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SCEN. 7.

Com. Sen. Pha. Mem. Hev. Ana. Vpon the bench consulting among themselues: Vis. Tact. Gvst. and Olf. euery one with his shield vpon his arme? Lingva and Mendatio with them.
Com. Sen.

Though you deserue no small punishment for

these vp-rores, yet at the request of these my asistants I remit it,
& by the power of Iudgement our gratious soueraigne Psuche
hath geuen mee. Thus I determine of your controuersies: hum?
By your former obiects, instruments and reasons, I conceaue
the state of Sense to bee deuided into two parts, one of commodity,
the other of necessity, both which are either for our
Queene or for our country, but as the Soule is more excellent
then the Body, so are the Senses that proffit the Soule to be estimated
before those that are needefull for the Body; Visus and
Auditus serue your selues, Maister Register giue me the crowne;
because it is better to be well, then simply to be, therfore I iudge
the crowne by right to belong to you of the Commodities part
& the robe to you of the Necessities side; and since you Visus are
the author of inuention, & you Auditus of increase and additiō
to the same, seeing it is more excellent to inuent, then to augment,
I establish you Visus the better of the two, and chiefe of all
the rest, in token whereof, I bestowe vpon you this crowne to
weare at your liberty.

Vis.

I most humbly thanke your Lordships.

Com. Sen.

But least I should seeme to neglect you Auditus,
I heare chuse you to bee the Lords intelligencer to Psuchee her
Maiesty, and you Olfactus, we bestow vpon you the chiefe Preisthood
of Microcosme, perpetually to offer incense in her maiesties
temple. As for you Tactus vpon your reasons aleaged, I bestowe
vpon you the roabs.

Tact.

I accept it most gratefully at your iust hands, and will
weare it in the deare remembrance of your good Lordship.

Com. Sen.

And lastly, Gustus we elect you Psuche her onely
taster, and great purueior for all her dominions, both by sea and
land, in her realme of Microcosme.

Gvs.

We thanke your Lordship, and rest well content with equall
arbitrement.

Com. Sen.

Now for you Lingua.

Lin.

I beseech your honour let me speake, I will neither troble
the company nor offend your patience.

Com. Sen.

I cannot stay so long, wee haue consulted about
you, and finde your cause to stand vpon these tearmes, and conditions.
The number of the Senses in this little world, is answerable

to the first bodies in the great world: now since there
bee but fiue in the Vniuerse, the foure elements and the pure
substance of the heauens, therefore there can bee but fiue
senses in our Microcosme, correspondent to those, as the sight
to the heauens, hearing to the aire, touching to the earth, smelling
to the fire, tasting to the water, by which fiue meanes onely
the vnderstanding is able to apprehend the knowledge of
all Corporeall substances? wherefore wee iudge you to bee no
Sense simply, onely thus much we from hence forth pronounce,
that all women for your sake shall haue six Senses, that is seeing,
hearing, tasting, smelling, touching, and the last and feminine
sense, the sense of speaking.

Gvs.

I beseech your Lordships and your asistants, (the onely
cause of our friendship,) to grace my table with your most
welcome presence this night at supper.

Com. Sen.

I am sorry I cannot stay with you, you know we
may by no meanes omit our daiely attendance at the Court,
therefore I praie you pardon vs.

Gvs.

I hope I shall not haue the deniall at your hands my
Maisters, and you my Ladie Lingua, come let vs drowne all our
anger in a bowle of hippocras.

Exeunt Sensus omnes exteriores.
Com. Sen.

Come Maister Register shall we walke?

Mem.

I pray you stay a little? let mee see? ha, ha, ha, ha
ha,

Pha.

How now Memory so merry? what doe you trouble
your selfe with two palsies at once? shaking, and laughing.

Mem.

Tis a strange thing that men will so confidently oppose
themselues against Platoes great yeare.

Pha.

Why not.

Mem.

Tis as true an opinion as neede be; for I remember it
verie readily now, that this time 49000. yeares agoe all wee
weare in this verie place and your Lordship iudged the verie
same controuersie, after the verie same manner, in all respects,
and cercumstances alike.

Com.

Tis wondrous strange.

Ana.

By the same token you held your Staffe in your

right hand, iust as you do now, and M
r Phantastes stood wondring at you, gaping as wide as you see him.

Ph.

I but I did not giue you a boxe on the eare sirrah 49000.
yeares ago, did I? (snappe)

Ana.

I do not remember that Sir.

Pha.

This time Platoes twelue month to come, looke you
saue your cheekes better.

Com. Sen.

But what intertainment had we at Court for our
long staying?

Mem.

Lets go, Ile tell you as we walke.

Pha.

If I doe not seeme pranker nowe, then I did in those
dayes, Ile be hang'd?

Exeunt omnes interiores Sensus, manet Lingua.