John Trapp on Esther 6:7

Verſe 7. And Haman anſwered the King] After a ſhort pauſe, he had his anſwer ready; but making a bridge of his own ſhadow, he ſoon fell into the brook. Ambition rideth without reines, and like thoſe horſes, Amos 6.11. runneth upon the rocks, where firſt ſhe breaks her hoofes, and then her neck. It ſeemeth by that which followeth, that Haman aſpired to the Kingdome: why elſe did he ask the Crown-royal, and the Kings horſe, &c? When David would declare Solomon his ſucceſſour in the Kingdom, he ſet him upon his own mule, 1 Kings 1.33. But Haman little thought that thoſe his high hopes ſhould end in a rope. So did Hanno's the Carthaginian, and Roger Mortimers in King Edward the ſecond his time, and the falſe Edrick in King Knute's dayes: and laſtly Hadrian de Caſt[illegible: 1 letter]llo, an Italian Legate, made by King Henry the ſeventh, Biſhop of Hereford, who conſpired with Alphonſo Petruccio, and other ſacred Cardinals, to murther Pope Leo the tenth, induced thereunto by the ſuggeſtion of a witch, who foretold him, that one Hadrian an old man, of mean Parentage, of great learning and wiſdome, ſhould ſucceed in the Papacy;Paul. Jovius. the man (Haman-like) thought it muſt needs be himſelf: but another Hadrian Schoolmaſter to Charles the fifth proved to be the man: and this our Hadrian loſt by deprivation all his promotions whatſoever, (for his life could not be come at) for his nefarious attempt.

For the man whom the King delighteth to honour] Heb. In whoſe honour the King delighteth. And what will not delight do whether in good or evil? See the Note on Micah 7.18.