Omens and prodigies have happen’d to me.

There came a strange black dog into my house!

A snake fell through the tiling! a hen crow’d!

The Soothsayer forbade it! The Diviner

Charg’d me to enter on no new affair

Before the winter.”—All sufficient reasons.

Thus it shall be.

Ant. Pray Heav’n it may be!

Geta. It shall.

Depend on me:—But here’s your father.—Go;