Chapter XIV: Act II: SCENE I. A Senator's house.1933

_Enter a_ Senator, _with papers in his hand_.[1934]

_Sen._ And late five thousand: to Varro and to Isidore[1935]
He owes nine thousand; besides my former sum,
Which makes it five and twenty. Still in motion
Of raging waste? It cannot hold; it will not.
If I want gold, steal but a beggar's dog 5
And give it Timon, why, the dog coins gold:
If I would sell my horse and buy twenty moe[1936]
Better than he, why, give my horse to Timon;
Ask nothing, give it him, it foals me straight[1937]
And able horses: no porter at his gate,[1938] 10
But rather one that smiles and still invites[1939]
All that pass by. It cannot hold; no reason[1940]
Can found his state in safety. Caphis, ho![1941]
Caphis, I say!

_Enter_ CAPHIS.

_Caph._ Here, sir; what is your pleasure?

_Sen._ Get on your cloak, and haste you to Lord Timon; 15
Importune him for my moneys; be not ceased[1942]
With slight denial; nor then silenced, when--[1943]
'Commend me to your master'--and the cap[1943]
Plays in the right hand, thus: but tell him,[1944]
My uses cry to me, I must serve my turn 20
Out of mine own; his days and times are past,
And my reliances on his fracted dates[1945][1946]
Have smit my credit: I love and honour him,[1945]
But must not break my back to heal his finger:
Immediate are my needs; and my relief 25
Must not be toss'd and turn'd to me in words,
But find supply immediate. Get you gone:
Put on a most importunate aspect,
A visage of demand; for, I do fear,
When every feather sticks in his own wing, 30
Lord Timon will be left a naked gull,
Which flashes now a phoenix. Get you gone.[1947]

_Caph._ I go, sir.

_Sen._ 'I go, sir!' Take the bonds along with you,
And have the dates in compt.

_Caph._ I will, sir.[1948]

_Sen._ Go.[1949] [_Exeunt._ 35

SCENE II. _A hall in Timon's house._[1950]

_Enter_ FLAVIUS, _with many bills in his hand_.[1951]

_Flavius._ No care, no stop! so senseless of expense,
That he will neither know how to maintain it,
Nor cease his flow of riot: takes no account
How things go from him; nor resumes no care[1952]
Of what is to continue: never mind 5
Was to be so unwise, to be so kind.[1953]
What shall be done? he will not hear till feel:[1954]
I must be round with him, now he comes from hunting.
Fie, fie, fie, fie![1955]

_Enter_ CAPHIS, _with the_ Servants _of_ ISIDORE _and_ VARRO.

_Caph._ Good even, Varro: what, you come for money?[1956][1957] 10

_Var. Serv._ Is't not your business too?[1957][1958]

_Caph._ It is: and yours too, Isidore?[1957]

_Isid. Serv._ It is so.[1957][1959]

_Caph._ Would we were all discharged![1957]

_Var. Serv._ I fear it.[1957] 15

_Caph._ Here comes the lord.[1957][1960]

_Enter_ TIMON, ALCIBIADES, Lords, _and others_.

_Tim._ So soon as dinner's done, we'll forth again,
My Alcibiades. With me? what is your will?[1961]

_Caph._ My lord, here is a note of certain dues.[1962]

_Tim._ Dues! Whence are you?

_Caph._ Of Athens here, my lord. 20

_Tim._ Go to my steward.

_Caph._ Please it your lordship, he hath put me off
To the succession of new days this month:
My master is awaked by great occasion
To call upon his own, and humbly prays you 25
That with your other noble parts you'll suit
In giving him his right.

_Tim._ Mine honest friend,
I prithee but repair to me next morning.

