Sonnet XII: That Learned Father
To the Soul
That learned Father, who so firmly provesThe 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 MindMens - 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 or 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, lighten'd by thy love, doth see.
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