eparation to his fall
Will turn on thee, and crush thee: therefore strike
Before he settle, to prevent the like
Upon thyself. He doth his vantage know,
That makes it home, and gives the foremost blow. [Exit.

SCENE Ill.-An upper Room of AGRIPPINA'S HOUSE.

Enter LATIARIS, RUFUS, and OPSIUS

Lat.
It is a service lord Sejanus will
See well requited, and accept of nobly.
Here place yourself between the roof and ceiling;
And when I bring him to his words of danger,
Reveal yourselves, and take him.

Ruf. Is he come?

Lat. I'll now go fetch him.

Ops.
With good speed.-I long
To merit from the state in such an action.

Ruf.
I hope, it will obtain the consulship
For one of us...

Ops.
We cannot think of less,
To bring in one so dangerous as Sabinus.

Ruf.
He was follower of Germanicus,
And still is an observer of his wife
And children, though they be declined in grace
A daily visitant, keeps them company
In private and in public, and is noted
To be the only client of the house:
Pray Jove. he will be free to Latiaris.

Ops.
He's allied to him, and doth trust him well.
Ruf: And he'll requite his trust!

Ops.
To do an office
So grateful to the state, I know no man
But would strain nearer bands, than kindred----

Ruf.
List!
I hear them come.

Ops. Shift to our holes with silence. [They retire

Re-enter LATIARIS and SABINUS.
Lat.
It is a noble constancy you shew
To this afflicted house; that not like others,
The friends of season, you do follow fortune,
And, in the winter of their fate, forsake
The place whose glories warm'd you. You are just,
And worthy such a princely patron's love,
As was the world's renown'd Germanicus:
Whose ample merit when I call to thought,
And see his wife and issue, objects made
To so much envy, jealousy, and hate;
It makes me ready to accuse the gods
Of negligence, as men of tyranny.

Sab. They must be patient, so must we.

Lat.
O Jove,
What will become of us or of the times,
When, to be high or noble, are made crimes,
When land and treasure are most dangerous faults!

Sab.
Nay, when our table, yea our bed, assaul