Til [on a tyme] befel ther swiche a cas,
That out of Rome was sent a senatour,
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For to conqueren regnes and honour
Unto the toun of Rome, as was usaunce,
To have the world unto her obeisaunce;
And, sooth to seye, Antonius was his name.
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So fil hit, as Fortune him oghte a shame
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