Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Ver. 15. Yet thou shalt be brought down be hell.] To the counterpoint of thy haughtiest conceits, ad infimam erebi sedem. So a merry fellow said that Xerxes, that great warrior who took upon him to control the sea, was now mending old shoes under a shop board in hell.
To the sides of the pit,] i.e., Of the infernal lake: A tartesso in tartarum detrusus; a from the sides of the north, Isa 14:13 whither thou hadst pierced thyself, ad latera luci, to the sides of the pit, and to an odd corner of the burying place. This was a foul fall, and worse than that of Hermannus Ferrariensis, who, having been canonised for a saint, was thirty years after unburied, and burnt for a heretic by Pope Boniface VIII, b or that of Thomas a Becket, of whom, forty-eight years after he had been sainted, it was disputed among the doctors of Paris whether he were damned or saved? c
a Adagium Homericum.
b Jac. Rev. Hist. Pontif., 195.
c Daniel's History, fol. 99.