Sect. 1.
Ethick.
The first, concerning well living they sought in Nature, affirming that she ought to be obeyed: and that in nothing else but Nature was to be had that chief good whereto all things should be referr'd, that the ulti∣mate being of desirable things, and end of all good in the mind, body and life were acquir'd by Nature. Those of the body they placed in the whole, and in the parts: Health, Strength, Beauty in the whole, in the parts, sound Sence, and a certain Excell••nce of particular parts, as in the feet swiftnesse, strength in the hands, clearnesse in the voice, in the Tongue, plainnesse of expression. Of the mind were those which are pro∣per to comprehend the power of wit, which they divided into Nature and Manners. To Nature they ascribed quickness of apprehension, and memo∣ry both proper to the mind and wit; To manners belonged study and a kind of wisdom formed partly by continuall exercise, partly by reason, in which consisted Philosophy it self, wherein that is begun and not perfected, is called progression to vertue, what is perfected, Virtue; perfection of Nature of all things in the mind, the most excellent. Thus of Min••s: The Adjuncts of life, that was the third, they asserted such things as conduced to the practise of Vertue.