[137:A] "To wilful men the injuries which they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters"; or, in more colloquial phrase, "Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other."
[140:A] This side of the question may be seen somewhat forcibly put in John Halle's "Historick Expostulation against the beastlye Abuses of Chyrurgerie and Physicke," 1565.
"Aske Medicus counsell ere medcine ye make,
And honour that man for necessitie's sake,
Though thousands hate physick because of the cost,
Yet thousands it helpeth that else should be lost."
"Five hundred pointes of good husbandrie," by Tusser, 1573. It will be noted that it is "ye make"; nowadays it would have to be written "ye take." The verse is from a section on "Good huswifelie physicke." The farmer's wife herself cultivates a goodly store of
"Cold herbes in her garden for agues that burne,
That ouer strong heate to good temper may turne,"
such as "Endiue and Suckerie," "Water of Fumentorie, liver to coole." "Conserve of the Barbarie, quinces as such, With Sirops that easeth the sickly so much," must also be provided, to say nothing of "Spinnage ynough."
[145:A] In Shakespeare's "Henry V." we read how the Constable of France and the Duke of Orleans thus bandied proverbs: "Orl. Ill will never said well. Con. I will cap that proverb with—there is flattery in friendship. Orl. And I will take that up with—give the devil his due. You are the better at proverbs, by how much?—a fool's bolt is soon shot."
[149:A] "Set thee up waymarks."—Jeremiah xxi. 21.
"Is this the path of sanctity? Is this
To stand a waymark in the road to bliss?"