Because my wiues[980] sought eyther me to slay,

Or else with whoredome to defile my bedde,[981]

But at the length, s’enraged was my head,[982]

Agrippina my[983] brother’s daughter braue,

Incestuously I chose, for spoused wife to haue.

10.

So leading then my life in slouth and sinne,[984]

I gaue my selfe to ryote, cardes[985] and dice:

And I so skilfull was at length therein,[986]

I wrote of dicing arte a worke[987] of price: