John Trapp on Proverbs 26:2

Verſ. 2. As the Bird by wandring, and the Swallow] i. e. As theſe may fly where they will, and no body cares or is the worſe. So here. And as Birds tired with much wandring, and not finding where to reſt, return again to their Neſt, after that they have beat the air with weary wing: ſo the cauſeleſſe curſe returns to the author. Curſing men are curſed men.

So the curſe cauſleſſe ſhall not come] What was David the worſe for Shimei's raſh raylings? or Jeremy for all the Peoples curſings of him? chap. 15.10. Or the Chriſtian Churches for the Jewes curſing them in their daily Prayers, with a Maledic Domine Nazaraeis? or the reformed Churches for the Popes Excommunications, and Execrations, with Bell, Book and Candle? The Pope is like a Waſp, no ſooner angry but out comes a ſting: which being out is like a fools dagger, ratling and ſnapping without an edge. Sit ergo Gallus in nomine Diabolorum, The Devil take the French, ſaid Pope Julius the ſecond,Annal. Gallie. (as he was ſitting by the fire and ſaying his Prayers) upon news of his Forces defeated by the French at the battel of Ravenna. Was not this that very mouth that ſpeaketh great things and blaſphemies? Revel. 13.5. And (as qualis herus talis ſervus, like maſter, like man) a certain Cardinal entring with a great deal of pomp into Paris, when the people were more than ordinarily earneſt with him for his fatherly benediction; Quandoquidem, ſaid he, hic populus vult decipi, decipiatur in nomine diaboli. Foraſmuch as this people will be fooled, let them bee fooled in the Devils name. And another Cardinal, when at a Diet held at Ausborough, the Prince Electors Ambaſſadour was (in his Maſters name) preſent at Maſſe, but would not as the reſt did, kiſſe the conſecrated Charger; the Cardinal, I ſay, that ſung Maſſe, being diſpleaſed thereat, cried out, Si non vis benedicticum, Anno Dom. 1559. Bucholcer. habeas tibi maledictionem in aeternum. If thou wilt not have the bleſſing, thou ſhalt have Gods curſe and mine for ever. Let them curſe, but bleſſe thou: when they ariſe, let them be aſhamed, but let thy ſervants rejoyce, Pſal. 109.28.