It comes in charity to thee: for all thy living

Is 'mongst the dead: and all the lands thou hast
Lie in a pitch'd field.

Alcib.

Ay, defiled land, my lord.

1 Lord. We are so virtuously bound,

2

And so

The best of happiness,

Tim. All to you.'- Lights, more lights. 1 Lord. Honour, and fortunes, keep with you, lord Timon!

Tim. Ready for his friends.

Арет.

[Exeunt ALCIBIADES, Lords, &c.

What a coil's here!

Serving of becks3, and jutting out of bums!
I doubt whether their legs be worth the sums
That are given for 'em. Friendship's full of dregs:
Methinks, false hearts should never have sound legs.
Thus honest fools lay out their wealth on court'sies.
Tim. Now, Apemantus, if thou wert not sullen,
I'd be good to thee.

Apem.

No, I'll nothing: for,

If I should be brib'd too, there would be none left
To rail upon thee; and then thou would'st sin the faster.
Thou giv'st so long, Timon, I fear me, thou

Wilt give away thyself in paper shortly:

What need these feasts, pomps, and vain glories?

Tim.

An you begin to rail on society once,

Nay,

[Exit.

So;

thou shalt not then, I'll lock

I am sworn, not to give regard to you.
Farewell; and come with better musick.
Apem.

Thou'lt not hear me now,

2 All to you.] i. e. all good wishes, or all happiness to you.

3 Serving of becks,] Beck means a salutation made with the head.

To serve a beck is to offer a salutation.

4 Will give away thyself in paper shortly:] i. e. be ruined by his seeurities entered into.

Thy heaven from thee. O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!

[Exit.

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, Which makes it five and twenty. - Still in motion Of raging waste? It cannot hold; it will not. If I want gold, steal but a beggar's dog, And give it Timon, why, the dog coins gold: If I would sell my horse, and buy twenty more Better than he, why, give my horse to Timon, Ask nothing, give it him, it foals me, straight, And able horses: No porter at his gate; But rather one that smiles, and still invites All that pass by. It cannot hold; no reason Can found his state in safety. Caphis, ho!

Caphis, I say!

Caph.

Enter CAPHIS.

Here, sir; What is your pleasure?

Sen. Get on your cloak, and haste you to lord Timon; Impórtune him for my monies; be not ceas'd7

With slight denial; nor then silenc'd, when —

5 Thy heaven -] By his heaven he means good advice; the only thing by which he could be saved.

Can found his state in safety.] Reason cannot find his fortune to have any safe or solid foundation.

7- be not ceas'd-] i. e. stopped.

Commend me to

master your

and the cap

Plays in the right hand, thus: - but tell him, sirrah,
My uses cry to me, I must serve my turn

Out of mine own; his days and times are past,
And my reliances on his fracted dates

Have smit my credit: I love, and honour him;
But must not break my back, to heal his finger:
Immediate are my needs; and my relief
Must not be toss'd and turn'd to me in words,
But find supply immediate. Get you gone:
Put on a most importunate aspéct,

A visage of demand; for, I do fear,
When every feather sticks in his own wing,
Lord Timon will be left a naked gull, †
Which flashes now a phoenix. Get you gone.
Caph. I go, sir.

Sen. I go, sir?- take the bonds along with you,
And have the dates in compt.

Enter FLAVIUS, with many Bills in his Hand.

Flav. No care, no stop! so senseless of expence,
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. 8

+ All nestling birds, in quite an unfledged state, are so called in Cheshire, and, perhaps, elsewhere.

Never mind

Was to be so unwise, to be so kind.] Nothing can be worse, or more obscurely expressed; and all for the sake of a wretched rhyme.

What shall be done? He will not hear, till feel:

I must be round with him, now he comes from hunting. Fye, fye, fye, fye!

Enter CAPHIS, and the Servants of ISIDORE and VARRo.

Caph.

You come for money?

Var. Serv.

Good even, Varro: What,

Is't not your business too?

It is so.

I fear it.

Caph. It is;-and yours too, Isidore?
Isid. Serv.

Caph. 'Would we were all discharg'd!

Var. Serv.

Caph. Here comes the lord.

Enter TIMON, ALCIBIADES, and Lords, &c.

Tim. So soon as dinner's done, we'll forth again,' My Alcibiades.-With me? What's your will? Caph. My lord, here is a note of certain dues. Tim. Dues? whence are you

Caph.

Tim. Go to my steward.

?

Of Athens here, my lord.

Caph. Please it your lordship, he hath put me off

To the succession of new days this month:

My master is awak'd by great occasion,

To call upon his own: and humbly prays you,

But of this mode of expression conversation affords many examples: "I was always to be blamed, whatever happened." "I am in theẹ lottery, but I was always to draw blanks."

9 Good even,] Good even, or, as it is sometimes less accurately written, Good den, was the usual salutation from noon, the moment that good morrow became improper.

1 we'll forth again,] i. e. to hunting, from which diversion, we find by Flavius's speech, he was just returned. It may be here observed, that in our author's time it was the custom to hunt as well after dinner as before.

That with your other noble parts you'll suit,"
In giving him his right.

Tim.

Mine honest friend,

I pr'ythee, but repair to me next morning.

Caph. Nay, good my lord,———

Tim.

Contain thyself, good friend. Var. Serv. One Varro's servant, my good lord, - Isid. Serv.

He humbly prays your speedy payment,

From Isidore;

Caph. If you did know, my lord, my master's

wants,

Var. Serv. 'Twas due on forfeiture, my lord, six weeks, And past,

Isid. Serv. Your steward puts me off, my lord; And I am sent expressly to your lordship.

Tim. Give me breath:

I do beseech you, good my lords, keep on;

[Exeunt ALCIBIADES and Lords. I'll wait upon you instantly.-Come hither, pray you, [TO FLAVIUS. How goes the world, that I am thus encounter'd With clamorous demands of date-broke bonds, t And the detention of long-since-due debts, Against my honour?

Flav.
Please you, gentlemen,
The time is unagreeable to this business :
Your importunacy cease, till after dinner;
That I may make his lordship understand
Wherefore you are not paid.

Tim.

See them well entertain❜d.

Flav.

Do so, my

friends:
[Exit TIMON.

2 That with your other noble parts you'll suit,] i. e. that you will behave on this occasion in a manner consistent with your other noble qualities.

+"date-broken bonds," — MALONE.