And for the empty circumstance of life,' Sejanus can repair, if Jove should ruin. He is now the court god; and well applied Arr. A serving boy! I knew him, at Caius' trencher," when for hire He prostituted his abused body To that great gormond, fat Apicius; And was the noted pathic of the time. Sab. And, now, the second face of the whole world! The partner of the empire, hath his image Centurions, tribunes, heads of provinces, And for the empty circumstance of life, Et propter vitam, vivendi perdere causam. Juv. Sat. viii. v. 84. "De ingenio, moribus, et potentia Sejani, leg. Tacit. Ann. Lib. iv. p. 74. Dio Rom. Hist. Lib. lvii. p. 708. Caius divi Augusti nepos. Cons. Tacit. Ann. Lib. iv. p. 74, et Dio. Lib. Ivii. p. 706. P Juv. Sat. X. v. 63, &c. Tacit, ibid. Dion. ibid. et sic passim. Sil. He hath of late Made him a strength too, strangely, by reducing Which he commands: pretending that the soldiers, Should be attempted, their united strength Is heard to court the soldier by his name, Arr. Yet, hath he ambition? Is there that step in state can make him higher, Or more, or any thing he is, but less? Sil. Nothing but emperor. Arr. The name Tiberius, I hope, will keep, howe'er he hath foregone The dignity and power. Sil. Sure, while he lives. Arr. And dead, it comes to Drusus. Should he fail, To the brave issue of Germanicus; And they are three: too many-ha? for him To have a plot upon? Sab. I do not know The heart of his designs; but, sure, their face Looks farther than the present. He ne'er were liberal by kind.] By nature. See p. 19. Nero, Drusus, et Caligula.-Tacit. ibid. WHAL Arr. By the gods, If I could guess he had but such a thought, My sword should cleave him down from head to heart, But I would find it out: and with my hand I'd hurl his panting brain about the air In mites, as small as atomi, to undo The knotted bed Sab. You are observ'd Arruntius. Arr. [turns to Natta, Terentius, &c.] Death! I dare tell him so; and all his spies: You, sir, I would, do you look? and you. SCENE II.. (The former Scene continued.) A Gallery discovered opening into the State Room. Enter SATRIUS with EUDEMUS. Sat. Here he will instant be: let's walk a turn; You're in a muse, Eudemus? Eud. Not I, sir. I wonder he should mark me out so! well, demus, If you can but lay hold upon the means; T Lege Terentü defensionem. Tacit. Ann. Lib. vi. p. 102. Enter SEJANUS. Here comes his lordship. Sat. This is the gentleman, my lord. Give me your hand, we must be more acquainted. To make me known to so great virtue.-Look, Who is that, Satrius? [Exit Sat.]—I have a grief, sir, That will desire your help. Your name's Eudemus? Eud. It is, my lord. Sej. I hear you are Physician to Livia,' the princess. Eud. I minister unto her, my good lord. Sej. That's understood Of all their sex, who are or would be so; And those that would be, physic soon can make them: For those that are, their beauties fear no colours. Eud. Your lordship is conceited.' Sej. Sir, you know it. And can, if need be, read a learned lecture 3 Your lordship is conceited.] Merry, disposed to joke. So in Every Man in his Humour, "You are conceited, sir." WHAL. • Germanici soror, uxor Drusi. Vid. Tacit. Ann. Lib. iv. p. 74. What more of ladies, besides Livia, Eud. Many, my good lord. The great Augusta, Urgulania," Mutilia Prisca, and Plancina; divers Sej. And, all these tell you the particulars Eud. Else, my lord, we know not You are a subtile nation, you physicians! Eud. 'Tis fit, my lord. Sej. Why, sir, I do not ask you of their urines, Whose smell's most violet, or whose siege is best,* Or who makes hardest faces on her stool? Which lady sleeps with her own face a nights? 4 Whose siege is best,] This word which was growing out of use in Jonson's time, is found in Barclay's Eclogues: "For sure the lord's siege and the rural man's "Is of like savour.". It is also used by Shakspeare, Tempest, A. II. S. 2, where it is well explained by Steevens. * Mater Tiberii. vid. Tacit. Ann. 1, 2, 3, 4, moritur 5. Suet. Tib. Dio. Rom. Hist. 57, 58. u Delicium Augustæ. Tacit. Ann. Lib. ii. et iv. * Adultera Julii Posthumi. Tacit. Ann. Lib. iv. p. 77. y Pisonis uxor. Tacit. Ann. Lib. ii. iii. iv. 2 Vid. Tacit. Ann. Lib. iv. p. 74. et Plin. Nat. Hist. Lib. xxix. |