Th’emperiall seate he bought, and soone was kild:
So Niger after him by armes assayde the same,
Albinus then, from Britayne armed came,
[For Empire sake they lost their heades and fame.]
2.
These three stoode in my way to high estate,
Which I sore thirsted for, but yet at last
I made thereto, by bloudshed bold, a gate,
And letlesse so vnto[1057] the throne I past:
The souldiers Iulian slewe, for insufficient pay: