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1

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Poet

7

Ay, that's well known:
But what particular rarity? what strange,
Which manifold record not matches? See,
Magic of bounty! all these spirits thy power
Hath conjured to attend. I know the merchant.

2

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Poet

30

A thing slipp'd idly from me.
Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes
From whence 'tis nourish'd: the fire i' the flint
Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame
Provokes itself and like the current flies
Each bound it chafes. What have you there?

3

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Poet

42

Admirable: how this grace
Speaks his own standing! what a mental power
This eye shoots forth! how big imagination
Moves in this lip! to the dumbness of the gesture
One might interpret.

4

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Painter

103

Ay, marry, what of these?

5

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Timon

142

I have so: what of him?

6

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Timon

151

Well; what further?

7

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.

8

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Old Athenian

165

She is young and apt:
Our own precedent passions do instruct us
What levity's in youth.

9

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Timon

177

This gentleman of mine hath served me long:
To build his fortune I will strain a little,
For 'tis a bond in men. Give him thy daughter:
What you bestow, in him I'll counterpoise,
And make him weigh with her.

10

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?

11

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Jeweller

205

What, my lord! dispraise?

12

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Timon

252

What dost thou think 'tis worth?

13

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Timon

267

What wouldst do then, Apemantus?

14

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Timon

269

What, thyself?

15

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Timon

279

What trumpet's that?

16

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

First Lord

302

What time o' day is't, Apemantus?

17

Timon of Athens
[I, 2]

Apemantus

378

I scorn thy meat; 'twould choke me, for I should
ne'er flatter thee. O you gods, what a number of
men eat Timon, and he sees 'em not! It grieves me
to see so many dip their meat in one man's blood;
and all the madness is, he cheers them up too.
I wonder men dare trust themselves with men:
Methinks they should invite them without knives;
Good for their meat, and safer for their lives.
There's much example for't; the fellow that sits
next him now, parts bread with him, pledges the
breath of him in a divided draught, is the readiest
man to kill him: 't has been proved. If I were a
huge man, I should fear to drink at meals;
Lest they should spy my windpipe's dangerous notes:
Great men should drink with harness on their throats.

18

Timon of Athens
[I, 2]

Timon

426

O, no doubt, my good friends, but the gods
themselves have provided that I shall have much help
from you: how had you been my friends else? why
have you that charitable title from thousands, did
not you chiefly belong to my heart? I have told
more of you to myself than you can with modesty
speak in your own behalf; and thus far I confirm
you. O you gods, think I, what need we have any
friends, if we should ne'er have need of 'em? they
were the most needless creatures living, should we
ne'er have use for 'em, and would most resemble
sweet instruments hung up in cases that keep their
sounds to themselves. Why, I have often wished
myself poorer, that I might come nearer to you. We
are born to do benefits: and what better or
properer can we can our own than the riches of our
friends? O, what a precious comfort 'tis, to have
so many, like brothers, commanding one another's
fortunes! O joy, e'en made away ere 't can be born!
Mine eyes cannot hold out water, methinks: to
forget their faults, I drink to you.

19

Timon of Athens
[I, 2]

Timon

454

What means that trump?
[Enter a Servant]
How now?

20

Timon of Athens
[I, 2]

Timon

459

Ladies! what are their wills?