What is "vertue"

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English part, in black letter, is entitled: The englysshe of Mancyne apon the foure cardynale vertues.

Farewell the merror of all vertue, and true perfection of beautie, farewell.

I passe nothing at all, yet thinke you not that I am an abject or a begger, neither judge you my vertue and prowesse by ragged clothes, for I have beene a Captaine of a great company, and subdued all the countrey of Macedonia.

Think not that the nobilitie of your Ancestors doth free you to doe all that you list, contrarywise, it bindeth you more to followe vertue.

And therewithall he brought forth a certaine young man cloathed in linnen rayment, having on his feet a paire of pantofiles, and his crowne shaven, who kissed his hands and knees, saying, O priest have mercy, have mercy I pray thee by the Celestiall Planets, by the Powers infernall, by the vertue of the naturall elements, by the silences of the night, by the building of Swallows nigh unto the towne Copton, by the increase of the floud Nilus, by the secret mysteries of Memphis, and by the instruments and trumpets of the Isle Pharos, have mercy I say, and call to life this dead body, and make that his eyes which he closed and shut, may be open and see.

One excellent and copious Oration, containing all the grace and vertue of the art Oratory, where he cleareth himself of the crime of art Magick, which was slanderously objected against him by his Adversaries, wherein is contained such force of eloquence and doctrine, as he seemeth to passe and excell himselfe.

And not only that profit ariseth to children by such feined fables, but also the vertues of men are covertly thereby commended, and their vices discommended and abhorred.

This man told Vertue that Rembrandt was living in Hull, painting portraits of seafaring folk and he even described one of the portraits.

Yet somtimes Nations will decline so low From vertue, which is reason, that no wrong, But Justice, and some fatal curse annext Deprives them of thir outward libertie, Thir inward lost: Witness th' irreverent Son Of him who built the Ark, who for the shame Don to his Father, heard this heavie curse, SERVANT OF SERVANTS, on his vitious Race.

It fortuned (as faire it then befell)Behind his backe vnweeting, where he stood,Of auncient time there was a springing well,From which fast trickled forth a siluer flood,Full of great vertues, and for med'cine good.

Thine now is all this World, thy vertue hath won What thy hands builded not, thy Wisdom gain'd With odds what Warr hath lost, and fully aveng'd Our foile in Heav'n.

For during Saturnes ancient raigne it's sayd,That all the world with goodnesse did abound:All loued vertue, no man was affraydOf force, ne fraud in wight was to be found:No warre was knowne, no dreadfull trompets sound,Peace vniuersall rayn'd mongst men and beasts,And all things freely grew out of the ground:Iustice sate high ador'd with solemne feasts,And to all people did diuide her dred beheasts.

But Cambell still more strong and greater grew,Ne felt his blood to wast, ne powres emperisht,Through that rings vertue, that with vigour new,Still when as he enfeebled was, him cherisht,And all his wounds, and all his bruses guarisht,Like as a withered tree through husbands toyleIs often seene full freshly to haue florisht,And fruitfull apples to haue borne awhile,As fresh as when it first was planted in the soyle.

But civill Societies are not meer Meetings, but Bonds, to the making whereof, Faith and Compacts are necessary: The Vertue whereof to Children, and Fooles, and the profit whereof to those who have not yet tasted the miseries which accompany its defects, is altogether unknown.

In so great prayse of stedfast chastity,Nathlesse she was so curteous and kind,Tempred with grace, and goodly modesty,That seemed those two vertues stroue to findThe higher place in her Heroick mind:So striuing each did other more augment,And both encreast the prayse of woman kind,And both encreast her beautie excellent.