1. Famous Examples of Revenge were both Queens: Thamyris, who having caused the Head of Cyrus to be cut off, commanded it to be thrown into a Tub of humane Blood; upbraiding him with his in∣satiable thirst after Blood, and revenging upon him the Death of her Son, who wa•• slain by him. And Berenice, who taking heavily the loss of her Son, en∣trapped by the snares of Laodice, got arm'd into her Chariot, and following the King Life-guard-man that had done the Mischief, after she had miss'd him with her Spear, she ••el••'d him with a Stone; and driving her Horses over his Body, rid directly through the bands of the adverse party to the house where she thought the body of the slain Child lay.
2. It is a hard thing to judge whether a just Re∣venge or not were the ruine of Iason of Thessaly, preparing to make war against the King of Persia. For he gave leave to Taxillus the Master of his Games, complaining that he had been abused by cer∣tain young men, that he should either require thirty Drachma's from them, or to give them ten Stripes. Which last revenge when he used, they that were lash'd, kill'd Iason, valuing the measure of the punishment by the pain of the Minde, and not of the Body. Thus by a small provocation of ingenious Shame, a great Undertaking was subverted. Be∣cause that in the opinion of Greece, there was as much expected from Iason, as from Alexander.