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,