Genesi 41:40

Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

Ver. 40. Thou shalt be over my house, &c.] Pharaoh prefers him, because he found good parts in him. They that bestow places of charge in church or commonwealth upon undeserving persons, for by-consideration, shall have Pharaoh to rise up in judgment against them. In King Edward VI's minority, dignity waited upon desert, saith the historian, which caused it again to be waited upon by respect a Order also was taken that no man should have any benefice from the king, but first he should preach before him.

Tamerlane never bestowed his preferments upon such as ambitiously sought them; as deeming them, in so doing, unworthy thereof: but upon such as whose modesty or desert he thought worthy of those his great favours b

a The Life of King Edward VI, by Sir Jo. Heywood, pp. 6, 115.

b Turk. Hist., fol. 227.