So they before their punishment might know;
Great giftes amongste the souldiers I bestow,
Wherewith they all in campe, with one assent,
To choose mee for their Cæsar, were content.
8.
But now to hold it fast a worke of skill,
[The scepter caught, the same to hold, perdy,
Doth aske much arte, and labour aske it will,][1038]
Non minor est virtus, quam quærere, parta tueri.
The hawty seate hath many a greedy eye.