And of mine enmyes fall and ouerthroe.
By Fortune’s gifte (quoth I) the enmye’s slayne,[1143]
And th’empyre wholy doth to mee remayne.
24.
I promist then the souldiers if they would,[1144]
My empire stablishe sure, and safty see,
Each [fiue and] twenty hundred Attique grotes haue should,[1145]
More corne then earst by halfe alow’de shoulde bee,
The temples welth and treasures shoulde bee free
For them to vse at large, whereby that onely day[1146]