John Trapp on Proverbs 31:10

Verſ. 10. Who can find a vertuous woman] Good Wives are rare commodities, and therefore precious and highly to be prized, even above Rubies. The Hebrews put rarum pro charo, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Ariſt. Ethic. as 1 Sam. 3.2. and Prov. 25.7. Let thy feet be precious in thy neighbours houſe, that is, let them ſeldome come there, leſt thou become over-cheap and under-valued. It is eaſie to obſerve that the New-Teſtament affords more ſtore of good Women than the Old. When Paul came firſt to Philippi, few or none came to hear him but women, Acts 6.13. but they drew on their husbands, and it ſoon became a famous Church. What a rare piece was Priſcilla, who better inſtructed Apollo, ventured her life for Paul, Rom. 16.4. and was ſuch a ſingular help to her husband, that ſhe is mentioned before him, as the more forward of the two, Rom. 16.3? Like as was alſo Manoahs wife, Exod. 18.24, 25 and Nazianzens mother. Salomons mother was behind none of them, as appears by this Poem, either compoſed by Salomon as a character of her (as ſome have thought) or elſe by her ſelf, for his direction in the choyce of a good wife, which would bee worthy his pains, though he ſhould fetch her as farre as men doe rubies, Procul prae unionibus precium ejus. What a way ſent Abraham and Iſaac for good Wives for their Sons!