me to your Prisca: and pray her,
She will solicit this great business,
To earnest and most present execution,
With all her utmost credit with Augusta.

Pos. I shall not fail in my instructions. [Exit.

Sej.
This second, from his mother, will well urge
Our late design, and spur on Caesar's rage;
Which else might grow remiss. The way to put
A prince in blood, is to present the shapes
Of dangers, greater than they are, like late,
Or early shadows; and, sometimes, to feign
Where there are none, only to make him fear?
His fear will make him cruel: and once enter'd,
He doth not easily learn to stop, or spare
Where he may doubt. This have I made my rule,
To thrust Tiberius into tyranny,
And make him toil, to turn aside those blocks,
Which I alone could not remove with safety,
Drusus once gone, Germanicus' three sons
Would clog my way; whose guards have too much faith
To be corrupted: and their mother known
Of too, too unreproved a chastity,
To be attempted, as light Livia was.
Work then, my art, on Caesar's fears, as they
On those they fear 'till all my lets be clear'd,
And he in ruins of his house, and hate
Of all his subjects, bury his own state;
When with my peace and safety, I will rise,
By making him the public sacrifice. [Exit.

SCENE III.-A Room in AGRIPPINA'S House.
Enter SATRlUS and NATTA.
Sat. They're grown exceeding circumspect, and wary.

Nat.
They have us in the wind: and yet Arruntius
Cannot contain himself.

Sat.
Tut, he's not yet
Look'd after; there are others more desired
That are more silent.

Nat. Here he comes. Away. [Exeunt.

Enter SABINUS, ARRUNTIUS, and CORDUS

Sab.
How is it, that these beagles haunt the house
Of Agrippina?

Arr.
O, they hunt, they hunt!
There is some game here lodged, which they must rouse,
To make the great ones sport.

Cor.
Did you observe
How they inveigh'd 'gainst Caesar?

Arr.
Ay, baits, baits,
For us to bite at: would I have my flesh
Torn by the public hook, these qualified hangmen
Should be my company.

Cor. Here comes another. [Dom. Afer passes over the stage

Arr.
Ay, there's a man, Afe