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| <H3>SCENE I. A room in Lucullus' house.</h3> | |
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| <i>FLAMINIUS waiting. Enter a Servant to him</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>Servant</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>I have told my lord of you; he is coming down to you.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>FLAMINIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=2>I thank you, sir.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter LUCULLUS</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>Servant</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=3>Here's my lord.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>LUCULLUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=4>[Aside] One of Lord Timon's men? a gift, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>warrant. Why, this hits right; I dreamt of a silver</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>basin and ewer to-night. Flaminius, honest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Flaminius; you are very respectively welcome, sir.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>Fill me some wine.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Servants</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=9>And how does that honourable, complete, free-hearted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>gentleman of Athens, thy very bountiful good lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>and master?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>FLAMINIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=12>His health is well sir.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>LUCULLUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=13>I am right glad that his health is well, sir: and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>what hast thou there under thy cloak, pretty Flaminius?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>FLAMINIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=15>'Faith, nothing but an empty box, sir; which, in my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>lord's behalf, I come to entreat your honour to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>supply; who, having great and instant occasion to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>use fifty talents, hath sent to your lordship to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>furnish him, nothing doubting your present</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>assistance therein.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>LUCULLUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=21>La, la, la, la! 'nothing doubting,' says he? Alas,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>good lord! a noble gentleman 'tis, if he would not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>keep so good a house. Many a time and often I ha'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>dined with him, and told him on't, and come again to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>supper to him, of purpose to have him spend less,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>and yet he would embrace no counsel, take no warning</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>by my coming. Every man has his fault, and honesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>is his: I ha' told him on't, but I could ne'er get</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>him from't.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Servant, with wine</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>Servant</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=30>Please your lordship, here is the wine.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>LUCULLUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=31>Flaminius, I have noted thee always wise. Here's to thee.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>FLAMINIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=32>Your lordship speaks your pleasure.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>LUCULLUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=33>I have observed thee always for a towardly prompt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>spirit--give thee thy due--and one that knows what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>belongs to reason; and canst use the time well, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>the time use thee well: good parts in thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To Servant</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=37>Get you gone, sirrah.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Servant</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=38>Draw nearer, honest Flaminius. Thy lord's a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>bountiful gentleman: but thou art wise; and thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>knowest well enough, although thou comest to me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>that this is no time to lend money, especially upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>bare friendship, without security. Here's three</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>solidares for thee: good boy, wink at me, and say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>thou sawest me not. Fare thee well.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>FLAMINIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=45>Is't possible the world should so much differ,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>And we alive that lived? Fly, damned baseness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>To him that worships thee!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Throwing the money back</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>LUCULLUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=48>Ha! now I see thou art a fool, and fit for thy master.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>FLAMINIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=49>May these add to the number that may scald thee!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>Let moulten coin be thy damnation,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>Thou disease of a friend, and not himself!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>Has friendship such a faint and milky heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>It turns in less than two nights? O you gods,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>I feel master's passion! this slave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>Unto his honour, has my lord's meat in him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>Why should it thrive and turn to nutriment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>When he is turn'd to poison?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>O, may diseases only work upon't!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>And, when he's sick to death, let not that part of nature</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>Which my lord paid for, be of any power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>To expel sickness, but prolong his hour!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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