ACT V.

Scene I. The woods. Before Timon's cave.[2644]

Enter Poet and Painter; Timon watching them from his cave.[2645]

Pain. As I took note of the place, it cannot be far[2646][2647]
 where he abides.[2646]
Poet. What's to be thought of him? does the rumour[2648]
 hold for true, that he's so full of gold?[2648]
Pain. Certain: Alcibiades reports it; Phrynia and Timandra[2648][2649]5
 had gold of him: he likewise enriched poor straggling[2648]
 soldiers with great quantity: 'tis said he gave unto[2648]
 his steward a mighty sum.[2648]
Poet. Then this breaking of his has been but a try for[2648][2650]
 his friends.[2648] 10
Pain. Nothing else: you shall see him a palm in Athens[2648]
 again, and flourish with the highest. Therefore 'tis not amiss[2648]
 we tender our loves to him in this supposed distress of his:[2648]
 it will show honestly in us, and is very likely to load our[2648]
 purposes with what they travail for, if it be a just and true[2648][2651]15
 report that goes of his having.[2648]
Poet. What have you now to present unto him?[2648]
Pain. Nothing at this time but my visitation: only I[2648]
 will promise him an excellent piece.[2648]
Poet. I must serve him so too, tell him of an intent[2648] 20
 that's coming toward him.[2648]
Pain. Good as the best. Promising is the very air o' the[2648][2652]
 time: it opens the eyes of expectation: performance is ever[2648]
[Pg 292] the duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler[2648]
 kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To[2648][2653]25
 promise is most courtly and fashionable: performance is a[2648]
 kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in[2648]
 his judgement that makes it.[2648][2654]

[Timon comes from his cave, behind.

Tim. [Aside] Excellent workman! thou canst not[2648]
 paint a man so bad as is thyself.[2648][2655] 30
Poet. I am thinking what I shall say I have provided[2648]
 for him: it must be a personating of himself; a satire against[2648]
 the softness of prosperity, with a discovery of the infinite[2648]
 flatteries that follow youth and opulency.[2648]
Tim. [Aside] Must thou needs stand for a villain in[2648]35
 thine own work? wilt thou whip thine own faults in other[2648]
 men? Do so, I have gold for thee.[2648]
Poet. Nay, let's seek him:[2656]
 Then do we sin against our own estate,[2656]
 When we may profit meet, and come too late.[2656] 40
Pain. True;[2656]
 When the day serves, before black-corner'd night,[2656][2657]
 Find what thou want'st by free and offer'd light.[2656]
 Come.[2656][2658]
Tim. [Aside] I'll meet you at the turn. What a god's gold,[2659]45
 That he is worshipp'd in a baser temple[2659][2660]
[Pg 293] Than where swine feed![2659][2661]
 'Tis thou that rigg'st the bark and plough'st the foam,[2662]
 Settlest admired reverence in a slave:
 To thee be worship! and thy saints for aye[2663][2664] 50
 Be crown'd with plagues, that thee alone obey![2664]
 Fit I meet them.[2665] [Coming forward.
Poet. Hail, worthy Timon!
Pain. Our late noble master!
Tim. Have I once lived to see two honest men?[2666]
Poet. Sir, 55
 Having often of your open bounty tasted,[2667]
 Hearing you were retired, your friends fall'n off,
 Whose thankless natures—O abhorred spirits!—[2668]
 Not all the whips of heaven are large enough—[2669]
 What! to you,[2670] 60
 Whose star-like nobleness gave life and influence
 To their whole being! I am rapt, and cannot cover[2671][2672]
 The monstrous bulk of this ingratitude[2672]
 With any size of words.
Tim. Let it go naked, men may see't the better:[2673] 65
 You that are honest, by being what you are,
 Make them best seen and known.[2674]
 [Pg 294]
Pain. He and myself
 Have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts,[2675]
 And sweetly felt it.
Tim. Ay, you are honest men.[2676]
Pain. We are hither come to offer you our service.[2677] 70
Tim. Most honest men! Why, how shall I requite you?[2678]
 Can you eat roots, and drink cold water? no.
Both. What we can do, we'll do, to do you service.[2679]
Tim. Ye're honest men: ye've heard that I have gold;[2679][2680]
 I am sure you have: speak truth; ye're honest men.[2681] 75
Pain. So it is said, my noble lord: but therefore
 Came not my friend nor I.[2682]
Tim. Good honest men! Thou draw'st a counterfeit[2683]
 Best in all Athens: thou'rt indeed the best;[2684]
 Thou counterfeit'st most lively.
Pain. So, so, my lord. 80
Tim. E'en so, sir, as I say. And, for thy fiction,[2685]
 Why, thy verse swells with stuff so fine and smooth
 That thou art even natural in thine art.
 But, for all this, my honest-natured friends,[2686]
 I must needs say you have a little fault: 85
 Marry, 'tis not monstrous in you; neither wish I[2687]
 You take much pains to mend.
Both. Beseech your honour
 To make it known to us.
Tim. You'll take it ill.
Both. Most thankfully, my lord.
 [Pg 295]
Tim. Will you, indeed?
Both. Doubt it not, worthy lord. 90
Tim. There's never a one of you but trusts a knave[2688]
 That mightily deceives you.
Both. Do we, my lord?
Tim. Ay, and you hear him cog, see him dissemble,[2689]
 Know his gross patchery, love him, feed him,[2690]
 Keep in your bosom: yet remain assured[2691] 95
 That he's a made-up villain.
Pain. I know none such, my lord.
Poet. Nor I.[2692]
Tim. Look you, I love you well; I'll give you gold,[2693]
 Rid me these villains from your companies:
 Hang them or stab them, drown them in a draught,[2694] 100
 Confound them by some course, and come to me,
 I'll give you gold enough.
Both. Name them, my lord, let's know them.
Tim. You that way, and you this, but two in company:[2695]
 Each man apart, all single and alone,[2696] 105
 Yet an arch-villain keeps him company.
 If, where thou art, two villains shall not be,[2697]
 Come not near him. If thou wouldst not reside[2698]
 But where one villain is, then him abandon.
 Hence, pack! there's gold; you came for gold, ye slaves:[2699] 110
 [To Painter] You have work for me, there's payment: hence![2700]
 [To Poet] You are an alchemist, make gold of that:
[Pg 296] Out, rascal dogs! [Beats them out, and then retires into his cave.[2701]

