Sejanus: His Fall

by Ben Jonson

Enter Servants.

REGULUS.
Here are servants.

MACRO.
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 Præcones, Flamen, Tubicines, Tibicines, Ministri, Sejanus, Terentius, Satrius, Natta, etc.

PRÆCONES.
Be all profane far hence; fly, fly far off:
Be absent far; far hence be all profane!

[Tubicines and Tibicines sound while the Flamen washeth.]