Seuerus pile of eighteene yeare I spoylde away.[1147]
25.
The souldiers so allurde, perceiuing all my minde,[1148]
(And slaughter blazde by those in house that fled)
I was by them proclaymde and th’Emprour[1149] sole assinde,
And hee an enmy namde that now was deade.
All night in temple forth with vowes I led,
Next day to Senate house with th’ [armed] hoste I gate,
And seruice done, thus wise in [th’empire] throne I spake:
“I know right well (quoth I) domestique slaughters hatefull seeme,