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| THEN formed He a prince, of royall dignitie, | |
| Of a wonderfull grace and maiestie, | |
| To sway this imperiall monarchie. | |
| He framed first his bodie’s lineaments, | |
| With all his admirable complements, | 5 |
| As a yong man of thirtie yeares of age, | |
| Beautifull, gratious, of comely visage; | |
| Yet dead he lay as carkasse on a greene, | |
| No life or motion in him felt or seene, | |
| Like sweete Adonis sleeping on the mount, | 10 |
| Whom peerlesse Venus had in high account: | |
| Then breath’d He into him the breath of life, | |
| Where presently began a gentle strife, | |
| When euery limme began it selfe to moue, | |
| And stretch it selfe, his vitall force to proue; | 15 |
| The closed eyes their curtaines did display, | |
| The rowling eye had motion euery way; | |
| The nosthrils ’gan to feel the fragrant smell | |
| Of sweetest-sented flowers, which there did dwell; | |
| The eare began to heare melodious notes | 20 |
| Of daintie birds, from out their warbling throates; | |
| The rubie, liquid, warming vitall blood, | |
| Pass’d euerie veine, as riuer’s streaming flood | |
| From Liuer’s fountaine, t’impart nourishment | |
| Vnto the heart that hath the gouernment, | 25 |
| And so through conduits, secretly contriu’d, | |
| Is blood to euerie humane part deriu’d. | |
| This life to euery part gaue perfect sense, | |
| To feele according to their difference. | |
| Within his head, by hidden instruments, | 30 |
| Were placed Nature’s blessed ornaments. | |
| The forehead kept obiected phantasie, | |
| The hinder part reteyneth memorie; | |
| Intelligence hath her place principall | |
| In the crowne of the head, highest of all, | 35 |
| Fit to receiue obiects from phantasie, | |
| And to commit them vnto memorie; | |
| Within a branchie filme there lyeth the braine, | |
| Close rampir’d vp with barracados twaine, | |
| Both maters, and the flint-hardie scull: | 40 |
| Here reignes the soule, in maner wonderfull; | |
| From thence she doth diffuse her operation, | |
| To euerie member in his scituation. | |
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