Agrippina monologue (Act 9) — Sejanus: His Fall

And power, to turn those ruins all on us; And bury whole posterities beneath them. Nero, and Drusus, and Caligula, Your places are the next, and therefore most In their offence. Think on your birth and blood. Awake your spirits, meet their violence; ’Tis princely when a tyrant doth oppose, And is a fortune sent to exercise Your virtue, as the wind doth try strong trees, Who by vexation grow more sound and firm. After your father’s fall, and uncle’s fate, What can you hope, but all the change of stroke That force or sleight can give? then stand upright; And though you do not act, yet suffer nobly: Be worthy of my womb, and take strong cheer; What we do know will come, we should not fear.