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THere is a story of two Men that dwelt in a certain City,* 1.1 the one very Cove∣tous, the other very Envious; The Ruler therefore of the place sent for them both, wishing them to desire what they would, and it should be granted them, adding withall, that he who did ask first, should have his asking gran∣ted, but the other should have the same doubled: The Envious Man would not
ask first that his Companion might not have more them himself; But the Ru∣ler pressing upon them to ask, the Envious Man desired, that one of his eyes might be pulled out,* 1.2 that so his companion might lose both his eyes: Such is the destructive quality and condition of Envy, and every Envious Man; Envy is the consumption of the possessour of it; The Envious Man is he that foldeth his hands together, and as a Man discontented for the contemtment which another hath, ever studying and plotting how he may bereave him of it; He it is that eat∣eth his own Flesh, not sparing to hurt himself, that he may destroy him whom he hateth.
Nich. de Ly••a in cap. 3. Gen.
—Anerius re∣bus macrescit ••pimis. Horat. ep. 1.