Your courier arrived not, and your mother

Has rent her raiment over you.

[Herod looks round about; sees Titus and beckons to him.

Titus (advancing).

It is so.

No single soul here could have thought, myself

The least of all, that you before the fight

At Actium would turn from Antony

And, as I grant, at prudence’ call give Caesar

Transferred allegiance. But that you have done it