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<H3>SCENE II. The same. A hall in Timon's house.</h3>

<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter FLAVIUS, with many bills in his hand</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1>No care, no stop! so senseless of expense,</A><br>
<A NAME=2>That he will neither know how to maintain it,</A><br>
<A NAME=3>Nor cease his flow of riot: takes no account</A><br>
<A NAME=4>How things go from him, nor resumes no care</A><br>
<A NAME=5>Of what is to continue: never mind</A><br>
<A NAME=6>Was to be so unwise, to be so kind.</A><br>
<A NAME=7>What shall be done? he will not hear, till feel:</A><br>
<A NAME=8>I must be round with him, now he comes from hunting.</A><br>
<A NAME=9>Fie, fie, fie, fie!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter CAPHIS, and the Servants of Isidore and Varro</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>CAPHIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=10>Good even, Varro: what,</A><br>
<A NAME=11>You come for money?</A><br>
<A NAME=12>Varro's Servant	Is't not your business too?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>CAPHIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=13>It is: and yours too, Isidore?</A><br>
<A NAME=14>Isidore's Servant	It is so.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>CAPHIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=15>Would we were all discharged!</A><br>
<A NAME=16>Varro's Servant	I fear it.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>CAPHIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=17>Here comes the lord.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter TIMON, ALCIBIADES, and Lords,  & c</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=18>So soon as dinner's done, we'll forth again,</A><br>
<A NAME=19>My Alcibiades. With me? what is your will?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>CAPHIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=20>My lord, here is a note of certain dues.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=21>Dues! Whence are you?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>CAPHIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=22>Of Athens here, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=23>Go to my steward.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>CAPHIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=24>Please it your lordship, he hath put me off</A><br>
<A NAME=25>To the succession of new days this month:</A><br>
<A NAME=26>My master is awaked by great occasion</A><br>
<A NAME=27>To call upon his own, and humbly prays you</A><br>
<A NAME=28>That with your other noble parts you'll suit</A><br>
<A NAME=29>In giving him his right.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=30>Mine honest friend,</A><br>
<A NAME=31>I prithee, but repair to me next morning.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>CAPHIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=32>Nay, good my lord,--</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=33>Contain thyself, good friend.</A><br>
<A NAME=34>Varro's Servant	One Varro's servant, my good lord,--</A><br>
<A NAME=35>Isidore's Servant	From Isidore;</A><br>
<A NAME=36>He humbly prays your speedy payment.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>CAPHIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=37>If you did know, my lord, my master's wants--</A><br>
<A NAME=38>Varro's Servant	'Twas due on forfeiture, my lord, six weeks And past.</A><br>
<A NAME=39>Isidore's Servant	         Your steward puts me off, my lord;</A><br>
<A NAME=40>And I am sent expressly to your lordship.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=41>Give me breath.</A><br>
<A NAME=42>I do beseech you, good my lords, keep on;</A><br>
<A NAME=43>I'll wait upon you instantly.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt ALCIBIADES and Lords</i></p>
<p><i>To FLAVIUS</i></p>
<A NAME=44>Come hither: pray you,</A><br>
<A NAME=45>How goes the world, that I am thus encounter'd</A><br>
<A NAME=46>With clamourous demands of date-broke bonds,</A><br>
<A NAME=47>And the detention of long-since-due debts,</A><br>
<A NAME=48>Against my honour?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=49>                  Please you, gentlemen,</A><br>
<A NAME=50>The time is unagreeable to this business:</A><br>
<A NAME=51>Your importunacy cease till after dinner,</A><br>
<A NAME=52>That I may make his lordship understand</A><br>
<A NAME=53>Wherefore you are not paid.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=54>Do so, my friends. See them well entertain'd.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=55>Pray, draw near.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
<p><i>Enter APEMANTUS and Fool</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech20><b>CAPHIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=56>Stay, stay, here comes the fool with Apemantus:</A><br>
<A NAME=57>let's ha' some sport with 'em.</A><br>
<A NAME=58>Varro's Servant	Hang him, he'll abuse us.</A><br>
<A NAME=59>Isidore's Servant	A plague upon him, dog!</A><br>
<A NAME=60>Varro's Servant	How dost, fool?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech21><b>APEMANTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=61>Dost dialogue with thy shadow?</A><br>
<A NAME=62>Varro's Servant	I speak not to thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>APEMANTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=63>No,'tis to thyself.</A><br>
<p><i>To the Fool</i></p>
<A NAME=64>Come away.</A><br>
