What multitudes of villaines are here gotten In a conspiracy, which _Hydra_ like Still in the cutting off increaseth more. The more we take the more are still appeach[t], And every man brings in new company. I wonder what we shall doe with them all! The prisons cannot hold more then they have, The Iayles are full, the holes with Gallants stincke; Strawe and gold lace together live, I thinke. 'Twere best even shut the gates oth' Citie up And make it all one Iayle; for this I am sure, There's not an honest man within the walles. And, though the guilty doth exceed the free,[73] Yet through a base and fatall cowardise They all assist in taking one another And by their owne hands are to prison led. There's no condition nor degree of men But here are met; men of the sword and gowne, _Plebeians, Senators_, and women too; Ladies that might have slaine him with their eye Would use their hands; Philosophers And Polititians. Polititians? Their plot was laid too short. Poets would now Not only write but be the arguments Of Tragedies. The Emperour's much pleased: But[74] some have named _Seneca_; and I Will have _Petronius_. One promise of pardon Or feare of torture will accusers find. [_Exit_. (SCENE 4.) _Enter Nimphidius, Lucan, Scevinus, with a guard_. _Nimph_. Though _Pisoes_ suddennesse and guilty hand Prevented hath the death he should have had, Yet you abide it must. _Lucan_. O may the earth lye lightly on his Course, Sprinckle his ashes with your flowers and teares; The love and dainties of mankind is gone. _Scevin_. What onely now we can, we'le follow thee That way thou lead'st and waite on thee in death; Which we had done had not these hindred us. _Nimph_. Nay, other ends your grievous crimes awaite, Ends which the law and your deserts exact. _Scevin_. What have we deserved? _Nimph_. That punishment that traitors unto Princes, And enemies to the State they live, in merit. _Scevin_. If by the State this government you meane I iustly am an enemy unto it. That's but to _Nero_, you and _Tigellinus_. That glorious world that even beguiles the wise, Being lookt into, includes but three or foure Corrupted men, which were they all remov'd 'Twould for the common State much better be.