¶ what thynge is Iustice commutatiue?
Right and equitie in all contractes.
¶ what is Iustice distributiue? Iustice of
ciuile lyuynge.
¶ How manyfolde is Iustyce dystrybu-
tyue? Either it is comon or priuate. The
comon is called in latin Pietas / but in en-
glysshe it may be moost properly named
good order / which is the crowne of all ver[-]
tues [conceruynge] honest and ciuile con-
uersacyon of men togither / as the hedes
with the meane comonalty in good vnity
and concorde. ¶ Pryuate or seuerall Iu-
stice dystrybutyue is honest and amyable
frendeshyp & conuersacion of neighbours.
¶ What are the offyces? To do for euery
man / ryche or pore / of what estate so euer
he be / and for our contrey / for our wyues /
chyldren / and frendes / that that ought to
be done for euery of them.
¶ Affynes or vertues nigh to Iustice are
constancy / lyberalytie / temperaunce.
Thynges contrary are fere / couetyse / pro-
dygalytie.
¶ And this is the maner of handelynge
of a symple Theme dialectycall. But yet
let nat the reder deceyue hym selfe / and
thynke that the very perfyte knowlege is
shewyd hym all here. And that whiche
hath bē shewed now: is somwhat general
and briefe. ¶ More sure and exact know-
lege is conteined in Logike / to whome I
wyll aduise thē that be studiouse to resorte
& to fetche euery thynge in his owne pro-
per facultie.
¶ Of a Theme compounde.
Uery Theme compounde: ey-
ther it is proued trewe or fals.
Now whether thou wylt p[ro]ue
or improue any thyng: it must
be done by argument. And yf
any Theme compounde: be it Logicall or
Rhetorycall / it must be referred to the
rules of Logike by thē to be proued trew
or fals. For this is the dyfference that is
betwene these two sciences / that the Lo-
gician in dysputynge obserueth certayne
rules for the settynge of his wordes being
solicitous that there be spokē no more nor
no lesse than the thynge requyreth / & that
it be euin as plaīly spokē as it is thought.
But the Rhethorician seketh about & bo-
roweth where he can asmoche as he may
for to make the symple and playne Logi-
call argumentes gaye & delectable to the
eare. So than the sure iugement of argu-
mentes or reasons must be lerned of the
logician / but the crafte to set thē out with
pleasaunt figures and to delate the mater
belongeth to the Rhetorician. As in Mi-
loes cause / of whome was made mencion
afore. ¶ A logician wolde briefly argue /
who so euer violently wyll slee an other /
may lawfully of the other be slayne in his
defence. Clodius wolde vyolently haue
slain Milo / wherfore Clodius might lau-
fully be slayne of Milo in Miloes owne
defence. And this argument the logicians
call a Sillogisme in Darii / whiche Tully
in his oracion extendeth that in foure or
fyue leues it is scant made an ende of / nor
no man can haue knowlege whether Tul-
lies argument that he maketh in his ora-
cyon for Milo / be a good argumente or
nat / and howe it holdeth / excepte he can
by Logyke reduce it to the perfecte and
briefe forme of a Sillogisme / takynge in
the meane season of the Rhetorycyans
what ornamentes haue ben cast to for to
lyght and augment the oracyon / and to
gyue it a maiestie.