | Then is she Love, embracing Charity. Animus, | Moving a will in us, it is the Mind: Mens, | Retaining knowledge, still the same in kind. Memoria, | As intellectual, it is Memory. Ratio, | In judging, Reason only is her name. Sensus, | In speedy apprehension, it is Sense. Conscientia, | In right and wrong, they call her Conscience. Spiritus, | The Spirit, when it to GODward doth inflame. | These of the Soul, the several functions be, | Which my heart lightened by thy Love, doth see.
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