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: