[253:A] The friends of a Roman patrician condemned by Tiberias to death, dwelt strongly on the injustice of the sentence. "That," said he, "my friends, is my greatest consolation, you do not surely wish that I had been guilty!"
"But did this boaster threaten, did he pray,
Or, by his own example, urge their stay?
None, none of these, but ran himself away."
—Dryden, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book xiii.
[256:B] The Spanish revel in these proverbs of sarcastic nature. Another, for instance, is, "Praise me, friends, I love my daughters," applied to those who expect commendation for fulfilling the most obvious duties.
[259:A] In Germany they say, "Siedet der Topf, so blühet die Freundschaft"—while the pot boils the friendship blooms.
[259:B] In Welsh proverb lore, "Have a horse of your own and then you can borrow another."
"Things without all remedy
Should be without regard: what's done is done."
Macbeth.