And with the nobles of [the] Senate were,

That Christ in Rome as God might counted bee,

To which they onely did not disagree,

(Because the letters came not first to them)

But by edicte [from Rome] did banish[921] Christen men.

14.

To th’ accusers of them threaten[922] death I did,

Although Seianus from my party fell

The Senate which the Christians sought to rid,

By me were after seru’d in order well: