ABSTRACT
If ever erst the fame of auncient Romayne facts Have come to pearce thine eares before this present time, I thinke amongst the rest, likewise my noble actes Have shewde them selves in sight, as Phoebus fayre in prime. When first the Romayne state began aloft to clime, And wanne the wealth of all the worlde beside, When first their force in warlike feates were tryde, My seJfe was victour hee that did the Romaynes guyde.
