John Trapp on Isaiah 14:10

Ver. 10. Art thou alſo become weak as we?] Interrogatio ſarcaſtica & inſultabunda. Haſt thou alſo an Hic fitus eſt, or Mortuus eſt, ſet upon thy Tombſtone? This if thou hadſt fore-thought, thou wouldeſt have better behaved thy ſelf, whileſt alive: the meditation of Death would have been a death to thy paſſions, and an allay to thine inſolencies. Virgil ſaith, if ſwarms of Bees meet in the ayr, they will ſometimes fight, as it were in a ſet battel with great violence; But if you caſt but a little duſt upon them, they will be all preſently quiet.

Hi motus animorum at que [illegible: 1 letter]aec certamina tanta,Georg. lib. [illegible: 1 letter]. Pulveris exigui jactu compreſſa quieſcunt.

Had Nebuchadnezzar or his Succeſſors bethought themſelves of their Mortality and of Deaths impartiality, they would have been more moderate.