THE LIFE OF TIMON OF ATHENS
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Fie, fie, fie, fie!

[Enter CAPHIS, and the SERVANTS Of ISIDORE and VARRO.]

CAPHIS.
Good even, Varro. What! You come for money?

VARRO'S SERVANT.
Is't not your business too?

CAPHIS.
It is: and yours too, Isidore?

ISIDORE'S SERVANT.
It is so.

CAPHIS.
Would we were all discharg'd!

VARRO'S SERVANT.
I fear it.

CAPHIS.
Here comes the lord!

[Enter TIMON, ALCIBIADES, and Lords, etc.]

TIMON.
So soon as dinner's done, we'll forth again.
My Alcibiades. With me? what is your will?

CAPHIS.
My lord, here is a note of certain dues.

TIMON.
Dues! Whence are you?

CAPHIS.
Of Athens here, my lord.

TIMON.
Go to my steward.

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

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

CAPHIS.
Nay, good my lord,--

TIMON.
Contain thyself, good friend.

VARRO'S SERVANT.
One Varro's servant, my good lord,--

ISIDORE'S SERVANT.
From Isidore; he humbly prays your speedy payment.

CAPHIS.
If you did know, my lord, my master's wants,--

VARRO'S SERVANT.
'Twas due on forfeiture, my lord, six weeks and past.

ISIDORE'S SERVANT.
Your steward puts me off, my lord; and
I am sent expressly to your lordship.

TIMON.
Give me breath.
I do beseech you, good my lords, keep on;
I'll wait upon you instantly.

[Exeunt ALCIBIADES and LORDS.]

[To FLAVIUS.]

Come hither: pray you,
How goes the world, that I am thus encounter'd
With clamorous demands of date-broke bonds,
And the detention of long-since-due debts,
Against my honour?

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

TIMON.
Do so, my friends.
See them well entertain'd.

[Exit.]

FLAVIUS.
Pray, draw near.

[Exit.]

[Enter APEMANTUS and FOOL.]