The Cardinal Virtues.

saieth Tully , * that hath obtayned the glorie of manlynesse , euer got praise b y wylie traihes & craftynesse , for nothing may bee honest that is voyd of Iustice . A valiant man ( saieth Aristotle ) snsteyneth , ancl cloth that , which belongeth to Fortitude , for cause of honestie . Ancl a little before he saieth : a man that is valiant , aswel suffereth , as cloth that which agreeth with his worship , and as reason commaundeth . So no violence or sturdy mindlacking reason and

, honesty , is any part of Fortitude . Wherefore he may be called a valiant man , that doth tollerate or suffer that , which is needfull , and in such wise as is needful , ancl for that which is needfull , and also when it is needfull . Ancl he that lacketh any of this , may be called hardie , but not valiant . It is the propertie of manhoode , to fight for the common safatie of his Countrey , ancl not for his own jirinate profite . And whosoeuez- is forward to put himselfe in danger

, rather for his owne greedines ; to obtaine spoile , then for the safegarde of his owne person , what he then doth , may rather beare the name of lewde ancl foolish hardinesse , then of Manlines . For ( as Tully sayth ) to entre into battaile , ancl to fight unacluisedly immcme cfuidem §¦ beluarum simile est , is a thing wilde , and a maner of beasts : but thou shalt fi ght valiantle , when time requireth ancl also necessite . Ancl alwaie death is to be preferred before

seruitude , or any dishonestie . Wherefore , who would be aceompted manly men ancl stoute harted , those same shoulcle haue the praise to bee good ancl plaine men , louevs of trueth , and nothing at all deeeiptfnl : for bee a man neuer so mightie , hautie , ancl of vnconquevable courage , yet what he cloth without discretion or forecaste , clefaceth all his manhoode and stoutnes . A manly corage ancl a great , contemneth outwarde thinges , desireth nothing but

that is honest , and will not vnseemely yelcle to none , neyther man , nor affection , nor change of fortune , but setteth light by those thinges which do seerne precious and gorgeous to the greater number and also dispiseth the same , with a steadfast and grounded iudgement . Ancl like wise it is a signe of a mig htie courage , & great steclfastnes , so to beare those things , t T videntur acerbct , quorum multa §¦ varia in hominum vita fortunaque versantur , as nothing hee swarue from the order of nature , nor the worthinesse of a wise man .

Finally , to be short , that Manlines is worthie . to be praised , which worketh by the strength of the minde , ancl not of the bodie , and yet not to faint in courage , but to be constant , not fearing the roughe stormes of any aduersitie , neyther the sharpe bronts of the Warres , or the crueltie of bitter death . And like as an excellent Phisition , cureth most dangerous diseases , and deadly wounds , so doth a man that is valiant , aduance himselfe as inuincible ,

in things that do seenie most terrible , not vnaclvisedly , ancl as it were in a beastely rage , but of a gentle courage , and with premeditation , eyther by victorie , or by death winning honour and perpetual ! memorie , the iusfc reward of their vertue . For as Gurtius % saieth : Effugit mortem , cquisquis contempserit , timi & issimivm quenque consequiiw . Whosoever contempneth death , escapeth death , and death ouertaketh such , as do flye from death . A man is called in

Latin Vir , whereof saieth Tully , vertue is named . Ancl the most proper vertue belonging to a man , is Fortitude , whereof be two excellent properties , that is to say , the contempt of death , ancl of griefe . Therefore he ] 3 lainly declareth afterward , that very Fortitude is , little to esteeme all humaine things , not to regarde death , and to thinke all labours and paines tollerable . Now remayneth to speake of the . fourth vertue called Temperance , which is firm and moderate

a gouernance of reason against sensuality and other vicious affections of the minde . Tull y § cominendeth Temperance & saieth that it is ornatus vite , an ornament of mas life , omnisc / ue scedatio perturbationum animi , and al mittigation of passions of the mind . Aristotle \\ defineth this vertue to bee a mediocritie in . the pleasures of the body , specially in taste and touching . Therefore he that is temperate flyeth voluptuous pleasures , and with the