John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 5:11

Verſ. 11. When goods increaſe, they are increaſed that eat them] Servants, friends, flatterers, trencher-men, penſioners, and other hang-bies, that will flock to a rich man, as Crows do to a dead carcaſs: not to defend, but to devour it. Caeſar periſhed in the midſt of his friends, whoſe boundleſs hopes and expectations hee was not able to ſatisfie. The King of Spain (were it not for the Weſt-India Fleet) were never able to ſubſiſt: though hee bee by far the greateſt Prince in Chriſtendom, Camden. gives for his Motto, Totus non ſufficit orbis, and hath his Empire ſo far extended, that hee may truly ſay, Sol mihi ſemper lucet, The Sun ever ſhines upon my Dominions; The Duke of Bavaria's houſe is ſo peſtered with Fryers and Jeſuits, that, notwithſtanding the greatneſs of his Revenue,Heylin. hee is very poor: as ſpending all his eſtate on thoſe Popiſh fleſh-flies, thoſe inutiles & ribaldi, (Lyra's words upon this text) uſeleſs, needleſs, ribaldry fellows.

Saving the beholding of them with his eyes] To ſee ſuch a large retinue, ſuch a numerous family, as Job, who had a very great houſhold, chap. 1.3. and Abraham, who had a Trained band in his family, but eſpecially as Solomon, who had thouſands of ſervants and work-folk. Whereunto I may adde Cardinal Wolſey his pompous family; conſiſting of one Earl, nine Barons, Knights and Eſquires very many, Chaplains and other ſervants (beſides retainers) at bed and board,Toto corpore aliquandiu volutatus. Sueton. no fewer than four hundred. Or, to ſee ſo much wealth, and to tumble in it, as Caligula the Emperour was wont to do, contrectandae pecuniae cupidine incenſus, loving to handle his mony, to walk upon it with his bare feet, and to rowl amongſt it with his whole body, as Suetonius relateth. The like is reported of Heliogabalus, who alſo, beſides what hee did eat, is ſaid to have provided himſelf (in caſe hee ſhould bee in danger to bee ſurprized by his enemies) ſilken halters to hang himſelf withall, ponds of ſweet water to drown himſelf, gilded poyſons to poyſon himſelf with, &c.