Some have been beaten till they know
What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow:
Some kick'd until they can feel whether
A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.
Frieth in his own grease.
Chaucer—Wife of Bathes Tale. V. 6069. Prohgite. L. 487. Morris' ed. Hetwood—Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. XI. ("her" for "his.
Noxiae pcena par esto.
Let the punishment be equal with the offence.
Ciceko—De Legibus. Bk. III. 20.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Gilbert)
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Cavendum est ne major pcena quam culpa sit; et ne iisdem de causis alii plcctantur, alii ne appellentur quidem.
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted!
Cicero—Dc Officiis. I. 23.
Diis proximus illc est
Quern ratio non ira movet: qui factor rependens Consilio punire potest.
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.
Claudinaus—De Comndatu Malii Tkeodari Panegyris. CCXXVII.
I stew all night in my own grease.
Cotton—Virgil Travestie. P. 35. (Ed. 1807)
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| num =
| text = <poem>Fat enough to be stewed in their own
liquor. Fuller—Holy Slate and the Profane
State. P. 396. (Ed. 1840)
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Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deuteronomy. XLX. 21.
'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end,
Wedged in that timber which ho strove to rend.
Wentworth Dillon—Essay on Translated Verse. Ovid.
9
That is the bitterest of all,—to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing. George Eliot—Daniel Deronda. Bk. V. Ch. XXXVI. 10
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
Emerson—Essays. Manners. During the Civil War in England officers were sent for punishment to the garrison at Coventry.
Vengeance comes not slowly cither upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad. Euripides—Fragment.
12
Mv punishment is greater than I can lx>nr
Omesi*. IV. 13.
Whoso sheddcth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. Genesis. IX. 6.
14
Something lingering with boiling oil in it .... something humorous but lingering—with either boiling oil or melted lead.
W. S. Gilbert—Afifcodo.
15
My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time—
To let the punislunent fit the crime.
W. S. Gilbert—Mikado.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Cicero)
16
The wolf must die in his own skin.
| author = Herbert
| work = Jacula Prudentum.
17
Culpam pcrna premit comes.
Punishment follows close on crime.
Horace—Carmina. IV. 5. 24.
18
Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.
Do not pursue with the terrible seouige him who deserves a slight whip. Horace—Satires. I. 3. 119.
19
For whoso spareth the spring [switch] spilleth his children.
Langland—Piers Ploughman.
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20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.
Leviticus. XXIV. 20.
21
Quidquid multis peccatur inultum est.
The sins committed by manv pass unpunished.
Lucan—Pharsalia. V. 260.
22
It were better for him that a millstone werp hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea. Luke, XVII. 2.
23
The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good. Horace Mann—Lectures and Reports on Education. Lecture VII.
24
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. Mark. IX. 44.
25
Unrespited, unpitied, unrepriev'd.
| author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. II. L. 185.
20
Our torments also may in length of time
Become our elements.
| author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. II. L. 274.
27 Back to thy punishment,
False fugitive and to thy speed add wings,
MnroN—Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. II. L. 699.
28
Just prophet, let the damn'd one dwell
Full in the sight of Paradise,
Beholding heaven and feeling hell.
Moore—Lalla Itookh. Fire Worshippers. L.
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