Apoc. 18. 9.
The text.
And ∴ the kings of the earth that haue fornicated with hir, and haue liued in delicacies, shall weepe and bewaile them∣selues vpon hir, when they shall see the smoke of hir burning.
The note.
Kings and marchants are most encumbred, endangered, and drowned in the pleasures of this world, whose whole life and traffike is (if they be not exceeding vertuous) to find varietie of earthly pleasures. Who see∣ing once the extreme end of their ioies, and of all that made their hea∣uen heere, to be turned into paines and damnation eternall, then shall howle and weepe too late.
The answer.
Kings and marchants, and all other that haue had hir in re∣uerence, shal be astonied at the iudgements of God vpon hir, and shall moorne, especially all maner of shauen marchants, bicause by hir decay they lose their corporall commodities. For thereby their Romish marchandise, wherein consisted their whole traf∣fike, becommeth dead ware, and hangeth on their hands. For that they haue no vent for it.