Genesis 31:5

Gen 31:5 And said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it [is] not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.

Ver. 5. I see your father’s countenance, &c.] This is the world’s wages. All Jacob’s good service is now forgotten. Do an unthankful person nineteen kindnesses, unless you add the twentieth, all is lost a Perraro grati homines reperiuntur , saith Cicero. b Nemo beneficium in Calendarium scribit , saith Seneca. And the poet Ausonius not unfitly -

“Sunt homines humeris quos siquis gestat ad urbem

Ausoniam, domiti quae caput orbis erat:

Nec tamen ad portam placide deponat eosdem,

Gratia praeteriti nulla laboris erit”

a Pαλαια μεν ευδει χαρις αμνημονες δε βροτοι . - Pindar .

b Orat. pro Planc .