aw that he would not be moved. Diogenes in a crowd when one called him
back, and told him how the boys laughed him to scorn, _Ego, inquit, non
rideor_, took no notice of it. Socrates was brought upon the stage by
Aristophanes, and misused to his face, but he laughed as if it concerned
him not: and as Aelian relates of him, whatsoever good or bad accident or
fortune befel him going in or coming out, Socrates still kept the same
countenance; even so should a Christian do, as Hierom describes him, _per
infamiam et bonam famam grassari ad immortalitatem_, march on through good
and bad reports to immortality, [4019]not to be moved: for honesty is a
sufficient reward, probitas sibi, praemium; and in our times the sole
recompense to do well, is, to do well: but naughtiness will punish itself
at last, [4020]_Improbis ipsa nequitia supplicium_. As the diverb is,

"Qui bene fecerunt, illi sua facta sequentur;
Qui male fecerunt, facta sequentur eos:"

"They that do well, shall have reward at last:
But they that ill, shall suffer for that's past."

Yea, but I am ashamed, disgraced, dishonoured, degraded, exploded: my
notorious crimes and villainies are come to light (_deprendi miserum est_),
my filthy lust, abominable oppression and avarice lies open, my good name's
lost, my fortune's gone, I have been stigmatised, whipped at post,
arraigned and condemned, I am a common obloquy, I have lost my ears,
odious, execrable, abhorred of God and men. Be content, 'tis but a nine
days' wonder, and as one sorrow drives out another, one passion another,
one cloud another, one rumour is expelled by another; every day almost,
come new news unto our ears, as how the sun was eclipsed, meteors seen in
the air, monsters born, prodigies, how the Turks were overthrown in Persia,
an earthquake in Helvetia, Calabria, Japan, or China, an inundation in
Holland, a great plague in Constantinople, a fire at Prague, a dearth in
Germany, such a man is made a lord, a bishop, another hanged, deposed,
pressed to death, for some murder, treason, rape, theft, oppression, all
which we do hear at first with a kind of admiration, detestation,
consternation, but by and by they are buried in silence: thy father's dead,
thy brother robbed, wife runs mad, neighbour hath killed himself; 'tis
heavy, ghastly, fearful news at first, in every man's mouth, table talk;
but after a while who speaks or thinks of it? It will be so with thee and
thine