Yet was I subtile, slye, and glad of glory vaine.
7.
But after this, I gaue[968] my selfe to ease,
To wyne, to woemen eke, and belly chere,[969]
And fearefull[970] was my wife for to displease,
Messalina,[971] whose maners homely were;
She made not onely me the horne[972] to beare,
But also did allure good matrones vnto vice,
And virgines chaste to sinne, or made them pay the price.
8.