Mac. 
   You were his own first choice: 
   Which doth confirm as much as you can speak;
   And will, if we succeed, make more—–­Your guards
   Are seven cohorts, you say?

Lac.  Yes.

Mac. 
   Those we must
   Hold still in readiness and undischarged.

Lac.  I understand so much.  But how it can—–­

Mac.  Be done without suspicion, you’ll object? 
                                 Re-enter Regulus. 
Reg.  What’s that?

Lac. 
   The keeping of the watch in arms,
   When morning comes.

Mac. 
   The senate shall be met, and set
   So early in the temple, as all mark
   Of that shall be avoided.

Reg. 
   If we need,
   We have commission to possess the palace,
   Enlarge prince Drusus, and make him our chief.

Mac. 
   That secret would have burnt his reverend mouth,
   Had he not spit it out now:  by the gods,
   You carry things too—–­Let me borrow a man
   Or two, to bear these—–­That of freeing Drusus,
   Caesar projected as the last and utmost;
   Not else to be remember’d. 
                          Enter Servants. 
Reg.  Here are servants.

Mac. 
   These to Arruntius, these to Lepidus;
   This bear to Cotta, this to Latiaris. 
   If they demand you of me, say I have ta’en
   Fresh horse, and am departed. [Exeunt Servants. 
                                 You, my lord,
   To your colleague, and be you sure to hold him
   With long narration of the new fresh favours,
   Meant to Sejanus, his great patron; I,
   With trusted Laco, here, are for the guards: 
   Then to divide.  For, night hath many eyes,
   Whereof, though most do sleep, yet some are spies. [Exeunt

Scene iv.-A Sacellum (or Chapel) in SEJANUS’S House. 
Enter Praecones, Flamen, Tubicines, Tibicines, Ministri,
Sejanus, Terentius, Satrius, Natta, etc.

Prae. 
   Be all profane far hence; fly, fly far off: 
   Be absent far; far hence be all profane!
                    [Tub. and Tib. sound while the Flamen washeth. 
Fla. 
   We have been faulty, but repent us now,
   And bring pure hands, pure vestments, and pure minds.

1 Min.  Pure vessels.

2 Min.  And pure offerings.

3 Min.  Garlands pure.

Fla. 
   Bestow your garlands:  and, with reverence, place
   The vervin on the altar.

Prae.  Favour your tongues.

[While they sound again, the Flamen takes of the honey with his finger, and tastes, then ministers to all the rest; so of the milk, in an earthen vessel, he deals about; which done, he sprinkleth upon the altar, milk; then imposeth the honey, and kindleth his gums, and after censing about the altar, placeth his censer thereon, into which they put several branches of poppy, and the music ceasing, proceeds.