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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Apemantus

222

Till I be gentle, stay thou for thy good morrow;
When thou art Timon's dog, and these knaves honest.

2

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Timon

224

Why dost thou call them knaves? thou know'st them not.

3

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Apemantus

289

So, so, there!
Aches contract and starve your supple joints!
That there should be small love 'mongst these
sweet knaves,
And all this courtesy! The strain of man's bred out
Into baboon and monkey.

4

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Apemantus

307

Ay, to see meat fill knaves and wine heat fools.

5

Timon of Athens
[III, 4]

Flavius

1232

If 'twill not serve,'tis not so base as you;
For you serve knaves.

6

Timon of Athens
[III, 4]

Timon

1303

Be't not in thy care; go,
I charge thee, invite them all: let in the tide
Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.

7

Timon of Athens
[IV, 3]

Apemantus

1890

This is in thee a nature but infected;
A poor unmanly melancholy sprung
From change of fortune. Why this spade? this place?
This slave-like habit? and these looks of care?
Thy flatterers yet wear silk, drink wine, lie soft;
Hug their diseased perfumes, and have forgot
That ever Timon was. Shame not these woods,
By putting on the cunning of a carper.
Be thou a flatterer now, and seek to thrive
By that which has undone thee: hinge thy knee,
And let his very breath, whom thou'lt observe,
Blow off thy cap; praise his most vicious strain,
And call it excellent: thou wast told thus;
Thou gavest thine ears like tapsters that bid welcome
To knaves and all approachers: 'tis most just
That thou turn rascal; hadst thou wealth again,
Rascals should have 't. Do not assume my likeness.

8

Timon of Athens
[IV, 3]

Timon

2192

Then I know thee not:
I never had honest man about me, I; all
I kept were knaves, to serve in meat to villains.