Chapter XVI: Act IV: SCENE I. Without the walls of Athens.2324

_Enter_ TIMON.

_Tim_. Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall,[2325]
That girdlest in those wolves, dive in the earth,[2325][2326]
And fence not Athens! Matrons, turn incontinent!
Obedience fail in children! Slaves and fools,
Pluck the grave wrinkled senate from the bench, 5
And minister in their steads! To general filths[2327]
Convert o' the instant, green virginity![2328]
Do't in your parents' eyes! Bankrupts, hold fast;[2329]
Rather than render back, out with your knives,[2329]
And cut your trusters' throats! Bound servants, steal! 10
Large-handed robbers your grave masters are
And pill by law. Maid, to thy master's bed!
Thy mistress is o' the brothel. Son of sixteen,[2330]
Pluck the lined crutch from thy old limping sire,[2331]
With it beat out his brains! Piety and fear,[2332] 15
Religion to the gods, peace, justice, truth,
Domestic awe, night-rest and neighbourhood,
Instruction, manners, mysteries and trades,
Degrees, observances, customs and laws,
Decline to your confounding contraries, 20
And let confusion live! Plagues incident to men,[2333]
Your potent and infectious fevers heap
On Athens, ripe for stroke! Thou cold sciatica,
Cripple our senators, that their limbs may halt
As lamely as their manners! Lust and liberty 25
Creep in the minds and marrows of our youth,
That 'gainst the stream of virtue they may strive,
And drown themselves in riot! Itches, blains,
Sow all the Athenian bosoms, and their crop
Be general leprosy! Breath infect breath, 30
That their society, as their friendship, may
Be merely poison! Nothing I'll bear from thee
But nakedness, thou detestable town![2334]
Take thou that too, with multiplying bans![2335]
Timon will to the woods, where he shall find 35
The unkindest beast more kinder than mankind.[2336]
The gods confound--hear me, you good gods all!--[2337]
The Athenians both within and out that wall!
And grant, as Timon grows, his hate may grow
To the whole race of mankind, high and low! 40
Amen.[2338] [_Exit._

SCENE II. _Athens. Timon's house._[2339]

_Enter_ FLAVIUS, _with two or three_ Servants.

_First Serv._ Hear you, master steward, where's our master?[2340]
Are we undone? cast off? nothing remaining?

_Flav._ Alack, my fellows, what should I say to you?
Let me be recorded by the righteous gods,
I am as poor as you.[2341]

_First Serv._ Such a house broke![2342] 5
So noble a master fall'n! All gone! and not[2342]
One friend to take his fortune by the arm,[2342]
And go along with him![2342]

_Sec. Serv._ As we do turn our backs[2343]
From our companion thrown into his grave,[2344]
So his familiars to his buried fortunes[2344][2345] 10
Slink all away; leave their false vows with him,[2346]
Like empty purses pick'd; and his poor self,
A dedicated beggar to the air,
With his disease of all-shunn'd poverty,[2347]
Walks, like contempt, alone. More of our fellows.[2348] 15

_Enter other_ Servants.

_Flav._ All broken implements of a ruin'd house.

_Third Serv._ Yet do our hearts wear Timon's livery;
That see I by our faces; we are fellows still,[2349]
Serving alike in sorrow: leak'd is our bark,
And we, poor mates, stand on the dying deck,[2350] 20
Hearing the surges threat: we must all part
Into this sea of air.[2351]

_Flav._ Good fellows all,
The latest of my wealth I'll share amongst you.
Wherever we shall meet, for Timon's sake
Let's yet be fellows; let's shake our heads, and say,[2352] 25
As 'twere a knell unto our master's fortunes,
'We have seen better days.' Let each take some.
Nay, put out all your hands. Not one word more:
Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor.[2353]

[_Servants embrace, and part several ways._

O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us![2354] 30
Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,
Since riches point to misery and contempt?
Who would be so mock'd with glory? or to live[2355]
But in a dream of friendship?[2356]
To have his pomp and all what state compounds[2356][2357] 35
But only painted, like his varnish'd friends?[2358]
Poor honest lord, brought low by his own heart,
Undone by goodness! Strange, unusual blood,[2359]
When man's worst sin is, he does too much good!
Who then dares to be half so kind again? 40
For bounty, that makes gods, does still mar men.[2360]
My dearest lord, blest to be most accursed,
Rich only to be wretched, thy great fortunes
Are made thy chief afflictions. Alas, kind lord![2361]
He's flung in rage from this ingrateful seat[2362] 45
Of monstrous friends; nor has he with him to[2363][2364]
Supply his life, or that which can command it.[2363]
I'll follow, and inquire him out:[2365]
I'll ever serve his mind with my best will;
Whilst I have gold, I'll be his steward still. [_Exit._ 50

SCENE III. _Woods and cave, near the sea-shore._[2366]

_Enter_ TIMON, _from the cave_.[2367]

_Tim._ O blessed breeding sun, draw from the earth[2368]
Rotten humidity; below thy sister's orb
Infect the air! Twinn'd brothers of one womb,
Whose procreation, residence and birth
Scarce is dividant, touch them with several fortunes,[2369] 5
The greater scorns the lesser: not nature,[2370][2371]
To whom all sores lay siege, can bear great fortune[2371]
But by contempt of nature.[2371][2372]
Raise me this beggar and deny 't that lord,[2373]
The senator shall bear contempt hereditary,[2374] 10
The beggar native honour.
It is the pasture lards the rother's sides,[2375]
The want that makes him lean. Who dares, who dares,[2376]
In purity of manhood stand upright,
And say 'This man's a flatterer'? if one be,[2377] 15
So are they all; for every grise of fortune[2378]
Is smooth'd by that below: the learned pate
Ducks to the golden fool: all is oblique;[2379]
There's nothing level in our cursed natures
But direct villany. Therefore be abhorr'd[2380] 20
All feasts, societies and throngs of men!
His semblable, yea, himself, Timon disdains:
Destruction fang mankind! Earth, yield me roots![2381] [_Digging._
Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate
With thy most operant poison! What is here? 25
Gold? yellow, glittering, precious gold? No, gods,[2382]
I am no idle votarist: roots, you clear heavens![2382][2383]
Thus much of this will make black white, foul fair,[2382]
Wrong right, base noble, old young, coward valiant.[2382][2384]
Ha, you gods! why this? what this, you gods? Why, this[2385] 30
Will lug your priests and servants from your sides,
Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads:[2386]
This yellow slave
Will knit and break religions; bless the accursed;
Make the hoar leprosy adored; place thieves,[2387] 35
And give them title, knee and approbation
With senators on the bench: this is it[2388]
That makes the wappen'd widow wed again;[2389]
She, whom the spital-house and ulcerous sores[2390][2391]
Would cast the gorge at, this embalms and spices[2391][2392] 40
To the April day again. Come, damned earth,[2393]
Thou common whore of mankind, that put'st odds[2394]
Among the rout of nations, I will make thee
Do thy right nature. [_March afar off._] Ha! a drum?
Thou'rt quick,[2395]
But yet I'll bury thee: thou'lt go, strong thief,[2396] 45
When gouty keepers of thee cannot stand:
Nay, stay thou out for earnest. [_Keeping some gold._[2397]

_Enter_ ALCIBIADES, _with drum and fife, in warlike manner_;
PHRYNIA _and_ TIMANDRA.[A]

_Alcib._ What art thou there? speak.[2398]

_Tim._ A beast, as thou art. The canker gnaw thy heart,[2399]
For showing me again the eyes of man!

_Alcib._ What is thy name? Is man so hateful to thee, 50
That art thyself a man?

_Tim._ I am misanthropos, and hate mankind.[2400]
For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog,
That I might love thee something.

_Alcib._ I know thee well;
But in thy fortunes am unlearn'd and strange. 55

_Tim._ I know thee too; and more than that I know thee[2401]
I not desire to know. Follow thy drum;
With man's blood paint the ground, gules, gules:[2402]
Religious canons, civil laws are cruel;
Then what should war be? This fell whore of thine 60
Hath in her more destruction than thy sword,
For all her cherubin look.

_Phry._ Thy lips rot off!

_Tim._ I will not kiss thee; then the rot returns[2403]
To thine own lips again.

