A passage or ante-room in Seneca’s house in Rome.
Enter SENECA with papers in his hand.
SENECA (calling).
Paullina!—371
Thus go my mornings: now ’tis scarce two hours
To dinner. (Calling.) Paullina! Paullina!—The wretched beggars
Multiply every day. I feed half Rome
With doles. ’Tis fortunate that trading thrives.
Paullina!
PAULLINA (within).