My better engine is Poppæa’s dream,

Of which thou’st told me: I can build on that.

Thou should’st be there, I think, to-night.

SELEUCUS.

Ay, madam.

I go at once.

Dom.Speak nothing waveringly.

Sel. Nay, madam.

Dom.’Tis her fate to marry Cæsar.

Sel. My art needs no instruction.