For as Christ’s Godhead they would Rome expell,
And would not serue the God of meekenesse sent,
To pot apace their hawty heads were pent.
15.
I banisht some, and some to death I put,
And foure and twenty fathers graue I chose,
From shoulders eke most of their heades I cut,
And left likewise aliue but twaine of those:
Seianus I did slay, of Drusus deadly foes:
I Germanique adopted late, with poyson slewe,[923]