Enter Flavius and two Senators.

Flav. It is in vain that you would speak with Timon;[2702]
 For he is set so only to himself 115
 That nothing but himself which looks like man
 Is friendly with him.
First Sen. Bring us to his cave:
 It is our part and promise to the Athenians[2703]
 To speak with Timon.
Sec. Sen. At all times alike
 Men are not still the same: 'twas time and griefs 120
 That framed him thus: time, with his fairer hand,
 Offering the fortunes of his former days,
 The former man may make him. Bring us to him,
 And chance it as it may.[2704]
Flav. Here is his cave.
 Peace and content be here! Lord Timon! Timon![2705] 125
 Look out, and speak to friends: the Athenians
 By two of their most reverend senate greet thee:
 Speak to them, noble Timon.[2706]

Timon comes from his cave.

Tim. Thou sun, that comfort'st, burn! Speak, and be hang'd:[2707]
 For each true word, a blister! and each false 130
[Pg 297] Be as a cauterizing to the root o' the tongue,[2708]
 Consuming it with speaking!
First Sen. Worthy Timon,—
Tim. Of none but such as you, and you of Timon.[2709]
First Sen. The senators of Athens greet thee, Timon.
Tim. I thank them, and would send them back the plague,[2710]135
 Could I but catch it for them.
First Sen. O, forget
 What we are sorry for ourselves in thee.
 The senators with one consent of love
 Entreat thee back to Athens; who have thought
 On special dignities, which vacant lie 140
 For thy best use and wearing.
Sec. Sen. They confess
 Toward thee forgetfulness too general, gross:[2711]
 Which now the public body, which doth seldom[2712]
 Play the recanter, feeling in itself
 A lack of Timon's aid, hath sense withal[2713] 145
 Of its own fail, restraining aid to Timon;[2714]
 And send forth us, to make their sorrowed render.[2715]
 Together with a recompense more fruitful[2716]
 Than their offence can weigh down by the dram;[2717][2718]
 Ay, even such heaps and sums of love and wealth,[2718] 150
[Pg 298] As shall to thee blot out what wrongs were theirs,[2718]
 And write in thee the figures of their love,[2719]
 Ever to read them thine.
Tim. You witch me in it,
 Surprise me to the very brink of tears:
 Lend me a fool's heart and a woman's eyes, 155
 And I'll beweep these comforts, worthy senators.
First Sen. Therefore, so please thee to return with us,
 And of our Athens, thine and ours, to take
 The captainship, thou shalt be met with thanks,
 Allow'd with absolute power, and thy good name[2720] 160
 Live with authority: so soon we shall drive back[2721]
 Of Alcibiades the approaches wild;[2722]
 Who, like a boar too savage, doth root up
 His country's peace.
Sec. Sen. And shakes his threatening sword
 Against the walls of Athens.
First Sen. Therefore, Timon,—[2723] 165
Tim. Well, sir, I will; therefore, I will, sir; thus:[2724]
 If Alcibiades kill my countrymen,
 Let Alcibiades know this of Timon,
 That Timon cares not. But if he sack fair Athens,[2725]
 And take our goodly aged men by the beards, 170
 Giving our holy virgins to the stain
 Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brain'd war;
 Then let him know, and tell him Timon speaks it,
 In pity of our aged and our youth,
 I cannot choose but tell him, that I care not,[2726] 175
 And let him take 't at worst; for their knives care not,
 While you have throats to answer: for myself,
