Let not I beseech thee, the Neronian or Domitian tyrannie
anie more preuaile vpon me, or (to saie truth) vpon thee, but let them
rather serue thee, whose heauie oppression thou hast borne withall
a long season, and that thou wilt still be our helper onlie, our
defender, our fauourer, and our furtherer, O noble ladie, I hartilie
beseech thee."
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_Queene Voadicia marcheth against the Romans, to whom she giueth
a shamefull and bloudie ouerthrow without anie motion of mercie,
dredfull examples of the Britains crueltie indifferentlie executed
without exception of age or sex_.
THE TWELFE CHAPTER.
When Voadicia had made an end of hir praier, she set forward against
hir enimies, who at that time were destitute in deed of their
lieutenant Paulinus Suetonius, being as then in Anglesey (as before
[Sidenote: _Corn. Tacit._ Catus Decianus procurator.]
ye haue heard.) Wherefore the Romans that were in Camelodunum sent for
aid vnto Catus Decianus the procurator, that is, the emperours agent,
treasurer, or receiuer, for in that citie (although it were inhabited
by Romans) there was no great garrison of able men. Wherevpon the
procurator sent them such aid as he thought he might well spare, which
was not past two hundred men, and those not sufficientlie furnished
either with weapon or armour.
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