Serv. My lord, there are certain nobles of the senate newly alighted and come to visit you. Tim. They are fairly welcome. Flav. I beseech your honor, vouchsafe me a word; it does concern you near. Tim. Near! why, then, another time I 'll hear thee: I prithee, let's be provided to show them entertainment. Flav. [Aside] I scarce know how. Enter another Servant. 191 Sec. Serv. May it please your honor, Lord Lucius Enter a third Servant. How now! what news? Third Serv. Please you, my lord, that honorable gentleman, Lord Lucullus, entreats your company to-morrow to hunt with him, and 200 has sent your honor two brace of greyhounds. Tim. I'll hunt with him; and let them be received, Not without fair reward. Flav. [Aside] What will this come to? He commands us to provide and give great gifts, and all out of an empty coffer: Nor will he know his purse, or yield me this, To show him what a beggar his heart is, Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state 210 That what he speaks is all in debt, he owes Well, would I were gently put out of office, Happier is he that has no friend to feed Than such that do e'en enemies exceed. Tim. [Exit. You do yourselves Much wrong, you bate too much of your own merits. Here, my lord, a trifle of our love. Third Lord. O, he's the very soul of bounty! good words the other day of a bay courser I rode on. 'Tis yours, because you liked it. Third Lord. O, I beseech you, pardon me, my lord, in that. 220 Tim. You may take my word, my lord; I know, no man can justly praise, but what he does 230 affect: I weigh my friend's affection with mine own: I'll tell you true. I'll call to you. All Lords. O, none so welcome. Tim. I take all and your several visitations Thou art a soldier, therefore seldom rich; It comes in charity to thee: for all thy living Alcib. Aye, defiled land, my lord. First Lord. We are so virtuously bound Tim. Am I to you. Sec. Lord. So infinitely endear'd Tim. All to you. Lights, more lights! First Lord. The best of happiness, And so 242 Honor and fortunes, keep with you, Lord Tim. Ready for his friends. 'Apem. [Exeunt all but Apemantus and Timon. Serving of becks and jutting-out of bums! Methinks, false hearts should never have sound Thus honest fools lay out their wealth on cour t'sies. Tim. Now, Apemantus, if thou wert not sullen, I would be good to thee. Apem. No, I'll nothing: for if I should be bribed too, there would be none left to rail upon thee; and then thou wouldst sin the 260 faster. Thou givest so long, Timon, I fear me thou wilt give away thyself in paper shortly: what needs these feasts, pomps and Tim. Nay, an you begin to rail on society once, O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! 270 [Exit. ACT SECOND SCENE I A Senator's house. Enter a Senator, with papers in his hand. Sen. And late five thousand: to Varro and to Isidore He owes nine thousand; besides my former sum, Of raging waste? It cannot hold; it will not. 10 9. “it foals me straight"; we have the same thought, differently expressed, before: "No gift to him but breeds the giver a return exceeding all use of quittance."—H. N. H. 10. "And able horses"; so Ff. 1, 2; Ff. 3, 4, "An able horse"; Theobald, "ten able horse"; Jackson conj. "Aye, able horses"; Collier MS., "a stable o' horses"; Singer conj. "Two able horses."-I. G. "no porter," etc.; sternness was the characteristic of a porter. There appeared at Kenilworth Castle, 1575, “"a porter tall of parson, big of lim, and stearn of countinauns." And in Dekker's play of A Knight's Conjuring: "You mistake, if you imagine that Plutoe's porter is like one of those big fellows that stand like gyants at lordes gates. Yet hee's surly as those key-turners are."-H. N. H. XXXIII-3 33 |