Do thou but be appeased, and win thy lord
With mild obedience.85
Octavia: I'll sooner tame
The savage lion's heart, the tiger's rage,
Than curb that brutal tyrant's cruel soul.
He hates all sons of noble blood, and gods
And men he sets at naught; nor can he bear90
That high estate to which along the paths
Of shameful crime his impious mother led;
For though it shames him now, ungrateful one,