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.