with whips] Another proverbiall speech. Whips are cruell instruments of punishing, they use to be made with hard whip-cord knotted; they quickly fetch blood, and tear skin and flesh. Scorpions are venimous creatures with stings in their tails, whereby men are intolerably tortured, even unto death: There are also certain scourges of wyar, with knops of lead and sharp hooks or pricks at the ends of them, which are called scorpions. Some write of kindes of briers or thorns called scorpions. All these senses of the word tend to one and the same end, and imply, That he would handle them much more roughly and hardly then his father had done.