We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
Ver. 18. We have been with child.] With various devices and hopes, which yet have miscarried and run aslope. See Job 15:35. See Trapp on " Job 15:35 "
We have as it were brought forth wind.] As did Queen Mary, to her own great grief and the disappointment of her expectauts, - Dale, the promoter, for instance. Well, quoth he, at the apprehending of Julian living, you hope and hope, but your hope shall be aslope; for although the queen's conceptions should still fail, as they did, yet she that you hope for shall never come at it: for there is my lord cardinal's grace and many more between her and it. a But my lord cardinal's grace departed the very next day after Queen Mary, having taken, as it is thought, some Italian medicine, and Queen Elizabeth succeeded in the throne, to the great joy of all good men. b
a Acts and Mon, fol. 1871.
b Ibid., 1905.