_Caph._ Nay, good my lord,--

_Tim._ Contain thyself, good friend.[1963]

_Var. Serv._ One Varro's servant, my good lord,--[1963][1964] 30

_Isid. Serv._ From Isidore; he humbly prays your[1964][1965]
speedy payment.[1964][1966]

_Caph._ If you did know, my lord, my master's wants,--[1964][1967]

_Var. Serv._ 'Twas due on forfeiture, my lord, six weeks[1964]
and past.[1964] 35

_Isid. Serv._ Your steward puts me off, my lord, and I[1968]
Am sent expressly to your lordship.[1968]

_Tim._ Give me breath.
I do beseech you, good my lords, keep on;
I'll wait upon you instantly. [_Exeunt Alcibiades, Lords, &c._
[_To Flav._] Come hither: pray you,[1969] 40
How goes the world, that I am thus encounter'd
With clamorous demands of date-broke bonds,[1970]
And the detention of long-since-due debts,[1971]
Against my honour?

_Flav._ Please you, gentlemen,
The time is unagreeable to this business: 45
Your importunacy cease till after dinner,[1972]
That I may make his lordship understand
Wherefore you are not paid.

_Tim._ Do so, my friends. See them well entertain'd.[1973] [_Exit._

_Flav._ Pray, draw near.[1974] [_Exit._ 50

_Enter_ APEMANTUS _and_ Fool.

_Caph._ Stay, stay, here comes the fool with Apemantus:[1975][1976]
let's ha' some sport with 'em.[1976][1977]

_Var. Serv._ Hang him, he'll abuse us.

_Isid. Serv._ A plague upon him, dog!

_Var. Serv._ How dost, fool? 55

_Apem._ Dost dialogue with thy shadow?

_Var. Serv._ I speak not to thee.

_Apem._ No, 'tis to thyself. [_To the Fool_] Come away.[1978]

_Isid. Serv._ There's the fool hangs on your back already.[1979]

_Apem._ No, thou stand'st single, thou'rt not on him yet.[1980] 60

_Caph._ Where's the fool now?[1981]

_Apem._ He last asked the question. Poor rogues, and[1982][1983]
usurers' men! bawds between gold and want![1983]

_All Serv._ What are we, Apemantus?[1984]

_Apem._ Asses. 65

_All Serv._ Why?[1984]

_Apem._ That you ask me what you are, and do not
know yourselves. Speak to 'em, fool.

_Fool._ How do you, gentlemen?

_All Serv._ Gramercies, good fool: how does your
mistress?[1984][1985][1986] 70

_Fool._ She's e'en setting on water to scald such chickens[1986]
as you are. Would we could see you at Corinth!

_Apem._ Good! gramercy.

_Enter_ Page.

_Fool._ Look you, here comes my mistress' page.[1987] 75

_Page._ [_To the Fool_] Why, how now, captain! what do[1988]
you in this wise company? How dost thou, Apemantus?[1989][1990]

_Apem._ Would I had a rod in my mouth, that I might
answer thee profitably.

_Page._ Prithee, Apemantus, read me the superscription[1990][1991] 80
of these letters: I know not which is which.

_Apem._ Canst not read?

_Page._ No.

_Apem._ There will little learning die then, that day thou
art hang'd. This is to Lord Timon; this to Alcibiades. 85
Go; thou wast born a bastard, and thou'lt die a bawd.[1992]

_Page._ Thou wast whelped a dog, and thou shalt famish[1993]
a dog's death. Answer not, I am gone.[1993] [_Exit._

_Apem._ E'en so thou outrun'st grace. Fool, I will go[1994]
with you to Lord Timon's.[1994] 90

_Fool._ Will you leave me there?[1994]

_Apem._ If Timon stay at home. You three serve three[1994][1995]
usurers?[1994]

_All Serv._ Ay; would they served us![1984][1994][1996]

_Apem._ So would I,--as good a trick as ever hangman[1994][1997] 95
served thief.[1994]

_Fool._ Are you three usurers' men?

