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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]

Poet

37

Upon the heels of my presentment, sir.
Let's see your piece.

2

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Poet

56

You see this confluence, this great flood
of visitors.
I have, in this rough work, shaped out a man,
Whom this beneath world doth embrace and hug
With amplest entertainment: my free drift
Halts not particularly, but moves itself
In a wide sea of wax: no levell'd malice
Infects one comma in the course I hold;
But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,
Leaving no tract behind.

3

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Messenger

120

Ay, my good lord: five talents is his debt,
His means most short, his creditors most strait:
Your honourable letter he desires
To those have shut him up; which failing,
Periods his comfort.

4

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Timon

125

Noble Ventidius! Well;
I am not of that feather to shake off
My friend when he must need me. I do know him
A gentleman that well deserves a help:
Which he shall have: I'll pay the debt,
and free him.

5

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Old Athenian

146

This fellow here, Lord Timon, this thy creature,
By night frequents my house. I am a man
That from my first have been inclined to thrift;
And my estate deserves an heir more raised
Than one which holds a trencher.

6

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Old Athenian

152

One only daughter have I, no kin else,
On whom I may confer what I have got:
The maid is fair, o' the youngest for a bride,
And I have bred her at my dearest cost
In qualities of the best. This man of thine
Attempts her love: I prithee, noble lord,
Join with me to forbid him her resort;
Myself have spoke in vain.

7

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Old Athenian

161

Therefore he will be, Timon:
His honesty rewards him in itself;
It must not bear my daughter.

8

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Lucilius

169

Ay, my good lord, and she accepts of it.

9

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Old Athenian

170

If in her marriage my consent be missing,
I call the gods to witness, I will choose
Mine heir from forth the beggars of the world,
And dispossess her all.

10

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Timon

184

My hand to thee; mine honour on my promise.

11

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Lucilius

185

Humbly I thank your lordship: never may
The state or fortune fall into my keeping,
Which is not owed to you!

12

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Poet

189

Vouchsafe my labour, and long live your lordship!

13

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Timon

190

I thank you; you shall hear from me anon:
Go not away. What have you there, my friend?

14

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Jeweller

205

What, my lord! dispraise?

15

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Jeweller

209

My lord, 'tis rated
As those which sell would give: but you well know,
Things of like value differing in the owners
Are prized by their masters: believe't, dear lord,
You mend the jewel by the wearing it.

16

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Merchant

215

No, my good lord; he speaks the common tongue,
Which all men speak with him.

17

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Apemantus

242

Thy mother's of my generation: what's she, if I be a dog?

18

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Apemantus

253

Not worth my thinking. How now, poet!

19

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Apemantus

268

E'en as Apemantus does now; hate a lord with my heart.

20

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Alcibiades

295

Sir, you have saved my longing, and I feed
Most hungerly on your sight.