John Trapp on Daniel 10:3

Ver. 3. I ate no pleaſant bread] Bread he ate (for Animantis cujuſque vita in fuga eſt, life will fail if not maintained by food) but courſe bread, panem cibarium, atrum, & ſiligineum, and no more of that neither, then needs muſt. He voluntarily abridged himſelf of lawful delights, macerating and mortifying his fleſh, that he might communicate with his poor afflicted brethren, and pray the harder for them. Faſting enflameth prayer, and Prayer ſanctifieth faſting.

Neither did I annoint my ſelf at all; All delights of ſenſe muſt be laid aſ[illegible: 1 letter]ide in a time of ſolemn humiliation (but yet without annoyance, and uncomlineſſe) as muſick, mirth, perfumes, brave apparrel, 2 Sam. 12.20. Jon. 3.8. Exod. 33.4, 5, 6. 1 Kings 21.27. chearfulneſſe, outward joy, and pleaſure, Marke 2.20. Luke 5.35. with Mat. 9.15. Judg. 20.26. 1 Sam. 7.6. It is ſpoken of as a foul ſin, Iſa. 58.3. behold in the day of your Faſt ye find pleaſure.