Nought more then subtile shiftings did me please,
With bloudshed, craftie, vndermining men:
My Courte was like a Lyon’s lurking den,
The Iesters namde mee Caldius Biberius Mero,
In stead of this my name, Claudius Tiberius Nero.
19.
I will no more my life describe this time,
For why, my factes at last deserude defame,
Infected with so many a fulsome crime,
As may not here repeated be for shame: