L I pr'ythee, let us be provided I scarce know how. Enter another Servant. [Aside. 2 Serv. May it please your honour, the Lord Lu cius, Out of his free love, hath presented to you Tim. I shall accept them fairly: let the presents Enter a third Servant. Be worthily entertain'd.-How now, what news? 3 Serv. Please you, my lord, that honourable gentleman, lord Lucullus, entreats your company to-morrow to hunt with him; and has sent your honour two brace of greyhounds. Tim. I'll hunt with him; And let them be receiv'd, Flav. [Aside.] Nor will he know his purse; or yield me this, Happier is he that has no friend to feed, I bleed inwardly for my lord. [Exit. You do yourselves Much wrong, you bate too much of your own me rits: Here, my lord, a trifle of our love. 2 Lord. With more than common thanks I will receive it. 3 Lord. O, he is the very soul of bounty! Tim. And now I remember me, my lord, you gave Good words the other day of a bay courser I rode on: it is yours, because you lik'd it. 2 Lord. I beseech you, pardon me, mylord, in that. Tim. You may take my word, my lord; I know, no man Can justly praise, but what he does affect: I'll tell you true. I'll call on you. All Lords. None so welcome. Tim. I take all and your several visitations Thou art a soldier, therefore seldom rich, It comes in charity to thee: for all thy living Lie in a pitch'd field. Alcib. Ay, defiled land, my lord. 1 Lord. We are so virtuously bound,Tim. Am I to you. 2 Lord. So infinitely endear'd, Tim. All to you.-Lights, more lights. 1 Lord. And so The best of happiness, Honour, and fortunes, keep with you, lord Timon! Tim. Ready for his friends. Apem. [Exeunt ALCIBIADES, Lords, &c. What a coil's here! All to you.] i. e. all good wishes, or all happiness to you. Serving of becks, and jutting out of bums! 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. Apem. So; I am sworn, not to give regard to you. Farewell; and come with better musick. Thou'lt not hear me now, thou shalt not then, I'll lock Thy heavens from thee. O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery ! [Exit. * Serving of becks,] Beck means a salutation made with the head. To serve a beck is to offer a salutation. * Wilt give away thyself in paper shortly:] i. e. be ruined by his securities entered into. Thy heaven-] By his heaven he means good advice, the only thing by which he could be saved. ACT II. SCENE I. The same. A Room in a Senator's House. 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, 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'd' Plays in the right hand, thus:-but tell him, sirrah, Can found his state in safety.] Reason cannot find his fortune to have any safe or solid foundation. be not ceas'd-] i. e. stopped. My uses cry to me, I must serve iny turn Have smit my credit: I love, and honour him; Sen. I go, sir?-take the bonds along with you, And have the dates in compt. Caph. I will, sir. Go. [Exeunt. SCENE II. The same. A Hall in Timon's House. Enter FLAVIUS, with many Bills in his Hand. That he will neither know how to maintain it, 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. But of this mode of expression conversation affords many examples: "I was always to be blamed, whatever happened."" I am in the lottery, but I was always to draw blanks." |