John Trapp on Esther 1:18

Verſe 18. Likewiſe ſhall the Ladies of media and Perſia ſay] Say what? We will not do as our Lords command us. Like enough all this: for their tongues were their own, and their wills no leſſe. That free-will (about which there is ſo much ado made) when men once loſt, the women caught it up; and hence they are ſo wedded to their own will, ſaith one merrily. Quicquid volunt, valdè volunt, what they will do, they will do contra gentes, ſaith another. And for talking and telling their minds; The Rabbines have a proverb, that ten Kabs (meaſures) of ſpeech deſcended into the world, and the women took away nine of them. Theſe Ladies of Media and Perſia were feaſting with the Queen when the King ſent for her, ubi quid factum eſt? garritur, potitatur, ſaltitatur, Feverdent. in verſe 9. ſaith an Interpreter, at which time they were chatting, and bibbing, and dancing, and (when their mirth was marred) they would not ſpare to ſpeak their minds, and eaſe their ſtomachs, what ever came of it. We read in our own Chronicles of the Lady de Breuſe, that by her railing and intemperate tongue, ſhe had ſo exaſperated King John (whom ſhe reviled as a tyrant and a murtherer) that he would not be pacified by her ſtrange preſent (four hundred kine,Speed. 572. and one bull, all milk-white, except only the eares, which were red) ſent unto the Queen.

Then ſhall there ariſe too much contempt and wrath] Contempt on the wives part, and wrath on the husbands: wives ſhall ſlight their husbands, and they again ſhall fall foul upon their wives: ſo that conjugium ſhall become conjurgium; and the houſe they dwell together in, ſhall be no better then a fencing-ſchool, wherein the two ſexes ſeem to have met together for nothing but to play their prizes, and to try maſteries. This made Sylla ſay, I had been happy, if I had never been married.