[Sidenote: [iii. PRACTIC.]] vi. _Practica quemque statum pars tercia Philosophie_ _Ad regimen recte ducit in orbe vie:_ _Set quanto maior Rex est, tanto magis ipsum_ _Hec scola concernit, qua sua regna regat._[1060] The ferste, which is Theorique, [Sidenote: Hic tractat de tercia parte Philosophie, que Practica vocatur, cuius species sunt tres, scilicet Etica, Ichonomia et Policia, quarum doctrina regia magestas in suo regimine ad honoris magnificenciam per singula dirigitur.] And the secounde Rethorique, Sciences of Philosophie, I have hem told as in partie, 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 Of his moral condicion With worthi disposicion [Sidenote: =P. iii. 141=] Of good livinge in his persone, Which is the chief of his corone. It makth a king also to lerne Hou he his bodi schal governe, 1660 Hou he schal wake, hou he schal slepe, Hou that he schal his hele kepe In mete, in drinke, in clothinge eke: Ther is no wisdom forto seke As for the reule of his persone, The which that this science al one[1062] Ne techeth as be weie of kinde, That ther is nothing left behinde. That other point which to Practique Belongeth is Iconomique,[1063] 1670 Which techeth thilke honestete[1064] Thurgh which a king in his degre His wif and child schal reule and guie, So forth with al the companie Which in his houshold schal abyde, And his astat on every syde In such manere forto lede, That he his houshold ne mislede. Practique hath yit the thridde aprise, Which techeth hou and in what wise 1680 Thurgh hih pourveied ordinance[1065] A king schal sette in governance His Realme, and that is Policie, Which longeth unto Regalie In time of werre, in time of pes, To worschipe and to good encress [Sidenote: =P. iii. 142=] Of clerk, of kniht and of Marchant, And so forth of the remenant[1066] Of al the comun poeple aboute, Withinne Burgh and ek withoute,[1067] 1690 Of hem that ben Artificiers, Whiche usen craftes and mestiers, Whos Art is cleped Mechanique. And though thei ben noght alle like, Yit natheles, hou so it falle,[1068] O lawe mot governe hem alle, Or that thei lese or that thei winne, After thastat that thei ben inne.[1069] [Sidenote: [FIVE POINTS OF POLICY.]]