This enimie is more cruell than all
other enimies. He assaileth at vnwares, he escapeth by forseeing the
danger afore hand, he despiseth those that stand against him, he
throweth downe the vnwarie: if he be followed he snappeth them vp that
pursue him, if he flee he escapeth."
Of like effect for proofe heereof be those verses which he wrote vnto
Maiorianus his panegyrike oration, following in Latine and in English
verse.
Tot maria intraui duce te, longeq; remotas
Sole sub occiduo gentes, victricia Caesar
Signa Calidonios transuexit ad vsq; Britannos,
Fuderit & quanquam Scotum, & cum Saxone Pictum,
Hostes quaesiuit quem iam natura vetabat,
Quaerere plus homines, &c.
So manie seas I entred haue,
and nations farre by west,
By thy conduct, and Caesar hath
his banners borne full prest
Vnto the furthest British coast,
where Calidonians dwell,
The Scot and Pict with Saxons eke,
though he subdued fell,
Yet would he enimies seeke vnknowne
whom nature had forbid, &c.
ΒΆ Thus much haue we thought good to gather out of the Romane and other
writers, that ye might perceiue the state of Britaine the better in
that time of the decaie of the Romane empire, and that ye might haue
occasion to marke by the waie, how not onelie the Scots, but also the
Saxons had attempted to inuade the Britains, before anie mention is
made of the same their attempts by the British and English writers.
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