John Trapp on Esther 1:17

Verſe 17. For this deed of the Queen ſhall come abroad] The leaſt aberration in a ſtar is ſoon obſerved: ſo the miſcarriages of great ones are quickly both noted and noticed. Publike perſons are by Plutarch compared to looking-glaſſes, according to which others dreſſe themſelves: to pictures in a glaſſe-window, wherein every blemiſh is ſoon ſeen: to common Wells, which if they be poyſoned, many are deſtroyed. The common people commonly are like a flock of Cranes: as the firſt flies, all follow.

So that they ſhall deſpiſe their husbands] Which indeed ought not to be, no not in their hearts. Let the wife ſee that ſhe reverence her husband. Eph. 5. ult. God hath a barren womb for mocking Michal: when Sarah is crowned and chronicled for this, that ſhe obeyed her husband, calling him Lord. It is here taken for confeſſed, that Vaſthi deſpiſed her husband; and that others would thereby take heart to do the like, is therehence inferred. But doth that neceſſarily follow? and muſt the Queen therefore be preſently depoſed, yea put to death, as the Jew-Doctours tell us ſhe was? King Aſa depoſed his grandmother Maacha; but that was for Idolatry. Our Henry the eighth beheaded his wife Anne Bullen, but that was for (ſuppoſed, and but ſuppoſed) adultery. Queen Elizabeth narrowly eſcaped with her life, becauſe ſhe was accuſed (but falſely) of conſpiracy againſt the Queen her ſiſter. But what had Vaſthi done? Condemned ſhe is without reprival; and the Countrey muſt come in (but was never called) to give in evidence againſt her, that haply never ſaw her, nor heard of her offence. Is this fair-dealing?