Tim. Of none but such as you, and you of Timon. 2 Sen. The fenators of Athens greet thee, Timon. Tim. I thank them, and would fend them back the plague, Could I but catch it for them. I Sen, O, forget What we are forry for our felves, in thee: 2 Sen. They confefs Tow'rd thee forgetfulness, too general, grofs; A lack of Timon's aid, hath fense withal Than their offence can weigh down by the dram; Tim. You witch me in it, Surprize me to the very brink of tears: Lend me a fool's heart, and a woman's eyes, Who, like a boar too favage, doth root up 2 Sen. And thakes his threatning sword Against the walls of Athens. 1 Sen. Therefore, Timon Tim. Well, Sir, I will; therefore I will, Sir, thus If Alcibiades kill my countrymen, Let Alcibiades know this of Timon, That Timon cares not. If he fack fair Athens, Of contumelious, beaftly, mad-brain'd war; I cannot chufe but tell him,-that I care not. But I do prize it in my love, before So I leave you The reverend'ft throat in Athens. Flav. Stay not, all's in vain. Tim, Why, I was writing of my epitaph, And laft fo long enough! 1 Sen. We speak in vain. Tim. But yet I love my country, and am not One that rejoices in the common wreck, As common bruit doth put it. 1 Sen. That's well fpoke. Tim. Commend me to my loving countrymen. 1 Sen. These words become your lips, as they pass thro' them. 2 Sen. And enter in our ears like great triumphers In their applauding gates. Tim, Commend me to them, And tell them, that to ease them of their griefs, In life's uncertain voyage, I will do F 3 Some Some kindness to them, teach them to prevent 2 Sen. I like this well. Tim. I have a tree which grows here in my close, And fhortly must I fell it. Tell my friends, Flav, Vex him no further, thus you ftill fhall find him. [Exit Timon. 1 Sen. His difcontents are coupled to his nature. 2 Sen. Our hope in him is dead; let us return, And ftrain what other means is left unto us In our dread peril. Sen. It requires swift foot. [Exeunt. SCENE IV. The Walls of Athens. Mef. I have fpoke the leaft. Befides, his expedition promifes Prefent approach. 2 Sen. We ftand much hazard, if they bring not Timon. Mef. I met a courier, one mine ancient friend, And, though in general part we were oppos'd, Yet our old love had a particular force, And made us fpeak like friends. This man was riding From From Alcibiades to Timon's cave, With letters of intreaty, which imported Enter the other Senators. 1 Sen. Here come our brothers. 3 Sen. No talk of Timon, nothing of him expect. SCENE V. [Exeunt. Trumpets found. Enter Alcibiades with his powers. [Sound a parley. The Senators appear upon the walls. 'Till now you have gone on, and fill'd the time With all licentious measure, making your wills The scope of juftice. 'Till now my felf, and fuch As flept within the fhadow of your power, Have wander'd with our traverst arms, and breath'd 1 Sen. Noble and young, When thy first griefs were but a meer conceit, - our foes the fnare. [Exeunt. Enter a Soldier in the Woods, feeking Timon. Some beaft read this; there does not live a man. Dead fure, and this his grave; what's on this tomb? Our captain hath in every figure skill, An ag'd interpreter, tho' young in days: [Exit. To To wipe out our ingratitude with loves 2 Sen. So did we woo Transformed Timon to our city's love By humble meffage, and by promis'd 'mends: 1 Sen. These walls of ours Were not erected by their hands, from whom 1 Sen. Nor are they living Who were the motives that you first went out : Hath broke their hearts. March on, oh noble Lord, By decimation and a tithed death, Which nature loaths) take thou the deftin'd tenth.* For those that were, it is not square to take, 2 Sen. What thou wilt Thou rather shall enforce it with thy fmile, 1 Sen. See but thy foot Against our rampir'd gates, and they shall ope: To fay thou'lt enter friendly. take thou the deftin'd tenth, And by the hazard of the fpotted die, Let die the ipotted. 1 Sen. We all have, &c. |