My child!—I come to dry your tears. I come
Strengthen’d by three dread furies:—One is wrath,
Fired by my country’s wrongs; and one deep love,
For those, my bosom’s inmates; and the third—
Vengeance, fierce vengeance, for a brother’s blood!
His soliloquy is interrupted by the entrance of Fulvius, his friend, with whose profligate character and unprincipled designs he is represented as unacquainted. From the opening speech made by Fulvius (before he is aware of the presence of Caius) to the slave by whom he is attended, it appears that he is just returned from the perpetration of some crime, the nature of which is not disclosed until the second act.
The suspicions of Caius are, however, awakened, by the obscure allusions to some act of signal but secret vengeance, which Fulvius throws out in the course of the ensuing discussion.
Ful. This is no time for grief and feeble tears,
But for high deeds.
Caius. And we will make it such.