Noun
Virtue; power. See Virtue.
See Virtu.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNoght o word spak he more than was nede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short and quik, and ful of hy sentence. Souninge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche. Geoffrey Chaucer
Thanne is it wysdom, as it thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessity. Geoffrey Chaucer
La patience est la vertu du sage. French Proverb