If ere that evening passed I had admitted

The schemes his mother had laid, which in short time

Were brought to pass.

Bur.’Twas a black day.

Sen.And yet,

Burrus, if after you had seen how kindly

He took instruction, how he came to love me,

You would not wonder—nay, I can remember

Claudius himself was shamed if his Britannicus,

Being younger but by some two years, were by