The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 1 of 2.

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

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