_Alcib._ How came the noble Timon to this change? 65

_Tim._ As the moon does, by wanting light to give:
But then renew I could not, like the moon;
There were no suns to borrow of.[2404]

_Alcib._ Noble Timon, what friendship may I do thee?[2405]

_Tim._ None, but to maintain my opinion.[2405][2406] 70

_Alcib._ What is it, Timon?[2405]

_Tim._ Promise me friendship, but perform none: if thou[2405]
wilt not promise, the gods plague thee, for thou art a man:[2405][2407]
if thou dost perform, confound thee, for thou art a man![2405][2408]

_Alcib._ I have heard in some sort of thy miseries.[2409] 75

_Tim._ Thou saw'st them when I had prosperity.

_Alcib._ I see them now; then was a blessed time.[2410]

_Tim._ As thine is now, held with a brace of harlots.

_Timan._ Is this the Athenian minion whom the world
Voiced so regardfully?

_Tim._ Art thou Timandra?[2411] 80

_Timan._ Yes.[2411]

_Tim._ Be a whore still: they love thee not that use thee;[2411][2412]
Give them diseases, leaving with thee their lust.[2411][2412][2413]
Make use of thy salt hours: season the slaves[2412]
For tubs and baths; bring down rose-cheeked youth[2412][2414][2415] 85
To the tub-fast and the diet.[2412][2415][2416]

_Timan._ Hang thee, monster!

_Alcib._ Pardon him, sweet Timandra, for his wits
Are drown'd and lost in his calamities.[2417]
I have but little gold of late, brave Timon,[2418]
The want whereof doth daily make revolt 90
In my penurious band: I have heard, and grieved,[2419]
How cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth,[2420]
Forgetting thy great deeds, when neighbour states,
But for thy sword and fortune, trod upon them--[2421]

_Tim._ I prithee, beat thy drum, and get thee gone. 95

_Alcib._ I am thy friend and pity thee, dear Timon.

_Tim._ How dost thou pity him whom thou dost trouble?
I had rather be alone.

_Alcib._ Why, fare thee well:
Here is some gold for thee.[2422]

_Tim._ Keep it, I cannot eat it.[2423]

_Alcib._ When I have laid proud Athens on a heap--[2424] 100

_Tim._ Warr'st thou 'gainst Athens?[2425][2426]

_Alcib._ Ay, Timon, and have cause.[2426]

_Tim._ The gods confound them all in thy conquest,[2426][2427]
And thee after, when thou hast conquer'd![2426][2428]

_Alcib._ Why me, Timon?[2426][2429]

_Tim._ That by killing of villains[2426]
Thou wast born to conquer my country.[2426][2430] 105
Put up thy gold: go on,--here's gold,--go on;
Be as a planetary plague, when Jove[2431]
Will o'er some high-viced city hang his poison
In the sick air: let not thy sword skip one:
Pity not honour'd age for his white beard; 110
He is an usurer: strike me the counterfeit matron;[2432]
It is her habit only that is honest,
Herself's a bawd: let not the virgin's cheek
Make soft thy trenchant sword; for those milk-paps[2433]
That through the window-bars bore at men's eyes[2434] 115
Are not within the leaf of pity writ,
But set them down horrible traitors: spare not the babe[2435]
Whose dimpled smiles from fools exhaust their mercy;[2436]
Think it a bastard whom the oracle[2437]
Hath doubtfully pronounced thy throat shall cut,[2438] 120
And mince it sans remorse: swear against objects;[2439]
Put armour on thine ears and on thine eyes,
Whose proof nor yells of mothers, maids, nor babes,
Nor sight of priests in holy vestments bleeding,[2440]
Shall pierce a jot. There's gold to pay thy soldiers: 125
Make large confusion; and, thy fury spent,
Confounded be thyself! Speak not, be gone.

_Alcib._ Hast thou gold yet? I'll take the gold thou givest me,[2441]
Not all thy counsel.[2441][2442]

_Tim._ Dost thou or dost thou not, heaven's curse upon thee! 130

_Phr. and Timan._ Give us some gold, good Timon: hast thou more?[2443]

_Tim._ Enough to make a whore forswear her trade,
And to make whores, a bawd. Hold up, you sluts,[2444]
Your aprons mountant: you are not oathable;[2445]
Although, I know, you'll swear, terribly swear, 135
Into strong shudders and to heavenly agues,
The immortal gods that hear you; spare your oaths,
I'll trust to your conditions: be whores still;
And he whose pious breath seeks to convert you,
Be strong in whore, allure him, burn him up; 140
Let your close fire predominate his smoke,
And be no turncoats: yet may your pains, six months,[2446][2447]
Be quite contrary: and thatch your poor thin roofs[2446][2448]
With burdens of the dead;--some that were hang'd,[2446]
No matter:--wear them, betray with them: whore still;[2446][2449] 145
Paint till a horse may mire upon your face:
A pox of wrinkles![2443]

_Phr. and Timan._ Well, more gold: what then?
Believe't that we'll do any thing for gold.[2450]

_Tim._ Consumptions sow
In hollow bones of man; strike their sharp shins,[2451] 150
And mar men's spurring. Crack the lawyer's voice,[2451][2452]
That he may never more false title plead,
Nor sound his quillets shrilly: hoar the flamen,[2453]
That scolds against the quality of flesh[2454]
And not believes himself: down with the nose, 155
Down with it flat; take the bridge quite away
Of him that, his particular to foresee,[2455][2456]
Smells from the general weal: make curl'd-pate ruffians
bald;[2455][2457]
And let the unscarr'd braggarts of the war
Derive some pain from you: plague all;[2458] 160
That your activity may defeat and quell
The source of all erection. There's more gold:
Do you damn others, and let this damn you,
And ditches grave you all!

_Phr. and Timan._ More counsel with more money, bounteous
Timon.[2443][2459] 165

_Tim._ More whore, more mischief first; I have given you
earnest.[2459][2460]

_Alcib._ Strike up the drum towards Athens! Farewell, Timon:[2459]
If I thrive well, I'll visit thee again.[2459]

_Tim._ If I hope well, I'll never see thee more.

_Alcib._ I never did thee harm.[2461] 170

_Tim._ Yes, thou spokest well of me.

_Alcib._ Call'st thou that harm?

_Tim._ Men daily find it. Get thee away, and take[2462][2463]
Thy beagles with thee.[2462]

_Alcib._ We but offend him. Strike![2464]

[_Drum beats. Exeunt Alcibiades, Phrynia, and Timandra._[2465]

_Tim._ That nature, being sick of man's unkindness,[2466]
Should yet be hungry! Common mother, thou, [_Digging._[2467] 175
Whose womb unmeasurable and infinite breast
Teems, and feeds all; whose self-same mettle,[2468]
Whereof thy proud child, arrogant man, is puff'd,
Engenders the black toad and adder blue,
The gilded newt and eyeless venom'd worm, 180
With all the abhorred births below crisp heaven[2469]
Whereon Hyperion's quickening fire doth shine;
Yield him, who all thy human sons doth hate,[2470]
From forth thy plenteous bosom one poor root![2471]
Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb,[2472] 185
Let it no more bring out ingrateful man![2473]
Go great with tigers, dragons, wolves and bears;
Teem with new monsters, whom thy upward face
Hath to the marbled mansion all above[2474]
Never presented!--O, a root! dear thanks!-- 190
Dry up thy marrows, vines, and plough-torn leas;[2475]
Whereof ingrateful man, with liquorish draughts
And morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind,[2476]
That from it all consideration slips![2477]

_Enter_ APEMANTUS.

More man? plague, plague![2478] 195

_Apem._ I was directed hither: men report
Thou dost affect my manners, and dost use them.

_Tim._ 'Tis then because thou dost not keep a dog,
Whom I would imitate: consumption catch thee!

_Apem._ This is in thee a nature but infected;[2479] 200
A poor unmanly melancholy sprung
From change of fortune. Why this spade? this place?[2480]
This slave-like habit? and these looks of care?
Thy flatterers yet wear silk, drink wine, lie soft,
Hug their diseased perfumes and have forgot[2481] 205
That ever Timon was. Shame not these woods[2482]
By putting on the cunning of a carper.
Be thou a flatterer now and seek to thrive
By that which has undone thee: hinge thy knee
And let his very breath whom thou'lt observe 210
Blow off thy cap; praise his most vicious strain[2483]
And call it excellent: thou wast told thus;
Thou gavest thine ears like tapsters that bade welcome[2484]
To knaves and all approachers: 'tis most just
That thou turn rascal; hadst thou wealth again, 215
Rascals should have't. Do not assume my likeness.

