I would not haue my slaughters here enrolde, And murders mischieues mingled with the rest, Without regard of sexe, of yong or olde, For which the _Romaynes_ did my life detest: To vices vile my deedes were all addrest: [Unfit they should bee here reherst or tolde: Wherefore to rid mee _Cheria_ thought it best, Some others eke t’accomplishe it were bolde, In thirty steedes they stabde me through the brest.][928] 6. My life was naught, and thus at last I dyde, My life procur’de both Gods and men my foes: Let Princes then beware of pompe and pride, And not themselues to vices such dispose: The throne will soone a Princely minde disclose, The tyraunt’s hart at once in throne is tryde, [_Iehoua_ iust beholds both these and those, T’abace the bad, the godly well to guide, The good to gard, and godlesse downe depose.[929]] How Gviderivs King of Britayne and the elder sonne of Cimbaline was slayne in battayle by a Romayne, The yeare of Christ, 44. Or as some write, 46. 1. Take, Higins, now in hand thy pen for mee, Let not my death and storye lye forgote, Good cause there is I should remembred bee, If thou the falles of _Britayne_ Princes note: Aloft I sate in Princely place a flote, I had the sword, I bare the scepter right, I was accounted aye a worthy wight, [And with the _Romaynes_ proud I waged warlike fight.] 2. _Guiderius_ was my name, of _Britayne_ yore, The sonne of _Cimbaline_, and after King: I tribute nild to _Romaynes_ payd before,[930] Mee thought it was to bace a seruile thing: No _Romayne_ should mee in subiection bring, [I sayd I would not pay them tribute, I, They did extort the same by force, perdy, Agaynst all right, a charge without occasion why.][931] 3. When _Claudius_ [_Cæsar_] sent this tribute for to haue, I sent him word agayn I would not pay, I would not graunt, vniustly hee did craue, That might in time procure my realme’s decay: Hee should not beare our freedome so away, [For as by treason _Cesar_ gate the fame, And tribute, when to winne this Realme hee came: So now I iustly might deny to pay the same.][932] 4.