DRUSUS JUNIOR. And what of that? SILIUS. I’m glad I gave it not. NERO. But there is somewhat else? SILIUS. Yes, private meetings, With a great lady [sir], at a physician’s, And a wife turn’d away. NERO. Ha! SILIUS. Toys, mere toys: What wisdom’s now in th’ streets, in the common mouth? DRUSUS JUNIOR. Fears, whisperings, tumults, noise, I know not what: They say the Senate sit. SILIUS. I’ll thither straight; And see what’s in the forge. AGRIPPINA. Good Silius do; Sosia and I will in. SILIUS. Haste you, my lords, I To visit the sick prince; tender your loves, And sorrows to the people. This Sejanus, Trust my divining soul, hath plots on all: No tree, that stops his prospect, but must fall. [Exeunt.] ACT III SCENE I.—The Senate-House Enter Præcones, Lictores, Sejanus, Varro, Latiaris, Cotta and Afer. Præcones, Lictores, Sejanus, Varro, Latiaris, Cotta Afer SEJANUS. ’Tis only you must urge against him, Varro; Nor I nor Cæsar may appear therein, Except in your defence, who are the consul; And, under colour of late enmity Between your father and his, may better do it, As free from all suspicion of a practice. Here be your notes, what points to touch at; read: Be cunning in them. Afer has them too. VARRO. But is he summon’d? SEJANUS. No. It was debated By Cæsar, and concluded as most fit To take
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