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