John Trapp on Ezra 4:14

Verſe 14. Now becauſe we have maintenance from the Kings Palace] Chaldee. Are ſalted with the ſalt of the Palace, Salarium de regis palatio percipimus, have our ſalary from the Court, as Junius rendereth it. The great uſe of ſalt makes it here put for all kinde of commodity: like as bread is called panis, as if it were [non-Latin text not transcribed], The all, and whole of our ſuſtenance, Deut. 8.3.

And it was not meet for us to ſee the Kings diſhonour] Chald. Nakedneſſe, privities, which uncovered, cauſe contempt, as it befell Noah in his drunkenneſſe: and the King of Spaine, when by Queene Elizabeth proclaimed Bankrupt.

Therefore have we ſent and certified the King] As knowing that Beneficium-poſtulat officium; Bounty commands duty. Ingratitude is a monſter in nature, a ſoleciſme in good manners, &c. Lycurgus would make no Law againſt it, becauſe he held that none could be ſo unreaſonable, as to be guilty of it. Yet Alphonſus complained of his ungrateful Courtiers; and ſo did Frederick the third, Emperour of Germany. Queen Elizabeth alſo ſaid, that in truſt ſhe had oft found treaſon. That traytor Parry had vowed her death,Speed. although he had beene condemned for burglary, and ſaved by her pardon.