Serv. If I might befeech you, gentlemen, Tit. And he wears jewels now of Timon's gift, Derive much from it: for take it on my foul For which I wait for money. Hor. It is against my heart. Luc. Mark, how ftrange it fhows, Timon in this fhould pay more than he owes : Luc. Five thousand mine. [the fum, Var. 'Tis much deep and it should feem by Enter Flaminius. Tit. One of lord Timon's men. My lord leans wond'rously to difcontent: Tit. We cannot take this for anfwer, fir. Enter Timon, in a rage. Tim. What, are my doors oppos'd against my pallage? Have I been ever free, and must my house Be my retentive enemy, my jail? The place, which I have feafted, does it now, Luc. Flaminius! fir, a word: Pray, is my lord Like all mankind, fhew me an iron heart? Ready to come forth? Luc. Put in now, Titus. Tit. My lord, here is my bill. Luc. Here's mine. Var. And mine, my lord. Caph. And ours, my lord. Phi. All our bills. i. c. like him in blaze and fplendour. zi. e. of this commiffion. 3 His may refer to mine; as if he had faid: Your malter's confidence was above my mafter's; elfe furely his, i. e. the fum demanded from my mafter (for that is the laft antecedent) had been equal to the fum demanded from yours. 4 Timon quibbles. They prefent their written bills; he catches at the word, and alludes to the bills, or battle-axes, which the ancient foldiery cared, and were still ufed by the watch in Shakspeare's time. the flaves: Creditors!- -devils. Flaw. My dear lord, Tim. What if it fhould be fo? Fla. My lord, Tim. I'll have it fo:-My fteward! Flav. Here, my lord. Tim. So fitly? Go, hid all my friends again, Flav. O my lord, You only fpeak from your diftracted foul; T. Be it not in thy care; go, I charge thee, invite them all: let in the tide Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide. [Exeunt. SCE NE V. The Senate-boufe. Senators, and Alcibiades. And with fuch fober and unnoted 2 paffion 1 Sen. You undergo too strict a paradox 4, Upon the head of valour; which, indeed, If wrongs be evils, and enforce us kill, Ale. My lord, 1 Sen. You cannot make grofs fins look clear; To revenge is no valour, but to bear. Alc. My lords, then, under favour, pardon me, Why do fond men expofe themfelves to battle, The afs, more captain than the lion; and the fellow, If wildom be in fuffering. O my lords, Who cannot condemn rafhnefs in cold blood? To kill, I grant, is fin's extremest guit ; 1 Sen. My lord, you have my voice to 't; the To be in anger, is impiety; Alc. I am an humble fuitor to your virtues; For pity is the virtue of the law, It pleases time and fortune, to lie heavy Of comely virtues. Nor did he foil the fact with cowardice; He did oppofe his foe: But who is man, that is not angry? 2 Sen. You breathe in vain. Alc. In vain? his fervice done Ale. Why, I fay, my lords, he has done far In the lait conflict, and made plenteous wounds? That often drowns him, and takes his valour prifoner:* i. e. putting this action of his, which was pre-determined by fate, out of the queftion. noted pupon means, perhaps, an uncommon command of his pallion, fuch a one as has not hitherto been outerved. 3 . e. manage his anger. 4 You undertake a paradox too hard. have we to do in the field? 6 Gajt, for aggravation, according to Warburton. thinks that gafl here means tefkets, and that the allufion may be to a fudden zuft of wind. meaning is, Icail mercy herfil to witnefs, that defenfive violence is juft. Ale. Hard fate! he might have died in war. 1 Sen. We are for law, he dies; urge it no more, 2 Sen. How? Alc. Call me to your remembrances. 3 Sen. What? Alc. I cannot think, but your age has forgot me ; 1 Sen. Do you dare our anger? "Tis in few words, but fpacious in effect; We banish thee for ever. Alc. Banifh me? Banifh your dotage; banish ufury, [thee, 1 Sen. If, after two days' fhine, Athens contain [Exeunt Senate. Alc. Now the gods keep you old enough; that you may live Only in bone, that none may look on you! I am worfe than mad: I have kept back their foes, [Exit. 1 Sen. The good time of day to you, fir. nourable lord did but try us this other day. I Sen. Upon that were my thoughts tiring 4, when we encounter'd: I hope, it is not so low feem in the trial of his with him, as he made feveral friends. Bafe, for dishonoured. 2 Sen. It should not be, by the persuasion of his new feafting. 1 Sen. I should think fo: He hath fent me an earneft inviting, which many my near occafions did urge me to put off; but he hath conjur'd me beyond them, and I must needs appear. 2 Sen. In like manner was I in debt to my im portunate business, but he would not hear my excufe. I am forry, when he sent to borrow of me, that my provifion was out. 1 Sen. 1 am fick of that grief too, as I underftand how all things go. 2 Sen. Every man here's fo. What would he have borrow'd of you? 1 Sen. A thousand pieces. 3 Sen. He fent to me, fir,-Here he comes. Tim. With all my heart, gentlemen both :- 1 Sen. Ever at the beft, hearing well of your lordship. 2 Sen. The fwallow follows not fummer more willingly, than we your lordship. Tim. [Afide.] Nor more willingly leaves winter ; fuch fummer-birds are men.-Gentlemen, our dinner will not recompenfe this long ftay: feaft your ears with the mufick awhile; if they will fare fo harfhly as on the trumpet's found: we shall to 't prefently. 