_All Serv._ Ay, fool.[1984]

_Fool._ I think no usurer but has a fool to his servant:
my mistress is one, and I am her fool. When men come to 100
borrow of your masters, they approach sadly and go away
merry; but they enter my mistress' house merrily and[1987][1998]
go away sadly: the reason of this?

_Var. Serv._ I could render one.

_Apem._ Do it then, that we may account thee a whoremaster[1999] 105
and a knave; which notwithstanding, thou shalt be
no less esteemed.

_Var. Serv._ What is a whoremaster, fool?

_Fool._ A fool in good clothes, and something like thee.
'Tis a spirit: sometime 't appears like a lord; sometime
like[2000] 110
a lawyer; sometime like a philosopher, with two stones[2001]
moe than 's artificial one: he is very often like a knight;[2002]
and, generally, in all shapes that man goes up and down in
from fourscore to thirteen, this spirit walks in.

_Var. Serv._ Thou art not altogether a fool. 115

_Fool._ Nor thou altogether a wise man: as much foolery
as I have, so much wit thou lack'st.

_Apem._ That answer might have become Apemantus.

_All Serv._ Aside, aside; here comes Lord Timon.[2003]

_Re-enter_ TIMON _and_ FLAVIUS.

_Apem._ Come with me, fool, come. 120

_Fool._ I do not always follow lover, elder brother, and[2004]
woman; sometime the philosopher.[2004][2005]

[_Exeunt Apemantus and Fool._

_Flav._ Pray you, walk near: I'll speak with you anon[2006]

[_Exeunt Servants._[2007]

_Tim._ You make me marvel; wherefore, ere this time,[2008]
Had you not fully laid my state before me, 125
That I might so have rated my expense
As I had leave of means?

_Flav._ You would not hear me,[2009]
At many leisures I proposed.[2010]

_Tim._ Go to:
Perchance some single vantages you took,
When my indisposition put you back; 130
And that unaptness made your minister,[2011]
Thus to excuse yourself.

_Flav._ O my good lord,
At many times I brought in my accounts,
Laid them before you; you would throw them off,[2012]
And say, you found them in mine honesty.[2013] 135
When for some trifling present you have bid me
Return so much, I have shook my head and wept;[2014]
Yea, 'gainst the authority of manners pray'd you
To hold your hand more close: I did endure
Not seldom nor no slight checks, when I have 140
Prompted you in the ebb of your estate
And your great flow of debts. My loved lord,[2015]
Though you hear now, too late!--yet now's a time--[2016]
The greatest of your having lacks a half[2017]
To pay your present debts.[2017][2018]

_Tim._ Let all my land be sold.[2017] 145

_Flav._ 'Tis all engaged, some forfeited and gone,
And what remains will hardly stop the mouth
Of present dues: the future comes apace:[2019]
What shall defend the interim? and at length
How goes our reckoning?[2020] 150

_Tim._ To Lacedæmon did my land extend.

_Flav._ O my good lord, the world is but a word:[2021]
Were it all yours to give it in a breath,
How quickly were it gone!

_Tim._ You tell me true.

_Flav._ If you suspect my husbandry or falsehood,[2022] 155
Call me before the exactest auditors,
And set me on the proof. So the gods bless me,
When all our offices have been oppress'd
With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept
With drunken spilth of wine, when every room 160
Hath blazed with lights and bray'd with minstrelsy,
I have retired me to a wasteful cock,[2023]
And set mine eyes at flow.[2023]

_Tim._ Prithee, no more.

_Flav._ Heavens, have I said, the bounty of this lord!
How many prodigal bits have slaves and peasants 165
This night englutted! Who is not Timon's?[2024]
What heart, head, sword, force, means, but is Lord Timon's?[2025]
Great Timon, noble, worthy, royal Timon![2026]
Ah, when the means are gone that buy this praise,
The breath is gone whereof this praise is made: 170
Feast-won, fast-lost; one cloud of winter showers,[2027]
These flies are couch'd.

