Or of the warres I waged Consul with the Galles,
The worthiest writers had desire of me to write,
They plac’st my life amongst the worthies and their falles:
So Fame me thinks likewise amids the Britaynes, calles
For Cæsar with his sword, that bare [with them] the sway,
And for the cause that brought him into such decay,[815]
[Which by his noble acts did beare their freedome first away.]
12.
When I in Fraunce had brought the Galles[816] to bende,
And made them subject all obaysant vnto mee,