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The woods. Before Timon's cave.
[Enter Poet and Painter, TIMON watching them from his cave]
PAINTER
As I took note of the place, it cannot be far where he abides.
POET
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What's to | be thought | of him? \\
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Does the | rumor | hold for | true,
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That he's | so full | of gold?
PAINTER
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Certain. (tetra with prev)
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Alci|biades | reports it:| Phrynia and |
Timan||dra
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Had | gold of | him. He / likewise | enriched
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Poor strag/gling | soldiers,| with great |
quanti||ty.
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'Tis | said, he | gave un|to his | steward
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A might|y sum.
POET
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Then this | breaking | of his,
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Has been | but a try | for his / friends?
PAINTER
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Noth|ing else:
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You shall | see him | a palm | in Ath|ens again,
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,
And flour|ish with | the high|est: \\
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Therefore*,| 'tis not | amiss,| we tend|er our
loves
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To him,| in this | supposed | distress | of his:
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It will show | honest|ly in | us,
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And is ver|y like|ly to load | our pur|poses
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With what | they tra/vail for, \\
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If it be | a just | and true | report,|| that
goes
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Of his hav|ing.
POET
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What | have you now
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To present | unto | him?
PAINTER
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Noth|ing at | this^time
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But my | visi|tation:| only I will | promise him
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An ex|cellent piece.
POET
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I must | serve him so too;
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Tell him | of an in|tent that's | coming | toward
him.
PAINTER
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Good as | the best. \\
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Promi|sing, is | the ve|ry air | of the time;
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It op|ens the eyes | of ex|pecta|tion.
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Perfor|mance, is | ever the | duller | for his
act,
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And but | in the plain|er and simp|ler kind | of
people,
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The deed | of say|ing is / quite out | of use.
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To prom|ise, is / most court|ly and fash|ionable;
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Perfor|mance, is | a kind | of will | or
test||ament
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Which^arg|ues a great | sickness | in his ||
judgment
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That makes it.
[TIMON comes from his cave, behind]
TIMON
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Excel|lent work|man,
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Thou canst | not paint | a man | so bad
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As is | thyself.
POET
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I am | thinking (tetra with prev)
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What I | shall say | I have pro|vided | for him:
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It must | be a pers|onat|ing of | himself:
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A sat|ire against | the soft|ness of pro|sperity,
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With a dis|covery | of the in|finite flat|teries
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That fol|low youth | and op|ulency.
TIMON
, , ->
Must thou || needs
,
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Stand / for a | villain in | thine own work?
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Wilt thou | whip thine | own faults in oth|er
men?
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Do so,/ I have | gold for thee.
POET
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Nay let's^|seek him.
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Then do | we sin | against | our own | estate,
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T T T
When we | may* prof|it meet,| and come too late.
PAINTER
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True: \\
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When the / day serves | before black-corn|ered
night;
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Find what | thou wantst,| by free | and of|fered
light.
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Come.|
TIMON
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I'll meet | you at | the turn:
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What a god's gold,| that he | is worsh|ipped
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In a bas|er temp|le, than / where swine | feed?
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'Tis thou | that riggst | the bark,| and plowst |
the foam,
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Settlest | admi|red reve|rence in | a slave,
,
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To thee | be worsh|ipped, and | thy saints | for
aye:
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Be crowned | with plagues,| that thee | alone |
obey.
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,
Fit I | meet them. \\
[Coming forward]
POET
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Hail | worthy | Timon.
PAINTER
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Our late | noble | master.
TIMON
T T T
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Have I once | lived (tri with prev
two)
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To see two hon|est men?
POET
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Sir:|
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Having | often of your | open | bounty | tasted,
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Hearing | you were re|tired, your | friends
fallen off,
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Whose* thank|less na|tures (O | abhor|red
spirits)
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Not all | the whips | of heaven,| are large |
enough.
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What,| to you, \\
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Whose star-|like noble/ness gave^|life and |
influence
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To their / whole being?| I am rapt | and can|not
cov||er
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The mons|trous bulk | of this | ingrat|itude
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With an|y size | of words.
TIMON
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Let it | go,
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Naked | men may see it | the bet|ter:
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You that are | honest,| by* be|ing what | you
are,
,
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Make them | best seen, and known.
PAINTER
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He, and | myself
,
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Have tra|vailed in | the great | shower of | your
gifts,
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And sweet|ly felt it.
TIMON
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Aye, you | are hon|est men.
PAINTER
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We are | hither | come \\
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To of|fer you | our serv|ice.
TIMON
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Most | honest || men:
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Why how | shall I | requite | you?
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T . T
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Can you | eat roots, and drink | cold water, no?
BOTH
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What we | can do, \\
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We'll do | to do | you serv|ice.
TIMON
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You're hon|est men,
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You've* heard | that I | have gold, \\
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I am sure | you^have: speak truth,| you're*
hon|est men. ??
