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 1   Per   |          DRAMATIS PERSONAE.~  ~~~OCTAVIA.~OCTAVIA’S NURSE.~CHORUS
 2   Per   |          PERSONAE.~  ~~~OCTAVIA.~OCTAVIA’S NURSE.~CHORUS OF ROMANS.~
 3   Arg   |          Caesar) Britannicus and Octavia) took to himself, for a
 4   Arg   |        son, he gave his daughter Octavia in marriage. Claudius and
 5   Arg   |           then Emperor, divorces Octavia, whom he had always hated,
 6   Arg   |         slaughter, and he orders Octavia to be transported to Pandataria,
 7     1   |                                  OCTAVIA. [1-34]~Octavia, weary of
 8     1   |                  OCTAVIA. [1-34]~Octavia, weary of her existence,
 9     1(1)|          Messalina the mother of Octavia, was noted for her lustful
10     1   |                                  OCTAVIA’S NURSE. [35-57]~On account
11     1   |        befalling her nurse-child Octavia, the nurse execrates the
12     1   |                                  OCTAVIA - NURSE. [58-272]~The Nurse
13     1   |      Nurse consoles the grieving Octavia, and dissuades her from
14     1   |        might be contemplating.   OCTAVIA.~OH! my cruel destiny, to
15     1   |       steps to the bedchamber of Octavia? ~ OCT. Trace these tears
16     1   |     however, took all that away! Octavia! ~ OCT. And let them extinguish
17     1   |          as she, herself, was to Octavia), and she shows this by
18     1   |       mortal beauties; and thou, Octavia, art another Juno, although
19     1   |         Chorus being in favor of Octavia, looks with detestation
20     2   |      descended from a Divus, (by Octavia is here meant) after the
21     2   |      that foolish partiality for Octavia, which has crept into the
22     3   |                                  OCTAVIA - CHORUS. [646-689]~Octavia,
23     3   |      OCTAVIA - CHORUS. [646-689]~Octavia, feigning sadness, prays
24     3   |         grieve for her sad lot.~ OCTAVIA.~SPARE these tears, on a
25     3   |          miserable! oh! demented Octavia, canst thou reasonably hope
26     4   |  marriage day). The partisans of Octavia, were bewailing her divorce
27     4   |        account of the divorce of Octavia, and this marriage with
28     4   |          about this treatment of Octavia, and being wild with anger,
29     4   | preparations to restore Claudia (Octavia) to the household of the
30     5   |     taken against them, and that Octavia, as the cause of such a
31     5   |         more than that! But she, Octavia, for whom the fury of the
32     5   |       there anyone who can prove Octavia to be guilty of that? ~
33     5   |         a lot of madmen? ~ NERO. Octavia, who was the means of exciting
34     5   |         letter; give orders that Octavia be carried away, in some
35     5   |                         CHORUS - OCTAVIA. [877-982]~The Chorus sings
36     5   |        it was only quite lately, Octavia, that citizens were up in
37     5   |         convey away this victim, Octavia, far away, from any cruel