John Trapp on Proverbs 14:28

Verſ. 28. In the multitude of people is the Kings honour] For that's a ſign of peace, plenty, proſperity, and juſt government, as in Salomons daies, when Iſrael and Judah were many, as the ſand which is by the Sea in multitude, eating, and drinking, and making merry,Flor. hiſt. lib. 4 1 King. 4.20. and as in Auguſtus his daies, when Chriſt (the Prince of Peace) was born into the world, cuncta atque continua totius generis humani aut pax fuit, aut pactio. Ferdinand the third, King of Spain, reigned full 35 years: In all which time, nec fames nec pestis fuit in regnoſuo, ſaith Lopez, Gloſſ. in prolog part. 1. there was neither famine nor peſtilence throughout that Kingdome. What incredible waſte of men hath war lately made in Germany (that ſtage of war) in Ireland, and here in this Kingdome, beſides what formerly? In the Civil diſſentions between the houſes of York and Lancaſter, were ſlain eighty Princes of the blood royal, and twice as many Natives of England, as were loſt in the two Conqueſts of France. Dan. Hiſt. The diſſentions between England and Scotland, conſumed more Chriſtian blood, wrought more ſpoil and deſtruction to both Kingdomes, and continued longer, than ever quarrel wee read of did between any two people of the world. Camd. Eliſ. 165. Bee wiſe now therefore, O yee Kings, &c. Tu vero Herodes ſanguinolente time, as Beza covertly warned Charles the ninth, author of the French Maſſacre. Many parts of Turkie lie unpeopled: moſt of the poor being enforced with Victuals and other neceſſaries, to follow their great armies in their long expeditions; of whom,Turk. Hiſt. ſcarce one of ten ever return home again, there by the way periſhing, if not by the enemies ſword, yet by want of victuals, intemperateneſs of the air, or immoderate pains-taking. Hence the Proverb, where-ever the Great Turk ſets his foot, there graſs grows not any more.