Before the founder of that famous tower, Which ouer lookes our Thames’ siluer cleare, Did in the senate meet his liue’s late hower, Horrid ostents and accents full of feare, To many Roman eyes did oft appeare, The graues did open, and the dead did rise, Filling the streets with lamentable cries. 27. Before stout _Brutus_ that proud Roman lord, Whose bloodie hand strooke mightie _Cæsar_ dead, With fatall blade his owne deare bodie gor’d, Strange apparitions, full of feare and dread Foretold his heart blood should ere long be shead: Dead _Cæsar’s_ ghost spake to him in his tent, The night before his tragicke death’s euent. 28. Before proud _Commodus_ that Roman king, With violent poyson did the combate trie, Heau’n many wonders vnto light did bring, And many dreadfull meteors blaz’d in skie, Flames of bright fire out of the earth did flie, Before he tooke that fatall cup of wine Of faithlesse _Martia_, his false concubine. 29. Before those mischiefes then were set abroch, Which did infect the peace of my estate, Before that lucklesse houre did then approch, In which that desperate villan did await With deadly wassaile to abridge my fate: Heau’n did behold the earth with heauie cheare, And plaguefull meteors did in both appeare. 30. Fiue moones were in heau’n’s concaue nightly seene, As if that heau’n vpon our state below, Foreseeing our harmes compassionate had been, And had foresent them with their shine to show To purblind England her approching woe: Who not being warn’d by them of future harmes, Was after wakened by tempestuous stormes. 31. The earthquake-making God, to warne vs all, With violent hand shooke earth’s foundation, And from his thickned clouds in stormes let fall Such showers of ycie bals, that vnto none In former times the like had ere been knowne: For euery hailestone of such thicknesse was, That it in compasse did foure inches passe. 32. Fire making rupture through the earth did breake, And burned many a towne and steeple high, Ghosts in high-waies were often heard to speake, And spirits in shapes of birds in darksome skie, With fire in their beakes about did flie: Wherewith they did afflict much scath and woe Vpon the countrie, flying to and fro. 33.