 There's not a whittle in the unruly camp,[2727]
 But I do prize it at my love before[2728]
 The reverend'st throat in Athens. So I leave you[2729] 180
[Pg 299] To the protection of the prosperous gods,[2730]
 As thieves to keepers.
Flav. Stay not; all's in vain.
Tim. Why, I was writing of my epitaph;[2731]
 It will be seen to-morrow: my long sickness
 Of health and living now begins to mend, 185
 And nothing brings me all things. Go, live still;
 Be Alcibiades your plague, you his,
 And last so long enough!
First Sen. We speak in vain.
Tim. But yet I love my country, and am not
 One that rejoices in the common wreck,[2732] 190
 As common bruit doth put it.[2733]
First Sen. That's well spoke.
Tim. Commend me to my loving countrymen,—[2734]
First Sen. These words become your lips as they pass thorough them.[2735]
Sec. Sen. And enter in our ears like great triumphers
 In their applauding gates.
Tim. Commend me to them; 195
 And tell them that, to ease them of their griefs,
 Their fears of hostile strokes, their aches, losses,[2736]
 Their pangs of love, with other incident throes[2737]
 That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain
 In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them:[2738][2739]200
 I'll teach them to prevent wild Alcibiades' wrath.[2739][2740]
 [Pg 300]
First Sen. I like this well; he will return again.[2741]
Tim. I have a tree, which grows here in my close,
 That mine own use invites me to cut down,
 And shortly must I fell it: tell my friends, 205
 Tell Athens, in the sequence of degree[2742]
 From high to low throughout, that whoso please
 To stop affliction, let him take his haste,[2743]
 Come hither ere my tree hath felt the axe,
 And hang himself: I pray you, do my greeting. 210
Flav. Trouble him no further; thus you still shall find him.[2744]
Tim. Come not to me again: but say to Athens,
 Timon hath made his everlasting mansion
 Upon the beached verge of the salt flood;
 Who once a day with his embossed froth[2745] 215
 The turbulent surge shall cover: thither come,
 And let my grave-stone be your oracle.
 Lips, let sour words go by and language end:[2746]
 What is amiss, plague and infection mend!
 Graves only be men's works, and death their gain! 220
 Sun, hide thy beams! Timon hath done his reign.[2747]

[Retires to his cave.

First Sen. His discontents are unremoveably[2748][2749]
 Coupled to nature.[2748][2750]
Sec. Sen. Our hope in him is dead: let us return,
 And strain what other means is left unto us 225
 In our dear peril.[2751]
First Sen. It requires swift foot. [Exeunt.

[Pg 301]

Scene II. Before the walls of Athens.[2752]

Enter two Senators and a Messenger.[2753]

First Sen. Thou hast painfully discover'd: are his files
 As full as thy report?[2754]
Mess. I have spoke the least:
 Besides, his expedition promises[2755]
 Present approach.[2755]
Sec. Sen. We stand much hazard, if they bring not Timon. 5
Mess. I met a courier, one mine ancient friend;[2756]
 Whom, though in general part we were opposed,[2757]
 Yet our old love made a particular force,[2758]
 And made us speak like friends: this man was riding[2759]
 From Alcibiades to Timon's cave, 10
 With letters of entreaty, which imported
 His fellowship i' the cause against your city,
 In part for his sake moved.[2760]
First Sen. Here come our brothers.

Enter Senators from Timon.

