But, as a soldier, I’ll not see the guards

Commanded by some brute like Tigellinus.

Sen. Nay, be not angry.

Bur.Would not you be angry

Thus to be questioned?

Sen.Nay, indeed, by habit

I question oft myself.

Bur.Then, for one question

I’ll be appeased. I know you, Seneca,

For a man of many parts, a scholar, poet,