PAINTER
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So it is | said my | noble | lord, but |
therefore*
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Came not my | friend, nor I.|
TIMON
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Good honest men:| thou drawst | a count|erfeit
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Best in all Ath|ens, thou'rt | indeed | the best,
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Thou count|erfeitst | most^live|ly.
PAINTER
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So*, so,| my lord.
TIMON
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Eene* so | sir as | I say.| And for thy |
fiction,
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Why* thy / verse swells | with stuff | so fine |
and smooth, ??
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That thou | art ev|en nat|ural in | thine^art.
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But for all this |(my hon|est-nat|ured friends)
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I must | needs^say | you have | a lit|tle fault,
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Marry |'tis not | monstrous | in you,| neither
wish I ????
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T . T
You take | much pains to mend.
BOTH
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Beseech | your hon||or
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To make | it known | to us.
TIMON
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You'll take | it ill.
BOTH
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Most^thank|fully,| my lord.
TIMON
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Will you | indeed?
BOTH
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Doubt it not worth|y lord. \\
TIMON
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There's^never | a one | of you | but trusts | a
knave,
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That might|ily | deceives | you.
BOTH
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Do we,| my lord?
TIMON
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Aye, and | you hear | him cog, \\
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See him | dissem|ble, \\
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Know his | gross patch/ery,| love him,| feed him,
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Keep in | your bos|om, yet | remain | assured
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That he's | a made-up vil|lain. \\
PAINTER
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I know | none such, my lord.
POET
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Nor^I.
TIMON
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Look you,
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I love | you well,| I'll give | you gold \\
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Rid me | these* vil|lains from | your comp|anies;
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Hang them,| or stab | them, drown | them in | a
draft,
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Confound | them by / some course,| and come | to
me,
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I'll give | you gold | enough.
BOTH
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Name them | my lord,| let's^know | them.
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TIMON
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You that way,| and you | this:|
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But two | in comp|any: \\
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Each man apart,| all sing/le, and | alone,
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Yet an arch-vil|lain keeps | him comp|any:
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If where | thou art,| two vil/lains shall | not
be,
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Come not | near him.| If thou | wouldst not |
reside
,
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But where | one villain is,| then him |
aban||don.
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Hence,| pack, there's gold,| you came | for gold
|| ye slaves:
2
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You have worked | for me,| there's^pay|ment,
hence,
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You are | an al|chemist,| make^gold | of that:
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Out | rascal | dogs.
[Beats them out, and then retires to his cave. Enter FLAVIUS and two
Senators]
FLAVIUS
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It is in | vain that | you would | speak with | Timon:
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For he | is set | so^on|ly to | himself,
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That noth|ing but | himself,| which looks |
like^man,
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Is friend|ly with | him.
FIRST SENATOR
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Bring | us to | his cave.
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It is our | part and | promise | to the
A|thenians
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To speak | with Tim|on.
SECOND SENATOR
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At / all times | alike
,
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Men are | not still the same:| 'twas time | and
griefs
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That framed | him thus.| Time with | his fair|er
hand,
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Offering | the for|tunes of | his form|er days,
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The form|er man | may make | him: bring | us to
|| him
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And chanced | it as | it may.
FLAVIUS
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Here is | his cave:
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Peace and con|tent be | here. Lord^|Timon,|
Timon,
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Look^out,| and speak | to friends:| the
Ath|enians
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By* two | of their most | reverend | senate |
greet thee:
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Speak to | them nob|le Tim|on. \\
[TIMON comes from his cave]
TIMON
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Thou sun | that com|forts burn, \\
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Speak and | be hanged:
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For each | true word, a blist|er, and / each
false
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Be as | caute|rizing | to the root | of the
tongue,
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Consum|ing it | with speak|ing.
FIRST SENATOR
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Worth|y Tim||on.
TIMON
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Of none | but such | as you, \\
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And you | of Tim|on. \\
FIRST SENATOR
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The sen|ators of Ath|ens, greet | thee Tim|on.
TIMON
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I thank || them,
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And | would send | them back | the plague,|
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Could I | but catch | it for | them.
FIRST SENATOR
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O | forget
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What we | are sor|ry for | ourselves | in thee:
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The sen|ators,| with one | consent | of love,
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Entreat | thee back | to Ath|ens, who | have
thought
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On spec|ial dig|nities,| which^vac|ant lie
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For thy / best use | and wear|ing.
SECOND SENATOR
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They | confess
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Toward thee, forget|fulness / too gene|ral gross:
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Which^now | the pub|lic bod|y, which |
doth^sel||dom
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Play | the recan|ter, feel|ing in | itself
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A lack | of Tim|on's aid,| hath^sense | withal
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Of its own | fail, re|straining | aid to | Timon,
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And send | forth us, to make | their sor|rowed
render,
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Together,| with a rec|ompense | more fruitful
????
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Than their | offense | can weigh | down by | the
dram,
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Aye^even | such^heaps | and sums | of love | and
wealth,
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As shall | to thee blot out,| what wrongs | were
theirs,
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And write | in thee | the fig|ures of | their
love,
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Ever | to read | them thine.
