blush'd
More to command than it to suffer: all
The fathers have sate ready and prepared.
To give me empire, temples, or their throats.
When I would ask 'em; and what crowns the top,
Rome, senate, people, all the world have seen
Jove, but my equal; Caesar, but my second.
'Tis then your malice, Fates, who, but your own,
Envy and fear to have any power long known.

SCENE V.----A Room in the same.

Enter TERENTIUS and Tribunes.

Ter. Stay here: I'll give his lordship, you are come.
Enter MINUTIUS, with COTTA and LATIARIS.
Min.
Marcus Terentius, 'pray you tell my lord
Here's Cotta, and Latiaris.

Ter. Sir, I shall.

Cot.
My letter is the very same with yours;
Only requires me to be present there,
And give my voice to strengthen his design.

Lat. Names he not what it is?

Cot. No, nor to you.

Lat. 'Tis strange and singular doubtful!

Cot.
So it is.
It may be all is left to lord Sejanus.
Enter NATTA and GRACINUS LACO.

Nat. Gentlemen, where's my lord?

Tri. We wait him here.

Cot. The provost Laco! what's the news?

Lat. My lord----

Enter SEJANUS.

Sej.
Now, my right dear, noble, and trusted friends,
How much I am a captive to your kindness!
Most worthy Cotta, Latiaris, Laco,
Your valiant hand; and, gentlemen, your loves.
I wish I could divide myself unto you;
Or that it lay within our narrow powers,
To satisfy for so enlarged bounty.
Gracinus, we must pray you, hold your guards
Unquit when morning comes. Saw you the consul?

Min. Trio will presently be here, my lord.

Cot.
They are but giving order for the edict,
To warn the senate.

Sej. How! the senate?

Lac.
Yes.
This morning in Apollo's temple.

Cot.
We
Are charged by letter to be there, my lord.

Sej. By letter! pray you, let's see.

Lat. Knows not his lordship?

Cot. It seems so!

Sej.
A senate warn'd! Without my knowledge!
And on this sudden! Senators by letters
Required to be there! who brought these?

Cot. Macro.

Sej. Mine enemy! and when?

Cot. This midnight.

Sej.
Time,
With every other circumstance, doth give
It hath some strain of engine in't!--