_Tim._ Come, sermon me no further:
No villanous bounty yet hath pass'd my heart;[2028]
Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.
Why dost thou weep? Canst thou the conscience lack,[2029] 175
To think I shall lack friends? Secure thy heart;
If I would broach the vessels of my love
And try the argument of hearts by borrowing,[2030]
Men and men's fortunes could I frankly use
As I can bid thee speak.

_Flav._ Assurance bless your thoughts![2031] 180

_Tim._ And in some sort these wants of mine are crown'd,
That I account them blessings; for by these
Shall I try friends: you shall perceive how you
Mistake my fortunes; I am wealthy in my friends.[2032]
Within there! Flaminius! Servilius![2033] 185

_Enter_ FLAMINIUS, SERVILIUS, _and other_ Servants.[2034]

_Servants._ My lord? my lord?[2035]

_Tim._ I will dispatch you severally: you to Lord Lucius:[2036]
to Lord Lucullus you: I hunted with his honour[2036]
to-day: you to Sempronius: commend me to their loves;[2036]
and, I am proud, say, that my occasions have found time to[2036] 190
use 'em toward a supply of money: let the request be fifty[2036][2037]
talents.[2036]

_Flam._ As you have said, my Lord.

_Flav._ [_Aside_] Lord Lucius and Lucullus? hum![2038]

_Tim._ Go you, sir, to the senators--[2039] 195
Of whom, even to the state's best health, I have[2040]
Deserved this hearing--bid 'em send o' the instant
A thousand talents to me.

_Flav._ I have been bold,[2041]
For that I knew it the most general way,
To them to use your signet and your name, 200
But they do shake their heads, and I am here
No richer in return.

_Tim._ Is't true? can't be?

_Flav._ They answer, in a joint and corporate voice,
That now they are at fall, want treasure, cannot[2042]
Do what they would; are sorry--you are honourable,-- 205
But yet they could have wish'd--they know not--[2043]
Something hath been amiss--a noble nature
May catch a wrench--would all were well--'tis pity:--
And so, intending other serious matters,
After distasteful looks and these hard fractions, 210
With certain half-caps and cold-moving nods[2044]
They froze me into silence.

_Tim._ You gods, reward them!
Prithee, man, look cheerly. These old fellows[2045]
Have their ingratitude in them hereditary:[2046]
Their blood is caked, 'tis cold, it seldom flows; 215
'Tis lack of kindly warmth they are not kind;
And nature, as it grows again toward earth,
Is fashion'd for the journey, dull and heavy.
[_To a Serv._] Go to Ventidius. [_To Flav._] Prithee, be not sad;[2047]
Thou art true and honest; ingeniously I speak,[2048] 220
No blame belongs to thee. [_To Serv._] Ventidius lately[2049]
Buried his father, by whose death he's stepp'd
Into a great estate: when he was poor,
Imprison'd, and in scarcity of friends,
I clear'd him with five talents: greet him from me; 225
Bid him suppose some good necessity
Touches his friend, which craves to be remember'd
With those five talents. [_Exit Serv._] [_To Flav._] That had,
give't these fellows[2050]
To whom 'tis instant due. Ne'er speak or think[2051]
That Timon's fortunes 'mong his friends can sink.[2052] 230

_Flav._ I would I could not think it: that thought is bounty's
foe;[2053]
Being free itself, it thinks all others so. [_Exeunt._

FOOTNOTES:

[1933] ACT II. SCENE I.] Rowe. om. Ff.

A Senator's house.] Capell, substantially. A publick Place in the City. Rowe.

[1934] with ... hand.] Capell. om. Ff.

[1935] _thousand: to_] Ff. _thousand to_ Steevens.

[1936] _twenty_] Ff. _ten_ Pope. _twain_ Farmer conj. _two_ Singer conj.

_moe_] F1. _more_ F2 F3 F4.

[1937] _me_] _'em_ Malone conj.

