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John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 10:5

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Ecclesiastes10:5

Verſ. 5. As an errour which proceedeth from the Ruler] Or an ignorance (as Hierom renders it) [non-Latin text not transcribed] (ſo the Septuagint) as a thing unwillingly done. An errour, an infirmity it muſt bee called, becauſe committed by great ones; but in true account it is a groſs evil, the very peſt of vertue, and cauſe of confuſion, viz. the advancement of moſt unworthy and incapable perſons, and that for the Princes pleaſure ſake, becauſe hee will ſeem abſolute. An Earl of Kildare was complained of to our Henry the Eighth:Heyl. Geog. pag. 506 and when his adverſary concluded his invective with, Finally, all Ireland cannot rule this Earl, the King replied, Then ſhall this Earl rule all Ireland; and ſo, for his jeſt ſake, made him Deputy.

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