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