Religion makes of men! Believes Terentius, g Your scrupulous phant'sies, I go offer. Bid SCENE II. Another Room in the same. Enter COTTA and POMPONIUS. Cot. Pomponius, whither in such speed? To give my lord Sejanus notice e Grani turis. Plaut. Panu. A. I. Sc. 1. et Ovid. Fast. Lib. iv. f Dio. Hist. Rom. Lib. Lib. lviii. p 717. • De sacris Fortunæ, vid. Lil. Gre. Gyr. Synt. 17. et Stuch. lib. de Sacrif. Gent. p. 48. Cot. What? Pom. Of Macro. Cot. Is he come? Pom. Enter'd but now Cot. The opposite consul! Cot. And by night too! Stay, sir; I'll bear you company. Pom. Along then [Exeunt. SCENE III. A Room in Regulus's House. Enter MACRO, REGULUS, and Attendant. Mac. 'Tis Cæsar's will to have a frequent senate; And therefore must your 'edict lay deep mulct On such as shall be absent. Reg. So it doth. Bear it my fellow consul to adscribe. Mac. And tell him it must early be proclaim'd: The place Apollo's temple. Reg. That's remember'd. Mac. And at what hour? [Exit Attendant. To send one for the provost of the watch. h Dio. Hist. Rom. Lib. lviii. p. 718. i Edicto ut plurimum senatores in curiam vocatos constat, ex Tacit. Ann. Lib. i. et Liv. Lib. ii. Fest. Pon. Lib. xv. vid. Bar. Briss. de Form. Lib. i. et Lips. Sat. Menip. Dio, Rom. Hist. Lib. lvii. p. 718. 1 Dio. ibid. Enter LACO. Mac. Gracinus Laco, You are a friend most welcome: by and by, Reg. Ay. m Mac. I bring you letters, and a health from Cæsar Lac. Sir, both come well. Mac. And hear you? with your note, Which are the eminent men, and most of action. Reg. That shall be done you too. Mac. Most worthy Laco, Cæsar salutes you. [Exit Regulus.]-Consul! death and furies! Gone now!-The argument will please you, sir. Re-enter REGULUS. O, my good lord, We lack'd you present; I would pray you send Another to Fulcinius Trio, straight, To tell him you will come, and speak with him : The matter we'll devise, to stay him there, While I with Laco do survey the watch. [Exit Regulus. What are your strengths, Gracinus? Lac. "Seven cohorts. m Dio. Rom. Hist. Lib. lviii. p. 718. "De prefecto vigilum vid. Ros. Antiq. Rom. Lib. vii. et Dio. Rom. Hist. Lib. lv. Mac. You see what Cæsar writes; and H' has sure a vein of mercury in his feet. Lac. I cannot the just number; but, I think, Three centuries. Mac. Three! good. Lac. At most not four. Mac. And who be those centurions? Lac. That the consul Can best deliver you. Mac. When he's away! Spite on his nimble industry-Gracinus, You find what place you hold, there, in the trust Of royal Cæsar? Lac. Ay, and I am―― Mac. Sir, The honours there proposed are but beginnings Of his great favours. Lac. They are more Mac. I heard him When he did study what to add. Lac. My life, And all I hold Mac. You were his own first choice: Which doth confirm as much as you can speak; And will, if we succeed, make more-Your guards Are seven cohorts, you say? Lac. Yes. Mac. Those we must Hold still in readiness and undischarged. Lac. I understand so much. But how it canMac. Be done without suspicion, you'll object? • Dio. Rom. Hist. Lib. lviii. p. 718. Re-enter REGULUS. Reg. What's that? Lac. The keeping of the watch in arms, Mac. The senate shall be met, and set Reg. If we need, We have commission to possess the palace, Had he not spit it out now: by the gods, Enter Servants. Reg. Here are servants. Mac. These to Arruntius, these to Lepidus. This bear to Cotta, this to Latiaris. If they demand you of me, say I have ta'en Fresh horse, and am departed. [Exeunt Servants.] You, my lord, To your colleague, and be you sure to hold him With long narration of the new fresh favours, Meant to Sejanus, his great patron; I, With trusted Laco, here, are for the guards: Then to divide. For, night hath many eyes, Whereof, though most do sleep, yet some are spies. [Exeunt. Vid. Tacit. Ann. Lib. vi. p. 107. et Suet. Tib. c. 65. |