John Trapp on Esther 5:12

Verſe 12. Haman ſaid moreover] He makes no end of vaunting and vapouring; and all to aggravate the indignity done him by Mordecai, in not ſtooping to ſo great a perſonage.

Now Eſther the Queen did let no man come in, — but my ſelfe] This he miſtaketh for a ſpecial favour, when as Eſthers banquet proved no better to him, then Semiramis her tomb did to them that rifled it; they expected to finde treaſure, but met with a deadly poiſon.

And to morrow am I invited, &c.] Where thou ſhalt (as hypocrites do at the Lords Table) eate thy bane, and drink thy poiſon; yet art thou over-joyed as if highly favoured. A temporary may receive both the word audible and the word viſible, (the Sacrament) with much ſeeming joy: which yet is but only as the commotion of the affections in a dream: It fareth with ſuch in the end, as with one that ſleeping on the top of a ſteep rock, dreameth of great matters befallen him, but ſtarting ſuddenly through joy thereof, tumbleth headlong into the ſea, and breaketh his neck at the bottom.