John Trapp on Proverbs 29:2

Verſ. 2. When the righteous are in authority] Or are increaſed, as chap. 28.28. See the note there.

The people mourn] Hebrew, ſigh (as the oppreſſed Iſraelites in Egypt did) where they dare not ſpeak out. But what a bloody tyrant was Sylla, who put to death M. Plaetorius, onely for ſighing at the cruel execution of M. Marius? Act. & Mon. fol. 1164. So one Lancelot was burnt in Giles his fields, for pittying the cruel death of a couple of Martyrs.