Nero

SCENE.--_The same, but signs of excessive luxury and profusion. Rich carpets, gilded pillars, etc. As the scene opens, strange oriental music is heard, with singing_. GIRLS _ent...

SCENE.--_The scene is in the Great Hall in the Palace of the Caesars. At the back are steps leading to a platform with balustrade opening on the air, and beyond, a view of the c...

BURRUS. 'Tis not man's work to witness this. I have fought Neck-deep in blood and spared not when the fit Was on me, but I cannot gaze on this. Have you a heart, old man?

NERO'S PRIVATE CHAMBER _in the villa at Baiae, looking directly upon the bay. Left, doors leading into the apartments. The water laps close up to the marble quay or terrace on w...

TIGELLINUS. Long have I watched you, and to me it seemed You had some mighty wish within your soul As yet unspoken? Ah, I know it well. You would climb high, even to the very he...

PHYSICIAN. He knows not why. The infatuate orgies in Campania, Defeat, revolt, have wrought upon his mind, Till it begins to reel--behind each woe He sees the angered shade of A...

NERO. [_Slowly._] Dawn! In the night o'er-past a lightning flash! Ah! I remember--here my mother's ghost Stood--on this very ground--I feel the air Still cold from her--and here...

PHYSICIAN. Through Campania He rushes: and distracted to and fro Would fly now here, now there; behind each woe He sees the angered shade of Agrippina. Now hearing that Poppaea...

BURRUS. Caesar, still glides the dead Britannicus About the palace, and his memory Your mother, Agrippina, uses: makes Out of his ghost a faction for herself. She grows a public...