Full many noble men to rule alone I slewe,
And some themselues for griefe[889] of hart did slay:
For they ne would mine Empyre stay to vewe,[890]
Some I did force to yeelde, some fled away,[891]
As loth to see[892] theyr Countrye’s quite[893] decay
The world in Aphrike, Asia,[894] distant far,
And Europe knew[895] my bloudsheds great in war,
[Recounted yet through all the world that ar.]
51.
But sith my whole pretence was glory[896] vayne,