What need many words, unless I should flatter?

Full many there be will hazard their life,

Happ’ly to ease your grace of all your strife.

Of this kind of conspiracy now let us common.[178]

Some man Virginius before you must summon,

And say that Virginia is none of his daughter,

But that Virginius by night away caught her:

Then charge you the father his daughter to bring;

Then do you detain her, till proved be the thing:

Which well you may win her, she present in house.