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L’ung faict le mal, L’aultre est puny.
Comme le chien mord la pierre gectée,
Et au gecteur ne faict course agitée:
Ainsi plusieurs les vrays ennemis laissent,
Et l’innocent de dent mauvaise blessent.[1]
Les gens de maling courage, & cruelz, redoubtent
ceulx qui leur font mal: & à eulx ne s’osans prendre,
se vengent sur les infirmes innocens, qui n’en peu-
vent mais. Car (comme ha escript Suetone, & Phi
lippe de Commines) jamais à peine courage cruel
ne fut hardy.
1. Cf. Aesop, Fables 235, where bees sting the wrong person. See Erasmus, Adagia 153, Cum larvis luctari, where the ‘puppy’ comparison is quoted from Aristotle (Rhetoric 3, 4). See also Plato, Republic 5.469E.
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