Agrippina perswaded me t’adopt her sonne,[1004]

That after me the[1005] Empire he might haue;

Which when at length[1006] I had vnwisely donne

At her request,[1007] as she the same did craue,

In recompence to me she poyson[1008] gaue,

Whereof I dyed:[1009] this was my life and ende,

Let so my factes and fatall fall be pen’de.[1010]

How the Emperovr Domitius Nero liued wickedly and tyrannously, and in the ende miserably slewe himselfe, the yeere of Christ, 70.

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Must I that lead so loose a life speake here,