[1938] _And able horses_] F1 F2. _An able horse_ F3 F4. _Ten able horse_ Theobald. _Ten able horses_ Hanmer. _Ay, able horses_ Jackson conj. _A stable o' horses_ Collier (Collier MS.). _Two able horses_ Singer conj.

_porter_] _grim porter_ Staunton conj.

_gate_] After this Johnson conjectures that a line is lost.

[1939] _rather one that_] _one that rathen_ Becket conj.

[1940] _by_] _by it_ Theobald.

[1941] _found ... in_] Hanmer. _sound ... in_ Ff. _found ... on_ Capell. _find ... in_ Capell conj.

[1942] _my_] om. Pope.

[1943] _when--'Commend_] _when Commend_ F1. _then Commend_ F2 F3 F4. _with--Commend_ Rowe.

[1944] _Plays_] _Play'ng_ Hanmer.

_hand, thus: but_] Ff. _hand,--thus but_ Pope.

_him_] F1. _him sirrah_ F2 F3 F4.

[1945] _reliances ... Have_] _reliance ... Has_ Pope.

[1946] _on his_] _on's_ S. Walker conj.

[1947] _Which_] _Who_ Pope.

[1948] _'I go, sir!'_] _I go sir?_ F1. _I goe sir?_ F2 F3. _I go, sir?_ F4. _Ay, go, sir:_ Pope. Omitted by Dyce and Staunton.

_I ... you_,] One line in Pope. Two in Ff.

[1949] _in compt._] Theobald. _in. Come._ Ff. _in count._ Hanmer.

[1950] SCENE II.] Rowe. om. Ff.

A hall....] Timon's Hall. Rowe.

[1951] Flavius,] Rowe. Steward, Ff (and elsewhere).

[1952] _nor resumes_] Rowe. _nor resume_ Ff. _and resumes_ Pope. _no reserve_, Collier MS. _no reserves_, Collier (ed. 2).

[1953] _Was to be_] _Was, to be_ Hanmer. _Was made to be_ Heath conj. _Was_ Long MS. _Was formed_ Mason conj. _Was truly_ Singer MS. _Was surely_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[1954] _hear_] _here_ F2.

_feel_] _he feel_ Keightley.

[1955] Enter....] Johnson. Enter Caphis, Isidore, and Varro. Ff.

[1956] _Good even, Varro_] _Good evening, Varro_ Rowe (ed. 2). _Good, even Varro_ Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. Vol. LX. p. 127).

_money?_] _money._ Pope (ed. 2).

[1957] _Good ... lord._] As in Ff. As verse in Capell, ending line 10 at _what_.

[1958] Var. Serv.] Malone. Var. Ff (and throughout the scene).

[1959] Isid. Serv.] Malone. Isid. Ff (and throughout the scene).

[1960] Enter....] Capell, substantially. Enter Timon, and his Traine. Ff.

[1961] _With me? what is_] Capell. _With me, what is_ Ff. _Well what's_ Pope.

[1962] [They present their Bills. Rowe.

[1963] _lord,--_] _lord--_ Rowe. _lord._ Ff.

[1964] _One ... past._] Prose in Ff. Verse in Capell.

[1965] _humbly_] om. Pope, reading _From ... payment_, as one line.

_your_] _your lordship's_ Steevens conj. _you_ S. Walker conj.

[1966] _payment_] _payment of_ Keightley.

[1967] _wants,--_] _wants--_ Rowe. _wants._ Ff.

[1968] _Your ... lordship._] As in Ff. Malone ends line 36 at _lord_.

[1969] [Exeunt....] Capell. Exe. Lords. Rowe. om. Ff.

[To Flav.] Johnson.

_pray you_] om. Pope.

[1970] _demands_] _claims_ Pope.

_date-broke_] Steevens (1793). _date-broken_ Malone. _debt, broken_, Ff. _debt, of broken_ Pope. _broken_ Hanmer.

[1971] _detention of_] F1. _detention_ F2. _detention_, F3 F4.

