L. VIVES.
ACcompanied (a) With fortitude] For the vertues are all combined togither as the Philosophers teach. But there are some more peculiarly cohaerent then other some. (b) No man of this fortitude] Herevpon Plutarch (as I remember) affirmes out of Menan∣der that it is not the part of a valiant and complete man to say I will not suffer this, but, I will not doe this. (c) Those goods] The vertues: for the Platonistis, and the Peripatetike Philosophers diuide al goods into three sorts: mentall, bodily, and fortunes, or externall. (d) Which if a man] This is the Platonistis and Peripatetikes opinion as well as the Stoikes: who * 1.1 held, that bodily and externall goods might haue reference vnto beatitude, but none at all vnto a good and sanctified life. (e) Another kinde] If it bee but a bodily good, it is not of such worth as we should loose the whole body for it: for the body is of more worth then it, if it be but such. (f) The body bee violated] So did Brutus and Collatinus comfort sor∣rowfull Lucretia, (of whom the next Chapter treateth) by turning the guilt of the falte from her that was offended, vpon the author of the fact: neither the minde sinneth (sayth Liuy) nor the body: and where consent wanted, guilt wanteth also. And the Nurse in Se∣neca's Hippolitus saith: the minde inferreth loosenesse, tis not chance. (g) Is not lost] The bodies chastitie flowes from that of the minde, (h) A midwife] Hee seemes to relate a thing done, because hee sayth A certaine maidens &c. (i) So much as the body] How simply was that spoken either of Brutus, or Liuy (both being wise and iudicious men) speaking of the bloud of Lucretia being then newly slaine. I sweare by this bloud, most chaste before this Kings villany: as though after his villany it were not as chaste still, if her minde were not touched with lust, as they hold it was not.