it pede poena claudo."

"Yet with sure steps, though lame and slow,
Vengeance o'ertakes the trembling villain's speed."

Thou shalt perceive that verified of Samuel to Agag, 1 Sam. xv. 33. "Thy
sword hath made many women childless, so shall thy mother be childless
amongst other women." It shall be done to them as they have done to others.
Conradinus, that brave Suevian prince, came with a well-prepared army into
the kingdom of Naples, was taken prisoner by king Charles, and put to death
in the flower of his youth; a little after (_ultionem Conradini mortis_,
Pandulphus Collinutius _Hist. Neap. lib. 5._ calls it), King Charles's own
son, with two hundred nobles, was so taken prisoner, and beheaded in like
sort. Not in this only, but in all other offences, _quo quisque peccat in
eo punietur_, [4000]they shall be punished in the same kind, in the same
part, like nature, eye with or in the eye, head with or in the head,
persecution with persecution, lust with effects of lust; let them march on
with ensigns displayed, let drums beat on, trumpets sound taratantarra, let
them sack cities, take the spoil of countries, murder infants, deflower
virgins, destroy, burn, persecute, and tyrannise, they shall be fully
rewarded at last in the same measure, they and theirs, and that to their
desert.

[4001] "Ad generum Cereris sine caede et sanguine pauci
Descendunt reges et sicca morte tyranni."

"Few tyrants in their beds do die,
But stabb'd or maim'd to hell they hie."

Oftentimes too a base contemptible fellow is the instrument of God's
justice to punish, to torture, and vex them, as an ichneumon doth a
crocodile. They shall be recompensed according to the works of their hands,
as Haman was hanged on the gallows he provided for Mordecai; "They shall
have sorrow of heart, and be destroyed from under the heaven," Thre. iii.
64, 65, 66. Only be thou patient: [4002]_vincit qui patitur_: and in the
end thou shalt be crowned. Yea, but 'tis a hard matter to do this, flesh
and blood may not abide it; 'tis _grave, grave_! no (Chrysostom replies)
_non est grave, o homo_! 'tis not so grievous, [4003]"neither had God
commanded it, if it had been so difficult." But how shall it be done?
"Easily," as he follows it, "if thou shalt look to heaven, behold the
beauty of it, and what God hath promised to such as put up injuries." But
if thou resist and go about _vim vi repellere_, as the custom of the world
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