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Let now the world both deeme[1131] of my desertes and his,
For to his father he was most, of sonnes, vnkinde:[1132]
His mother’s ioyes he reaude away her blisse,
That [noble] dame which bare to both so mylde a minde:
And let my dealings aye due [doome and] fauour finde,
Whose murder may giue playne prospect and show
What monster gaue his faythfull frends such ouerthrow.[1133]
How Aurelius Antonius Bassianus Caracalla, Emperour of Rome, was slayne by one of his owne seruauntes, about the yeere of Christ, 209.
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