<A NAME=65>Isidore's Servant	There's the fool hangs on your back already.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>APEMANTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=66>No, thou stand'st single, thou'rt not on him yet.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech24><b>CAPHIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=67>Where's the fool now?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech25><b>APEMANTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=68>He last asked the question. Poor rogues, and</A><br>
<A NAME=69>usurers' men! bawds between gold and want!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech26><b>All Servants</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=70>What are we, Apemantus?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech27><b>APEMANTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=71>Asses.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech28><b>All Servants</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=72>Why?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech29><b>APEMANTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=73>That you ask me what you are, and do not know</A><br>
<A NAME=74>yourselves. Speak to 'em, fool.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech30><b>Fool</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=75>How do you, gentlemen?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech31><b>All Servants</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=76>Gramercies, good fool: how does your mistress?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech32><b>Fool</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=77>She's e'en setting on water to scald such chickens</A><br>
<A NAME=78>as you are. Would we could see you at Corinth!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech33><b>APEMANTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=79>Good! gramercy.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter Page</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech34><b>Fool</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=80>Look you, here comes my mistress' page.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech35><b>Page</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=81>[To the Fool]  Why, how now, captain! what do you</A><br>
<A NAME=82>in this wise company? How dost thou, Apemantus?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech36><b>APEMANTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=83>Would I had a rod in my mouth, that I might answer</A><br>
<A NAME=84>thee profitably.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech37><b>Page</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=85>Prithee, Apemantus, read me the superscription of</A><br>
<A NAME=86>these letters: I know not which is which.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech38><b>APEMANTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=87>Canst not read?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech39><b>Page</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=88>No.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech40><b>APEMANTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=89>There will little learning die then, that day thou</A><br>
<A NAME=90>art hanged. This is to Lord Timon; this to</A><br>
<A NAME=91>Alcibiades. Go; thou wast born a bastard, and thou't</A><br>
<A NAME=92>die a bawd.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech41><b>Page</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=93>Thou wast whelped a dog, and thou shalt famish a</A><br>
<A NAME=94>dog's death. Answer not; I am gone.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech42><b>APEMANTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=95>E'en so thou outrunnest grace. Fool, I will go with</A><br>
<A NAME=96>you to Lord Timon's.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech43><b>Fool</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=97>Will you leave me there?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech44><b>APEMANTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=98>If Timon stay at home. You three serve three usurers?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech45><b>All Servants</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=99>Ay; would they served us!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech46><b>APEMANTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=100>So would I,--as good a trick as ever hangman served thief.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech47><b>Fool</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=101>Are you three usurers' men?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech48><b>All Servants</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=102>Ay, fool.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech49><b>Fool</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=103>I think no usurer but has a fool to his servant: my</A><br>
<A NAME=104>mistress is one, and I am her fool. When men come</A><br>
<A NAME=105>to borrow of your masters, they approach sadly, and</A><br>
<A NAME=106>go away merry; but they enter my mistress' house</A><br>
<A NAME=107>merrily, and go away sadly: the reason of this?</A><br>
<A NAME=108>Varro's Servant	I could render one.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech50><b>APEMANTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=109>Do it then, that we may account thee a whoremaster</A><br>
<A NAME=110>and a knave; which not-withstanding, thou shalt be</A><br>
<A NAME=111>no less esteemed.</A><br>
<A NAME=112>Varro's Servant	What is a whoremaster, fool?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech51><b>Fool</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=113>A fool in good clothes, and something like thee.</A><br>
<A NAME=114>'Tis a spirit: sometime't appears like a lord;</A><br>
<A NAME=115>sometime like a lawyer; sometime like a philosopher,</A><br>
<A NAME=116>with two stones moe than's artificial one: he is</A><br>
