I causde that Rome should then on fire bee set,
And for to feede therewith my gazing eyes,
On high Mæcenas Towre to stand I get:
So, sixe dayes fire and seauen nights waste I let,
And sang there while, beholding it with ioy,
The Iliades sweete of Græcians burning Troy.
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Then I restraynd that no man should resort
To th’ ruines great, when as the fire was past;
Nor should therefrom the reliques left transport,