The philosophie, commonlie called, the morals vvritten by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea. Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine translations and the French, by Philemon Holland of Coventrie, Doctor in Physicke. VVhereunto are annexed the summaries necessary to be read before every treatise

CHAP. XXI. How the Soule commeth to be sensitive; and what is the principall and predominant part thereof.

THe STOICKS are of opinion, that the supreme and highest part of the Soule is the prin∣cipall and the guide of the other: to wit, that which maketh imaginations, causeth assents, performeth senses, and mooveth apperite: and this is it which they cal the discourse of reason. Now of this principall and soveraigne part, there be seven others springing from it, and which are spred through the rest of the bodie, like unto the armes or hairie braunches of a poulp [ 50] fish: of which seven the naturall senses make five; namely, Sight, Smelling, Hearing, Tasting, and Feeling. Of these, the Sight is a spirit passing from the chiefest part unto the eies: Hearing, a spirit reaching from the understand, to the eares: Smelling, a spi∣rit issuing from reason to the nosethirls: Tasting, a spirit going from the foresaid princi∣pall part unto the tongue: and last of all Feeling, a spirit stretching and extended from the same predominant part, as farre as to the sensible superficies of those objects which are ea∣sie to be felt and handled. Of the twaine behind, the one is called genetall seed, and that is like∣wise

wise a spirit transmitted from the principall part unto the genetories or members of generation: the other which is the seventh and last of all, Zeno calleth Vocall, and wee, Voice; a spirit also, which from the principall part passeth to the windpipe, to the tongue and other instruments ap∣propriat for the voice. And to conclude, that mistresse her selfe and ladie of the rest is seated (as it were in the midst of her owne world) within our round head, and there dwelleth.