<A NAME=117>very often like a knight; and, generally, in all</A><br>
<A NAME=118>shapes that man goes up and down in from fourscore</A><br>
<A NAME=119>to thirteen, this spirit walks in.</A><br>
<A NAME=120>Varro's Servant	Thou art not altogether a fool.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech52><b>Fool</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=121>Nor thou altogether a wise man: as much foolery as</A><br>
<A NAME=122>I have, so much wit thou lackest.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech53><b>APEMANTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=123>That answer might have become Apemantus.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech54><b>All Servants</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=124>Aside, aside; here comes Lord Timon.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter TIMON and FLAVIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech55><b>APEMANTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=125>Come with me, fool, come.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech56><b>Fool</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=126>I do not always follow lover, elder brother and</A><br>
<A NAME=127>woman; sometime the philosopher.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt APEMANTUS and Fool</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech57><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=128>Pray you, walk near: I'll speak with you anon.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt Servants</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech58><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=129>You make me marvel: wherefore ere this time</A><br>
<A NAME=130>Had you not fully laid my state before me,</A><br>
<A NAME=131>That I might so have rated my expense,</A><br>
<A NAME=132>As I had leave of means?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech59><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=133>You would not hear me,</A><br>
<A NAME=134>At many leisures I proposed.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech60><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=135>Go to:</A><br>
<A NAME=136>Perchance some single vantages you took.</A><br>
<A NAME=137>When my indispos ition put you back:</A><br>
<A NAME=138>And that unaptness made your minister,</A><br>
<A NAME=139>Thus to excuse yourself.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech61><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=140>O my good lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=141>At many times I brought in my accounts,</A><br>
<A NAME=142>Laid them before you; you would throw them off,</A><br>
<A NAME=143>And say, you found them in mine honesty.</A><br>
<A NAME=144>When, for some trifling present, you have bid me</A><br>
<A NAME=145>Return so much, I have shook my head and wept;</A><br>
<A NAME=146>Yea, 'gainst the authority of manners, pray'd you</A><br>
<A NAME=147>To hold your hand more close: I did endure</A><br>
<A NAME=148>Not seldom, nor no slight cheques, when I have</A><br>
<A NAME=149>Prompted you in the ebb of your estate</A><br>
<A NAME=150>And your great flow of debts. My loved lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=151>Though you hear now, too late--yet now's a time--</A><br>
<A NAME=152>The greatest of your having lacks a half</A><br>
<A NAME=153>To pay your present debts.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech62><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=154>Let all my land be sold.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech63><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=155>'Tis all engaged, some forfeited and gone;</A><br>
<A NAME=156>And what remains will hardly stop the mouth</A><br>
<A NAME=157>Of present dues: the future comes apace:</A><br>
<A NAME=158>What shall defend the interim? and at length</A><br>
<A NAME=159>How goes our reckoning?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech64><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=160>To Lacedaemon did my land extend.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech65><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=161>O my good lord, the world is but a word:</A><br>
<A NAME=162>Were it all yours to give it in a breath,</A><br>
<A NAME=163>How quickly were it gone!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech66><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=164>You tell me true.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech67><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=165>If you suspect my husbandry or falsehood,</A><br>
<A NAME=166>Call me before the exactest auditors</A><br>
<A NAME=167>And set me on the proof. So the gods bless me,</A><br>
<A NAME=168>When all our offices have been oppress'd</A><br>
<A NAME=169>With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept</A><br>
<A NAME=170>With drunken spilth of wine, when every room</A><br>
<A NAME=171>Hath blazed with lights and bray'd with minstrelsy,</A><br>
<A NAME=172>I have retired me to a wasteful cock,</A><br>
<A NAME=173>And set mine eyes at flow.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech68><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=174>Prithee, no more.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech69><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=175>Heavens, have I said, the bounty of this lord!</A><br>
<A NAME=176>How many prodigal bits have slaves and peasants</A><br>
<A NAME=177>This night englutted! Who is not Timon's?</A><br>
<A NAME=178>What heart, head, sword, force, means, but is</A><br>
<A NAME=179>Lord Timon's?</A><br>
<A NAME=180>Great Timon, noble, worthy, royal Timon!</A><br>
<A NAME=181>Ah, when the means are gone that buy this praise,</A><br>
<A NAME=182>The breath is gone whereof this praise is made:</A><br>