[1972] _importunacy_] _importunity_ Pope.

[1973] _Do ... entertain'd_] As in Ff.

[Exit.] Exit Tim. Pope. om. Ff.

[1974] _Pray_] _Pray you_ Capell, reading _Wherefore ... near_ as two lines, the first ending _friends. I pray_ Steevens (1793), following Capell's arrangement.

[1975] SCENE III. Pope. Johnson conjectures that a scene is lost here.

[1976] _Stay ... 'em_,] Prose in Ff. Verse by Steevens (Capell conj. MS.).

[1977] _ha'_] _ha_ F1 F2 F3. _have_ F4.

[1978] [To the Fool] Steevens. om. Ff.

[1979] [To Var. Steevens. om. Ff.

[1980] _thou'rt_] Collier. _th' art_ F1. _thou art_ F2 F3 F4.

_him_] Ff. _it_ Hanmer.

[1981] _Where's_] _Who's_ Lettsom conj.

[1982] _He_] _He that_ S. Walker conj.

_rogues_] _rogues'_ Theobald (ed. 2).

[1983] _Poor ... want!_] Transferred to follow _yourselves_, line 75, Johnson conj.

[1984] All Serv.] All. Ff.

[1985] _Gramercies_] _Gramercy_ Hanmer.

[1986] _Gramercies ... mistress?_] Prose in Pope. Two lines in Ff.

[1987] _mistress'_] _mistress's_ Theobald. _masters_ F1 F2 F3. _master's_ F4.

[1988] [To the Fool] Johnson. om. Ff.

[1989] _wise_] _wife_ F2.

[1990] _Apemantus_] F4. _Apermantus_ F1 F2 F3.

[1991] Page.] F4. Boy. F1 F2 F3.

[1992] _thou'lt_] F4. _thou't_ F1 F2 F3.

[1993] _famish a_] _famish, a_ Rowe.

[1994] See note (VIII).

[1995] _home._] _home--_ Pope.

[1996] _Ay; would_] Capell. _I would_ Ff.

[1997] _I,--as_] _I--as_ Rowe. _I: As_ Ff.

[1998] _merry_] F1 F2. _merrily_ F3 F4.

[1999] Apem.] Fool. Hanmer.

[2000] _sometime 't_] F3 F4. _sometime t'_ F1 F2. _sometime it_ Pope. _sometimes it_ Theobald.

_sometime_] _sometimes_ F4.

[2001] _sometime_] _sometimes_ Pope.

[2002] _moe_] F1. _more_ F2 F3 F4.

[2003] Re-enter ...] Capell. Enter ... Ff.

[2004] _I ... philosopher_] Prose in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _brother_, in Ff.

[2005] [Exeunt ...] Exeunt Fool and Apemantus. Capell. om. Ff.

[2006] _Pray you ... anon._] As in Pope. Two lines in Ff.

[2007] [Exeunt Servants.] Capell. Exeunt. Ff. Exeunt Creditors, Apemantus, and Fool. Theobald.

[2008] SCENE IV. Pope.

_marvel; wherefore_] Rowe. _mervell wherefore_ F1 F2. _marvel wherefore_ F3 F4.

[2009] _me_,] Capell. _me_: Ff.

[2010] _proposed_] _propos'd_ F2 F3 F4. _propose_ F1.

[2011] _your_] F1. _you_ F2 F3 F4.

[2012] _you; you_] Rowe. _you, you_ Ff.

[2013] _found_] _sound_ F1.

[2014] _I have_] _I've_ Pope.

[2015] _loved_] _lov'd_ F1. _deare lov'd_ F2. _dear lov'd_ F3 F4. _belov'd_ S. Walker conj.

[2016] _hear_] _heare_ F1. _here_ F2 F3 F4.

_too ... time_] _yet now's too late a time_ Hanmer. _yet now's a time too late_ Collier MS.

