John Trapp on Proverbs 21:17

Verſ. 17. Hee that loveth pleaſure, &c.] Luxury is attended by beggery. Pleaſure may bee had, but not loved. Iſaac loved Veniſon (a little better haply than hee ſhould;) Eſau loved hunting, hence hee grew prophane, and though not a begger,Seneca. yet worſe. The Prodigal in the Goſpel ſpent his ſubſtance with riotous living Luk. 16.13. So did Apicius the Romane, who hearing that there were ſeven hundred Crowns onely remaining of a vaſt eſtate that his Father had left him,Valer. feared want, and hanged him. M. Livius another waſte-good boaſted when hee died, that hee had left nothing for his heir, praeter coelum & coenum, more than air and mire. Roger Aſcham, School-Maſter to Queen Elizabeth, Camb. Eliſab. and her Secretary for the Latine tongue, being too much addicted to dicing and cock-fighting, lived and died a poor man.