Stirring him up to make an enterprise

Against the state; that you, by marrying him

(Who by the mother’s side may claim a line

As rightly from Augustus as doth Nero),

Might reinstate yourself, dethrone your son,

And bring disaster to the commonwealth.

That is the charge, of which we are come to hear

The refutation, not to press the count.

Agr. Pah! You’re a brace of idiots, if ye think

This needs refuting. Who’s Silana, pray,