John Trapp on Jeremiah 9:17

Ver. 17. Conſider ye] Intelligentes estote: Is not your hard-heartedneſſe ſuch, as that ye need ſuch an help? to do that wherein you ſhould be forward and free-hearted. The Hollanders and French faſt, ſaith one, but (without exprobration be it ſpoken) they had need to ſend for mourning-women,Spec. bel. ſac. 209. Ʋt flerent oculos erudiere ſuas. Ovid. that by their cunning they may be taught to mourn.

And call for the mourning women] In planctum & omne pathos faciles, ſuch as could make exquiſite lamentation, and cunningly act the part of mourners at funerals, ſo as to wring teares from the beholders. Theſe the Latines called Praeficas quia luctui praeficiebantur, becauſe they had the chief hand in funeral mournings: for the better carrying on whereof they both ſang doleful ditties, See 2 Chron. 35.25. and played on certain heavily-ſounding inſtruments, Mat. 9.23. whence the Poet, Cantabit maeſtis tibia funeribus.Ovid.