_Tim._ Were I like thee, I'ld throw away myself.[2485]

_Apem._ Thou hast cast away thyself, being like thyself,[2486]
A madman so long, now a fool. What, think'st[2487]
That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamberlain, 220
Will put thy shirt on warm? will these moss'd trees,[2488]
That have outlived the eagle, page thy heels,
And skip when thou point'st out? will the cold brook,[2489]
Candied with ice, caudle thy morning taste,
To cure thy o'er-night's surfeit? Call the creatures 225
Whose naked natures live in all the spite
Of wreakful heaven, whose bare unhoused trunks,
To the conflicting elements exposed,
Answer mere nature; bid them flatter thee;
O, thou shalt find--

_Tim._ A fool of thee: depart.[2490] 230

_Apem._ I love thee better now than e'er I did.[2491]

_Tim._ I hate thee worse.

_Apem._ Why?[2492]

_Tim._ Thou flatter'st misery.

_Apem._ I flatter not, but say thou art a caitiff.

_Tim._ Why dost thou seek me out?

_Apem._ To vex thee.[2493]

_Tim._ Always a villain's office or a fool's. 235
Dost please thyself in't?[2494]

_Apem._ Ay.

_Tim._ What! a knave too?

_Apem._ If thou didst put this sour-cold habit on[2495]
To castigate thy pride, 'twere well: but thou
Dost it enforcedly; thou'ldst courtier be again,[2496]
Wert thou not beggar. Willing misery 240
Outlives incertain pomp, is crown'd before:[2497]
The one is filling still, never complete,
The other at high wish: best state, contentless,[2498]
Hath a distracted and most wretched being,[2498]
Worse than the worst, content. 245
Thou shouldst desire to die, being miserable.

_Tim._ Not by his breath that is more miserable.
Thou art a slave, whom Fortune's tender arm
With favour never clasp'd, but bred a dog.[2499]
Hadst thou, like us from our first swath, proceeded 250
The sweet degrees that this brief world affords[2500]
To such as may the passive drugs of it[2501]
Freely command, thou wouldst have plunged thyself[2502]
In general riot, melted down thy youth
In different beds of lust, and never learn'd 255
The icy precepts of respect, but follow'd[2503]
The sugar'd game before thee. But myself,
Who had the world as my confectionary,
The mouths, the tongues, the eyes and hearts of men[2504]
At duty, more than I could frame employment;[2505] 260
That numberless upon me stuck, as leaves[2506]
Do on the oak, have with one winter's brush[2507]
Fell from their boughs, and left me open, bare[2507][2508]
For every storm that blows: I, to bear this,
That never knew but better, is some burthen:[2509] 265
Thy nature did commence in sufferance, time
Hath made thee hard in 't. Why shouldst thou hate men?[2491]
They never flatter'd thee: what hast thou given?
If thou wilt curse, thy father, that poor rag,[2510]
Must be thy subject, who in spite put stuff 270
To some she beggar and compounded thee
Poor rogue hereditary. Hence, be gone![2511]
If thou hadst not been born the worst of men,
Thou hadst been a knave and flatterer.[2512]

_Apem._ Art thou proud yet?

_Tim._ Ay, that I am not thee.

_Apem._ I, that I was[2513] 275
No prodigal.[2513]

_Tim._ I, that I am one now:
Were all the wealth I have shut up in thee,
I'ld give thee leave to hang it. Get thee gone.
That the whole life of Athens were in this![2491]
Thus would I eat it.[2514] [_Eating a root._

_Apem._ Here; I will mend thy feast.[2515][2516] 280

[_Offering him a root._

_Tim._ First mend my company; take away thyself.[2515][2517]

_Apem._ So I shall mend mine own, by the lack of thine.[2515][2518]

_Tim._ 'Tis not well mended so, it is but botch'd;[2515]
If not, I would it were.[2515]

_Apem._ What wouldst thou have to Athens? 285

_Tim._ Thee thither in a whirlwind. If thou wilt,
Tell them there I have gold; look, so I have.

_Apem._ Here is no use for gold.

_Tim._ The best and truest;
For here it sleeps, and does no hired harm.

_Apem._ Where liest o' nights, Timon?[2519] 290

_Tim._ Under that's above me. Where feed'st thou o'[2520]
days, Apemantus?[2520]

_Apem._ Where my stomach finds meat; or, rather, where[2521]
I eat it.

_Tim._ Would poison were obedient and knew my mind![2522] 295

_Apem._ Where wouldst thou send it?[2523]

_Tim._ To sauce thy dishes.

_Apem._ The middle of humanity thou never knewest, but
the extremity of both ends: when thou wast in thy gilt and
thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity; in[2524] 300
thy rags thou know'st none, but art despised for the contrary.
There's a medlar for thee; eat it.[2525]

_Tim._ On what I hate I feed not.[2525]

_Apem._ Dost hate a medlar?[2525]

_Tim._ Ay, though it look like thee.[2525][2526] 305

_Apem._ An thou hadst hated meddlers sooner, thou[2525][2527]
shouldst have loved thyself better now. What man didst[2525]
thou ever know unthrift that was beloved after his means?[2525]

_Tim._ Who, without those means thou talk'st of, didst[2525]
thou ever know beloved?[2525] 310

_Apem._ Myself.[2525]

_Tim._ I understand thee; thou hadst some means to[2525]
keep a dog.[2525]

_Apem._ What things in the world canst thou nearest
compare to thy flatterers? 315

_Tim._ Women nearest; but men, men are the things
themselves. What wouldst thou do with the world, Apemantus,
if it lay in thy power?

_Apem._ Give it the beasts, to be rid of the men.

_Tim._ Wouldst thou have thyself fall in the confusion of 320
men, and remain a beast with the beasts?[2528]

_Apem._ Ay, Timon.

_Tim._ A beastly ambition, which the gods grant thee t'
attain to! If thou wert the lion, the fox would beguile thee:[2529]
if thou wert the lamb, the fox would eat thee: if thou 325
wert the fox, the lion would suspect thee when peradventure
thou wert accused by the ass: if thou wert the ass,
thy dulness would torment thee, and still thou livedst but[2530]
as a breakfast to the wolf: if thou wert the wolf, thy greediness
would afflict thee, and oft thou shouldst hazard thy 330
life for thy dinner: wert thou the unicorn, pride and wrath
would confound thee and make thine own self the conquest
of thy fury: wert thou a bear, thou wouldst be killed by
the horse: wert thou a horse, thou wouldst be seized by
the leopard: wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the 335
lion, and the spots of thy kindred were jurors on thy life:
all thy safety were remotion, and thy defence absence.[2531]
What beast couldst thou be that were not subject to a
beast? and what a beast art thou already, that seest not[2532]
thy loss in transformation! 340

_Apem._ If thou couldst please me with speaking to me,[2533]
thou mightst have hit upon it here: the commonwealth of[2533]
Athens is become a forest of beasts.[2533]

_Tim._ How has the ass broke the wall, that thou art out
of the city?[2534] 345

_Apem._ Yonder comes a poet and a painter: the plague[2535][2536]
of company light upon thee! I will fear to catch it, and[2535]
give way: when I know not what else to do, I'll see thee[2535]
again.[2535]

_Tim._ When there is nothing living but thee, thou shalt[2535] 350
be welcome. I had rather be a beggar's dog than Apemantus.[2535]

_Apem._ Thou art the cap of all the fools alive.[2537]

_Tim._ Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon![2537]

_Apem._ A plague on thee! thou art too bad to curse.[2537][2538] 355

_Tim._ All villains that do stand by thee are pure.[2537]

_Apem._ There is no leprosy but what thou speak'st.[2537]

_Tim._ If I name thee.[2539][2540]
I'll beat thee; but I should infect my hands.[2539][2541]

_Apem._ I would my tongue could rot them off![2542] 360

_Tim._ Away, thou issue of a mangy dog![2543]
Choler does kill me that thou art alive;
I swoon to see thee.[2543][2544]

_Apem._ Would thou wouldst burst![2545][2546]

_Tim._ Away, thou tedious rogue! I am sorry I shall[2546] 365
lose a stone by thee.[2546] [_Throws a stone at him._[2547]

_Apem._ Beast![2546]

_Tim._ Slave![2546]

_Apem._ Toad![2546]

_Tim._ Rogue, rogue, rogue![2546][2548] 370
I am sick of this false world, and will love nought
But even the mere necessities upon't.[2549]
Then, Timon, presently prepare thy grave;
Lie where the light foam of the sea may beat
Thy grave-stone daily: make thine epitaph, 375
That death in me at others' lives may laugh.[2550]
[_To the gold_] O thou sweet king-killer, and dear divorce[2551]
'Twixt natural son and sire! thou bright defiler[2552]
Of Hymen's purest bed! thou valiant Mars!
Thou ever young, fresh, loved, and delicate wooer,[2553] 380
Whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow
That lies on Dian's lap! thou visible god,[2554]
That solder'st close impossibilities,
And makest them kiss! that speak'st with every tongue,
To every purpose! O thou touch of hearts! 385
Think thy slave man rebels; and by thy virtue[2555]
Set them into confounding odds, that beasts
May have the world in empire!

