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Timon of Athens

Act II, Scene 1

A Senator's house.
 
[Enter Senator, with papers in his hand]
 
SENATOR
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      And late five thous|and: to Varro and to Isidore  ????
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      He owes^nine | thousand,| besides | my form|er sum,
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      Which makes | it five | and twen|ty. Still | in mo||tion
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      Of rag|ing waste?| It cannot | hold, it will not.
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      If I want gold,| steal but | a beg|gar's dog,
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      And give it | Timon,| why the | dog coins gold.
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      If I would | sell my | horse, and buy twen|ty more
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      Better than | he; why | give my | horse to | Timon.
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      Ask nothing, give it him, it foals me straight  ????
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      And ab|le hors|es: no | porter | at his gate,
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      But rath|er one | that smiles,| and still | invites
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      All that | pass by. It can|not hold,| no* reas||on
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      Can found | his state | in safe|ty. Caph|is ho,
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      Caphis | I say.
 
CAPHIS
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                      Here sir,| what is your | pleasure.
 
SENATOR
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      Get on your | cloak, and | haste you | to Lord | Timon,
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      Impor|tune him | for my mon|eys, be | not ceased
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      With slight | deni|al; nor / then sil|enced, when
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      Commend | me to | your mast|er, and | the cap
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      Plays in | the right | hand, thus: but | tell him,
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      My use|s cry | to me:| I must serve | my turn
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      Out of | mine^own,| his days | and times | are past,
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      And my | reli|ances | on his fract|ed dates
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      Have smit | my credit.| I love | and hon|or him,
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      But must^not | break my back,| to heal his fin||ger.
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      Immed|iate are | my needs,| and my | relief
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      Must^not | be tossed | and turned | to me | in words,
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      But find | supply | immed|iate. Get | you gone,
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      Put^on | a most | impor|tunate / aspect,
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      A vis|age of | demand:| for I | do fear
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      When eve|ry feath|er sticks | in his / own wing,
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      Lord Tim/on will | be left | a nak|ed gull,
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      Which^flash|es now | a phoe|nix, get | you gone.
 
CAPHIS
I go sir.
 
SENATOR
         ,
      I go | sir?
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                 Take | the bonds | along | with you,
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      And have | the dates | in. Come.
 
CAPHIS
                                           ,
                                       I will | sir.
 
SENATOR
                                                       ,
                                                      Go.
 
[Exeunt]

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