ENGLISH OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
27.

_Reign of Elizabeth, 1603 back to 1558 .-- Example written in 1592_.
"As for the soule, it is no accidentarie qualitie, but a spirituall and inuisible essence or nature, subsisting by it selfe.

Which plainely appeares in that the soules of men haue beeing and continuance as well forth of the bodies of men as in the same; and are as wel subiect to torments as the bodie is.

And whereas we can and doe put in practise sundrie actions of life, sense, motion, vnderstanding, we doe it onely by the power and vertue of the soule.

Hence ariseth the difference betweene the soules of men, and beasts.