Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, [both] me and the chief baker:
Ver. 10. Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, &c.] It is wisdom in a man to confess his faults before the prince whom he hath offended; and to commend his clemency in pardoning them: as Cicero did Caesar's; a as Mephibosheth did David's, &c. The Lord Cobham, the Lord Gray, Sir Griffin Markham, being condemned for treason, about the beginning of King James, anno 1603, and brought forth to execution, as they were upon the scaffold, the sheriff notified the king's pardon, his Majesty's warrant for the stay of the execution: at which unexpected clemency, besides the great shouts of the people, the condemned wished that they might sacrifice their lives to redeem their fault, and to repurchase so merciful a prince's love. b
a Orat. pro M. Marcello, et O. Ligario, &c.
b Bp. Carleton's Thankful Remembrance of God's Mercies, p. 181.