nos tale quid fecimus, quum in honore essemus, he wisely put it up, and laid the fault where it was, on his own pride and scorn, which in his prosperity he had formerly showed others.  ’Tis [4005] Tully’s axiom, ferre ea molestissime homines non debent, quae ipsorum culpa contracta sunt, self do, self have, as the saying is, they may thank themselves.  For he that doth wrong must look to be wronged again; habet et musca splenem, et formicae sua bills inest.  The least fly hath a spleen, and a little bee a sting. [4006]An ass overwhelmed a thistlewarp’s nest, the little bird pecked his galled back in revenge; and the humble-bee in the fable flung down the eagle’s eggs out of Jupiter’s lap.  Bracides, in Plutarch, put his hand into a mouse’s nest and hurt her young ones, she bit him by the finger:  [4007]I see now (saith he) there is no creature so contemptible, that will not be revenged.  ’Tis lex talionis, and the nature of all things so to do:  if thou wilt live quietly thyself, [4008]do no wrong to others; if any be done thee, put it up, with patience endure it, for [4009]"this is thankworthy,” saith our apostle, “if any man for conscience towards God endure grief, and suffer wrong undeserved; for what praise is it, if when ye be buffeted for you faults, ye take it patiently?  But if when you do well, ye suffer wrong, and take it patiently, there is thanks with God; for hereunto verily we are called.” Qui mala non fert, ipse sibi testis est per impatientiam quod bonus non est, “he that cannot bear injuries, witnesseth against himself that he is no good man,” as Gregory holds. [4010]"’Tis the nature of wicked men to do injuries, as it is the property of all honest men patiently to bear them.” Improbitas nullo flectitur obsequio.  The wolf in the [4011]emblem sucked the goat (so the shepherd would have it), but he kept nevertheless a wolf’s nature; [4012]a knave will be a knave.  Injury is on the other side a good man’s footboy, his fidus Acliates, and as a lackey follows him wheresoever he goes.  Besides, misera est fortuna quae caret inimico, he is in a miserable estate that wants enemies:  [4013]it is a thing not to be avoided, and therefore with more patience to be endured.  Cato Censorius, that upright Cato of whom Paterculus gives that honourable eulogium, bene fecit quod aliter facere non potuit, was [4014]fifty times indicted and accused by his fellow citizens, and as [4015]Ammianus well hath it, Quis erit innocens si clam vel palam accusasse sufficiat? if it be sufficient to accuse a man openly or in private, who shall be free?  If there were no other respect than that of Christianity, religion and the like, to induce men to be long-suffering and patient, yet methinks the nature of injury itself is sufficient to keep them quiet, the tumults, uproars, miseries, discontents, anguish, loss, dangers that attend upon it might restrain the calamities of contention:  for as it is with