Alleadging playne I meant the publique weale t’nuade,
They would represse my pryde with might and dint of blade,
[And for to meete mee at retourne prouision greate they made.]
36.
With speede I came and force, which made them all to flye
To Greece from Rome in haste, where they prepared war:
For in Epyrus then with souldiers they did lye,
This Pompey proude that made the Romaynes with mee iar,
Hee at Dyrrachium stayde, to which (though it were far)
I led mine hoste,[843] I skirmisht often there,