Is it profitable to declaime.
[¶] A compounde.
Is vertue of more value then gold, to the coueitous man[?]
Doeth wisedome more auaile, then strength in battaile?
Doe olde men or young men, better gouerne a common
wealthe?
Is Phisicke more honourable then the Lawe?
A Oracion made vpon Thesis, is after this sorte made.
Use a exordium, or beginnyng.
Unto the whiche you maie adde a Narracion, whiche is
a exposicion of the thyng doen.
Then shewe it lawfull.