_Apem._ Would 'twere so![2556]
But not till I am dead. I'll say thou hast gold:[2557]
Thou wilt be throng'd to shortly.

_Tim._ Throng'd to![2558]

_Apem._ Ay. 390

_Tim._ Thy back, I prithee.

_Apem._ Live, and love thy misery![2559]

_Tim._ Long live so, and so die! [_Exit Apemantus._] I am quit.[2560]
Moe things like men? Eat, Timon, and abhor them.[2561]

_Enter_ Banditti.

_First Ban._ Where should he have this gold? It is some[2562]
poor fragment, some slender ort of his remainder: the mere 395
want of gold, and the falling-from of his friends, drove him[2563]
into this melancholy.

_Sec. Ban._ It is noised he hath a mass of treasure.[2564]

_Third Ban._ Let us make the assay upon him: if he
care not for't, he will supply us easily; if he covetously 400
reserve it, how shall's get it?

_Sec. Ban._ True; for he bears it not about him; 'tis hid.[2565]

_First Ban._ Is not this he?

_Banditti._ Where?[2566]

_Sec. Ban._ 'Tis his description. 405

_Third Ban._ He; I know him.[2567]

_Banditti._ Save thee, Timon.[2566]

_Tim._ Now, thieves?[2568]

_Banditti._ Soldiers, not thieves.[2566]

_Tim._ Both too; and women's sons.[2569] 410

_Banditti._ We are not thieves, but men that much do want.[2566][2570]

_Tim._ Your greatest want is, you want much of meat.[2571][2572][2573]
Why should you want? Behold, the earth hath roots;[2572]
Within this mile break forth a hundred springs;[2574]
The oaks bear mast, the briers scarlet hips;[2575] 415
The bounteous housewife, nature, on each bush
Lays her full mess before you. Want! why want?

_First Ban._ We cannot live on grass, on berries, water,
As beasts and birds and fishes.

_Tim._ Nor on the beasts themselves, the birds and fishes; 420
You must eat men. Yet thanks I must you con
That you are thieves profess'd, that you work not
In holier shapes: for there is boundless theft
In limited professions. Rascal thieves,[2576]
Here's gold. Go, suck the subtle blood o' the grape, 425
Till the high fever seethe your blood to froth,[2577]
And so 'scape hanging: trust not the physician;
His antidotes are poison, and he slays
Moe than you rob: take wealth and lives together;[2578]
Do villany, do, since you protest to do't,[2579][2580] 430
Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery:[2580]
The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief,[2581]
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun:
The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves 435
The moon into salt tears: the earth's a thief,[2582]
That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n[2583]
From general excrement: each thing's a thief:[2584]
The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power
Have uncheck'd theft. Love not yourselves; away,[2585] 440
Rob one another. There's more gold. Cut throats:[2586]
All that you meet are thieves: to Athens go,
Break open shops; nothing can you steal,[2587]
But thieves do lose it: steal not less for this[2588][2589][2590]
I give you; and gold confound you howsoe'er![2588][2590][2591] 445
Amen.[2588][2592]

_Third Ban._ Has almost charmed me from my profession[2593]
by persuading me to it.

_First Ban._ 'Tis in the malice of mankind that he thus[2594]
advises us; not to have us thrive in our mystery.[2595] 450

_Sec. Ban._ I'll believe him as an enemy, and give over[2596]
my trade.[2596]

_First Ban._ Let us first see peace in Athens: there is no[2597]
time so miserable but a man may be true.[2597][2598]

[_Exeunt Banditti._

_Enter_ FLAVIUS.

_Flav._ O you gods![2599] 455
Is yond despised and ruinous man my lord?
Full of decay and failing? O monument[2600]
And wonder of good deeds evilly bestow'd![2600]
What an alteration of honour[2601][2602]
Has desperate want made![2601] 460
What viler thing upon the earth than friends[2603]
Who can bring noblest minds to basest ends!
How rarely does it meet with this time's guise,
When man was wish'd to love his enemies![2604]
Grant I may ever love, and rather woo[2605] 465
Those that would mischief me than those that do![2605][2606]
Has caught me in his eye: I will present[2607][2608]
My honest grief unto him, and, as my lord,[2608][2609]
Still serve him with my life. My dearest master![2608]

_Tim._ Away! what art thou?[2610]

_Flav._ Have you forgot me, sir?[2611] 470

_Tim._ Why dost ask that? I have forgot all men;[2612]
Then, if thou grant'st thou'rt a man, I have forgot thee.[2613]

_Flav._ An honest poor servant of yours.[2614]

_Tim._ Then I know thee not:[2615]
I never had honest man about me, I; all[2616] 475
I kept were knaves, to serve in meat to villains.[2617]

_Flav._ The gods are witness,
Ne'er did poor steward wear a truer grief
For his undone lord than mine eyes for you.

_Tim._ What, dost thou weep? come nearer; then I love
thee,[2618][2619] 480
Because thou art a woman, and disclaim'st
Flinty mankind, whose eyes do never give
But thorough lust and laughter. Pity's sleeping:[2620][2621]
Strange times, that weep with laughing, not with weeping![2621]

_Flav._ I beg of you to know me, good my lord, 485
To accept my grief, and whilst this poor wealth lasts
To entertain me as your steward still.

_Tim._ Had I a steward[2622][2623]
So true, so just, and now so comfortable?[2622]
It almost turns my dangerous nature mild.[2622][2624] 490
Let me behold thy face. Surely this man[2622]
Was born of woman.[2622]
Forgive my general and exceptless rashness,
You perpetual-sober gods! I do proclaim[2625]
One honest man--mistake me not--but one;[2626] 495
No more, I pray,--and he's a steward.[2626][2627]
How fain would I have hated all mankind!
And thou redeem'st thyself: but all, save thee,
I fell with curses.
Methinks thou art more honest now than wise; 500
For, by oppressing and betraying me,
Thou mightst have sooner got another service:
For many so arrive at second masters,
Upon their first lord's neck. But tell me true--
For I must ever doubt, though ne'er so sure-- 505
Is not thy kindness subtle, covetous,[2628]
If not a usuring kindness and as rich men deal gifts,[2629]
Expecting in return twenty for one?

_Flav._ No, my most worthy master; in whose breast
Doubt and suspect, alas, are placed too late: 510
You should have fear'd false times when you did feast:
Suspect still comes where an estate is least.[2630]
That which I show, heaven knows, is merely love,
Duty and zeal to your unmatched mind,[2631]
Care of your food and living; and, believe it,[2632] 515
My most honour'd lord,[2633][2634]
For any benefit that points to me,[2634]
Either in hope or present, I'ld exchange[2634][2635]
For this one wish, that you had power and wealth[2634]
To requite me by making rich yourself.[2634] 520

_Tim._ Look thee, 'tis so! Thou singly honest man,[2636]
Here, take: the gods, out of my misery,
Have sent thee treasure. Go, live rich and happy;[2637]
But thus condition'd: thou shalt build from men,
Hate all, curse all, show charity to none, 525
But let the famish'd flesh slide from the bone
Ere thou relieve the beggar: give to dogs
What thou deniest to men; let prisons swallow 'em,[2638]
Debts wither 'em to nothing: be men like blasted woods,[2639]
And may diseases lick up their false bloods! 530
And so farewell, and thrive.

_Flav._ O, let me stay[2640]
And comfort you, my master.[2640]

_Tim._ If thou hatest curses[2641]
Stay not: fly, whilst thou art blest and free:[2641][2642]
Ne'er see thou man, and let me ne'er see thee.

