Tim. All Villaines That do stand by thee, are pure
Ape. There is no Leprosie, But what thou speak'st
Tim. If I name thee, Ile beate thee; But I should infect my hands
Ape. I would my tongue Could rot them off
Tim. Away thou issue of a mangie dogge, Choller does kill me, That thou art aliue, I swoond to see thee
Ape. Would thou would'st burst
Tim. Away thou tedious Rogue, I am sorry I shall lose a stone by thee
Ape. Beast
Tim. Slaue
Ape. Toad
Tim. Rogue, Rogue, Rogue. I am sicke of this false world, and will loue nought But euen the meere necessities vpon't: Then Timon presently prepare thy graue: Lye where the light Fome of the Sea may beate Thy graue stone dayly, make thine Epitaph, That death in me, at others liues may laugh. O thou sweete King-killer, and deare diuorce Twixt naturall Sunne and fire: thou bright defiler Of Himens purest bed, thou valiant Mars, Thou euer, yong, fresh, loued, and delicate wooer, Whose blush doth thawe the consecrated Snow That lyes on Dians lap. Thou visible God, That souldrest close Impossibilities, And mak'st them kisse; that speak'st with euerie Tongue To euerie purpose: O thou touch of hearts, Thinke thy slaue-man rebels, and by thy vertue Set them into confounding oddes, that Beasts May haue the world in Empire
Ape. Would 'twere so, But not till I am dead. Ile say th'hast Gold: Thou wilt be throng'd too shortly
Tim. Throng'd too? Ape. I
Tim. Thy backe I prythee
Ape. Liue, and loue thy misery
Tim. Long liue so, and so dye. I am quit
Ape. Mo things like men, Eate Timon, and abhorre then.
Exit Apeman.
Enter the Bandetti.
1 Where should he haue this Gold? It is some poore Fragment, some slender Ort of his remainder: the meere want of Gold, and the falling from of his Friendes, droue him into this Melancholly
2 It is nois'd He hath a masse of Treasure
3 Let vs make the assay vpon him, if he care not for't, he will supply vs easily: if he couetously reserue it, how shall's get it? 2 True: for he beares it not about him: 'Tis hid
1 Is not this hee? All. Where? 2 'Tis his description
3 He? I know him
All. Saue thee Timon
Tim. Now Theeues
All. Soldiers, not Theeues
Tim. Both too, and womens Sonnes
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