the difference
Of several qualities, hot, cold, moist, and dry;
Hard, soft, rough, smooth, clammy, and slippery:
Sweet pleasure and sharp pain profitable,
That makes us (wounded) seek for remedy.
By these means do I teach the body fly
From such bad things as may endanger it.
A wall of brass can be no more defence
Unto a town than I to Microcosm.
Tell me what Sense is not beholden to me?
The nose is hot or cold, the eyes do weep,
The ears do feel, the taste's a kind of touching:
Thus, when I please, I can command them all,
And make them tremble, when I threaten them.
I am the eldest and biggest of all the rest,
The chiefest note and first distinction
Betwixt a living tree and living beast;
For though one hear and see, and smell and taste,
If he wants touch, he is counted but a block.
Therefore, my lord, grant me the royalty;
Of whom there is such great necessity.

COM. SEN. Tactus, stand aside. You, sirrah Anamnestes,
tell the Senses we expect their appearance.

ANA. At your lordship's pleasure.

[_Exit_ ANAMNESTES.

SCAENA SEPTIMA.

COMMUNIS SENSUS, PHANTASTES, MEMORIA, HEURESIS, ANAMNESTES,
_upon the Bench consulting among themselves. _VISUS, AUDITUS,
TACTUS, GUSTUS, _and_ OLFACTUS, _every one with his shield
upon his arm_. LINGUA, _and_ MENDACIO _with them_.

COM. SEN. Though you deserve no small punishment for these uproars, yet
at the request of these my assistants I remit it; and by the power of
judgment our gracious sovereign Psyche hath given me, thus I determine
of your controversies: hum! By your former objects, instruments and
reasons, I conceive the state of sense to be divided into two parts; one
of commodity, the other of necessity; both which are either for our
queen or for our country; but as the soul is more excellent than the
body, so are the Senses that profit the soul to be estimated before
those that are needful for the body. Visus and Auditus, serve
yourselves. Master Register, give me the crown; because it is better to
be well, than simply to be, therefore I judge the crown by right to
belong to you of the commodity's part, and the robe to you of the
necessity's side: and since you, Visus, are the author of invention, and
you, Auditus, of increase and addition to the same, seeing it is more
excellent to invent than to augment, I establish you, Visus, the better
of the two, and chief of all the rest: in token whereof I bestow up