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PUtteth three (a) degrees] Pythagoras and Plato say the soule is of three kindes, vegetable, * 1.1 sensitiue, reasonable. Mans soule (say they is two-fold): rationall and irrationall: the later two-fold, affectionate to ire and to desire: all these they doe locally seperate. Plat. de Rep. l. 4. Aristotle to the first three addeth a fourth, locally motiue. But he distinguisheth those parts of the reasonable soule in vse onely, not in place nor essence, calling them but powers, referred vnto actions. Ethic. Alez. Aphrodiseus sheweth how powers are in the soule. But this is not a fit theame for this place. But this is all: it is but one soule that augmenteth the hayre and bones, profiteth the sences, and replenisheth the heart and braine. (b) Onely vnto] This place hath diuersities of reading, some leaue out part, and some do alter: but the sence being vnalte∣red, a note were further friuolous. (c) Altor] Father Dis and Proserpina had many names in the ancient ceremonies. Hee, Dis, Tellumo, Altor, Rusor, Cocytus: shee Uerra, Orca and N•…•…se * 1.2 Tellus. Thus haue the priests bookes them. Romulus was also called Altellus, of nourishing his subiects so admirably against their enuious borderers. Iupiter Plutonius (saith Trismegistus) rules sea and land, and is the nourisher of all fruitfull and mortall foules. In Asclepio.