A mirour make likewise of me thou mayst,
If thou my life and dealings wilt discriue.
It may perhaps much profit some aliue:
Which when themselues playne paynted forth they see,
They may presage their fatall falles in mee.
3.
I am that Antonine, Seuerus sonne,
That once of mighty Rome did beare the swaye,
Which in my father’s life a stryfe begone
With Geta, thyrsting often him to slay: