This ieste may be well applied vnto suche as note the defautes, that they lyghtly[242] spy in other, and take none hede, nor can nat se, what ils they haue or[243] bene spotted with them selfe. + _The answere of Fabius to Liuius._ lxi. + Whan Anniball, the capitayne of Cartage, had conquered Tarent (a towne perteinyng to the Romayns), all saue the castell, and had lefte a garnison to kepe it, whan the worthy Romayne Fabius had knowelege therof, he pryuely conducted an armye thether, and got the towne agayne, and pylled[244] it. Than M. Liuius that kepte the castell with the garnison, sayde bostynge him selfe, that Fabius had gotte the towne through him and his helpe. You saye trouth, quod Fabius: for if you had nat loste the towne, I shulde neuer haue gotte hit.[245] FOOTNOTES: [242] Readily. A story very like this occurs in _A Sackful of Newes_, 1673. It was originally related by Poggius in his Facetiae, where it is entitled _Asinus Perditus_, and it has been imitated by La Fontaine in the fable of "Le Villageois qui cherche son veau." It is also the 12th tale of _Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles_. [243] Before. [244] Pillaged. + _The answere of Poltis, the kynge of Thrace, to the Troyan embassadors._[246] lxii. + Plutarche lyke wyse reherseth that, durynge the warre of Troy, the Grekes and also the Troians sent ambassadours to a kynge of Thrace calledde Poltis, whiche kynge answered th ambassadours and bade, that Alexandre shulde delyuer agayne Helayne (for she was the cause of the warre), and he wolde gyue him ii fayre wyues for her. FOOTNOTES: [245] "Now there was one _Marcus Livius_, a ROMAINE that was Gouernour of TARENTUM at that time when _Hanniball_ tooke it, and neverthelesse kept the castell still out of _Hannibals_ hands, and so held it untill the city came againe into the hands of the ROMAINES. This _Livius_ spited to see such honour done to _Fabius_, so that one day in open Senate, being drowned with enuy and ambition, he burst out and said, that it was himselfe, not _Fabius_, that was cause of taking of the city of TARENTUM again. _Fabius_, smiling to hear him, answeryd him opely: 'Indeed, thou saiest true, for if thou hadst not lost it, I had never won it again.'"--Plutarch's _Lives_, transl. by Sir T. North, ed. 1603, fol. 192. [246] [Greek: Poltus, ho Thrakon basileus en to Troiko polemo presbeusamenon pros auton hama ton Troon kai ton Achaion, ekeleuse ton Alexandron apodonta ten Helenen, duo par autou labein kalas gynaikas.]--Plutarchi _Apothegmata_ (Opera Moralia et Philosophica, vol. vi. p. 665, edit. Lipsiae, 1777). + _The wyse answere of Hanibal to kynge Antiochus, concerninge his ryche armye._ lxiii.