How I was trayned vp in youth what neede I tell? Sith that my noble Aunt (that _Iulia_ hight) me taught, Who could with morall doctrine good instruct[812] me well, And sawe the frame in me that nature’s skill had wrought, By her instructions aye I wit and fauour sought: I was accounted comely of my grace, I had by nature’s gift a Princely face, [And wisedome high to wey and deeme of euery case.] 8. Of stature high and tall, of colour fayre and white, Of body spare and leane yet comely made to see, What neede I more of these impertinent recyte, Sith _Plutarch_ hath at large describde it all to thee, And eke thy selfe that think’st thou seest and hearest me, Maist well suppose the rest, [or take the viewe Thou maist by talke of those which erst me knewe, And by my statures’ tell of my proportion true.][813] 9. In iourney swift I was and prompte and quicke of witte, My eloquence was likte of all that hearde me pleade, I had the grace to vse my tearmes and place them fitte, My roling Rhetoricke stoode my Clients oft in steade: No fine conueyance past the compasse of my heade, I wan the spurres, I had the laud and prayse, I past them all that pleaded in those dayes, [I had of warlike knawledge, Keasar, all the keyes.] 10. At seuenteene yeeres of age a _Flamin_ was I chose, An office great in _Rome_ of priesthoode Princely hie, I married eke _Cossutia_ whereof much mischiefe rose, Because I was diuorc’st from her so speedily: Diuorcement breeds despite,[814] defame is got thereby, For such as fancies fond by chaunge fulfil, Although they thinke it cannot come to ill, [The wrong they shew doth cry to God for vengeance still.] 11. Of these the stories tell what neede I more recyte, Or of the warres I waged _Consul_ with the _Galles_, The worthiest writers had desire of me to write, They plac’st my life amongst the worthies and their falles: So Fame me thinks likewise amids the _Britaynes_, calles For _Cæsar_ with his sword, that bare [with them] the sway, And for the cause that brought him into such decay,[815] [Which by his noble acts did beare their freedome first away.] 12. When I in _Fraunce_ had brought the _Galles_[816] to bende, And made them subject all obaysant vnto mee, Mee thought I had vnto the worlde his ende, By west subdued the Nations whilome[817] free: There of my warres[818] I wrot an historye [By nights, at leisure times so from my Countrey far,] I did describe the[819] places and [the] sequelles of my war The Commentaryes calde of _Cæsar’s_ acts that ar. 13.