Soul
O who shall, from this dungeon, raise 
A soul enslav'd so many ways?
With bolts of bones, that fetter'd stands 
In feet, and manacled in hands;
Here blinded with an eye, and there 
Deaf with the drumming of an ear;
A soul hung up, as 'twere, in chains 
Of nerves, and arteries, and veins;
Tortur'd, besides each other part, 
In a vain head, and double heart.

Body
O who shall me deliver whole
From bonds of this tyrannic soul?
Which, stretch'd upright, impales me so 
That mine own precipice I go;
And warms and moves this needless frame,
(A fever could but do the same)
And, wanting where its spite to try, 
Has made me live to let me die.
A body that could never rest, 
Since this ill spirit it possest.

 Soul 
What magic could me thus confine
Within another's grief to pine?
Where whatsoever it complain, 
I feel, that cannot feel, the pain;
And all my care itself employs;
That to preserve which me destroys;
Constrain'd not only to endure
Diseases, but, what's worse, the cure;
And ready oft the port to gain, 
Am shipwreck d into health again.

Body
But physic yet could never reach 
The maladies thou me dost teach;
Whom first the cramp of hope does tear, 
And then the palsy shakes of fear;
The pestilence of love does heat, 
Or hatred's hidden ulcer eat;
Joy's cheerful madness does perplex, 
Or sorrow's other madness vex;
Which knowledge forces me to know, 
And memory will not forego.
What but a soul could have the wit
To build me up for sin so fit?