Going Native, Chapter 16: The Penalty of Adam - Part I

"I've one mouth but many voices. I dissemble and often change my tune." Exeter Book riddle

Previously: Going Native, Chapter 15: Diary of a birth - Part II

Legate, I had the news last night - my cohort ordered home

By ships to Portus Itius and thence by road to Rome.

I've marched the companies aboard, the arms are stowed below:

Now let another take my sword. Command me not to go!

I've served in Britain forty years, from Vectis to the Wall,

I have n…