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In him that writes: here he gives large amends.

Mar. And with his own hand written?

Pom. Yes.

Lac. Indeed?

Ter.
Believe it, gentlemen, Sejanus' breast
Never received more full contentments in,
Than at this present.

Pom.
Takes he well the escape
Of young Caligula, with Macro?

Ter.
Faith,
At the first air it somewhat troubled him.

Lep. Observe you?

Arr.
Nothing; riddles. Till I see
Sejanus struck, no sound thereof strikes me.

[Exeunt Arrun. and Lepidus.
Pom.
I like it not. I muse he would not attempt
Somewhat against him in the consulship,
Seeing the people 'gin to favour him.

Ter.
He doth repent it now; but he has employ'd
Pagonianus after him: and he holds
That correspondence there, with all that are
Near about Caesar, as no thought can pass
Without his knowledge, thence in act to front him.

Pom. I gratulate the news.

Lac.
But how comes Macro
So in trust and favour with Caligula?

Pom.
O, sir, he has a wife; and the young prince
An appetite: he can look up, and spy
Flies in the roof, when there are fleas i' the bed;
And hath a learned nose to assure his sleeps.
Who to be favour'd of the rising sun,
Would not lend little of his waning moon?
It is the saf'st ambition. Noble Terentius!

Ter. The night grows fast upon us. At your service. [Exeunt.

ACT V

SCENE I.-An Apartment in SEJANUS' House.
Enter SEJANUS.

Sej.
Swell, swell, my joys; and faint not to declare
Yourselves as ample as your causes are.
I did not live till now; this my first hour;
Wherein I see my thoughts reach'd by my power.
But this, and gripe my wishes. Great and high,
The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
My roof receives me not; 'tis air I tread;
And, at each step, I feel my advanced head
Knock out a star in heaven! rear'd to this height,
All my desires seem modest, poor, and slight,
That did before sound impudent: 'tis place,
Not blood, discerns the noble and the base.
Is there not something more than to be Caesar?
Must we rest there'! it irks t' have come so far,
To be so near a stay. Caligula,
Would thou stood'st stiff, and many in our way!
Winds lose