John Trapp on Proverbs 29:14

Verſ. 14. The King that faithfully judgeth the poor, &c.] An office not unbeſeeming the greateſt King to ſit in perſon to hear the poor mans cauſe. James the fourth of Scotland was for this cauſe called the poor mans King. I have ſeen (ſaith a late Traveller) the King of Perſia many times to alight from his horſe, onely to do juſtice to a poor body. Help O King, ſaid the poor woman to Jehoram: And if thou wilt not hear and right me, why doſt thou take upon thee to be King? ſaid another woman to Philip King of Macedony. Cic. pro Milone. It is a mercy to have Judges modo audeant quae ſentiunt, as the Oratour hath it, ſo that they have courage to do what they judge fit to be done. Inferiour Judges may be weighed and ſwayed by gifts or greatneſs of an Adverſary to paſs an unrighteous ſentence: Not ſo a King, he neither needs, nor fears any man: but is, if he be right, (as one ſaith of a juſt Law) an heart without affection, an eye without luſt, a mind without paſſion, a treaſurer which keepeth for every man what he hath, and diſtributeth to every man what hee ought to have.

Phocyl. [non-Latin text not transcribed].

Lo ſuch a Prince ſhall ſit firm upon his throne; his Kingdome ſhall be bound to him with chains of Adamant, as Dionyſius dreampt that his was; he ſhall have the hearts of his Subjects, which is the beſt life-guard, and God for his protection; for he is profeſſedly the poor mans Patron, Pſal. 9. and makes heavy complaints of thoſe that wrong them, Iſa. 3. and 10. Amos 5. and 8. Zeph. 3.