At seuenteene yeeres of age a Flamin was I chose,
An office great in Rome of priesthoode Princely hie,
I married eke Cossutia whereof much mischiefe rose,
Because I was diuorc’st from her so speedily:
Diuorcement breeds despite,[814] defame is got thereby,
For such as fancies fond by chaunge fulfil,
Although they thinke it cannot come to ill,
[The wrong they shew doth cry to God for vengeance still.]
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Of these the stories tell what neede I more recyte,