EVERY BEAN HAS ITS BLACK

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people have their faults as surely as the bean has its black eye

a 1624 - Sermons, Bishop Miles Smith;
see below:
A Sermon vpon the First to the Hebrevves 
The Eleventh Sermon
 
So the Pomegranate is a very extraordinary fruite, the hard rinde being dryed, is 
medicinable many wayes; as for the iuice and kernels, they are not onely wholesome, but 
also delightsome, yet for all that, it is obserued, and the Iewes vse it for a Prouerbe 
amongst them, that There is no Pomegranate so sound, but it hath some rotten kernels in 
it, fewer or more: and we also vse to say, Euery Beane hath his blacke: 
And Plutarch reporteth it to haue beene the speech ofSimonides,* that as euery Larke 
hath his tuft, so euery man hath his imperfection. Now it is not so in the Word of God; 
euery part of it is, Homogenous, euery part like it selfe, as being deliuered by one Spirit, 
and leuelled by one rule. You know what is deliuered by the Prophet; All) the words of the 
Lord are pure words, as the siluer that is tryed in a fornace of earth, and fined seuen-fold: 

From: The Pytchley Hunt: 
Past and Present
By H.O. Nethercote, 1888
P. 262