With her prepared nails.

(iV. xii. 32.)

These words of wrath have lingered in her memory and she echoes them in his dying ears:

Not the imperious show

Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall

Be brooch’d with me; if knife, drugs, serpents have

Edge, sting, or operation, I am safe:

Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes

And still conclusion, shall acquire no honour

Demuring upon me.