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Before the walls of Athens.
[Trumpets sound. Enter ALCIBIADES with his powers]
ALCIBIADES
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Sound to | this cow|ard, and | lasciv|ious town,
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Our ter|rible | approach. \\
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Till now | you have / gone on,| and filled | the
time
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With all | licen|tious meas|ure, mak|ing your
wills
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The scope of | justice.| Till now,| myself | and
such
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As slept | within | the shad|ow of | your power
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Have wand|ered with | our trav|ersed arms,| and
breathed
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Our suf|ferance vain|ly: now | the time | is
flush,
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When crouch|ing mar|row in | the bear|er strong
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Cries (of it|self) no more:| now* breath|less
wrong,
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Shall sit | and pant | in your / great chairs |
of ease,
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And purs|y in|solence | shall break | his wind
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With fear | and hor|rid flight.
FIRST SENATOR
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Noble,| and young;
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When thy / first griefs | were but | a mere |
conceit,
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Ere* thou | hadst^power,| or we | had cause | of
fear,
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We sent | to thee,| to give | thy rag|es balm,
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To wipe out our | ingrat|itude,| with loves
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Above | their quan|tity.
SECOND SENATOR
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So did | we woo
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Transfor|med Tim|on to | our cit|y's love
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By hum|ble mes|sage, and | by prom|ised means:
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We were / not all | unkind,| nor all | deserve
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The com|mon stroke | of war.
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These^walls | of ours,
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Were not | erec|ted by / their hands,| from whom
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You have | received | your griefs:| nor are |
they such,
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That these | great towers, troph|ies, and schools
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For priv|ate faults | in them.
SECOND SENATOR
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Nor are they | living
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Who were | the mot|ives that | you first | went
out,
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(Shame that | they want|ed, cun|ning in | excess)
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Hath broke | their hearts.| | March, noble
lord,
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Into | our cit|y with | thy ban|ners spread,
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By dec|ima|tion and | a tith|ed death;
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If thy | reven|ges hung|er for | that food
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Which nat|ure loathes,| take thou the dest|ined
tenth,
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And by | the haz|ard of | the spot|ted die,
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Let^die | the spot|ted.
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All | have not | offen||ded:
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For | those that | were, it is | not square to
take
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On those | that are,| reven|ges: crimes,| like
lands
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Are not | inher|ited, then | dear coun/tryman,
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Bring in | thy ranks,| but leave | without | thy
rage,
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Spare thy | Athen|ian cradle,| and those kin
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Which in the | bluster | of thy | wrath must fall
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With those | that have | offend|ed. Like a |
shepherd,
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Approach | the fold,| and cull | the infec|ted
forth,
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But kill | not all | togeth|er.
SECOND SENATOR
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What | thou wilt,
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Thou rath|er shalt | enforce | it with | thy
smile,
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Than hew | to it, with | thy sword.
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Set^but | thy foot
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Against | our ram|pired gates, and they |
shall^ope:
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So thou | wilt send | thy gent|le heart | before,
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To say | thou'lt ent|er friend|ly.
SECOND SENATOR
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Throw | thy glove,
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Or an|y tok|en of | thine^hon|or else,
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That thou | wilt use | the wars | as thy |
redress,
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And not | as our | confus|ion: all | thy powers
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Shall make | their har|bor in | our town,| till
we
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Have sealed | thy full | desire.
ALCIBIADES
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Then there's | my glove,
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Descend | and op|en your / uncharged | ports,
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Those en|emies | of Tim|on's, and | mine^own
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Whom you | yourselves | shall set | out for |
reproof,
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Fall and no more;| and, to | atone | your fears
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With my / more nob|le mean|ing, not | a man
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Shall pass | his quart|er, or | offend | the
stream
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Of reg|ular just|ice in | your cit|y's bounds,
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But shall | be rend|ered to | your pub|lic laws
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At heav|iest ans|wer.
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'Tis / most nob|ly spoken.
ALCIBIADES
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Descend,| and keep | your words. \\
[The Senators descend, and open the gates. Enter Soldier]
SOLDIER
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My nob|le gen|eral,| Timon | is dead,
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Entombed | upon | the ver|y hem | of the sea,
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And on | his gravestone, this | insculp|ture
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With wax | I brought | away:| whose soft |
impres||sion
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Int|erprets | for my | poor ig/norance.
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'Here lies a wretch|ed corse,| | of wretch|ed
soul | bereft,|
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Seek not my | name: a | plague con|sume you,|
wicked | caitiffs | left:|
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Here lie I | Timon,| who a|live, all^|living |
men did | hate:
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Pass by, and curse | thy fill,| but pass | and
stay | not here | thy gait.|
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These^well | express | in thee | thy lat|ter
spirits:
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Though thou | abhorredst | in us | our hum|an
griefs,
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Scornedst our | brain's flow, and those | our
drop|lets, which
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From nig|gard nat|ure fall;| yet rich | conceit
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Taught thee | to make vast Nep|tune weep | for
aye
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On thy / low grave,| on faults | forgiv|en. Dead
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Is nob|le Tim|on, of / whose mem|ory
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Hereaft|er more.| Bring me | into your | city,
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And I | will use | the ol|ive, with | my sword:
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Make^war | breed peace; make | peace stint war,
make each ????
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Prescribe | to oth|er, as | each^oth|er's leech.
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Let our | drums | strike. \\
[Exeunt]