Were not erected by their hands from whom

You have received your griefs: nor are they such
That these great towers, trophies and schools should fall
For private faults in them.

Sec. Sen.

Nor are they living

Who were the motives that you first went out;
Shame, that they wanted cunning, in excess
Hath broke their hearts.

March, noble lord,

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Into our city with thy banners spread:

By decimation and a tithed death—

If thy revenges hunger for that food

Which nature loathes—take thou the destined tenth,
And by the hazard of the spotted die

Let die the spotted.

First Sen.

All have not offended;
For those that were, it is not square to take,
On those that are, revenges: crimes, like lands,
Are not inherited. Then, dear countryman,
Bring in thy ranks, but leave without thy rage:
Spare thy Athenian cradle and those kin
Which, in the bluster of thy wrath, must fall
With those that have offended: like a shepherd
Approach the fold and cull the infected forth,
But kill not all together.

Sec. Sen.

What thou wilt,
Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile
Than hew to't with thy sword.

First Sen.

Set but thy foot

Against our rampired gates, and they shall ope;
So thou wilt send thy gentle heart before,
To say thou 'lt enter friendly.

Sec. Sen.

Throw thy glove,

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Alcib.

Both.

Or any token of thine honour else,
That thou wilt use the wars as thy redress
And not as our confusion, all thy powers
Shall make their harbour in our town, till we
Have seal'd thy full desire.

Then there's my glove;
Descend, and open your uncharged ports:
Those enemies of Timon's, and mine own,
Whom you yourselves shall set out for reproof,
Fall, and no more: and, to atone your fears
With my more noble meaning, not a man
Shall pass his quarter, or offend the stream
Of regular justice in your city's bounds,
But shall be render'd to your public laws
At heaviest answer.

'Tis most nobly spoken.

Alcib. Descend, and keep your words.

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60

[The Senators descend, and open the gates.

Enter Soldier.

Sold. My noble general, Timon is dead;

Entomb'd upon the very hem o' the sea;

And on his grave-stone this insculpture, which
With wax I brought away, whose soft impression
Interprets for my poor ignorance.

Alcib. [Reads]

'Here lies a wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft : Seek not my name: a plague consume you wicked

caitiffs left!

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Here lie I, Timon; who, alive, all living men did hate: Pass by and curse thy fill; but pass and stay not here thy gait.'

These well express in thee thy latter spirits:

Though thou abhorr❜dst in us our human griefs,
Scorn'dst our brain's flow and those our droplets which
From niggard nature fall, yet rich conceit

Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for aye
On thy low grave, on faults forgiven. Dead
Is noble Timon: of whose memory
Hereafter more. Bring me into your city,

And I will use the olive with my sword,

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Make war breed peace, make peace stint war, make each

Prescribe to other as each other's leech.

Let our drums strike.

[Exeunt.

Glossary.

Abhor himself, make himself ab- Beggar's dog; II. i. 5. (Cp. illustra

horred (Hanmer, "make himself abhorr'd); I. i. 60.

Aches (dissyllabic); I. i. 247.

Advance, promote, raise to honour;

I. ii. 171.

Affect, like, desire; I. ii. 219.

Hal

Allow'd, trusted, invested by public
authority (Warburton,
low'd"); V i. 165.

All to you, "all good wishes to
you"; I. ii. 235.

Alteration; "a. of honour," i.c.
change to dishonour; IV. iii.
469.

Ample, amply; I. ii. 130.
Apperil, peril; I. ii. 32.
Argument, contents; II. ii. 185.

-, subject, theme; III. iii. 20; III. v. 23.

Arms; travers'd arms," (?) folded
arms; according to others, with
arms reversed; V. iv. 7.
Artificial, belonging to art, artistic;
"a. strife," the strife of art to
outdo nature; I. i. 37.

tion.)

Behave, govern; III. v. 22.
Beneath, lower, below; I. i. 44.
Best, that which can be most de-
pended upon (S. Walker conj.
"last"); III. iii. 36.
Blains, botches; IV. i. 28.
Blood, temper (Johnson
"mood"); IV. ii 38.
Bound, bank, boundary; I. i. 25.
Brain's flow, tears (Hanmer, "brine's
flow"); V. iv. 76.

Atone, set at peace, put in accord; Breath, voice; IV. iii. 249.

V. iv. 58.

Attend, await; III. v. 102.

Attends, awaits; I. ii. 154.

Banquet, dessert; I. ii. 154.
Bans, curses; IV. i. 34.

Beagles, a small sort of dog; used of

servile followers; IV. iii. 175. Bear, bear off; I. i. 131. Becks, nods; I. ii. 239.

conj.

Breathe, utter; III. v. 32.
Breathed, trained ("inured to con-
stant practice; so trained as not
to be wearied; To breathe a horse
is to exercise him for the course");
I. i. 10.

Bring, conduct; V. i. 122.
Bruise, crush, destroy; III. v. 4.
Bruit, rumour; V. i. 196.
By, according to; I. i. 171.