ABSTRACT
The jorney he made also into England, was a noble enterprise, and very commendable. 3 For he was the first that sailed the west Ocean with an army by sea, and that passed through the sea Atlanticum with his army, to make warre in that so great and famous Ilande: (which many auncient wry tel'S would not bcleve that it was so in deede, and did make them vary about it, saying that it was but a fable and a lye) and was the first that enlarged the Romane Empire, beyonde the earth inhabitable. For twise he passed over the narrowe sea against the firme lande of Gaule, and fighting many battells there, did hurt his enemies more, then enriche his owne men: bicause, of men hardlie brought up, and poore, there was nothing to be gotten. Whereuppon his warre had not
Julius Cesar such successe as he looked for, and therefore takinge pledges onely of the kinge, and imposing a yearely tribute apon him, to be payed unto the people of Rome: he returned againe into Gaule. There he was no sooner landed, but he founde letters ready to be sent over the sea unto him: in the which he was advertised from Rome, of the death of his Daughter, that she was dead with child by Pompey. 1 For the which, Pompey and Ca:sar both, were marvelous sorowfull: and their friends mourned also,' thinking that this alliance which mainteined the common wealth (that otherwise was very tickle) in good peace and concord, was now severed, and broken a sonder, and the rather likely, bicause the childe lived not long after the mother. So the common people at Rome tooke the corps of Julia, in dispite of the Tribunes, and buried it in the fielde of Mars ....
