Lict.  Give way, make place, room for the consul!

San. 
   Hail,
   Hail, great.  Sejanus!

Hat.  Hail, my honour’d lord!

Arr.  We shall be mark’d anon, for our not Hail.

Lep.  That is already done.

Arr. 
   It is a note
   Of upstart greatness, to observe and watch
   For these poor trifles, which the noble mind
   Neglects and scorns.

Lep. 
   Ay, and they think themselves
   Deeply dishonour’d where they are omitted,
   As if they were necessities that help’d
   To the perfection of their dignities;
   And hate the men that but refrain them.

Arr. 
   O! 
   There is a farther cause of hate.  Their breasts
   Are guilty, that we know their obscure springs,
   And base beginnings; thence the anger grows. 
   On.  Follow.

Scene IX.-Another part of the same. 
Enter macro and Laco.

Mac. 
   When all are enter’d, shut the temple doors;
   And bring your guards up to the gate.

Lac.  I will.

Mac. 
   If you shall hear commotion in the senate,
   Present yourself:  and charge on any man
   Shall offer to come forth.

Lac.  I am instructed. [Exeunt.

Scene X.-The Temple of Apollo.

Enter Haterius, trio, Sanquinius, Cotta, Regulus,
Sejanus, Pomponius, Latiaris, lepidus, Arruntius,
and divers other Senators; Praecones, and Lictors.

Hat.  How well, his lordship looks to-day!

Tri. 
   As if
   He had been born, or made for this hour’s state.

Cat.  Your fellow consul’s come about, methinks?

Tri.  Ay, he is wise.

San.  Sejanus trusts him well.

Tri.  Sejanus is a noble, bounteous lord.

Hat.  He is so, and most valiant.

Lat.  And most wise.

1 Sen.  He’s every thing.

Lat. 
   Worthy of all, and more
   Than bounty can bestow.

Tri. 
   This dignity
   Will make him worthy.

Pom.  Above Caesar.

San. 
   Tut,
   Caesar is but the rector of an isle,
   He of the empire.

Tri. 
   Now he will have power
   More to reward than ever.

Cat. 
   Let us look
   We be not slack in giving him our voices.

Lat.  Not I.

San.  Nor I.

Col. 
   The readier we seem
   To propagate his honours, will more bind
   His thoughts to ours.

Hat. 
   I think right with your lordship;
   It is the way to have us hold our places.

San.  Ay, and get more.

Lat.  More office and more titles.

Pom. 
   I will not lose the part I hope to share I
   n these his fortunes, for my patrimony.