[_Exeunt severally._[2643]

FOOTNOTES:

[2324] ACT IV. SCENE I.] Rowe.

Without ...] Rowe.

[2325] _thee. O ... wolves_,] Ff. _thee, O ... wolves!_ Pope.

[2326] _girdlest_] Rowe. _girdles_ Ff.

[2327] _steads! To ... filths_] _steads: to ... filths_ Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). _steeds, to ... filthes._ F1 F2. _steeds to ... filthes._ F3. _steads to ... filths_ F4.

_filths_] _filth_ Hanmer.

[2328] _green virginity!_] _green, virginity_ Pope (ed. 1).

[2329] _fast; Rather ... back, out_] Theobald (Anon. conj.). f_ast Rather ... backe; out_ F1 F2 F3. _fast, Rather ... back; out_ F4.

[2330] _o' the_] _i' th'_ Hanmer. _at the_ Keightley.

_Son_] _Some_ F1.

[2331] _lined_] _lean'd_ Keightley.

[2332] _With ... brains_] _And with it beat his brains out_ Pope.

_Piety and fear_] _Fear and piety_ Pope.

[2333] _let_] Hanmer. _yet_ Ff.

[2334] _detestable town_] _town detestable_ Hanmer.

[2335] [Throwing away his raiment. Delius conj. Plucking out his hair. Ingleby conj.

[2336] _more_] _much_ F4.

[2337] _you_] _ye_ Pope (ed. 2).

[2338] _Amen_] om. Pope.

[2339] SCENE II.] Rowe.

Athens ...] Timon's House. Rowe.

[2340] _master steward_] _M. steward_ F1. _good master steward_ Pope.

[2341] _me_] _it_ Hanmer. om. Capell.

[2342] _I am ... backs_] S. Walker would end the lines _noble ... friend ... go ... backs._

[2343] _do_] om. Hanmer.

[2344] _From our ... to his_] _From our ... from his_ Hanmer. _To our ... from his_ Rann (Mason conj.).

[2345] _his familiars_] _the familiars_ S. Walker conj.

[2346] _leave_] _and leave_ Long MS.

[2347] _all-shunn'd_] Hyphened in Pope.

[2348] _like_] _likes_ F2.

[2349] _still_] om. Pope.

[2350] _dying_] _sinking_ Keightley conj.

[2351] _this_] _the_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[2352] _let's shake_] _shake_ Pope.

[2353] [Servants ...] Embrace and part severall wayes. Ff. He gives them mony, they embrace ... Pope. Embrace, and Exeunt Servants. Capell.

[2354] _fierce_] _first_ Theobald (ed. 2).

[2355] _Who would_] _Who'd_ Pope.

_or to_] _as to_ Rowe. _and so_ or _so to_ Grant White conj. (withdrawn). _or would_ Keightley. _or so_ Dyce, ed. 2.

[2356] _friendship? To have his_] _friendship? and to have His_ Singer (ed. 2). _friendship; and revive To have his_ Collier (Collier MS.). _friendship? and survive To have his_ Keightley.

[2357] _what state compounds_] _state comprehends_ Collier (S. Walker conj.). _that state compounds_ Grant White conj.

[2358] _varnish'd_] _vanish'd_ Pope.

[2359] _unusual blood_,] _unusual mood_, Johnson conj. _unequal blood_, Becket conj. _unusual!--'sblood!_ Jackson conj.

[2360] _does_] F4. _do_ F1 F3. _doe_ F2.

[2361] _Alas_] _'Las_ S. Walker conj.

[2362] _ingrateful_] _ingratefull_ F1 F2. _ungrateful_ F3 F4.

[2363] _Of monstrous ... it._] As in Pope. Three lines in Ff.

[2364] _has_] _his_ F2.

_with him_] om. Rowe.

[2365] _follow_] _follow after_ Hanmer.

[2366] SCENE III.] Rowe.

Woods ...] Edd. The Woods. Rowe. Wood; a Cave in View. Capell.

[2367] Enter Timon ...] Edd. Enter Timon in the Woods. Ff. Enter Timon. Rowe. Enter Timon, with a Spade. Capell.

[2368] _blessed breeding_] _blessing-breeding_ Warburton. _blessed-breeding_ Dyce (S. Walker conj.).

[2369] _dividant_] _divided_ Hanmer.

_them_] om. Pope.

[2370] _not nature_] _not ev'n nature_ Pope. _not his nature_ Capell. _not those natures_ Steevens conj.

[2371] _nature ... nature_] _natures ... natures_ Mason conj.

[2372] _by_] _with_ Hanmer.

[2373] _Raise_] _Robe_ Maginn conj.

_deny 't_] _denude_ Theobald (Warburton). _degrade_ Hanmer. _deprive_ Heath conj. _devest_ Steevens conj. _dechute_ Becket conj. _decline_ Collier (Collier MS.). _demit_ Staunton ('Obelus,' N. and Q. 1856, conj.). _deject_ Arrowsmith conj. _deknight_ Anon. conj.

[2374] _senator_] Rowe. _senators_ Ff.

[2375] _pasture_] Rowe. _pastour_ F1. _pastor_ F2 F3 F4. _pasterer_ Farmer and Steevens conj.

_pasture ... rother's_] _paste o'erlards the brother's_ Jackson conj.

_lards_] owe. _Lards_, F1. _Lords_, F2 F3 F4.

_rother's_] Collier (Singer, ed. 2). _Brothers_ Ff. _beggar's_ Rowe. _weather's_ Theobald (Warburton). _broader_ Farmer conj. _breather's_ Malone conj. (withdrawn).

[2376] _The ... lean_] F3 F4. _The ... leaue_ F1. _The ... leane_ F2. _'Tis ... leave_ Johnson conj. _The gaunt that makes him leave_ Farmer conj. Johnson supposes that a line is lost.

[2377] _say_] _fay_ F1.

_man's_] F3 F4. _mans_ F1 F2.

[2378] _grise_] _grize_ Ff. _greeze_ Pope.

[2379] _all is oblique_] Pope. _All's obliquie_ F1. _Alls obliquy_ F2 F3. _All's obliquy_ F4. _all's obloquy_ Rowe. _all, all's oblique_ Lettsom conj.

[2380] _Therefore_] _Then_ Pope.

[2381] _fang_] Johnson. _phang_ Ff.

[Digging.] Digging the Earth. Rowe. om. Ff.

[2382] _Gold ... valiant_] As in Hanmer. Five lines, ending _gold?... votarist, ... make ... right; ... valliant,_ in Ff.

[2383] _idle votarist_] _idol votarist_ Collier (Collier MS.).

_you_] om. Hanmer.

_clear_] _dear_ Jackson conj.

[2384] _right_] After this Keightley marks an omission.

[2385] _Ha_] om. Pope.

_what_] _why_ Hanmer. _what?_ Johnson.

[2386] _stout_] _sick_ Hanmer.

_their_] F1 _the_ F2 F3 F4.

[2387] t_hieves_,] _theeves_, F1. _theeves._ F2 F3. _thieves._ F4.

[2388] _this is it_] _this, this is it_ Hanmer. _why, this it is_ Steevens conj.

[2389] _wappen'd_] _waped_ Hanmer (Warburton). _wained_ Johnson conj. _wapper'd_ Collier, ed. 2 (Malone conj.). _Wapping_ Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. Vol. LX. p. 127). _weeping_ Steevens conj. _vapid_ Seymour conj.

_wed_] _woo'd_ Mason conj.

[2390] _She_] _Her_ Hanmer.

[2391] _whom ... at_] _whose ulcerous sores the spital-house Would ... at_ or _at whose ulcerous sores the spital-house Would ... up_ Steevens conj.

[2392] _at, this_] Pope. _at. This_ Ff. _at; this_ Rowe.

[2393] _damned_] Rowe (ed. 2). _damn'd_ Ff.

[2394] _put'st_] _putt'st_ Pope. _puttes_ Ff. _puttest_ Rowe.

[2395] _Do ... quick_] One line in Pope. Two in Ff.

[2396] _thou'lt_] F4. _thou't_ F1 F2 F3.

[2397] [Keeping some gold.] Pope. om. Ff.

SCENE IV. Pope.

Phrynia] and Phrynia Ff.

[2398] _speak._] om. Seymour conj.

[2399] _The canker_] _Cankers_ Rowe.

[2400] _misanthropos_] _misantropos_ F1.

[2401] _that_] _as_ Pope.

