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A11917	The ninth tragedie of Lucius Anneus Seneca called Octauia. Translated out of Latine into English, by T.N. student in Cambridge; Octavia (Praetexta). English.	T. N. (Thomas Nuce), d. 1617.; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D., attributed name.	1566 (1566)	STC 22229; ESTC S110938	25,224	58

your subiects all Ne. Our foes to slea a chefetaines vertue call Se. A worthier vertue 'tis in countries syre His people to defend with sword and fyre Ne. It well beséems such aged wights to teach Unbrideled springolls yong and not to preach Both to a man and prince of ryper yeares Se. Nay rather frolick youthfull bloud appeares To haue more néede of counsell wise and graue Ne. This age sufficient reason ought to haue Se. That heauenly powers your doings may alow Ne. A madnesse't were to Goddes for me to bow When I my selfe can make such Goddes to be As Claudius nowe ycounted is we se. Se. So much the more bycause so much you may Nc. Our power permits vs all without denay Se. Giue slender trust to fortunes flattering face She topste turuie turnes hir whéele a pace Ne. A patch he is that knoweth not what he may Se. A princes prayse I counted haue alway To do that same which with his honor stood Not that which frantike fansie counteth good Ne. If that I were a mecock or a slouch Eche stubborne clubbish daw woulde make mée couch Se. And whome they hate with force they ouerquell Ne. Then dynt of sworde the prince defendeth well Se. But faith more sure defence doth seeme to me Ne. Full méete it is that Caesar dreaded be Se. More méete of subiects for to be belou'd Ne. From subiects mindes feare must not be remou'd Se. What so by force of armes you do wring out A grieuous worke it is to bring about Ne. Well hardly then our will let them obay Se. Will nothing then but that which well you may Ne. We will decrée what we shall best suppose Se. What peoples voyce doth ioyntly bynde or lose Let that confirmed stand Ne. Swordes bloudy dynt Shall cause them else at me to take their hynt Se. God shéeld and far that fact from you remoue Ne. What then why Seneck do you that approue That we contemnde despysde and set at nought With fynger put in hole full wysely wrought Our bodyes bloude to seke should them abide That they might vs sometime destroy vnspide Their natiue country boundes to bannisht bée Nor Plautius brest nor Syllas eke we sée Hath broke or tamde whose cankred churlish yre Shapes bloudy freakes to quench our bodies fyre And chiefly when these trayterous absent clownes Such wondrous fauour finde in cities bownes Which those same exiles lingring hope doth féede Suspected foes with sworde we will out wéede And so Octauia shall that ioyly dame Continue after them their bloudy game And wend that way her nowne white brother went Such hye mistrusted things must néedes be bent Se. It is O prince a worthy famous thing Amyds redoubted Lordes alone to ring And wisely worke your countries praise to saue And well your selfe to captiue folke behaue From cruell brutish slaughter to abstaine And voyde of moode to wreake your angry paine And to the worlde a quiet calme to giue That all your age in peace their liues may liue This is a Princes praise without all cryme This is the path to heauen whereby we clyme So is Augustus prince and father cald Of country first in starbright throne ystald Whome as a God in minsters we adorne Yet troublous fortune tossed him beforne A great while long on lands and ruffling seas Vntyll his fathers foes he could appease And through wars diuers course could quel thē quite To you did fortune yelde hir power and might And raynes of rule without all bloud and fyght And to your beck both land and seas hath bent Grim deadly enuy daunted doth relent The Senate Lordes gaue place with frée consent The battaylous route of knightes with willing hearts That same decre from sager syres departes Vnto the lay mens choyse doe well agrée Your grace the spring of peace they count to be And chosen Iudge and guyde of mortall stock Your grace your countries sacred syre doth rock And rule with princely gorgeous tytle bryght The cyrcled worlde in rundell wysely ydight Which myghty mounting name to kéepe so great This noble city Rome doth you entreate And doth commend vnto your royall grace Hir liuely lyms in charge for your lyues space Ne. The gyft of Goddes it is as we discus That Rome with Senate sort doth honour vs. And that the feare of our displeasure great From cankred enuious stomaks maketh sweat Both humble talke and supplications méeke And were not feare all these would be to seeke Vnweldy combrous cities members ill That prince and cuntrie both doe seeke to spill To leaue alyue which swell and puffed bée Bycause of lynage greate and hye degree What madnesse meere is it when as we may Euen with a word such freakes dispatch away Sir Brutus stern his brawns and armes did dight His soueraigne liege to slayne by force and might That erst had holpen him and giuen him health And had endued him with princely wealth In brunt of raging war vndaunted out That vanquisht many people strong and stout Prince Cesar mateht by great degrées of power To Ioue in stately chayre of starrie bower By diu'lish citizens wicked wyle was slayne What store of bloudie stiffling streames on molde Did tattred Rome of hir owne lims behold He by his noble vertues worthy praise Whome peoples common brute to heauen doth raise August among the Gods ysaincted well How many noble brests did he compell How many springolds yong and hoarie heds Eche where disperst to ligge in moulded beds How many men did he bereaue of breth Tofore proscript that were condemnd to death When for the griesly feare of deadly dart From propre home they were constraind to part And flye Octauius force and Lepidus might And not abyde sterne Marke Antonius sight Which then the ample worlde at once did guyde That into kingdomes thrée they did deuide To dumpish sadded syres with heauy chéere Their childerns griesly cropped pates appéere Hong out beforne the Senates iudgement seat For eche man to beholde in open streat Ne durst they once lament their piteous case Nor inward séeme to morne to Claudius face The market stead with bloud from bodies spued And lothsome mattrie streames is all embrued And quite throughout their faces foule arayde The pitcous gubs of bloud drop downe vnstayde Nor here did this same slaughterous bloudshed stay Phyllips Pharsalia gastly fields eche day The cromming rauening foules and cruell beasts Long fed with gobbets bigge of manly breasts Beside all this the coast he scoured quyte Of Sicill sea and ships to warre yoyght With force of armes did win and hauock made Of propre subiects slaine with his owne blade The rundle round of lands with mightie maine Of noble chieftaines stroake reboyles againe Antonius ouercome in nauale fight To Egipt poasts in ships preparde to flight Not looking long to liue nor hoping life Incestuous Egipt through Antonius wife That worthy Romaine princes bloud did sucke And couerd lye their goasts with durtie mucke Long wicked waged ciuile warre there