Sonnets: Idea XII To The Soul

That learned Father which so firmly proves The soul of man immortal and divine, And doth the several offices define Anima.4Gives her that name, as she the body moves. Amor.4Then is she love, embracing charity. Animus.4Moving a will in us, it is the mind; Mens.4Retaining knowledge, still the same in kind. Memoria.4As intellectual, it is memory. Ratio.4In judging, reason only is her name. Sensus.4In speedy apprehension, it is sense. Conscientia.4In right and wrong they call her conscience; Spiritus.4The spirit, when it to God-ward doth inflame: These of the soul the several functions be, Which my heart lightened by thy love doth see.