Offer the injury, then to increase
Th' offence, instead of soothing, they inflict
A deeper wound by obstinate resentment—
Neglect what's fit and proper to be done,
But eagerly pursue the thing they should not;—
And then they grow fantastical withal,
When they are perfectly in health complain
In faint and feeble tone, "they're sick, they die." —Anon.
Aristophon. (Book xiii. § 8, p. 894.)