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| <H3>SCENE I. Without the walls of Athens.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter TIMON</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>TIMON</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>That girdlest in those wolves, dive in the earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>And fence not Athens! Matrons, turn incontinent!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Obedience fail in children! slaves and fools,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Pluck the grave wrinkled senate from the bench,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>And minister in their steads! to general filths</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Convert o' the instant, green virginity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>Do 't in your parents' eyes! bankrupts, hold fast;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>Rather than render back, out with your knives,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>And cut your trusters' throats! bound servants, steal!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>Large-handed robbers your grave masters are,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>And pill by law. Maid, to thy master's bed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>Thy mistress is o' the brothel! Son of sixteen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>pluck the lined crutch from thy old limping sire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>With it beat out his brains! Piety, and fear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Religion to the gods, peace, justice, truth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>Domestic awe, night-rest, and neighbourhood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Instruction, manners, mysteries, and trades,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>Degrees, observances, customs, and laws,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>Decline to your confounding contraries,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>And let confusion live! Plagues, incident to men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Your potent and infectious fevers heap</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>On Athens, ripe for stroke! Thou cold sciatica,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Cripple our senators, that their limbs may halt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>As lamely as their manners. Lust and liberty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>Creep in the minds and marrows of our youth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>That 'gainst the stream of virtue they may strive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>And drown themselves in riot! Itches, blains,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Sow all the Athenian bosoms; and their crop</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>Be general leprosy! Breath infect breath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>at their society, as their friendship, may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>merely poison! Nothing I'll bear from thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>But nakedness, thou detestable town!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>Take thou that too, with multiplying bans!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>Timon will to the woods; where he shall find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>The unkindest beast more kinder than mankind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>The gods confound--hear me, you good gods all--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>The Athenians both within and out that wall!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>And grant, as Timon grows, his hate may grow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>To the whole race of mankind, high and low! Amen.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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