The Crocadile will fayne[961] to weepe and crye;
But if the sheepe, her young, or wandring man be caught,
The Foxe, the Wolfe, and Crocadile,[962] haue euen the pray they sought.
6.
So I could fayne,[963] as though I did refuse
To take the Empire’s sway, a charge too greate,[964]
But well I wiste,[965] if th’armie did me chuse,
The Senate could not thereof me defeate;[966]
They could not stay me[967] from the hautie seate:
Thus though I seem’d at first so simple, meeke and plaine;