1 Sen. I hope, it remains not unkindly with your lordship, that I return'd you an empty meflenger. Tim. O, fir, let it not trouble you. 2 Sen. My noble lord,— Tim. Ah, my good friend! what cheer? [The banquet bought in. 2 Sen. My moft honourable lord, I am e'en 2 Sen. If you had fent but two hours before, 2 Sex. All cover'd dishes ! 1 Sen. Royal cheer, I warrant you. 3 Sen. Doubt not that, if money, and the feafon can yield it. 1 Sen. How do you? What's the news? 3 Sen. Alcibiades is banifh'd: Hear you of it? Both. Alcibiades banish'd! 3 Sen. 'Tis fo, be fure of it. 1 Sen. How? how? 2 Sen. I pray you, upon what? Tim. My worthy friends, will you draw near? Here's a noble 3 Sen. I'll tell you more anon. feaft toward. 2 Sen. This is the old man still. 3 Sen. Will 't hold will 't hold ? 2 Sen. It does: but time will-and fo 2 Not to fwell our fpirit, may mean, not to put ourselves into any tumour 3 i. e. the affections of the people. 4 A hawk is af rage, take our definitivè refolution. faid to tire, when the amufes herself with pecking a pheafant's wing, or any thing that puts her in ind of prey. To tire upon a thing, is therefore to be idly employed uf on it. Ggg 3 Sen. 3 Sen. I do conceive. Tim. Each man to his ftool, with that fpur as he would to the lip of his miftrefs: your diet fhall be in all places alike. Make not a city feaft of it, to let the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place: Sit, fit. The gods require our thanks. Your reeking villainy. Live loath'd, and long, Most smiling, (mooth, detested parafites, Courteous deftroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's fles 4, Cap and knee flaves, vapours, and minute-jacks 4! Of man, and beaft, the infinite malady 5 You great benefactors, Sprinkle our fociety with Cruft you quite o'er!-What, dost thou go ? thankfulness. For your own gifts, make you felves Soft, take thy phyfic first,-thou too,—and thou: prais'd: but referve ftill to give, left your deities be [Throws the difpes at them. dejpis'd. Lend to cach man enough, that one need not Stay, I will lend thee money, borrow none.lend to another: for, were your codbeads to borrow What, all in motion? Henceforth be no feast, of men, men would forfake the gods. Make the meat Whereat a villain's not a welcome guest. be beloved, more than the man that gives it. Let no Burn houfe; fink Athens; henceforth hated he affembly of twenty be without a score of villains: Of Timon, man, and all humanity! If there fit twelve women at the table, let a dozen fi them be as they are.-The reft of your fees, Ogods,the fenators of Athens, together with the common lag of people, what is amfs in them, you gods, make fuitable for deftruction. For thefe my prefent friends, -as they are to me nothing, fo in nothing bless them, and to nothing are they welcome. Uncover, dogs, and lap. Tim. May you a better feaft never behold, warm water Is your perfection 2. This is Timon's laft; [Throwing water in their faces. Re-enter the Senators. I Sen. How now, my lords? [Exit. [fury? 2 Sen. Know you the quality of lord Timon's i Sen. He's but a mad lord, and nought but bumour fways him. He gave me a jewel the other day, and now he has beat it out of my hat :-Did you see my jewel? 2 Sen. Did you fee my cap? Sen. Here lies my gown. 1 Sen. Let's make no stay. 2 Sen. Lord Timon's mad. 3 Sen. I feel't upon my bones. 4 Sen. One day he gives us diamonds, next day ftones. [Exeunt. L A C T IV. Without the walls of Athens. Enter Timon. ET me look back upon thee, O thou wall, And fence not Athens! Matrons, turn incontinent; fteal; Large-handed robbers your grave masters are, With it beat out his brains! piety, and fear, I Dr. Warburton thinks we should read foes. 2 i. e. the higheft of your excellence. 3 i. e. flies of a featon. 4 A minute-jack is what was called formerly a Jack of the clock-house; an image whole office was the fame as one of thofe at St. Dunstan's charch in Fleet-ftreet. See note 1, p. 658. i. c. every kind of difeafe incident to man and bealt. to you? Let me be recorded by the righteous gods, I Serv. Such a houfe broke! So noble a mafter fallen! All gone! and not 2 Serv. As we do turn our backs Slink all away; leave their falfe vows with him, With his disease of all-fhunn'd poverty, Enter other Servants. Flav. All broken implements of a ruin'd house. Flav. Good fellows all, The latest of my wealth I'll fhare amongst you. As 'twere a knell unto our mafter's fortunes, [Exeunt Servants. To have his pomp, and all what state compounds, [Exit. The greater fcorns the leffer: Not nature, [tune, Raife me this beggar, and denude that lord; It is the paftor lards the brother's fides, 6 In purity of manhood stand upright, gods, 7 I am no idle votarift 8: Roots, you clear heavens 9 ! Wrong, right; bafe, noble; old, young; coward, 1 Fierce is here used for hafty, precipitate. 2 Strange, unufual blood may mean, ftrange unusual difpofition. 3 That is, the moon's, this fublunary world. 4 Dr. Johnton explains this paffage thus: "Brother, when his fortune is enlarged, will fcorn brother; for this is the general depravity of human nature, which, befieved as it is by mifery, admonished as it is of want and imperfection, 5 That is, It is the paftour that when elevated by fortune, will defpife beings of nature like its own." 6 Grize for ftep greafes or flatters the rich brother, and will greafe him on till want make him leave. or degree. 7 i. e. feize, gripe. no infincere or inconftant fupplicant. Gold will not ferve me infead of roots. This may mean either ye cloudlefs fires, or ye deities exempt from guilt. 8 i. e. Ha, |