Third Sen. No talk of Timon, nothing of him expect.[2761]
 The enemies' drum is heard, and fearful scouring[2762] 15
 Doth choke the air with dust: in, and prepare:
 Ours is the fall, I fear, our foes the snare.[2763] [Exeunt.

[Pg 302]

Scene III. The woods. Timon's cave, and a rude tomb seen.[2764]

Enter a Soldier, seeking Timon.[2765]

Sold. By all description this should be the place.
 Who's here? speak, ho! No answer! What is this?[2766]
 Timon is dead, who hath outstretch'd his span:[2767]
 Some beast read this; there does not live a man.[2768]
 Dead, sure; and this his grave. What's on this tomb[2769] 5
 I cannot read; the character I'll take with wax:[2769]
 Our captain hath in every figure skill,
 An aged interpreter, though young in days:
 Before proud Athens he's set down by this,
 Whose fall the mark of his ambition is. [Exit.10

Scene IV. Before the walls of Athens.[2770]

Trumpets sound. Enter Alcibiades with his powers.[2771]

Alcib. Sound to this coward and lascivious town
 Our terrible approach.[2772] [A parley sounded.

[Pg 303]

Enter Senators upon the walls.[2773]

Till now you have gone on and fill'd the time
 With all licentious measure, making your wills
 The scope of justice; till now myself and such 5
 As slept within the shadow of your power
 Have wander'd with our traversed arms and breathed
 Our sufferance vainly: now the time is flush,
 When crouching marrow in the bearer strong[2774]
 Cries of itself 'No more:' now breathless wrong 10
 Shall sit and pant in your great chairs of ease,
 And pursy insolence shall break his wind
 With fear and horrid flight.
First Sen. Noble and young,
 When thy first griefs were but a mere conceit,
 Ere thou hadst power or we had cause of fear,[2775] 15
 We sent to thee, to give thy rages balm,
 To wipe out our ingratitude with loves[2776]
 Above their quantity.[2777]
Sec. Sen. So did we woo
 Transformed Timon to our city's love
 By humble message and by promised means:[2778] 20
 We were not all unkind, nor all deserve
 The common stroke of war.
First Sen. These walls of ours
 Were not erected by their hands from whom
 You have received your griefs: nor are they such[2779]
 That these great towers, trophies and schools should fall 25
 For private faults in them.
Sec. Sen. Nor are they living
 Who were the motives that you first went out;[2780]
 Shame, that they wanted cunning, in excess
 Hath broke their hearts. March, noble lord,[2781]
[Pg 304] Into our city with thy banners spread: 30
 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.[2782]
First Sen. All have not offended;[2782][2783] 35
 For those that were, it is not square to take,[2784]
 On those that are, revenges: crimes, like lands,[2785]
 Are not inherited. Then, dear countryman,
 Bring in thy ranks, but leave without thy rage:
 Spare thy Athenian cradle and those kin 40
 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.[2786]
Sec. Sen. What thou wilt,
 Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile 45
 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.[2787]
Sec. Sen. Throw thy glove,
 Or any token of thine honour else, 50
 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.
Alcib. Then there's my glove;
 Descend, and open your uncharged ports:[2788] 55
[Pg 305] Those enemies of Timon's, and mine own,[2789]
 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 60
 Of regular justice in your city's bounds,
 But shall be render'd to your public laws[2790]
 At heaviest answer.
Both. 'Tis most nobly spoken.
Alcib. Descend, and keep your words.

[The Senators descend, and open the gates.[2791]

Enter Soldier.

Sold. My noble general, Timon is dead; 65
 Entomb'd upon the very hem o' the sea;
 And on his grave-stone this insculpture, which[2792]
 With wax I brought away, whose soft impression
 Interprets for my poor ignorance.[2793]
Alcib. [Reads] 'Here lies a wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft:[2794]70
 Seek not my name: a plague consume you wicked caitiffs left![2795]
 Here lie I, Timon; who, alive, all living men did hate:[2796]
 Pass by and curse thy fill; but pass and stay not here thy gait.'[2797]
 These well express in thee thy latter spirits:
 Though thou abhorr'dst in us our human griefs,[2798] 75
[Pg 306] Scorn'dst our brain's flow and those our droplets which[2799]
 From niggard nature fall, yet rich conceit
 Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for aye
 On thy low grave, on faults forgiven. Dead[2800]
 Is noble Timon: of whose memory 80
 Hereafter more. Bring me into your city,
 And I will use the olive with my sword,[2801]
 Make war breed peace, make peace stint war, make each
 Prescribe to other as each other's leech.
 Let our drums strike. [Exeunt.85

FOOTNOTES:

[2644] Act v. Scene i.] Capell. Act v. Scene ii. Pope. See note (XIV).

