John Trapp on Proverbs 31:9

Verſ. 9. Plead the cauſe of the poor and needy] Theſe are Gods great care, as appears in many texts. Job comforted himſelf in this,Job 29.15, 16 that hee had been eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, a father to the poor, &c. Ebedmelech is renowned for pleading the cauſe of the poor Prophet, and ſo ſhould Pharaohs Butler have been if he had done it ſooner. Maſter Holt who was of Counſel to Maſter Pryn (when ſo unjuſtly cenſured in the Star-chamber) but refuſed, (through cowardiſe) to ſign his anſwer according to promiſe, being over-awed by the Prelates, bewayled his own baſeneſſe to his wife and friends▪ New diſcoveries of the Prelates tyranny. p. 47, 48. And ſoon after falling ſick for conceit only of the miſcarriage of that cauſe, he dyed, never going to the Star-chamber after that bloudy ſentence.