O just and dreadful Punisher of sin, Let the dishonour of the pains I feel In this my mortal well-deserved wound End all my penance in my sudden death!
"Tamburlaine the Great, Part II."
Christopher Marlowe
This maner is seen to be almoste observed of the Suizzers, who make the condempned to be put to death openly, of thother souldiours, the whiche is well considered, and excellently dooen: for that intendyng, that one be not a defendour of an evill doer, the greateste reamedie that is founde, is to make hym Punisher of thesame: bicause otherwise, with other respecte he favoureth hym: where when he hymself is made execucioner, with other desire, he desireth his punishemente, then when the execucion commeth to an other.
"Machiavelli, Volume I The Art of War; and The Prince"
Niccolò Machiavelli
Cassius, having taken Rhodes, behaved himself there with no clemency; though at his first entry, when some had called him lord and king, he answered, that he was neither king nor lord, but the destroyer and Punisher of a king and lord.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh