Ay, ay, I am clear. Poppæa being my stake,

I cannot shrink nor swerve. What was’t she wrote?

Why here is more.[Reads.

Be with me in this matter,

But if thou should’st refuse, we are worse foes.

She dares the threat.

Enter Anicetus.

ANICETUS.

Cæsar hath summoned me.

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