While he [in rage] without remorce [or ruth] of her request,

Betwene her armes [that bare vs both] did run me through the breste.

15.

These were the [cruell] actes of that vile monster then

For Empire sake, to raigne alone aloft:

Despisde that was, [contemnde,] abhord of gods and men,

And curst to hell by all good men so oft,

You see the fall of Geta, [gentle,] milde, and soft,

Whose line of life no longer Lachesis[1129] could stretch,

Cut off by sworde of Antonine, th’unkindely captiue wretch.[1130]