For Fortune at the last doth vse to gieue the mate.[1055]
Whom first shee loues, shee afterwarde doth hate,
She flings them headlong downe, whom erste shee made excell,
Shee makes them bare and poore, whom erst shee placed well,[1056]
[And those which thinke to scale the skies, she hurleth downe to hell.]
How Seuerus the Emperour of Rome, and Gouernour of Britayne, was slaine at Yorke, fighting against the Pictes, about the yeere after Christ, 206, after others, 213.
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The stay of stately throne is nothing sure,
Where great estates on brybes or blodshed build;
As Didius Iulian put for proofe in vre,