[2402] _With ... paint_] _And with ... paint all_ Hanmer.

_gules, gules_:] _gules, total gules_: Capell. _gules, gules_; for if Keightley.

[2403] _not_] _but_ Staunton conj.

[2404] _were_] _were now_ Pope (ed. 2).

[2405] _Noble ... man!_] Prose in Ff. Seven lines of verse in Capell.

[2406] _but to_] _but this, To_ Capell.

[2407] _not promise_] _but promise_ Staunton conj.

[2408] _perform_] _promise, and Perform_ Capell.

[2409] _I have_] _I've_ Pope.

[2410] _then_] _thine_ Malone conj.

[2411] _Art thou ... lust_] Three lines, ending _still!... diseases, ... lust_, S. Walker conj.

[2412] _Be ... diet._] Verse first in Pope. Prose in Ff.

[2413] _Give ... lust._] _Leaving with thee their lust. Give them diseases;_ Grant White (Johnson conj.).

[2414] _bring_] _bring me_ Capell (MS. correction).

[2415] _rose-cheeked youth To the_ Malone. _Rose-cheekt youth to the_ F1. _Rose-checkt youth to the_ F2 F3. _Rose-cheek'd youth to the_ F4. _the rose-cheek'd youth To th'_ Pope. _rose-cheek'd youth to The_ Dyce.

_rose-cheeked ... tub-fast_] _the rose-cheek'd youth, Th' fub, to th' fast_ Theobald conj.

[2416] _tub-fast_] Theobald (Warburton). _Fubfast_ Ff.

[2417] _calamities_] _calamites_ F2.

[2418] _I have_] _I have had_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[2419] _have_] om. Rowe.

[2420] _Athens_,] _Athens is_ Hanmer.

[2421] _trod upon_] _had trod on_ Hanmer.

_them--_] Rowe. _them._ Ff.

[2422] _I had_] _I 'ad_ Pope.

[2423] _Here is some_] _Here's_ Pope.

[2424] _heap--_] Rowe (ed. 2). _heape._ or _heap._ Ff.

[2425] _Athens?_] F3 F4. _Athens._ F1 F2.

[2426] _Ay ... country._] S. Walker would end the lines _them ... when ... killing ... country._

[2427] _all_] _all then_ Pope. om. Capell, ending the line at _and._

_in thy_] _i' thy_ Steevens (1793), ending the lines _and ... Timon?... That, ... conquer ... country._

[2428] _thee after, ... conquer'd_] _after, thee, ... conquered_ Pope.

[2429] _Why_] _But why_ Hanmer.

_of_] om. Hanmer.

[2430] _conquer my_] _make conquest of my_ Hanmer. _conquer thy own_ Capell, ending the previous line at _born_. _scourge thy_ S. Walker conj.

[2431] _when_] F1. _whom_ F2 F3 F4.

[2432] _counterfeit_] om. Pope.

[2433] _for_] _nor_ Tyrwhitt conj.

[2434] _window-bars_] Steevens (Johnson conj.). _window barne_ F1 F2. _window barn_ F3 F4. _window-barn_ Pope. _window-lawn_ Theobald (Warburton). _widow's barb_ Tyrwhitt conj.

[2435] _But_] om. Pope.

_them_] om. Dyce (ed. 2).

[2436] _exhaust_] _extort_ Hanmer.

[2437] _whom_] _who_, Hanmer.

[2438] _pronounced thy_] Pope. _pronounced, the_ Ff.

[2439] _swear_] _whoso'er_ Heath conj.

_against_] _'gainst all_ Hanmer.

_objects_] _abjects_ Collier, ed. 2 (Farmer conj.). _audits_ Becket conj.

[2440] _priests_] _priest_ Pope.

[2441] _Hast ... counsel._] As in Capell. Verse first in Pope, the first line ending _yet?_ Prose in Ff.

[2442] _all_] om. Pope.

[2443] Phr. and Timan.] Steevens. Both. Ff. Wom. Capell.

[2444] _whores, a bawd_] Ff. _whore a bawd_ Pope. _whole a bawd_ Theobald (Warburton). _whores abundant_ Hanmer. _whores abhorr'd_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[2445] _you are_] _you're_ Pope.

[2446] _And be ... still_] As in Capell. In Ff the lines end _months ... thatch ... dead, ... matter: ... still_. Seven lines in Johnson, ending _turncoats ... contrary ... thatch ..._ &c.

[2447] _turncoats_] _turncocks_ Jackson conj.

_pains, six months_] _pain-sick months_ Becket conj.

_six months_] _six mouths_ F2. _exterior_ Hanmer. _six months thence_ Keightley.

[2448] _contrary_] _contraried_ Johnson conj.

_and_] om. Capell.

_and thatch_] _Make false hair, and thatch_ Pope, ending lines 143-145 as Ff.

[2449] _whore_] _and whore on_ Pope.

[2450] _Believe't_] _Believe_ Rowe.

[2451] _man ... men's_] _men ... their_ S. Walker conj.

[2452] _spurring_] _sparring_ Hanmer. _spurning_ Long MS. _springing_ Seymour conj.

[2453] _hoar_] _hoarse_ Singer, ed. 1 (Upton conj.).

[2454] _scolds_] Rowe. _scold'st_ Ff.

[2455] _to foresee, Smells from_] _not foresees, Smels for_ Capell.

[2456] _foresee_] _forefend_ Warburton.

[2457] _bald_] _Quite bald_ Hanmer, ending lines 158, 159 _ruffians ... of_.

[2458] _all_] _all of them_ Keightley. _all; plague all_ Anon. conj.

[2459] _More ... again_] Verse in Pope. Prose in Ff.

[2460] _I have_] _I've_ Pope.

[2461] _did thee_] _did the_ F2.

[2462] _Men ... thee._] As in Dyce. In Ff the first line ends _away_. In Delius, _find it_.

[2463] _it_] _it such_ Steevens. _it so_ Keightley.

_Get thee away_] _Get thee hence away_ Pope, ending the line as Ff. _Get thee hence. Away_ Johnson. _Hence; Get thee away_ Capell, ending the line at _Hence_.

[2464] _Strike_] Put in a separate line by Steevens (1793).

[Drum beats.] Johnson. om. Ff.

[2465] Exeunt....] Theobald. Exeunt. Ff.

[2466] SCENE V. Pope.

[2467] [Digging.] Johnson, before line 174. om. Ff.

[2468] _whose_] _oh thou! whose_ Pope.

_mettle_] _forming mettle_ Keightley.

[2469] _crisp_] _cript_ Warburton.

[2470] _thy human_] Pope. _the humane_ Ff. _the human_ Rowe.

_doth_] Capell. _do_ Ff. _do's_ Rowe.

[2471] [digs. Capell.

[2472] _Ensear_] _Then sear_ Hanmer.

_conceptious_] F1. _conceptions_ F2 F3 F4.

[2473] _out_] _out to_ Warburton.

[2474] _marbled_] _marble_ Capell.

_mansion all_] _mansion-hall_ S. Walker conj.

[2475] _thy_] _your_ Singer conj.

_marrows, vines, and_] F3 F4. _marrowes, vines, and_ F1 F2. _marrows, veins, and_ Rowe. _meadows, vineyards_, Hanmer. _harrow'd veins, and_ Warburton. _marrow'd veins, and_ Heath conj. _meadows, vines, and_ Collier (Collier MS.). _marrowy vines and_ Grant White (Dyce conj.). _married vines and_ Keightley.

[2476] _unctuous_] Johnson. _unctious_ Ff.

_pure_] _impure_ Keightley.

[2477] _slips!_] _slippes--_ F1 F2. _slips--_ F3 F4.

[2478] SCENE VI. Pope.

[2479] _infected_] _affected_ Rowe.

[2480] _fortune_] Rowe and Southern MS. _future_ Ff. _fauturs_ Becket conj.

[2481] _diseased_] F2 F3 F4. _diseas'd_ F1.

[2482] _woods_] _weeds_ Theobald (Warburton).

[2483] _off_] _of_ F2.

[2484] _bade_] _bad_ F1. _bid_ F2 F3 F4.

[2485] _Were_] _Where_ F2.

[2486] _Thou hast_] _Thou 'ast_ Pope. _Thou'st_ Theobald.

[2487] _A madman so long_] _So long a mad-man_ Pope.

_think'st_] _think'st thou_ Pope.

[2488] _moss'd_] Hanmer. _moyst_ F1 F2. _moist_ F3 F4.

