mother Agrippina; which Caesar jealously hearkening to, as covetously consenteth to their ruin, and their friends.  In this time, the better to mature and strengthen his design, Sejanus labours to marry Livia, and worketh with all his ingine, to remove Tiberius from the knowledge of public business, with allurements of a quiet and retired life; the latter of which, Tiberius, out of a proneness to lust, and a desire to hide those unnatural pleasures which he could not so publicly practise, embraceth:  the former enkindleth his fears, and there gives him first cause of doubt or suspect towards Sejanus:  against whom he raiseth in private a new instrument, one Sertorius Macro, and by him underworketh, discovers the other’s counsels, his means, his ends, sounds the affections of the senators, divides, distracts them:  at last, when Sejanus least looketh, and is most secure with pretext of doing him an unwonted honour in the senate, he trains him from his guards, and with a long doubtful letter, one day hath him suspected, accused, condemned, and torn in pieces by the rage of the people.

Dramatispersonae

Tiberius
>.                    Haterius. 
Drusus Senior.               Sanquinius. 
Nero.                        Pomponius. 
Drusus junior.               Julius Posthumus. 
Caligula.                    Fulcinius trio. 
Lucius Arruntius.            Minutius. 
Caius Silius.                Satrius Secundus. 
Titius Sabinus.              Pinnarius Natta. 
Marcus lepidus.              Opsius. 
Cremutius Cordus.            Tribuni. 
Asinius Gallus.              Praecones. 
Regulus.                     Flamen. 
Terentius.                   Tubicines. 
Gracinus Laco.               Nuntius. 
Eudemus.                     Lictores. 
Rufus.                       Minisri. 
Sejanus.                     Tibicines. 
Latiaris.                    Servi etc. 
Varro. 
Sertorius macro.             Agrippina. 
Cotta.                       Livia. 
DOMITIUS Afer.               Sosia.

Scene,-Rome

ActI

Scene I.-A State Room in the Palace.

Enter Sabinus and Silius, followed by Latiaris.

Sab.  Hail, Caius Silius!

Sil.  Titius Sabinus, hail!  You’re rarely met in court.

Sab.  Therefore, well met.

Sil.’Tis true:  indeed, this place is not our sphere.

Sab. 
   No, Silius, we are no good inginers. 
   We want their fine arts, and their thriving use
   Should make us graced, or favour’d of the times: 
   We have no shift of faces, no cleft tongues,