Genesi 44:14

And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he [was] yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.

Ver. 14. They fell before him on the ground.] Humble submission, they knew, if anything, would make their peace, and procure their pardon -

“Sic ventos vincit, dumse submittit arundo.”

It is no hoisting up sail in a storm, no standing before a lion, &c. William the Conqueror often pardoned rebels, and received them into favour; as he held submission satisfactory for the greatest offences, and sought not to defeat them, but their enterprises. a

a Dan., Hist., fol. 51.