THE FIRST SCENE.
The Speakers names.
- Octauia,
- Nutrix,
- Chorus Ro∣manorum,
- Seneca,
- Nuntius,
- Agrippina,
- Poppea,
- Nero.
- Praefectus.
Octauia.
NOw that Aurore with glitteryng streames,
The glading starres from skye doth chase,
Syr Phoebus pert, with spouting beames,
From dewy neast doth mount apace:
And with his cheerefull lookes doth yeeld,
Vnto the world a gladsome day.
Go to, O wretch, with ample Fielde
Of heauy cares oppressed aye,
Thy grieuous wonted playntes recount:
Do not alone with sighes and howles,
The Seaysh Aloyones surmounte,
But also passe the Pandyon foules:
More yrksome is thy state then theirs▪
O Mother deare whose death by fits,
I nyll lament but still shed teares,
My ground of griefe in thee it sits.
If that in shade of darksome denne,
Perceiuing sence at al remayne,
Heare out at large, O mother then,
My great complayntes, and grieuous payne
O that immortall Clothos wrist,
Had torne in twayne my vitall thred:
Ere I vnto my griefe had wist