That in your love I held perpetual office.

’Tis not so. Now my time is out: I go

As Pallas goes.

Ner.The sleek, extortionate Pallas,

Dost thou defend the despicable Pallas?

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Agr. I would be kind to friends; none will stand by you,

If you cast off those to whom most you owe.

’Twas first through him I came to seize the power

That made you Cæsar. Look! you have lost a friend.