Against his faith, against his countrie soile.
Of Lepidus, which to his succours came,
To honor whome he was by dutie bounde;
The Empire he vsurpt: corrupting first
With baites and bribes the most part of his men.
Yet me hath ouercome, and made his pray,
And state of Rome, with me hath ouercome.
Strange! one disordred act at Actium
The earth subdu’de, my glorie hath obscur’d.
For since, as one whome heauens wrath attaints,