Be wiser when I am gone.

Ner.I have good friends,

Burrus and Seneca: I trust them both.

Agr. Cannot you read the cause why still they urge you

To cast me off?

Ner.’Tis the disgrace they feel

To see the empire managed by a woman.

Agr. ’Tis the constraint they feel in all their actions

Being overruled by me. Do you not see

They are my ministers, and you are ruled