John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 4:14

Verſ. 14. For out of priſon hee commeth to reign] As Valentinian the Emperour, Sultan Muſtapha the great Turk,Daniels hiſt. fol 480. Anno Dom. 1622. Our Henry the fourth, who was crowned the very ſame day, that the year before hee had been baniſhed the realm. As on the other ſide, Henry the ſixth was ſent again priſoner to the Tower the ſame day that hee had been carried through the City as it were in triumph, and had heard the ſhouts of the commons in every ſtreet, crying, God ſave King HENRY: Loe, Hee that had been the moſt potent Monarch for Dominions (ſaith the Chronicler) that ever England had, Speed. 881. was not now the maſter of a mole-hill, nor owner of his own liberty. So that in him it appeared, that mortality was but the ſtage of mutability; when a man born in his Kingdome, yea born to a Kingdome, became thus miſerably poor. Furthermore, Henry Holland Duke of Exceſter, grand-childe to John of Gaunt, may ſerve as a fit inſtance and example to all, how uncertain Adams ſonnes are of any continuing greatneſs. For, (ſaith Phil. Commines) I once ſaw him run on foot bare-legged after the Duke of Burgundies train,Date obolum Belliſario. begging his bread for Gods ſake: but hee uttered not his name, Speed. 887. hee being the neareſt of the houſe of Lancaſter, and brother in Law unto King Edward the fourth, from whom hee fled. And being known what hee was, Burgundy gave him a ſmall penſion to maintain his eſtate.