SENATORS. This is strange! ARRUNTIUS. I shall anon believe your vultures, Marcus. _Your wisdoms, conscript fathers, are able to examine, and censure these suggestions. But, were they left to our absolving voice, we durst pronounce them, as we think them, most malicious._ SENATORS. O, he has restored all; list! _Yet are they offered to be averred, and on the lives of the informers. What we should say, or rather what we should not say, lords of the senate, if this be true, our gods and goddesses confound us if we know! Only we must think, we have placed our benefits ill; and conclude, that in our choice, either we were wanting to the gods, or the gods to us._ [_The Senators shift their places._] ARRUNTIUS. The place grows hot; they shift. _We have not been covetous, honourable fathers, to change, neither is it now any new lust that alters our affection, or old loathing: but those needful jealousies of state, that warn wiser princes hourly to provide their safety, and do teach them how learned a thing it is to beware of the humblest enemy; much more of those great ones, whom their own employed favours have made fit for their fears._ FIRST SENATOR. Away. SECOND SENATOR. Sit farther. COTTA. Let’s remove- ARRUNTIUS. Gods! how the leaves drop off, this little wind! _We therefore desire, that the offices he holds be first seized by the senate, and himself suspended from all exercise of place or power—_ SENATORS. How! SANQUINIUS. [thrusting by.] By your leave. ARRUNTIUS. Come, porpoise; where’s Haterius? His gout keeps him most miserably constant; Your dancing shews a tempest. SEJANUS. Read no more. REGULUS. Lords of the senate, hold your seats: read on. SEJANUS. These letters they are forged. REGULUS. A guard! sit still. Enter Laco with the Guards. ARRUNTIUS. Here’s change! REGULUS. Bid silence, and read forward. PRÆCONES. Silence!—