[2489] _when_] _where_ Grant White (S. Walker conj.).

[2490] _find--_] Rowe. _finde._ F1 F2. _find._ F3 F4.

[2491] _thee_] _the_ F2.

[2492] Apem. _Why?_ Tim.] Omitted by Hanmer.

_Why?_] _Why so?_ Keightley.

[2493] _To_] _Only to_ Hanmer.

[2494] _a knave too?_] _a knave thou!_ Hanmer. _and know't too?_ Warburton conj.

[2495] _sour-cold_] Hyphen added by Steevens (1793).

[2496] _courtier_] F1 F4. _countier_ F2 F3.

_again_] om. Pope.

[2497] _Outlives incertain_] Rowe. _Out-lives: incertaine_ F1. _Out-lives: in certaine_ F2. _Out-lives: in certain_ F3 F4. _Out-strips incertain_ Hanmer. _Out-vies uncertain_ Capell.

_before_] _before it_ Hanmer.

[2498] _state ... Hath_] _states ... Have_ Pope.

[2499] _but bred_] _bred but_ Hanmer.

[2500] _The_] _Through_ Rowe.

[2501] _drugs_] F4. _drugges_ F1 F2. _druggs_ F3. _drudges_ Delius (Mason conj.). _dugs_ Collier (Collier MS.). _dregs_ Capell conj. MS.

[2502] _command_] Rowe. _command'st_ Ff.

[2503] _follow'd_] Capell. _followed_ Ff.

[2504] _and hearts_] F1 F2. _the hearts_ F3 F4.

[2505] _employment_] F1. _employments_ F2 F3 F4. Here Keightley marks a line omitted.

[2506] _me_] F1. _the_ F2. _thee_ F3 F4.

[2507] _have ... Fell ... and_] _yet ... Fall'n ... have_ Hanmer. _and ... Fell ... and_ Capell. _and ... Fall'n ... have_ Capell (MS. correction).

[2508] _Fell_] _Fall'n_ Rowe.

[2509] _some_] _sume_ F2.

[2510] _rag_] F4. _ragge_ F1 F2 F3. _rogue_ Collier, ed. 2 (Johnson conj.).

[2511] _rogue_] _rag_ Anon. conj.

[2512] _a knave_] _knave_ Pope.

[2513] _I ... prodigal._] As in Capell. One line in Ff.

[2514] [Eating....] Rowe. om. Ff.

[2515] _Here ... were._] Put in the margin by Pope.

[2516] _I will_] _will I_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[Offering....] Offering him another. Johnson. Throwing him a crust. Capell. Offering him something. Steevens (1778).

[2517] _my_] Rowe. _thy_ Ff.

[2518] _mine_] _my_ Pope.

[2519] _o' nights_] Theobald. _a nights_ Ff.

[2520] _Under ... Apemantus?_] Prose in Capell. Two lines, the first ending _me_, in Ff.

_o' days_] _a-dayes_ F1 F2. _a daies_ F3 F4.

[2521] _or_] om. Hanmer, ending the lines _Where ... it ... mind!... dishes_.

[2522] _and_] om. Hanmer.

[2523] _it_] _it then_ Hanmer.

[2524] _curiosity_] _courtesy_ Hanmer.

[2525] _There's ... dog._] Put in the margin by Pope.

[2526] _Ay, though it look_] _I, though it looke_ Ff (look F3 F4). _I thought it look'd_ Johnson conj. _Ay, for it looks_ Rann. _Ay, troth, it looks_ Becket conj.

[2527] _An_] Pope. _And_ Ff.

_thou hadst_] Capell. _th' hadst_ Ff.

[2528] _and_] _or_ Pope.

_beasts?_] Rowe (ed. 2). _beasts._ Ff.

[2529] _the lion_] _a lion_ Pope.

[2530] _thou livedst_] _thou liv'st._ Rowe. _thou 'dst live_ Hanmer.

[2531] _remotion_] _motion_ Grant White conj.

[2532] _that seest_] _and seest_ Rowe.

[2533] _If ... beasts._] Prose in Pope. Five lines, ending _me ... might'st ... here ... become ... beasts,_ in Ff.

[2534] _city?_] Rowe (ed. 2). _citie._ or _city._ Ff.

[2535] _Yonder ... Apemantus._] Prose in Pope and Theobald. Nine irregular lines in Ff.

[2536] _Yonder ... painter_:] Omitted by Pope, who transfers Apem. _The plague ... Apemantus_ (346-352) to follow line 393.

[2537] _Thou ... speak'st._] As in Pope. Ten lines in Ff.

[2538] _A ... thee!_] Given to Timon by Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald).

[2539] _If ... hands._] Arranged as by Capell. Two lines, the first ending _beate thee_; in Ff. Prose in Theobald.

[2540] _If I name thee._] Omitted by Pope.

_thee._] _thee.--_ Theobald. _thee_, Ff. _thee,--_ Capell.

[2541] _I'll_] _I'd_ Hanmer.

[2542] _I ... off!_] One line in Pope. Two in Ff.

[2543] _Away ... thee._ As in Rowe. The lines end _dog ... me ... thee,_ in Ff.

[2544] _Swoon_] Pope. _swoond_ F1 F2. _swound_ F3 F4.

[2545] _Would_] _I would_ Hanmer.

[2546] _Would ... rogue!_] As in Ff. Three lines, ending _burst ... sorry I ... rogue!_ in Hanmer. Capell ends the lines _Away!... lose ... rogue!_

[2547] Throws ...] Throwing at him. Capell. om. Ff.

[2548] _Rogue, rogue, rogue!_] _Rogue!_ Hammer.

[Apemantus retreats backward, as going. Theobald.

[2549] _even ... upon 't_] _ev'n ... upon it_ Pope.

[2550] _me_] _thee_ Johnson.

[2551] [To the gold] Looking on the gold. Pope. om. Ff.

_king-killer_] _kin-killer_ Maginn conj.

[2552] _son and sire_] Rowe. _Sunne and fire_ F1 F2 F3. _Sun and Fire_ F4.

[2553] _fresh, loved_] _fresh-lived_ Maginn conj. _fresh-loved_ Anon. conj.

[2554] _That ... god_,] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.

[2555] _slave man_] Rowe. _slave-man_ Ff.

[2556] Apem.] Apem. [advancing. Capell.

[2557] _thou hast_] Pope (ed. 2). _th' hast_ Ff. _thou 'st_ Collier.

[2558] _to ... to_] Rowe (ed. 2). _too ... too_ Ff.

[2559] _Live ... misery!_] Continued to Timon by Hanmer.

[2560] _Long ... quit_] Given to Apem. Malone conj.

_and so_] _or so_ Hanmer.

Exit Apemantus.] Dyce. After _quit._ Capell. Exit Apeman. (after line 393) Ff.

_die ... I_] _die, so I_ Hanmer. _dye!--So, I_ Capell.

[2561] _Moe ... them._] Continued to Timon by Hanmer. Given to Apemantus in Ff. One line in Hanmer. Prose in Pope. Two lines in Ff.

_Moe_] _Mo_ Ff. _More_ Johnson.

_them._] Rowe. _then._ Ff. _Here_ Pope and Hanmer insert lines 346-352, Apem. _The plague ... Apemantus._

[Seeing the Thieves. Hanmer.

Enter Banditti.] Enter the Bandetti. F1 F2 F3. Enter the Banditti. F4. Enter Thieves. Pope. Enter certain Thieves. Capell.

[2562] SCENE VII. Pope.

First Ban.] 1 Band. Rowe. 1 Thief. Pope. 1. Ff (and elsewhere).

[2563] _falling-from of his_] Capell. _falling from of his_ Ff. _falling off of_ Pope. _falling from him of his_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[2564] Sec. Ban.] 2 Band. Rowe. 2 Thief. Pope. 2. Ff (and elsewhere).

_It is ... treasure._] As in Pope. Two lines in Ff.

_hath_] _hoth_ F2.

[2565] _True ... hid._] As in Pope. Two lines in Ff.

[2566] Banditti.] Knight. All. Ff.

[2567] _He_;] Rowe. _He?_ Ff.

[2568] _thieves?_] Capell. _thieves._ Ff. _thieves!_ Hanmer.

[2569] _Both too_] _Both, both_ Hanmer. _Both two_ Collier (ed. 2). _Both the two_ Anon. conj.

