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The ambitious man, if he be disgraced and over-topped by any grand opposite and counterfactionist, or derided and reviled with baser and inferior contempt, or neglected by omission of some due observance and ceremony of state: he (I say) is more grieved, if he want grace, for some such little default in the attributions of his place, and want of complementall respect in that measure, and of such men as he desires; than he hath glory and pomp in his highest place. This is clear in Haman; though he was compassed and crowned with such undeserved and extraordinary precedency and pomp; yet this one little thing, because Mordecai would not bow the knee and do reverence to him at the Kings gate, did utterly mar and dissweeten all the other excellencies of his new advancement, and extraordinariness of the Kings favour: See Esther 5. 10, 11, 12, 13. And Haman told his wife and friends of all his glory, &c. But all this (saith he) doth nothing avail me as long as I see Mordecai the ⟨p. 233⟩Jew sitting at the Kings gate. As it is thus in ambition, and in great men that are graceless; they many times take more to heart (out of the pride of their hearts) the want of some one circumstantial observance, and of reverence from some one man; than they heartily enjoy all the other glory of their place: so it is also with the covetous man; though already he hath more than enough; yet some greedy wish of a new addition doth more torture his heart, than the rowing amongst all his other wealth can rejoice it. Ahab, though he had already¹ in his hand the riches, glory, pleasures, & sovereignty of a kingdom, yet after he had cast his covetous eye upon poor Naboths vineyard wch was near his palace, his heart did more afflict and vex it self with greedy longing for that bit of earth; than the vast and spacious compass of a kingdom could counter-comfort. He could take no joy in the beauty of a crown, and largeness of his royal command, because his poor neighbour would not deprive himself and all his posterity of the inheritance of his fathers, which his ancestors had enjoyed time out of mind.

The ambitious man, if he be disgrac'd and over-top'd by any grand opposite and counterfactionist, or derided and revil'd with baser and inferiour contempt, or neglected by omission of some due observance and ceremony of state: he (I say) is more griev'd, if he want grace, for some such little default in the attributions of his place, and want of complementall respect in that measure, and of such men as he desires; than he hath glory and pompe in his highest place. This is cleare in Haman; though he was compassed and crown'd with such undeserved and extraordinary precedency and pompe; yet this one little thing, because Mordecai would not bow the knee and do reverence to him at the Kings gate, did utterly marre and dissweeten all the other excellencies of his new advancement, and extraordinarinesse of the Kings favour: See