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Yes my Lord, and much beyond. The very doing never was so lively As now this counterfeiting. They had been stones, whom that could not have moaned. By Jove, think you are the God himself Come from above, to show your hidden arts; And fill us men with wonder of your skill. I swear by thee Oh Caesar; Then whom no power of Heaven I honour more, No mortal voice can pass, or equal thine. Happy are they that hear it. Have you put Caius in, I saw him frown One that in whispering overheard What pity 'twas, my Lord, that Piso died. Help she die. One that by blood, and rapine would repair His state consumed in vanities, and lust. Strange, strange indeed, for had he but come up, And taken the Court, in that affright and stir, While unresolved for whom, or what to do, Each on the other had in jealousy (While as appalled Majesty not yet Had time to set the countenance) he would Have hazarded the royal seat. But for a stranger with a naked province, Without allies, or friends ith' sta e to challenge A Prince upheld with thirty Legions Rooted in four descents of Ancestors, And fourteen years continuance of reign, Why it is — I pray thee Tigellinus, what fury's this? What strange event, what accident hath thus Orecast your countenances? Oh you unsearched wisdoms, which do laugh, At our security, and fears alike; And plain to show our weakness, and your power Make us contemn the harms, which surest strike When you our glories, and our pride undo, Our overthrow you make ridiculous too. exeunt. Slow making counsels, and the sliding year Have brought me to the long foreseen destruction Of this misled young man; his State is shaken, And I will push it on; revolted France; Nor the conjured Provinces of Spain, Nor his own gilded, shall Like to me oppress him; I to his easy yielding fears proclaim New Germane mutenys, and all the world Rousing it self in hate of Nero;s name; I his distracted counsels do disperce With fresh despairs, I animate the Senate And the people, to engage them passed recall In prejudice of Nero, and in brief, Perish he must, the fates and I resolve it; Which to effect, I presently will go, Proclaim a Donative in Galba's name. Faith, the right nature of a coward to set light Dangers that seem far off. Piso was here, Ready to enter at the Presence doote, And drag him out of his abused chair, And then he trembled; Vindex is in France, And many woods, and seas, and hills between.
Plot summary
Plot — Nero (Piso's Conspiracy)
The Emperor Nero celebrates his latest triumph : not a military victory, but success in a singing and acting competition against the Greeks; he also has one of his critics executed. He gives a performance in the role of Orestes; the theatre is guarded so that the audience cannot escape, and those who do not respond with due enthusiasm are marked down for execution. Deciding that he has treated Rome too lenien:tly, he has the city burned down . The wind blows the fire back towards the palace, and his own possessions are destroyed. . Antonius loves _ the Empress Poppaea, despite Petronius' efforts to persuade him to settle for someone of lower rank. Poppaea refuses Antonius, preferring Nymphidius, who has cultivated her affections as a means to make himself Emperor. Scaevinus broaches --a conspiracy to assassinate Nero, thinking it demeaning to have _an Emperor so dedicated to artistic pursuits. Piso is recruited, and the plotters discuss the best way to assassinate Nero; but they are overheard by the freedman Milichus, who reports them to Nero. Piso commits suicide; other conspirators are arrested, and Nero institutes a purge of their sympathizers. Petronius is arrested and executed simply because Tigellinus has -a score to settle with him. A young man is executed merely for pitying Piso's death; Poppaea tries to save him because he resembles a former lover of hers, so Nero kicks her to death in a rage. News arrives from France that Vindex has revolted and chosen · Galba as Emperor. Nymphidius spreads rumours that Nero has resigned, and tries both to curry favour with Galba's agents and to buy military support for his own ambitions. Nero is condemned by the Senate and commits suicide . Nymphidius is killed by Galba's supporters.