Ner. (aside). If this were trickery? Let the fact try.—
’Twas this: what speech you held the other morning
With young Britannicus.
Agr. (aside).Ah! knows he that?—
Thy spies are most alert. This time, at least,
I praise their zeal: though thou art slow to thank me
For my kind service done to thee and him.
Ner. Whether is it kinder, say you, to him to urge him
To embrace the desperate plot, of which already
He stood suspected, or more kind to me