So as the Philosophre it tolde

To Alisandre: and nou I wolde

Telle of the thridde what it is,

The which Practique cleped is.

Practique stant upon thre thinges

Toward the governance of kinges; 1650

Wherof the ferst Etique is named,[1061]

The whos science stant proclamed

To teche of vertu thilke reule,

Hou that a king himself schal reule