John Trapp on Proverbs 31:3

Verſ. 3. Give not thy ſtrength to women] Waſte not unworthily the fat and marrow of thy dear and precious time, the ſtrength of thy body, the vigor of thy ſpirits, in ſinful pleaſures, and ſenſual delights. See chap. 5.9.

Nor thy wayes to that which deſtroyeth Kings] Venery is called by one, Deaths beſt Harbinger. It was the deſtruction of Alexander the great, of Otho the Emperour (called for his good parts otherwiſe, Miraculum mundi) of Pope Sextus the fourth, (qui deceſſit tabidus voluptate, ſaith the Hiſtorian, dyed of a wicked waſte) and of Pope Paul the fourth, of whom it paſſed for a Proverb, Eum per candem partem animam profudiſſe per quam acceperat. The Lacedemonian Common-wealth, was by the hand of Divine Juſtice utterly overturned at Leuctra, for a rape committed by their Meſſengers on the two Daughters of Scedoſus. And what befell the Benjamites on a like occaſion, is well known out of Judg. 20. that I ſpeak not of the ſlaughter of the Shechemites, Gen. 34. &c.