Amongst the wreckes whom Fortune’s tempestes tore;

Wel then I see I must, the case is clere,

But blame I must my onely selfe therefore,

I am that Nero rule in Rome that bore,

Agrippina my mother wrought that feate for mee,[1011]

Her husband poisned, I might Emprour bee.

2.

A while I gaue my selfe to gouerne well,

As Senecke graue instructed me thereto;

But after, I to shamelesse dealings fell,