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spare Or cost or modestie It can but shew Like one of Iuno's or of Ioue's disguises In eyther thee or mee and will as soone When things succeed be throwne by or let fall As is a vaile put of a visor chang'd Or the Scene shifted in our Theaters Who 's that It is the voyce of Lentulus AVR. Or of Cethegus CAT. In my faire Aurelia And thinke vpon these artes They must not see How farre you are trusted with these priuacies Though by their shoulders necks heads you rise LENTVLVS CETHEGVS CATILINE IT is mee thinkes a Morning full of Fate It riseth slowly as her sollen carre Had all the weights of sleepe and death hung at it She is not rosy-fingerd but swolne blacke Her face is like a water turnd to bloud And her sicke head is bound about with clouds As if she threatned night ere noone of day It does not looke as it would haue a Hayle Or Health wish'd in it as on other Mornes CET. Why all the fitter Lentulus Our comming Is not for salutation we haue businesse CAT. Said nobly braue Cethegus Where 's Autronius CET. Is he not come CAT. Not here CET. Nor Vargunteius CAT. Neither CET. A fire in their beds and bosomes That so will serue their sloth rather then vertue They are no Romanes and at such high neede As now LEN. Both they Longinus Lecca Curius Fuluius Gabinius gaue me word last night By Lucius Bestia they would all be here And early CET. Yes As you had I not call'd you Come we all sleepe and are meere Dormice Flies A little lesse then dead More dulnesse hangs On vs then on the Morne W' are spirit-bound In ribs of ice our whole blouds are one stone And Honour cannot thaw vs nor our wants Though they burne hot as feuers to our states CAT. I muse they would be tardy at an houre Of so great purpose CET. If the Gods had call'd Them to a purpose they would iust haue come With the same Tortoyse speed that are thus slo● To such an action which the Gods will enuie As asking no lesse meanes then all their powers Conioyn'd t' effect I would haue seene Rome burn't By this time and her ashes in an Vrne The Kingdome of the Senate rent asunder And the degenerate talking Gowne runne frighted Out of the ayre of Italy CAT. Spirit of men Thou heart of our great enterprise how much I lou● these voyces in thee CET. O the daies Of Sylla's sway when the free sword tooke leaue To act all that it would CAT. And was familiar With entrailes as our Augures CET. Sonnes kild Fathers Brothers their Brothers CAT. And had price and praise All hate had licence giuen it all rage raynes CET. Slaughter bestrid the streets and stretch'd himselfe To seeme more huge whilst to his stayned thighes The gore he drew flow'd vp and carried downe Whole heapes of limmes and bodies through his arch No Age was spar'd no Sexe CAT. Nay no Degree CET. Not Infants in the po●ch of life were free The Sicke the Old that could but hope a day Longer by natures bounty not let stay Virgins and Widdowes Matrons prognant Wiues All dyed CAT. 'T was crime enough that they had liues To strike but only those that could doe hurt Was dull and poore Some fel● to make the number As some the prey CET. The rugged Charon fainted A●d ask'd a nau●e rather then a boate To ferry ouer the sad world that came The mawes a●d dennes of beasts could not receiue The bodies that those soules were frighted from A●d e'en t●e graues were fild with men yet liuing Whose flight and feare had mix'd them with the dead CAT. And this shall be againe and more and more Now Lentulus the third Cornelius Is to stand vp in Rome LEN. Nay vrge not that Is so vncertaine CAT. How LEN. I meane not clear'd And therefore not to be reflected on CAT. The Sybill's leaues vncertaine or the Comments Of our graue deepe diuining men no● cleare LEN. All Prophecies you know suffer the torture CAT. But this already hath confess'd without And so beene weigh'd examin'd and compar'd As 't were malicious ignorance in him Wou●d ●aint in the beliefe LEN. Doe you beleeue it CAT. Doe I loue Lentulus or pray to see it LEN. The Augures all are constant I am meant CAT. They had lost their science else LEN. They count from Cinna CAT. And Sylla nex● and so make you the third All that can say the Sunne is ris'n must thinke it LEN. Men marke me more of late as I come forth CAT. Why what can they doe lesse Cinna and Sylla Are set and gone And we must