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Timon of Athens
[I, 1] |
(stage directions) |
1 |
[Enter Poet, Painter, Jeweller, Merchant, and]
others, at several doors]
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2 |
Timon of Athens
[I, 1] |
(stage directions) |
26 |
[Looking at the jewel]
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3 |
Timon of Athens
[I, 1] |
Lucilius |
145 |
Here, at your lordship's service.
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4 |
Timon of Athens
[I, 1] |
Old Athenian |
152 |
One only daughter have I, no kin else,
On whom I may confer what I have got:
The maid is fair, o' the youngest for a bride,
And I have bred her at my dearest cost
In qualities of the best. This man of thine
Attempts her love: I prithee, noble lord,
Join with me to forbid him her resort;
Myself have spoke in vain.
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5 |
Timon of Athens
[I, 1] |
Apemantus |
314 |
No, I will do nothing at thy bidding: make thy
requests to thy friend.
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6 |
Timon of Athens
[I, 2] |
Timon |
345 |
O, by no means,
Honest Ventidius; you mistake my love:
I gave it freely ever; and there's none
Can truly say he gives, if he receives:
If our betters play at that game, we must not dare
To imitate them; faults that are rich are fair.
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Timon of Athens
[I, 2] |
Timon |
352 |
Nay, my lords,
[They all stand ceremoniously looking on TIMON]
Ceremony was but devised at first
To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;
But where there is true friendship, there needs none.
Pray, sit; more welcome are ye to my fortunes
Than my fortunes to me.
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8 |
Timon of Athens
[I, 2] |
Apemantus |
373 |
Let me stay at thine apperil, Timon: I come to
observe; I give thee warning on't.
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9 |
Timon of Athens
[I, 2] |
Apemantus |
378 |
I scorn thy meat; 'twould choke me, for I should
ne'er flatter thee. O you gods, what a number of
men eat Timon, and he sees 'em not! It grieves me
to see so many dip their meat in one man's blood;
and all the madness is, he cheers them up too.
I wonder men dare trust themselves with men:
Methinks they should invite them without knives;
Good for their meat, and safer for their lives.
There's much example for't; the fellow that sits
next him now, parts bread with him, pledges the
breath of him in a divided draught, is the readiest
man to kill him: 't has been proved. If I were a
huge man, I should fear to drink at meals;
Lest they should spy my windpipe's dangerous notes:
Great men should drink with harness on their throats.
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10 |
Timon of Athens
[I, 2] |
Alcibiades |
415 |
My heart is ever at your service, my lord.
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11 |
Timon of Athens
[I, 2] |
Timon |
416 |
You had rather be at a breakfast of enemies than a
dinner of friends.
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12 |
Timon of Athens
[I, 2] |
Alcibiades |
418 |
So the were bleeding-new, my lord, there's no meat
like 'em: I could wish my best friend at such a feast.
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13 |
Timon of Athens
[I, 2] |
Second Lord |
448 |
Joy had the like conception in our eyes
And at that instant like a babe sprung up.
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14 |
Timon of Athens
[I, 2] |
First Lady |
501 |
My lord, you take us even at the best.
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15 |
Timon of Athens
[II, 1] |
Senator |
627 |
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!
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16 |
Timon of Athens
[II, 2] |
Fool |
752 |
She's e'en setting on water to scald such chickens
as you are. Would we could see you at Corinth!
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17 |
Timon of Athens
[II, 2] |
Apemantus |
775 |
If Timon stay at home. You three serve three usurers?
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18 |
Timon of Athens
[II, 2] |
Flavius |
813 |
You would not hear me,
At many leisures I proposed.
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19 |
Timon of Athens
[II, 2] |
Flavius |
820 |
O my good lord,
At many times I brought in my accounts,
Laid them before you; you would throw them off,
And say, you found them in mine honesty.
When, for some trifling present, you have bid me
Return so much, I have shook my head and wept;
Yea, 'gainst the authority of manners, pray'd you
To hold your hand more close: I did endure
Not seldom, nor no slight cheques, when I have
Prompted you in the ebb of your estate
And your great flow of debts. My loved lord,
Though you hear now, too late—yet now's a time—
The greatest of your having lacks a half
To pay your present debts.
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Timon of Athens
[II, 2] |
Flavius |
835 |
'Tis all engaged, some forfeited and gone;
And what remains will hardly stop the mouth
Of present dues: the future comes apace:
What shall defend the interim? and at length
How goes our reckoning?
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