Ep.If Cæsar need an answer

To a charge so empty, ’tis enough to say

I have never been in Rome.

Ner. ’Tis not enough.

Didst thou speak to the Admiral in the sense

He avers?

Ep.I humbly crave great Cæsar’s pardon

For jesting with his name.

Ner.Thou didst? and why?

Ep. Here is my witness; Lord Senecio