John Trapp on Proverbs 31:27

Verſ. 27. She looketh well to the wayes of her houſhold] She hath an oar in every boat, an eye in every buſineſſe; She ſpyes and pryes into her Childrens and Servants carriages, and exacts of them ſtrict converſation and growth in godlineſs: She over-looks the whole Family no otherwiſe than if ſhe were in a Watch-tower, Speculatur itinera domus ſuae.

Ariſt. 1. Rhet. lib. 1. And eateth not the bread of idleneſſe] She earns it before ſhe eats it. Ariſtotle alſo commends [non-Latin text not transcribed], laboriouſneſs in a woman, and joyns it with temperance and chaſtity, which are preſerved by it. So is taciturnity and ſober communication, for which ſhe is commended in the former verſe. For as idleneſs is the ſeed of talkativeneſſe, 1 Tim. 5.13. ſo painfulneſs is a ſingular help againſt it. Queen Katharine of Spain, wife to our Henry the eighth, was not more buſie in her calling, than prudent in her carriage. She had been counſelled to it by Ludovicus Vives, who came into England with her, and was Maſter to her Daughter the Lady Mary. See the note on ver. 19. of this Chapter.