_Both ... sons_] _Both, and women's sons too_ Anon. conj.

[2570] _We ... want._] As in Pope. Two lines in Ff.

[2571] _want is ... meat._] _want? Is your want much of meat?_ Heath conj. _want is much, you want. O men_, Anon. conj.

_want much_] _wont much_ F2.

[2572] _much of meat. Why_] _much.--Of meat Why_ Rann (Farmer conj.).

[2573] _meat_] _meet_ Theobald. _men_ Hanmer. _me_ Steevens conj.

[2574] _a hundred_] F1 F2. _an hundred_ F3 F4.

[2575] _mast_] _masts_ Rowe (ed. 2).

_hips_] _heps_ F1.

[2576] _Rascal thieves_] _Rascals, thieves_ Pope.

[2577] _froth_] _broth_ Pope.

[2578] _Moe_] _More_ F4.

_take ... lives_] F1. _take ... live_ F2 F3 F4. _takes ... life_ Hanmer. _take ... rob_ Long MS.

[2579] _villany_] Rowe. _villaine_ F1 F2. _villain_ F3 F4.

_protest_] _profess_ Theobald.

[2580] _do't, Like workmen._] _do't, Like workmen_; Pope. _doo't. Like workemen_, F1 F2. _do't, Like workmen_, F3 F4.

[2581] _vast_] _daste_ F2 (Long's copy). _chaste_ Long MS.

[2582] _moon_] _mounds_ Theobald. _earth_ Capell. _main_ Tollet conj. _marge_ or _mole_ Anon. conj.

[2583] _composture_] _composure_ Pope.

[2584] _excrement_] _excrements_Theobald.

_thing's_] _think's_ F2.

[2585] _Have_] Pope. _Ha's_ Ff.

[2586] _Cut throats_] _cut-throats_ Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. Vol. LX. p. 307).

[2587] _nothing_] _for nothing_ Pope. _where nothing_ Steevens conj. _nought_ S. Walker conj., ending lines 443-446 _thieves ... give you ... Amen_.

[2588] _But ... Amen_] As in Capell. Two lines, the first ending _give you_, in Ff. Three, ending _this ... give you ... Amen_, in Delius.

[2589] _not_] Rowe. om. Ff. _no_ Collier (Collier MS.). _not the_ Keightley.

[2590] _for this I give you_] _for what I give_ Pope, ending line 444 at _what._

[2591] _howsoe'er_] _howsoever_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[2592] [Exit. Rowe. Retiring towards his Cave. Capell. om. Ff.

[2593] _Has_] F1 F2. _H'as_ F3 F4. _He has_ Steevens.

[2594] _the malice of_] _his malice to_ Hanmer.

[2595] _us; not_] _us, not_ Rowe. _us not_ Ff.

[2596] _I'll ... trade_] As in Pope. Two lines in Ff.

[2597] _there is ... true._] Given to '2 Thief' by Theobald (Warburton).

[2598] [Exeunt ...] Exit Theeves. F1. Exeunt Thieves. F2 F3 F4.

Enter Flavius.] Enter the Steward to Timon. Ff.

[2599] ACT V. SCENE I. The Woods and Timon's Cave. Rowe. Capell continues the Scene.

[2600] _Full ... bestow'd_] As in Ff. Three lines, ending _failing?... deeds, ... bestow'd,_ in Johnson.

[2601] _What ... made!_] As in Malone. One line in Ff. _What change of honour desp'rate want has made?_ Pope. _What change of humour desp'rate want has made?_ Warburton. Steevens ends the first line at _has_.

[2602] _What_] _Why, what_ Capell. _Ah, what_ Anon. conj.

_honour_] _favour_ Anon. conj.

[2603] _viler_] Pope. _vilder_ Ff.

[2604] _wish'd_] _will'd_ Warburton.

[2605] _woo ... do_] _too, ... woo_ Warburton.

[2606] _mischief_] _miscreefe_ F2.

[2607] _Has_] _H'as_ F4. _He has_ Steevens.

[2608] _present ... life._] As in Pope. Prose in F1 F2. Two lines, the first ending _grief_, in F3 F4.

[2609] _unto_] _to_ Pope.

[2610] [Timon comes forward from his cave. Theobald.

[2611] _thou_] om. S. Walker conj.

[2612] _dost_] _dost thou_ Theobald (ed. 2).

[2613] _Then ... thee_] As in Capell. Two lines in Ff.

_grant'st ... I_] Capell, and Southern MS. _grunt'st, th'art a man. I_ F1. _grunt'st th'art a man, I_ F2 F3 F4. _grantest that thou art a man I_, ending the line at _man_, Pope. _grant'st thou'rt man, I_ Steevens (1793).

_I have_] _I've_ Capell.

[2614] _An ... yours_] _An honest servant_ Pope.

[2615] _Then_] _Nay, then_ Capell, ending the lines at _then ... man ... knaves._ Steevens (1793) reads _Then_, but follows Capell's arrangement.

[2616] _never_] F1 F2. _nev'r_ F3 F4. _ne'er_ Rowe.

_man_] _men_ S. Walker conj.

_me, I; all_] Steevens (1778). _me, I all_, F1 F2 F3. _me, I, all_ F4. _me, all_ Pope. _me; ay, all_ Delius.

[2617] _I kept_] _that I kept_ Capell.

[2618] _Ne'er_] Pope. _Nev'r_ F1 F2. _Never_ F3 F4.

_steward_] _steward's_ Capell conj.

[2619] _What ... thee_] As in Rowe. Two lines in Ff.

[2620] _thorough_] _thorow_ F1 F2. _through_ F3 F4. _or through_ Pope.

_and_] _or_ Pope.

_laughter. Pity's sleeping_:] _laughter, pity sleeping._ Johnson conj.

[2621] _Pity's ... weeping!_] Put in the margin by Hanmer.

[2622] _Had ... woman._] As in Ff. Four lines in Capell, ending _just, ... turns ... behold ... woman._ Malone ends the first line at _now_, following Capell's arrangement in the rest.

[2623] _steward_] _steward then_ Capell.

[2624] _dangerous ... mild_] _nature dangerous-wild_ Becket conj. _dolorous nature wild_ Jackson conj.

_mild_] Hanmer (Thirlby conj.). _wilde_ Ff.

[2625] _You_] om. Pope.

_perpetual-sober_] Hanmer. _perpetuall sober_ Ff.

[2626] _One ... steward_] S. Walker would end the lines _man:-- ... pray,-- ... steward._

[2627] _pray_] _say_ Lettsom conj.

_pray ... steward_] _pray ... steward too_ Hanmer. _pray you,--and he is a steward_ Capell.

[2628] _subtle, covetous_] _subtle-covetous_ S. Walker conj.

[2629] _If not a_] _Is't not a_ Rowe. _A_ Pope. _An_ Hanmer. _Is it not a_ Keightley, ending the line at _men_.

_kindness_] om. Seymour conj.

_and_] om. Pope.

_rich ... gifts_] _gifts That rich men deal_ Anon. conj.

_gifts_] _Gifts to catch gifts_ S. Walker conj., ending the lines _deal ... return._

[2630] _where_] _when_ Hanmer.

[2631] _unmatched_] _unmarched_ F2.

[2632] _and_] _And, O_ Capell, ending the lines _living ... lord._

[2633] _My ... lord_,] Omitted by Pope.

[2634] _My ... yourself._] Four lines in Keightley, ending _benefit, ... I'd ... power ... yourself._

[2635] _exchange_] _exchange it_ Hanmer. _exchange't_ Capell.

[2636] _thee_] F1 F3 F4. _the_ F2. _ye_ Capell.

[2637] _Have_] Rowe. _Ha's_ Ff. _Ha'_ Anon. conj.

_thee_] _the_ F2.

[2638] _deniest_] _denyest_ Ff. _deny'st_ Rowe.

[2639] _'em to nothing_] _'em_ Pope. _them to nothing_ Malone. _them_ Steevens (1793).

[2640] _O ... master_] As in Capell. One line in Ff.

[2641] _If ... free_:] As in Ff. Malone ends the first line at _hat'st_.

[2642] _fly_] _flye_ F1 F2. _flee_ F3 F4. _but fly_ Pope. _fly, fly_ or _fly now_ Anon. conj.

[2643] [Exeunt severally.] Theobald. Exit. Ff. Exeunt. Rowe. Exit Flavius; and Timon into his cave. Collier (Collier MS.).