FLAV. Ay, If money were as certain as your waiting, Into their gluttonous maws. You do yourselves but wrong, Believe't, my lord and I have made an end; I have no more to reckon, he to spend. LUC. SERV. Ay, but this answer will not ferve. 'Tis not fo bafe as you; for you ferve knaves. [Exit. I VAR. SERV. How! what does his cafhier'd worship mutter? 2 VAR. SERV. No matter what; he's poor, and that's revenge enough. Who can speak broader than he that has no houfe to put his head in? fuch may rail against great buildings. Enter SERVILIUS. TIT. O, here's Servilius; now we fhall know SER. If I might befeech you, gentlemen, LUG. SERV. Many do keep their chambers, are not fick : And, if it be fo far beyond his health, Methinks, he should the fooner pay SER. Good gods! his debts, TIT. We cannot take this for an answer, fir. TIM. What, are my doors oppos'd against my paffage? Have I been ever free, and muft my houfe Be my retentive enemy, my gaol? The place, which I have feafted, does it now, TIT. My lord, here is my bill. HOR. SERV. And mine, my lord. BOTH VAR. SERV. And ours, my lord. PHI. All our bills. TIM. Knock me down with 'em: cleave me to the girdle. LUC. SERV. Alas! my lord, TIM. Cut my heart in fums. TIT. Mine, fifty talents. TIM. Tell out my blood. LUC. SERV. Five thousand crowns, my lord. TIM. Five thousand drops pays that. What yours?-and yours? I VAR. SERV. My lord,. 2 VAR. SERV. My lord, TIM. Tear me, take me, and the gods fall on you! [Exit. HOR. 'Faith, I perceive, our masters may throw their caps at their money; these debts may well be call'd desperate ones, for a madman owes 'em. [Exeunt. Re-enter TIMON and FLAVIUS. TIM. They have e'en put my Creditors!-devils. FLAV. My dear lord, breath from me, the flaves: TIM. What if it fhould be fo? FLAV. My lord, TIM. I'll have it fo:-My fteward! FLAV. Here, my lord. TIM. So fitly? Go, bid all my friends again, FLAV. O my lord, You only speak from your distracted foul; TIM. Be't not in thy care; go, I charge thee; invite them all: let in the tide SCENE V. The fame. The Senate-Houfe. The Senate fitting. Enter ALCIBIADES, attended. I SEN. My lord, you have my voice to't; the fault's 'Tis neceffary, he should die : Nothing emboldens fin fo much as mercy. 2 SEN. Moft true; the law fhall bruife him. [bloody; ALCIB. Honour, health, and compassion to the fenate! 1 SEN. Now, captain! ALCIB. I am an humble fuitor to your virtues; For pity is the virtue of the law, And none but tyrants use it cruelly. It pleases time, and fortune, to lie heavy Of comely virtues : Nor did he foil the fact with cowardice; (An honour in him, which buys out his fault,) And with fuch fober and unnoted paffion I SEN. You undergo too strict a paradox, Your words have took such pains, as if they labour'd Is valour misbegot, and came into the world. He's truly valiant, that can wifely fuffer The worst that man can breathe; and make his wrongs And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger. If wrongs be evils, and enforce us kill, What folly 'tis, to hazard life for ill? Το I SEN. You cannot make gross fins look clear; revenge is no valour, but to bear. ALCIB. My lords, then, under favour, pardon me, Why do fond men expose themselves to battle, And th' afs, more captain than the lion; the felon, If wisdom be in fuffering. O my lords, As you are great, be pitifully good : Who cannot condemn rashness in cold blood? To kill, I grant, is fin's extremest gust; But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just. To be in anger, is impiety;、 But who is man, that is not angry ? 2 SEN. You breathe in vain. I SEN. What's that? ALCIB. Why, I fay, my lords, h'as done fair fervice, And flain in fight many of your enemies : How full of valour did he bear himself In the last conflict, and made plenteous wounds? 2 SEN. He has made too much plenty with 'em, he Is a fworn rioter: h'as a fin that often Drowns him, and takes his valour prisoner: ALCIB. Hard fate! he might have died in war. (Though his right arm might purchase his own time, And be in debt to none,) yet, more to move you, Take my deserts to his, and join them both : |