But rather one that smiles and still invites Caph. Enter Caphis. Here, sir; what is your pleasure? Sen. Get on your cloak, and haste you to Lord Timon; 20 Importune him for my moneys; be not ceased A visage of demand; for, I do fear, 30 18. "found his state in safety"; Hanmer's reading; Ff., "sound ."; Capell, "found on safety"; Capell conj. "find in safety."-I. G. 22. "fracted dates" are bonds that have run past their date unpaid, and so are broken.-H. N. H. 30. To catch the full sense of this line, the reader should remember that in the Poet's time "his" was continually used for its, as in the English Bible; its not being then a legitimate word.-H. N. H. Which flashes now a phoenix. Get you gone. Caph. I go, sir. A hall in Timon's house. Enter Flavius, with many bills in his hand. Flavius. No care, no stop! so senseless of expense, That he will neither know how to maintain it, Nor cease his flow of riot: takes no account How things go from him; nor resumes no care Of what is to continue: never mind Was to be so unwise, to be so kind. What shall be done? he will not hear till feel: I must be round with him, now he comes from hunting. 32. "which" for who; referring to Timon, not to gull.-H. N. H. 6. "Was to be"; Heath conj. "Was made to be"; Long MS., "“Was”; Mason conj. "Was formed"; Singer MS., "Was truly"; Collier MS., "Was surely."—I. G. 10. "Varro"; servants were often addressed by the name of their masters.-H. N. H. Var. Serv. Is 't not your business too? Caph. It is: and yours too, Isidore? It is so. Caph. Would we were all discharged! Var. Serv. Caph. Here comes the lord. I fear it. Enter Timon, Alcibiades, Lords, and others. will? Tim. So soon as dinner 's done, we 'll forth again, Caph. Tim. Go to my steward. Of Athens here, my lord. Caph. Please it your lordship, he hath put me off Tim. Mine honest friend, Tim. 14. "we'll forth again”; that is, to hunting; in our author's time it Iwas the custom to hunt as well after dinner as before. Thus in Tancred and Gismunda, 1592: "He means this evening in the park to hunt." Queen Elizabeth, during her stay at Kenilworth Castle, always hunted in the afternoon.-H. N. H. 20. "To the succession," etc.; to the time of the new moon.-C. H. H. 23. "suit"; accord.-C. H. H. Isid. Serv. From Isidore; he humbly prays your speedy payment. Caph. If you did know, my lord, my master's wants, Var. Serv. 'Twas due on forfeiture, my lord, six weeks and past. 29 Isid. Serv. Your steward puts me off, my lord, and I Am sent expressly to your lordship. I do beseech you, good my lords, keep on; [Exeunt Alcibiades, Lords, &c. [To Flav.] Come hither: pray you, How goes the world, that I am thus encounter'd With clamorous demands of date-broke bonds, Flav. Please you, gentlemen, 40 Tim. Do so, my friends. See them well enter tain❜d. 'Flav. Pray, draw near. Enter Apemantus and Fool. [Exit. [Exit. 38. The original reads,-"With clamorous demands of debt, broken bonds." The emendation is Malone's. Date-broke bonds agrees well with fracted dates, in the preceding scene. The occurrence of debts in the next line is much in favor of the change.-H. N. H. Caph. Stay, stay, here comes the fool with Ape mantus: let's ha' some sport with 'em. Apem. Dost dialogue with thy shadow? Apem. No, 'tis to thyself. [To the Fool] Isid. Serv. There's the fool hangs on your back Apem. No, thou stand'st single, thou 'rt not on him yet. Caph. Where's the fool now? 50 Apem. He last asked the question. Poor 60 rogues, and usurers' men! bawds between gold and want! All Serv. What are we, Apemantus? Apem. Asses. All Serv. Why? Apem. That you ask me what you are, and do not know yourselves. Speak to 'em, fool. Fool. How do you, gentlemen? All Serv. Gramercies, good fool: how does your mistress? Fool. She's e'en setting on water to scald such 70 69. "Gramercies"; this word, from the French grand merci, meaning literally great thanks, is commonly used in the singular, as a few lines below.-H. N. H. 71-73. Evidently alluding to the old method of scalding chickens, to get the feathers off. And with this is joined a reference to a certain disease and to the sweating tub used for the curing of it; which tub, according to Randle Holme, persons "were put into, not to boyl up to an heighth, but to parboyl."-The character of the |