turne our eyes On him that is and shines Noble Cethegus But view him with me here He lookes already As if he shooke a Scepter o're the Senate And the aw'd purple dropt their roddes and axes The Statues melt againe and houshold Gods In grones confesse the trauaile of the City The very walles sweate blood before the change And stones start out to ruine ere it comes CET. But he and we and all are idle still LEN. I am your creature Sergius And what ere The great Cornelian Name shall winne to be It is not Augury nor the Sybils Bookes But Catiline that makes it CAT. I am shadow To honor'd Lentulus and Cethegus here Who are the heires of Mars CET. By Mars himselfe Catiline is more my parent For whose vertue Earth cannot make a shadow great inough Though Enuie should come too O there they' are Now we shall talke more though we yet doe nothing AVTRONIVS VARGVNTEIVS LONGINVS CVRIVS LECCA BESTIA FVLVIVS GABINIVS c. HAile Lucius Catiline VAR. Haile noble Sergius LON. Haile Publius Lentulus CVR. Haile the third Cornelius LEC. Caius Cethegus haile CET. Haile sloth and words In steed of Men and Spirits CAT. Nay deare Caius CET Are your eyes yet vn●eel'd Dare they looke day In the dull face CAT. Hee 's zealous for the'affaire And blames your tardy comming Gentlemen CET. Vnlesse we had sold our selues to sleepe and ease And would be our slaues slaues CAT. Pray you forbeare CET. The North is not so starke and cold CAT. Cethegus BES. We shall redeeme all if your fire will let vs. CAT. You are too full of lightning noble Caius Boy see all doores be shut that none approch vs On this part of the house Go you and bid The Priest he kill the slaue I mark'd last night And bring me of his bloud when I shall call him Till then waite all without VAR. How is 't Autronius AVT. Longinus LON. Curius CVR. Lecca VAR. Feele you nothing LON. A strange vnwonted horror doth inuade me I know not what it is LEC. The day goes backe Or else my senses CVR. As at Atreus feast FVL. Darknesse growes more more LEN. The Vest all flame I think be out GAB. What groane was that CET. Our phant'sies Strike fire out of our selues and force a day AVT. Againe it sounds BES. As all the
To put a helme vpon a blocke and cleaue it And now and then to stabbe an armour through CIC. Know you that paper That will stabbe you through Is it your hand Hold saue the peeces Traytor Hath thy guilt wak'd thy fury CET. I did write I know not what nor care not That Foole Lentulus Did dictate and I tother Foole did ●igne it CIC. Bring in Statilius Do's he know his hand too And Lentulus Reach him that letter STA. I Confesse it all CIC. Know you that seale yet Publius LEN. Yes it is mine CIC. Whose image is that on it LEN. My Grandfathers CIC. What that renowm'd good man That did so only ' embrace his Countrey ' and lou'd His fellow Citizens Was not his picture Though mute of power to call thee from a fact So foule LEN. As what impetuous Cicero CIC. As thou art for I doe not know what 's fouler Looke vpon these Doe not these faces argue Thy guilt and impudence LEN. VVhat are these to me I know 'hem not ALL. No Publius we were with you At Brutus house VOL. Last night LEN. What did you there VVho sent for you ALL. Your selfe did We had letters From you Cethegus this Statilius here Gabinius Cimber all but from Longinus VVho would not write because he was to come Shortly in person after vs he said To take the charge o' the horse which we should leuy CIC. And he is fled to Catiline I heare LEN. Spies spies ALL. You told vs too o' the Sibylls bookes And how you were to be a King this yeare The twentieth from the burning of the Capitol That three Cornelij were to raigne in Rome Of which you were the last and prais'd Cethegus And the great spirits were with you in the action CET. These are your honorable Ambassadors My Soueraigne Lord. CAT. Peace that too bold Cethegus ALL. Besides Gabinius your Agent nam'd Autronius Seruius Sulla Vargunteius And diuers others VOL. I had letters from you To Catiline and a message which I' haue told Vnto the Senate truly word for word For which I hope they will be gracious to mee I was drawne in by that same wicked Cimber And thought no hurt at all CIC. Volturtius peace VVhere is thy visor or thy voyce now Lentulus Art thou confounded Wherefore speak'st thou not Is all so cleare so plaine so manifest That both thy