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- 1 Enter a Senator with papers.
- 2 SENATOR.
- 3 And late five thousand. To Varro and to Isidore
- 4 He owes nine thousand, besides my former sum,
- 5 Which makes it five-and-twenty. Still in motion
- 6 Of raging waste! It cannot hold; it will not.
- 7 If I want gold, steal but a beggar’s dog
- 8 And give it Timon, why, the dog coins gold.
- 9 If I would sell my horse, and buy twenty more
- 10 Better than he, why, give my horse to Timon—
- 11 Ask nothing, give it him—it foals me straight,
- 12 And able horses. No porter at his gate,
- 13 But rather one that smiles and still invites
- 14 All that pass by. It cannot hold; no reason
- 15 Can sound his state in safety. Caphis, ho!
- 16 Caphis, I say!
- 17 Enter Caphis.
- 18 CAPHIS.
- 19 Here, sir, what is your pleasure?
- 20 SENATOR.
- 21 Get on your cloak and haste you to Lord Timon.
- 22 Importune him for my moneys; be not ceased
- 23 With slight denial, nor then silenced when
- 24 “Commend me to your master”, and the cap
- 25 Plays in the right hand, thus; but tell him,
- 26 My uses cry to me, I must serve my turn
- 27 Out of mine own, his days and times are past,
- 28 And my reliances on his fracted dates
- 29 Have smit my credit. I love and honour him,
- 30 But must not break my back to heal his finger.
- 31 Immediate are my needs, and my relief
- 32 Must not be tossed and turned to me in words,
- 33 But find supply immediate. Get you gone.
- 34 Put on a most importunate aspect,
- 35 A visage of demand, for I do fear
- 36 When every feather sticks in his own wing,
- 37 Lord Timon will be left a naked gull,
- 38 Which flashes now a phoenix. Get you gone.
- 39 CAPHIS.
- 40 I go, sir.
- 41 SENATOR.
- 42 Take the bonds along with you,
- 43 And have the dates in. Come.
- 44 CAPHIS.
- 45 I will, sir.
- 46 SENATOR.
- 47 Go.
- 48 [_Exeunt._]