Some speak. What does his lordship mean? Tim. May you a better feast never behold, water Is your perfection. This is Timon's last; Throwing Water in their Faces. out. Stay, I will lend thee money, borrow none.- Burn, house; sink, Athens! henceforth hated be Re-enter the Lords, with other Lords and Senators. 1 Lord. How now, my lords? 2 Lord. Know you the quality of lord Timon's fury? 9. Is your perfection.] Your perfection, is the highest of your excellence. 2 time's flies,] Flies of a season. JOHNSON. minute-jacks!] A minute-jack is what was called formerly a Jack of the clock-house; an image whose office was the same as one of those at St. Dunstan's church, in Fleet-street. 3 -the infinite malady-] Every kind of disease incident te man and beast. 3 Lord. Pish! did you see my cap? 4 Lord. I have lost my gown. 3 Lord. He's but a mad lord, and nought but humour sways him. He gave me a jewel the other day, and now he has beat it out of my hat:-Did you see my jewel? 4 Lord. Did you see my cap? 2 Lord. Here 'tis. 4 Lord. Here lies my gown. 1 Lord. Let's make to stay. 2 Lord. Lord Timon's mad. 3 Lord. I feel't upon my bones. [Exeunt. 4 Lord. One day he gives us diamonds, next day stones. ACT IV. SCENE I. Without the Walls of Athens. Enter TIMON. Tim. Let me look back upon thee, O thou wall, Do't in your parents' eyes! bankrupts, hold fast; general filths] i. e. common sewers. Thy mistress is o'the brothel! son of sixteen, On Athens, ripe for stroke! thou cold sciatica, Take thou that too, with multiplying banns!" 5 [Exit. confounding contraries,] i. e. contrarieties whose nature it is to waste or destroy each other. 6 sion. 7 yet confusion -] Sir Thomas Hanmer reads, let confu Multi liberty] Liberty is here used for libertinism, multiplying banns!] i. e. accumulated curses. plying for multiplied: the activé participle with a passive significa tion. SCENE II. Athens. A Room in Timon's House. Enter FLAVIUS, with Two or Three Servants. 1 Serv. Hear you, master steward, where's our master? Are we undone? cast off? nothing remaining? I am as poor as you. 1 Serv. Such a house broke! So noble a master fallen! All gone! and not 2 Serv. As we do turn our backs Slink all away; leave their false vows with him, A dedicated beggar to the air, poor self, With his disease of all-shunn'd poverty, Walks, like contempt, alone.-More of our fellows. Enter other Servants. Flav. All broken implements of a ruin'd house. 3 Serv. Yet do our hearts wear Timon's livery, That see I by our faces; we are fellows still, Serving alike in sorrow: Leak'd is our bark; And we, poor mates, stand on the dying deck, Hearing the surges threat: we must all part Enter Flavius,] Nothing contributes more to the exaltation of Timon's character than the zeal and fidelity of his servants. Nothing but real virtue can be honoured by domesticks; nothing but impartial kindness can gain affection from dependants. Into this sea of air. Flav. Good fellows all, The latest of my wealth I'll share amongst you. Nay, put out all your hands. [Giving them money. Not one word more: parting poor. [Exeunt Servants. O, the fierce wretchedness' that glory brings us! Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt, Since riches point to misery and contempt? Who'd be so mock'd with glory? or to live But in a dream of friendship? To have his pomp, and all what state compounds, For bounty, that makes gods, does still mar men. I'll serve his mind with my best will; Whilst I have gold, I'll be his steward still. [Exit. 10, the fierce wretchedness-] precipitate. 2 Strange, unusual blood,] mean, strange, unusual disposition. Fierce is here used for hasty, Strange, unusual blood, may |