Seneca.[1041] Iudex qui parcit[1042] vlcisci, multos improbos facit.
Whan for o schrewe which he spareth 2220
A thousand goode men he grieveth:
With such merci who that believeth
P. i. 354
To plese god, he is deceived,
Or elles resoun mot be weyved.
Apostolus. Non sine causa Iudex gladium portat.[1043]
The lawe stod er we were bore,
How that a kinges swerd is bore