As for example.
Whether are riches chieflie to be sought for, in this life,
as of all good thynges, the chief good.
Whether is vertue the moste excellente good thynge in
this life.
Whether dooe the giftes of the mynde, passe and excelle
the giftes and vertues of Fortune, and the bodie.
Whether doeth pollicie more auaile in war, then strēgth
of menne.
Who so will reason of any question of these, he hath nede
with reason, and wittie consultacion to discourse, and to de-
claime vpon thesame.
The Greke Oratours doe call this exercise Thesis, that
is to saie, a proposicion in question, a question vncertain, in-
cluded with no certaintée, to any perticuler thyng.
The Latine men doeth call it a question infinite, or vni-
uersall: Tullie in his booke of places called Topickes, doeth
call Thesis, Propositum, that is to saie, a question, in deter-
minacion. Priscianus calleth it positionem, a proposicion in
question on ether parte to be disputed vpon.
As for example.