Beaten with his owne rod.

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

Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd,

Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771): Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Stanza 12.

He shall rule them with a rod of iron.

New Testament: Revelation ii. 27.

His rod revers'd,

And backward mutters of dissevering power.

John Milton (1608-1674): Comus. Line 816.

There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God,

Than from theyr children to spare the rod.

John Skelton (Circa 1460-1529): Magnyfycence. Line 1954.

Love is a boy by poets styl'd;

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 843.

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

Ralph Venning (1620(?)-1673): Mysteries and Revelations, p. 5. (1649.)

A light to guide, a rod

To check the erring, and reprove.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Ode to Duty.

A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod;

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 247.