John Trapp on Lamentations 4:5

Ver. 5. They that did feed delicately] Such uncertainty there is of outward affluence. Our Richad the ſecond was famiſhed to death.Speed. Lib. 3. c. 4. Henry Holland Duke of Exceſter, grand-child to John of Gaunt was ſeen to run on foot bare-legged after the Duke of Burgundy's train begging his bread for Gods ſake: This I ſaw, ſaith Philip de Comines. This Henry was brother in law to King Edward the fourth, from whom he fled.

They that were brought up in ſcarlet] Qui nutriebantur in croceis ſen cocceis, In fimetis victum quaeritant prae inopia. Jun. that were gorgeouſly arrayed, or, that rolling on their rich beds, wrapped themſelves in coſtly coverlets.

Embrace dunghils] There take up their lodgings, and there alſo are glad to find any thing to feed on, though never ſo courſe and homely, The Lapwing is made an Hieroglyphick of infelicity, becauſe he hath as a coronet upon the head, and yet feedeth upon the worſt of excrements. It is pitty that any child of God, waſht in Chriſt's blood, ſhould bedabble his ſcarlet robe in the ſtinking guzzle of the worlds dunghill: that any one who hath heretofore ſoared as an Eagle, ſhould now creep on the ground as a bettle, or wallow as a ſwine in the mire of ſenſuality.