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<TITLE APPIUS AND VIRGINIA.> BY JOHN WEBSTER. <SN ACTUS PRIMUS SCENA PRIMA.> <SSD ROME. A PUBLIC PLACE.!> <SSD ENTER MINUTIUS, OPPIUS, AND LICTORS.> <Q MINUTIUS.> IS APPIUS SENT FOR, THAT WE MAY ACQUAINT HIM WITH THE DECREE O'TH' SENATE? <Q LICTOR.> HE IS MY LORD, AND WILL ATTEND YOUR LORDSHIPS PRESENTLY. <Q OPP.> LICTOR,DID YOU TELL HIM THAT OUR BUSINESSE WAS FROM THE SENATE? <Q LICT.> I DID,MY LORD,AND HERE HE IS AT HAND. <SSD ENTER APPIUS,HIS TWO COZENS,AND M. CLODIUS.> <Q APPIUS.> MY LORDS,YOUR PLEASURE? <Q MINUT.> APPIUS,THE SENATE GREET YOU WELL, AND BY US DO SIGNIFIE UNTO YOU THAT THEY HAVE CHOSEN YOU ONE OF THE DECEMVIRI. <Q APP.> MY LORDS,FAR BE IT FROM THE THOUGHTS OF SO POOR A PLEBEIAN,AS YOUR UNWORTHY SERVANT APPIUS,TO SOAR SO HIGH:THE DIGNITY OF SO EMINENT A PLACE WOULD REQUIRE A PERSON OF THE BEST PARTS AND BLOOD IN ROME. MY LORDS,HE MUST STEER AT TH' HEAD OF AN EMPIRE,OUGHT TO BE THE MIRROUR OF THE TIMES FOR WISDOME AND FOR POLICIE,AND THEREFORE I WOULD BESEECH THE S . . .
