John Trapp on Esther 2:14

Verſe 14. In the evening ſhe went] As the fitteſt time for a work of darkneſſe.

And on the morrow ſhe returned] So ſhort is the pleaſure of ſinne. Laeta venire Venus, triſtis abire ſolet.

Into the ſecond houſe of the women] That having made ſale of her honeſty, ſhe might converſe with ſuch as had likewiſe left their honeſties behind them; companions in evil, and miſerable comforters, with whom they might make up their meaſure, and God power on his.

She came in unto the King no more] But muſt burn in luſt, without means of allayment; being ſcalded, as it were, in her own greaſe, frying within, and freezing without. Sed [non-Latin text not transcribed], as Cyril ſaith in a like caſe, We do but rake a dughill in a diſcourſe of this nature.Merlin. Let us therefore ſtay here no longer (as an Interpreter hath it) in ſetting forth the filthineſſe of this Heathen Prince, who yet hath too many amongſt us that imitate his uncleanneſſe, and intemperance.