And eke to heare what euery one would say,
Which was the cause why some I after rid,
The best perdy[908] I made as foes away,
By slaughter so I thought my throne to stay,
But farre besides that I purposde it fell,[909]
As time doth trye the fruite of thinges full well.
12.
Another griefe conceau’d I will recyte,
Which made me with the Senate discontent:
From Iudæa did[910] Pontius Pilate write