By treason vile perchaunce encurres a shrouding sheete of shame.[938]
How Clavdivs Tiberius Drusus, Emperour of Rome, was poysoned by his wife Agrippina, the yeere of Christ, 56.
1.
Say not the people well, that Fortune fauours fooles,
So well they say[939] which name her beetle blinde;
I neede not tell what[940] I haue learnde at schooles,
But may by proofe expresse my foolish minde:[941]
My mother by her prouerbs me a foole defyn’de,
Which often sayd when any foolishly had done,
In faith you are as wise as Claudius my sonne.