¶The definitions of Vertue, and her partes. Chap. 7.
PYthagoras defineth vertue to be a na∣turall harmonye to which all honeste thinges do aunswere.* 1.1 Manie of the Stoikes according to the opinion of So∣crates do define vertue to be a knowledg of those thinges which are agreable to nature: which opinion caused Herillus to suppose knowledge to be the chiefest good.* 1.2 Of his minde was Possidonius, which sayde, that to lyue honestly was nothing but a perfecte vnderstanding of those thinges which accompany nature. Horace by a contrary defines the same, and sayth that Vertue is nothing but an