Yet _Antonine_ regarded naught his [Father’s] heste, Ne yet the charge of [_British_] warres hee had in hande: Hee to enlarge his powre for th’Empire him addrest.[1118] Which when _Seuerus_ olde did vnderstand, All pleasures quite and ioyes hee did aband, And to the warres him gate: nere _Yorke_[1119] he tooke his ende By sworde of _Pictes_, or by some traytour [fauning] frende. 9. Then _Antonine_ made spoyle of all his [father’s] men, Phisitions nilde before at his requeste Dispatch theyr Lorde, to death hee put them then, And so hee serude of faythfull garde the reste. What vilany was in this [monstrous] viper’s breaste: Was not content with death [and goodes] of those hee sought, But after [them] bringes [all] theyr friendes likewise to nought. 10. I warned was by diuers eke my life[1120] hee thirsted sore, And that the empire sole [alone] hee sought to haue, [Whereon] as wee to _Rome_ did passe I feared more, I from his courtes and diets did mee saue: I knew my life and th’empire he did [croach and] craue, Wherefore in _Rome_ my court I kepte [alone] likewise From his aparte, that did ful ofte to murder mee deuise.[1121] 11. My cookes and butlers were allurde[1122] by sundry giftes To poyson mee, and some for mee in ambush lurking lay:[1123] Hee tryde to cut mee off a thousand shiftes, What maruayle, since hee sought his syre to slay? Hee made his father’s [dearest] friendes for spite away, [Because they nilde consent to his vile treasons wrought, Hee slewe the men, to saue his father’s life that sought.][1124] 12. [But all] his sleights for mee coulde take no sure successe, For still his traynes and treasons were descride: And I in daunger greate was forste[1125] to seeke redresse By like attemptes [at laste,] but that likewise was spyde. Pretended murder no man close can [keepe or] hyde, But out it flyes abroade, the rumor runnes apace, The only spot thereof [doth] all [the] vertues else deface. 13. When this was knowne [to him,] that I likewise assayde His life to reaue (though t’were my [only] life to saue) No longer time to wrecke[1126] the same the bucher stayde, Hee had the thing so long [before] hee sought to haue, [Such] cause of [iust] reuenge the rumor small him gaue, [That in the euening hee came on mee or I knew, In cruell sorte to reaue my life before our mother’s vewe.][1127] 14.