<A NAME=183>Feast-won, fast-lost; one cloud of winter showers,</A><br>
<A NAME=184>These flies are couch'd.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech70><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=185>Come, sermon me no further:</A><br>
<A NAME=186>No villanous bounty yet hath pass'd my heart;</A><br>
<A NAME=187>Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.</A><br>
<A NAME=188>Why dost thou weep? Canst thou the conscience lack,</A><br>
<A NAME=189>To think I shall lack friends? Secure thy heart;</A><br>
<A NAME=190>If I would broach the vessels of my love,</A><br>
<A NAME=191>And try the argument of hearts by borrowing,</A><br>
<A NAME=192>Men and men's fortunes could I frankly use</A><br>
<A NAME=193>As I can bid thee speak.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech71><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=194>Assurance bless your thoughts!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech72><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=195>And, in some sort, these wants of mine are crown'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=196>That I account them blessings; for by these</A><br>
<A NAME=197>Shall I try friends: you shall perceive how you</A><br>
<A NAME=198>Mistake my fortunes; I am wealthy in my friends.</A><br>
<A NAME=199>Within there! Flaminius! Servilius!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter FLAMINIUS, SERVILIUS, and other Servants</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech73><b>Servants</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=200>My lord? my lord?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech74><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=201>I will dispatch you severally; you to Lord Lucius;</A><br>
<A NAME=202>to Lord Lucullus you: I hunted with his honour</A><br>
<A NAME=203>to-day: you, to Sempronius: commend me to their</A><br>
<A NAME=204>loves, and, I am proud, say, that my occasions have</A><br>
<A NAME=205>found time to use 'em toward a supply of money: let</A><br>
<A NAME=206>the request be fifty talents.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech75><b>FLAMINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=207>As you have said, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech76><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=208>[Aside]  Lord Lucius and Lucullus? hum!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech77><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=209>Go you, sir, to the senators--</A><br>
<A NAME=210>Of whom, even to the state's best health, I have</A><br>
<A NAME=211>Deserved this hearing--bid 'em send o' the instant</A><br>
<A NAME=212>A thousand talents to me.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech78><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=213>I have been bold--</A><br>
<A NAME=214>For that I knew it the most general way--</A><br>
<A NAME=215>To them to use your signet and your name;</A><br>
<A NAME=216>But they do shake their heads, and I am here</A><br>
<A NAME=217>No richer in return.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech79><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=218>Is't true? can't be?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech80><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=219>They answer, in a joint and corporate voice,</A><br>
<A NAME=220>That now they are at fall, want treasure, cannot</A><br>
<A NAME=221>Do what they would; are sorry--you are honourable,--</A><br>
<A NAME=222>But yet they could have wish'd--they know not--</A><br>
<A NAME=223>Something hath been amiss--a noble nature</A><br>
<A NAME=224>May catch a wrench--would all were well--'tis pity;--</A><br>
<A NAME=225>And so, intending other serious matters,</A><br>
<A NAME=226>After distasteful looks and these hard fractions,</A><br>
<A NAME=227>With certain half-caps and cold-moving nods</A><br>
<A NAME=228>They froze me into silence.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech81><b>TIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=229>You gods, reward them!</A><br>
<A NAME=230>Prithee, man, look cheerly. These old fellows</A><br>
<A NAME=231>Have their ingratitude in them hereditary:</A><br>
<A NAME=232>Their blood is caked, 'tis cold, it seldom flows;</A><br>
<A NAME=233>'Tis lack of kindly warmth they are not kind;</A><br>
<A NAME=234>And nature, as it grows again toward earth,</A><br>
<A NAME=235>Is fashion'd for the journey, dull and heavy.</A><br>
<p><i>To a Servant</i></p>
<A NAME=236>Go to Ventidius.</A><br>
<p><i>To FLAVIUS</i></p>
<A NAME=237>Prithee, be not sad,</A><br>
<A NAME=238>Thou art true and honest; ingeniously I speak.</A><br>
<A NAME=239>No blame belongs to thee.</A><br>
<p><i>To Servant</i></p>
<A NAME=240>Ventidius lately</A><br>
<A NAME=241>Buried his father; by whose death he's stepp'd</A><br>
<A NAME=242>Into a great estate: when he was poor,</A><br>
<A NAME=243>Imprison'd and in scarcity of friends,</A><br>
<A NAME=244>I clear'd him with five talents: greet him from me;</A><br>
<A NAME=245>Bid him suppose some good necessity</A><br>
<A NAME=246>Touches his friend, which craves to be remember'd</A><br>
<A NAME=247>With those five talents.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Servant</i></p>
<p><i>To FLAVIUS</i></p>
<A NAME=248>That had, give't these fellows</A><br>
<A NAME=249>To whom 'tis instant due. Ne'er speak, or think,</A><br>
<A NAME=250>That Timon's fortunes 'mong his friends can sink.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech82><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=251>I would I could not think it: that thought is</A><br>
<A NAME=252>bounty's foe;</A><br>
<A NAME=253>Being free itself, it thinks all others so.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
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