I sought some meanes that Nero might abye,[1026]
Not for his vicious life, but for his place;
Although pretence were made his vice, perdy,[1027]
Whom all good men accounted voyde of grace:
But yet I could not stay so long a space,
I causde in Spayne the souldiers mee proclame,
Which strayght they did, and gaue mee Cæsar’s name.
6.
To Rome I hyde, and Nero gate him thence,
Hee stale away for feare of sentence past,