TIMON
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You witch | me in it;
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Surprise | me to | the ve|ry brink | of tears;
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Lend me | a fool's | heart, and | a wom|an's
eyes,
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And I'll | beweep | these* com|forts, worth|y
sen||ators.
FIRST SENATOR
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Therefore | so please | thee to | return | with
us,
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And of | our Ath|ens, thine | and ours | to take
,
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The cap|tainship,| thou shalt*| be met | with
thanks,
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Allowed | with abs|olute power,| and thy / good
name
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Live with auth|ority:| so* soon | we shall /
drive back
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Of Al|cibi|ades | the approach|es wild,
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Who like a boar | too sav/age, doth | root up
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His count|ry's peace.
SECOND SENATOR
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And shakes | his threat|ening sword
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Against | the walls | of Ath|ens.
FIRST SENATOR
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2->
There|fore* Tim||on.
TIMON
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Well sir,| I will:| therefore | I will | sir
thus:
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If Al|cibia|des kill | my count|rymen,
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Let Al|cibia|des know | this of | Timon,
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That Tim|on cares | not. But if he sack fair
Athens, ????
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And take | our good|ly aged | men by | the
beards,
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Giving | our ho|ly vir|gins to | the stain
x , 2
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Of contu|melious,| beastly,| mad-brained war: ??
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Then let | him know,| and tell | him Tim|on
speaks it,
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In pit|y of | our age|d, and | our youth,
2 ,
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T T T
I cannot | choose but | tell him that | I care
not,
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And let | him take it | at worst:| for their
knives | care* not,
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While you | have throats | to ans|wer. For |
myself,
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There's^not | a whit|tle, in | the unrul|y camp,
,
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But I | do prize | it at | my love,| before
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The reve|rendst throat | in Ath|ens. So I / leave
you
,
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To the | protec|tion of | the pros|perous gods,
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As thieves | to keep|ers.
FLAVIUS
, T T
. T
Stay | not, all's in vain.
TIMON
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Why^I | was writ|ing of | my ep|itaph,
, 2
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It will be | seen to|morrow.| My long | sickness
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Of health,| and liv|ing, now | begins | to mend,
,
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And noth|ing brings | me all | things. Go, live
still, ????
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Be Al|cibia|des your | plague; you his,
,
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And last | so* long | enough.
FIRST SENATOR
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We speak | in vain.
TIMON
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But yet | I love | my count|ry, and | am not
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One that | rejoic|es in | the com|mon wreck,
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As com|mon bruit | doth put it.
FIRST SENATOR
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That's well spoke.
TIMON
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Commend | me to | my lov|ing count|rymen.
FIRST SENATOR
These words become your lips as they pass through them.
SECOND SENATOR
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And ent|er in | our ears,| like^great |
triumph||ers
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In | their applaud|ing gates.
TIMON
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Commend | me to them,
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And tell | them, that | to ease | them of | their
griefs,
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Their fears | of hos|tile strokes,| their aches,|
losses,
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Their pangs | of love,| with oth|er in|cident
throes
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That nat|ure's frag|ile ves|sel doth | sustain
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In life's | uncert|ain voy|age, I | will some |
kindness | do them,
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I'll teach | them to | prevent | wild
Al|cibi|ades'| wrath. (sept w prev)
FIRST SENATOR
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I like | this^well,| he will | return | again.
TIMON
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I have | a tree | which^grows | here in | my
close,
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That mine^/own use | invites | me to / cut down,
,
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And short|ly must | I fell | it. Tell | my
friends,
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Tell^Ath|ens, in | the seq|uence of | degree,
,
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From high | to low | throughout,| that who|so
please
,
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To stop | afflic|tion, let | him take | his
haste;
,
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Come* hith|er ere | my tree | hath felt | the
axe,
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And hang | himself.| I pray | you do | my
greet||ing.
FLAVIUS
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Trouble | him no | further,| thus you | still
shall
,
Find him. \\
TIMON
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Come not^|to me a|gain, but | say to | Athens,
, 2
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Timon hath | made his | ever|lasting | mansion
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Upon | the beach|ed verge | of the / salt flood,
,
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Who once | a day | with his | embos|sed froth
, 2
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The turb|ulent surge | shall cov|er; thith|er come,
,
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And let | my grave|stone be*| your or|acle:
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Lips, let | sour* words | go by,| and lang|uage
end:
,
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, ,
What is | amiss,| plague and | infec|tion mend.
, , T
T . T ,
Graves on/ly be | men's works, and death | their
gain;
T T .
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,
Sun, hide thy* beams,| Timon | hath done | his
reign.
[Retires to his cave]
FIRST SENATOR
His discontents are unremoveably coupled to nature.
SECOND SENATOR
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Our hope | in him | is dead:| let us | return,
,
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And strain | what oth|er means | is left | unto
us
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In our / dear per|il.
FIRST SENATOR
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It re//quires swift foot.
[Exeunt]