Ner. She could not mean it.
Sen.Certainly ’twas in passion
Spoken, and fury: but ’tis such a thing
As might be done in passion.
Ner.And what says Burrus?
Sen. He too would urge, as I, the Augusta’s exile.
Ner. Yet must she stay.
Sen.Nay, Nero, she must go.
Ner. I bade thee, Seneca, to counsel me:
Call’st thou this counsel? ’Tis in the exigence