Ner.What would ye object?
Ruf. Shall Romans have their free lives played with thus?
Ner. What puts thee in fear? Silence!—Epicharis,
I bid thee now speak truth before the court.
Piso is dead. Thou seest thy comrades taken.
Truth may not save thy life: yet speak the truth
As thy last hope. Let no man interrupt her.
EPICHARIS (speaks from the litter).
Cæsar, I thank thee that in all my torture
Thou hast spared my tongue to tell thee truth at last: