“Which honour I to fiery flames compare,
For when they flash and flourishe most of all,
Then suddaynely their flamings quenched are:
For proofe whereof, to minde nowe let vs cal
Antigonus, and Ptollemeus great,
Cæsar and Mithridate, we may repeat,
With Darius, and great Antiochus,
Cambises eke, and conquering Pyrrhus.
16.
“And I the last myght fyrst haue had my place,