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[Sidenote: We know what ruin Nero did. ]

++WE han wel knowen how many g{r}eet[e] harmes {and}
destrucc{i}ou{n}s weren don by ? e Emp{er}oure Nero.

[Sidenote: He burnt Rome, he slew the conscript fathers, murdered
his brother, and spilt his mother's blood. ]

? He letee brenne ? e citee of Rome {and} made slen ? e 1460
senato{ur}s. and he cruel somtyme slou? hys bro? er. {and}
he was maked moyst wi? ? e blood of hys modir. ?
at is
to seyn he let sleen {and} slitte{n} ? e body of his modir to
seen where he was conceiued.

[Sidenote: He looked unmoved upon his mother's corpse, and passed
judgment upon her beauty. ]

{and} he loked[e] on euery 1464
half vpon hir colde dede body. ne no tere ne wette
his face. but he was so hard herted ? at he my? t[e] ben
domesman or Iuge of hire dede beaute.

[Sidenote: Yet this parricide ruled over all lands, illumined by
the sun in his diurnal course, and controlled the frozen regions
of the pole. ]

? And ? itte
neuer? eles gouerned[e] ? is Nero by Ceptre al ? e peoples 1468
? at phebus ?