[2017] _The ... To pay your_] _Your greatest having lacks a half to pay Your_ Steevens conj.

[2018] _your_] _you_ F2.

[2019] _comes_] _come_ Hanmer.

[2020] _How goes_] _Make good_ Hanmer. _Hold good_ Warburton.

[2021] _world is but a word_] _world's but as a word_ Becket conj.

_word_] F1. _world_ F2 F3 F4.

[2022] _or falsehood_] _or truth_ Seymour conj. _of falsehood_ Edd. conj.

[2023] _retired ... cock, And_] _retir'd me, and like a wasteful cock, Have_ Anon. apud Rann. conj. _retired me, like a wasteful cock, And_ Mitford conj. _retir'd (me too a wasteful cock,) And_ Staunton conj.

_to_] _from_ Knight conj.

_wasteful cock_] _lonely room_ Pope. _wasteful nook_ Collier (Collier MS.). _wakeful cock_ Jackson conj. _wakeful couch_ Jervis conj.

[2024] _Who_] _who now_ Pope.

_Timon's_] _lord Timon's_ Steevens conj.

[2025] _Lord_] Rowe. _L._ Ff.

[2026] _Timon ... Timon_] F1. _Timon ... Timons_ F2 F3. _Timon ... Timon's_ F4. _Timon's ... Timon's_ Hanmer.

[2027] _Feast-won_] Pope. _Feast won_ Ff. _Fast won_ Becket conj.

_fast-lost_] Theobald. _fast lost_ Ff.

[2028] _heart_] _hand_ or _hands_ S. Walker conj.

[2029] _the_] _all_ Hanmer.

[2030] _argument_] _arguments_ Rowe.

[2031] _I can_] om. Steevens conj.

[2032] _Mistake ... friends_] As in Capell. One line in Pope, reading _in my friends I'm wealthy._ In Ff _Shall ... friends_ is printed as three lines, ending _perceive ... fortunes ... friends._

_I am_] _I'm_ Johnson.

[2033] _Flaminius_] Rowe. _Flavius_ Ff. _Ho Flaminius_ Pope.

[2034] Enter ...] Rowe. Enter three Servants. Ff.

[2035] SCENE V. Pope.

[2036] _I will ... talents._] Prose in Ff. Seven lines of verse in Capell.

[2037] _'em_] _them_ Capell.

[2038] [Aside] First marked by Capell. om. Ff.

_Lucullus_] _lord Lucullus_ Steevens (1793).

[2039] [To Flavius. Rowe. To another Serv. Malone (Capell conj.).

_senators_] _senators of Athens_ Steevens conj.

[2040] _health_,] F3 F4. _health_; F1. _health?_ F2.

[2041] _I have_] _I've_ Pope.

[2042] _treasure_] _Treature_ F1.

[2043] _not--_] _not--but_ Hanmer. _not, but_ Capell. _not what--_ Dyce (ed. 2).

[2044] _cold-moving_] Theobald. _cold moving_ Ff.

[2045] _Prithee_] _I pr'ythee_ Pope.

[2046] _in them_] om. Hanmer.

[2047] [To a Serv.] Malone (Capell conj.). om. Ff.

[To Flav.] Malone. om. Ff.

[2048] _Thou art_] _Thou'rt_ Pope.

_honest_] _just_ Pope.

_ingeniously_] _ingenuously_ F4.

[2049] [To Serv.] Malone. om. Ff.

[2050] [Exit Serv.] Edd. (Globe ed.). om. Ff.

[To Flav.] Malone. om. Ff.

_give't_] _give it_ Steevens.

[2051] _Ne'er_] _Nev'r_ Ff.

[2052] _'mong_] _'mongst_ Boswell.

[2053] _I would ... think it_] _Would I could not_ Pope. _I would, I could not_ Steevens conj.

_thought is_] _thought's_ Steevens conj.

_I would ... foe_] One line in Capell. Two in Ff.

_foe_;] _foe?_ F2.