Have done on rafts of wreck—it drives you mad.

I will be no such wreck, am no such gamester

As, having won the stake, would dare the chance

Of double, or losing all. The Roman Senate,

For I have always play’d into their hands,

Means me the crown. And Camma for my bride—

The people love her—if I win her love,

They too will cleave to me, as one with her.

There then I rest, Rome’s tributary king.

[Looking down on Sinnatus.