Freitag, 1579.
“Qui reddit mala pro bonis, non recedet malum de domo eius.”—Prouerb, 17, 13.
“Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.”
Nicolas Reusner, also, edition Francfort, 1581, bk. ii. p. 81, has an Emblem on this subject, and narrates the whole fable,—
Merces anguina,—“Reward from a serpent.”
“Frigore confectum quem rusticus inuenit anguem
Imprudens fotum recreat ecce sinu.
Immemor hic miserum lethale sauciat ictu:
Reddidit hìc vitam; reddidit ille necem.