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The same. A hall in Timon's house.
[Enter two Servants of Varro, and the Servant of LUCIUS, meeting TITUS,
HORTENSIUS, and other Servants of TIMON's creditors, waiting his coming out]
VARRO'S FIRST SERVANT
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Well* met,| good* mor|row Titus | and
Hor|tensius.
TITUS
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The like | to you kind Var|ro. \\
HORTENSIUS
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Lucius,| what do | we meet | togeth|er?
LUCILIUS' SERVANT
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Aye,|| and I / think one | business | does*
command | us all.
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For mine | is mon|ey.
TITUS
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So | is theirs,| and ours.
LUCILIUS' SERVANT
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And Sir | Philo|tus too.
PHILOTUS
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Good^day | at once.
LUCILIUS' SERVANT
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Welcome | good broth|er. \\
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What do | you think | the hour?
PHILOTUS
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Laboring | for nine.
LUCILIUS' SERVANT
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So much?
PHILOTUS
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Is not | my lord |
seen yet*?
LUCILIUS' SERVANT
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Not^yet.
PHILOTUS
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I wond|er on it,| he was wont | to shine | at
seven.
LUCILIUS' SERVANT
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Aye, but | the days | are waxed | shorter | with
him:
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You must | consid|er, that | a prod|igal course
Is like the sun's, but not like his recoverable, I fear: 'tis deepest winter
in Lord Timon's purse, that is: one may reach deep enough, and yet find
little.
PHILOTUS
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I am | of your | fear, for | that.|
TITUS
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I'll show | you how | to observe | a strange |
event:
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Your lord | sends now for mon|ey?
HORTENSIUS
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Most^true,| he does.
TITUS
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And he / wears jew|els now | of Tim|on's gift,
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For which | I wait | for mon|ey.
HORTENSIUS
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It | is a||gainst my | heart.
LUCILIUS' SERVANT
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Mark how strange | it shows,
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Timon | in this,| should pay | more than | he
owes:
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And eene | as if | your lord | should wear |
rich^jewels,
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And send | for mon|ey for 'em.
HORTENSIUS
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I'm wear|y of this charge,
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The gods | can wit|ness: \\
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I know | my lord | hath spent | of Tim|on's
wealth,
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And now | ingrat|itude,| makes^it worse | than
stealth.
VARRO'S FIRST SERVANT
Yes, mine's three | thousand | crowns: What's yours?
LUCILIUS' SERVANT
Five thousand mine.
VARRO'S FIRST SERVANT
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'Tis much | deep, and | it should | seem by | the
sum
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Your mast|er's con|fidence | was a/bove mine,
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Else^sure|ly his | had eq|ualled. \\
TITUS
One of Lord Timon's men.
LUCILIUS' SERVANT
Flaminius? Sir, a word: pray is my lord ready to come forth?
FLAMINIUS
No, indeed he is not.
TITUS
We attend his lordship: pray signify so much.
FLAMINIUS
I need not tell him that, he knows you are too diligent.
[Exit. Enter FLAVIUS in a cloak, muffled]
LUCILIUS' SERVANT
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Ha: is | not^that | his stew|ard muf|fled so?
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He goes | away | in a cloud:| call him,| call
him.
TITUS
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Do you / hear, sir?
VARRO'S SECOND SERVANT
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By your / leave, sir.
FLAVIUS
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What do | ye ask | of me,| my friend.
(tetra with prev)
TITUS
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We wait | for cert|ain mon|ey here,| sir.
FLAVIUS
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Aye, if money were as certain as your waiting,
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'Twere sure | enough. \\
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Why then | preferred | you not | your sums | and
bills
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When your / false mast|ers eat | of my / lord's
meat?
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Then they | could smile,| and fawn | upon | his
debts,
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And take down the^inte|rest in|to their
glut|tonous maws. ??
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You do | yourselves | but wrong | to stir | me
up,
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Let me pass | quiet|ly: \\
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Believe it,| my lord | and I | have made | an
end,
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I have | no more | to reck|on, he | to spend.
LUCILIUS' SERVANT
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Aye, but this | answer | will not serve.
FLAVIUS
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If 'twill | not serve,| 'tis not | so base | as
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For you | serve | knaves. \\
[Exit]
VARRO'S FIRST SERVANT
How? What does his cashiered worship mutter?
VARRO'S SECOND SERVANT
No matter what, he's poor, and that's revenge enough. Who can speak broader,
than he that has no house to put his head in? Such may rail against great
buildings.
TITUS
Oh here's Servilius: now we shall know some answer.
SERVILIUS
If I might beseech you gentlemen, to repair some other hour, I should derive
much from it. For take it of my soul, my lord leans wondrously to
discontent: his comfortable temper has forsook him, he's much out of health,
and keeps his chamber.
LUCILIUS' SERVANT
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Many | do keep | their chamb|ers, are / not sick:
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And if | it be | so far | beyond | his health,
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Methinks | he should | the soon|er pay | his
debts,
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And make | a clear | way to | the gods.
SERVILIUS
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Good gods.
TITUS
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We can|not take | this for | answer,| sir.
FLAMINIUS
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[Within] Servil|ius help,| my lord,| my lord.|
[Enter TIMON, in a rage, FLAMINIUS following]
TIMON
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What, are my | doors op|posed a|gainst my |
passage?
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Have^I | been ev|er free,| and must | my house
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Be my | reten|tive en|emy?| My jail?
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The place | which I | have feas|ted, does | it
now
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(Like^all | mankind) show |me an / iron heart?
LUCILIUS' SERVANT
Put in now Titus.
TITUS
My lord, here is my bill.
LUCILIUS' SERVANT
Here's mine.
HORTENSIUS
And mine, my lord.
VARRO'S SECOND SERVANT
And ours, my lord.
PHILOTUS
All our bills.
TIMON
Knock me down with 'em, cleave me to the girdle.
LUCILIUS' SERVANT
Alas, my lord.
TIMON
Cut my heart in sums.
TITUS
Mine, fifty talents.
TIMON
Tell out my blood.
LUCILIUS' SERVANT
Five thousand crowns, my lord.
TIMON
Five thousand drops pays that.
What yours? And yours?
VARRO'S FIRST SERVANT
My lord.
VARRO'S SECOND SERVANT
My lord.
TIMON
Tear me, take me, and the gods fall upon you.
[Exit]
HORTENSIUS
'Faith, I perceive our masters may throw their caps at their money, these
debts may well be called desperate ones, for a madman owes 'em.
[Exeunt. Enter TIMON and FLAVIUS]
TIMON
They have eene put my breath from me the slaves. Creditors? devils.
FLAVIUS
My dear lord.
TIMON
What if it should be so?
FLAVIUS
My lord.
TIMON
I'll have it so. My steward?
FLAVIUS
Here my lord.
TIMON
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So fit|ly? Go,| bid^all | my friends | again,
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Lucius,| Lucullus,| and Sempron|ius Vilor|xa:
all,
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I'll once | more feast the ras|cals. \\
FLAVIUS
O my lord, you only speak from your distracted soul; there's not so much
left to, furnish out a moderate table.
TIMON
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Be it | not in | thy care:
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Go I | charge thee,| invite | them all,| let in |
the tide ????
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Of knaves once more:| my cook | and I'll |
provide.
[Exeunt]