eloquence and impudence And thy ill nature too haue left thee at once Take him aside There 's yet one more Gabinius The Enginer of all Shew him that paper If he do know it GAB. I know nothing CIC. No GAB. No. Nor I will not know CAT. Impudent head Sticke it into his throate were I the Consul I l'd make thee eate the mischiefe thou haft vented GAB. Is there a Law for 't Cato CAT. Dost thou aske After a Law that would'st haue broke all lawes Of Nature Manhood Conscience and Religion GAB. Yes I may aske for 't CAT. No pernicious Cimber Th' inquiring after good do's not belong Vnto a wicked person GAB. I but Cato Do's nothing but by law CRA. Take him aside There 's proofe enough though he confesse not GAB. Stay I will confesse All 's true your spies haue told you Make much of 'hem CET. Yes and reward 'hem well For feare you get no more such See they do not Die in a ditch and stinke now you ha' done with 'hem Or beg o' the bridges here in Rome whose Arches Their actiue industrie hath sau'd CIC. Se● Fathers VVhat mindes and spirits these are that being conuicted Of such a treason and by such a cloud Of witnesses dare yet retaine their boldnesse What would their rage haue done if they had conquerd I thought when I had thrust out Catiline Neither the State nor I should neede t' haue fear'd Lentulus sleepe here or Longinus fat Or this Cethegus rashnesse It was he I only watch'd while he was in our walles As one that had the braine the hand the heart Bnt now we finde the contrary Where was there A People grieu'd or a State discontent Able to make or helpe a warre 'gainst Rome But these th' Allobroges and those they found Whom had not the iust Gods beene pleas'd to make More friends vnto our safety then their owne As it then seem'd neglecting these mens offers Where had we beene or where the Common-wealth When their great Chiefe had beene call'd home This man Their absolute King whose noble Grandfather Arm'd in pursute of the seditious Gracchus Tooke a braue wound for deare defence of that Which he would spoile had gather'd all his aides Of Ruffins Slaues and other Slaughter-men Giuen vs vp for murder to Cethegus The' other ranke of Citizens to Gabinius The Citty to be fir●d by Cassius And Italie nay the world to be laid wast By cursed Catiline and his complices Lay but the thought of it before you Fathers Thinke but with me you saw this glorious Citty The Light of all the earth Tower of all Nations Sodainly falling in one flame Imagine You view'd your Countrey buried with the heapes Of slaughter'd Citizens that had no graue This Lentulus here raigning as he dreamp't And those his purple Senate Catiline come With his fierce army and the cries of Matrons The flight of Children and the rape of Virgins Shriekes of the liuing with the dying grones On euery side t' inuade your sense vntill The blood of Rome were mixed with her ashes This was the Spectacle these fiends intended To please their malice CET. I and it would Haue bene a braue one Consul But your part Had not then bene so long as now it is I should haue quite defeated your Oration And slit that fine rhetoricall pipe of yours I' the first Scene CAT. Insolent Monster CIC. Fathers Is it your pleasures they shall be committed Vnto some safe but a free custodie Vntill the Senate can determine farder SEN. It pleaseth well CIC. Then Marcus Crassus Take you charge of Gabinius send him home Vnto your house You Caesar of Statilius Cethegus shall be sent to Cornificius And Lentulus to Publius Lentulus Spinther Who now is Aedile CAT. It were best the Praetors Caried 'hem to their houses and deliuered ' hem CIC. Let it be so Take 'hem from hence CAES. But first Let Lentulus put off his Praetorship LEN. I doe resigne it here vnto the Senate CAES. So now there 's no offence done to ●●ligion CAT. Caesar 't was piously and timely vrg'd CIC. What do you decree to th' Allobroges That were the lights to this discouery CRA. A free grant from the State of all their suites CAES. And a reward out of the publicke treasure CAT. I and the title of honest men to crowne 'hem CIC. What to Volturtius CAES. Life and fauor's well VOL. I aske no more CAT. Yes yes some money thou need'st it 'T will keepe thee honest Want made thee a knaue SYL. Let Flaccus and Pomtinius the Praetors Haue publicke thankes and Quintus Fabius Sanga For their good seruice CRA.