TERENTIUS.
Believe it, gentlemen, Sejanus’ breast
Never received more full contentments in,
Than at this present.
POMPONIUS.
Takes he well the escape
Of young Caligula, with Macro?
TERENTIUS.
Faith,
At the first air it somewhat troubled him.
LEPIDUS.
Observe you?
ARRUNTIUS.
Nothing; riddles. Till I see
Sejanus struck, no sound thereof strikes me.
[Exeunt Arruntius and Lepidus.]
POMPONIUS.
I like it not. I muse he would not attempt
Somewhat against him in the consulship,
Seeing the people ’gin to favour him.
TERENTIUS.
He doth repent it now; but he has employ’d
Pagonianus after him: and he holds
That correspondence there, with all that are
Near about Cæsar, as no thought can pass
Without his knowledge, thence in act to front him.
POMPONIUS.
I gratulate the news.
LACO.
But how comes Macro
So in trust and favour with Caligula?