Matt. 12.
Envie and mallice will barke though it be so musselled that it cannot bite.
fo. 7.
It is almost divine perfection to resist carnall affection.
When wee censure other men wee should imitate that good imitator of nature Apelles, whoe being to drawe a face of an great person[30] which wanted an eye, drewe that syde only which was perfect.
The malicious man is like the vultur, which passeth ouer manie sweete gardens and never rests but vpon some carrion or garbage, soe he neuer takes notice of anie thing but vices.
Libellers are the divels herauldes.
Invidus alienum bonum suum facit peccando malum.
Envy, though in all other respectes it be a thing most execrable, yet in this it is in some sort commendable, that it is a vexacion to it selfe. It is like gunpowder, which consumes itselfe before it burnes the house. Or the fly pyrausta, which would put out the candle, but burns itselfe.
Honor is like a buble, which is raysed with one winde and broken with an other.