John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 8:5

Verſ. 5. Whoſo keepeth the commandement] ſcil. The Kings commandement. Hee that is morigerous, and goes as far as hee can with a good conſcience in his obedience to the commands of his Superiours, Shall feel no evil, i. e. hee ſhall lack no good encouragement, Rom. 13.3, 4. Or if men ſlight him, God will ſee to him, Epheſ. 6.7, 8. as hee did to the poor Iſraelites in Egypt, and to David under Saul. Mordecai loſt nothing at length by his love and loyalty to God and the King. Sir Ralph Percy (ſlain upon Hegely-Moor in Northumberland by the Lord Montacute, General for Edward the Fourth) hee would no waies depart the field, though defeated; but in dying, ſaid, I have ſaved the bird in my breaſt, Speed. 869. meaning his oath to King Henry the Sixth, for whom hee fought.

And a wiſe mans heart diſcerneth both time and judgement] ſcil. When and how to obey Kings commands, the time, the means and manner thereof, diſpatching them without offence to God or man. And this a wiſe mans heart diſcerneth, ſaith the Preacher: it being the opinion of the Hebrews, that in the heart eſpecially the ſoul did keep her Court, and exerciſe her noble operations of the underſtanding, invention, judgement, &c. Ariſtotle ſaith, Sine calore cordis anima in corpore nihil efficit, Without the heat of the heart, the ſoul does nothing in the body. The Scripture alſo makes the heart the Monarch of this Iſle of Man.