O’erhanging Caesar, did oppose himself
   To the remaining ruins, and was found
   In that so labouring posture by the soldiers
   That came to succour him.  With which adventure,
   He hath so fix’d himself in Caesar’s trust,
   As thunder cannot move him, and is come
   With all the height of Caesar’s praise to Rome.

Agr. 
   And power, to turn those ruins all on us;
   And bury whole posterities beneath them. 
   Nero, and Drusus, and Caligula,
   Your places are the next, and therefore most
   In their offence.  Think on your birth and blood. 
   Awake your spirits, meet their violence;
   ’Tis princely when a tyrant doth oppose,
   And is a fortune sent to exercise
   Your virtue, as the wind doth try strong trees,
   Who by vexation grow more sound and firm. 
   After your father’s fall, and uncle’s fate,
   What can you hope, but all the change of stroke
   That force or sleight can give? then stand upright;
   And though you do not act, yet suffer nobly: 
   Be worthy of my womb, and take strong chear;
   What we do know will come, we should not fear. [Exeunt.

Scene ll.—–­The Street

Enter macro.

Mac. 
   Return’d so soon! renew’d in trust and grace! 
   Is Caesar then so weak, or hath the place
   But wrought this alteration with the air;
   And he, on next remove, will all repair? 
   Macro, thou art engaged:  and what before
   Was public; now, must be thy private, more. 
   The weal of Caesar, fitness did imply;
   But thine own fate confers necessity
   On thy employment; and the thoughts born nearest
   Unto ourselves, move swiftest still, and dearest. 
   If he recover, thou art lost; yea, all
   The weight of preparation 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.