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A Beare sometime stinged of a Bée, was so wood angry thereat, that with his nayles he tore in pieces the hiues where the Bées made hony: the Bées seing their hiues plucked down, their food caried away, & their yong ones slayne, rushing all at once, assayled the Beare, and nigh
stoong him to deathe. Hée hardlye scapyng from them, sayde to himselfe: howe muche better had it ben for mée, paciently to haue suffred the stin∣ging of one Bee, thā to prouoke so many enimies agaynst mee?
MOR. Sometyme it is farre better to suffer wrong doone by one, than in requiting it to pro∣cure many foes.