Careful Words

beaten (adj.)

If he that in the field is slain

Be in the bed of honour lain,

He that is beaten may be said

To lie in honour's truckle-bed.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 1047.

Beaten with his owne rod.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.