The woods ... cave.] Capell, substantially.

[2645] Enter ...] Dyce. Enter Poet and Painter. Ff. Enter ... Timon behind unseen. Capell.

[2646] As ... abides.] Prose in F1. Two lines, the first ending farre, in F2 F3 F4.

[2647] cannot] can't Pope.

[2648] What's ... thee?] Prose in Pope. Irregular lines in Ff.

[2649] Phrynia] Rowe (ed. 2). Phrinica F1. Phrinia F2 F3 F4.

Timandra] Timandylo F1.

[2650] try for] tryal for Pope. tryal of Theobald (ed. 2).

[2651] purposes ... they] purses ... we Collier (Collier MS.). purses ... they Keightley conj.

[2652] best. Promising] best. Promising, F1. best Promising, F2 F3. best, Promising F4.

[2653] of saying] om. Pope. of paying Anon. conj.

quite] quiet F2.

[2654] [Timon ... behind.] Edd. Enter Timon from his Cave. Ff. Re-enter Timon from his cave, unseen. Pope. Re-enter ... unseen, but overhearing him. Hanmer. The stage direction of Ff transferred to the beginning of the scene by Capell, who first marks Timon's speeches as 'Aside.'

[2655] is] om. Pope.

[2656] Poet. Nay ... late. Pain. True; ... Come.] Ff. Pain. Nay ... late. Poet. True; ... Come. Hanmer. Poet. Nay ... late. Pain. True. Poet. While the day ... Come. Theobald.

[2657] When] While Pope.

black-corner'd] black-corneted Hanmer. black-cornette Warburton conj. black-coroned Farmer conj. MS. black-coned Anon. ap. Steevens conj. black-crowned Mason conj. black correned Becket conj. dark-horned Jackson conj. black-cover'd Collier, ed. 2 (Anon. ap. Steevens conj.). black-curtain'd Singer conj. black-garner'd or black 'coutred Anon. conj.

[2658] Come] om. Capell.

[going towards to the Cave. Capell.

[2659] I'll ... feed!] As in Capell. The lines end turne: ... worshipt ... feede? in Ff.

[2660] worshipp'd ... temple] worshipped In baser temples Pope.

[2661] feed] do feed Pope.

[2662] foam] wave Theobald.

[2663] worship] Rowe. worshipt F1 F2 F3. worship't F4.

[2664] aye Be] Rowe (ed. 2). aye: Be Ff.

[2665] Fit I] 'Tis fit I Rowe. 'Fit I do Capell.

[Coming forward.] Puts himself in their way. Capell. Advancing. Malone. om. Ff.

[2666] Have ... men?] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.

[2667] open] om. Rowe, reading Sir, ... tasted as one line.

tasted] tested F2.

[2668] Whose ... spirits!—] For whose most thankless natures (abhorr'd spirits!) Hanmer.

[2669] enough—] Rowe. enough, F2 F3 F4. enough: Dyce. See note (XV).

[2670] to you] even to you Hanmer, ending lines 60-64 nobleness ... I'm rapt ... this ... words.

[2671] whole] om. Hanmer.

I am] I'm Pope.

[2672] cover ... ingratitude] As in Ff. One line in Pope.

[2673] Let ... better] One line in Pope. Two in Ff.

go naked, men] Theobald. go, Naked men Ff.

[2674] them] men Theobald conj.

[2675] travail'd] F1 F2. travel'd F3 F4.

great] om. Hanmer.

[2676] you are] you're Pope.

men] man F1.

[2677] We ... service] One line in Pope. Two in Ff.

We are] We're Pope.

[2678] Most ... you] One line in Pope. Two in Ff.

[2679] What ... gold] Two lines in Pope. Four in Ff.

[2680] Ye're] Dyce. Y'are Ff. You're Capell. You are Steevens.

ye've] Dyce. Y'have Ff. You've Rowe. you have Steevens.

[2681] I am] I'm Pope.

ye're] Dyce. y'are Ff. you're Capell. you are Steevens.

[2682] nor] and Capell.

[2683] men] F1. man F2 F3 F4.

[2684] thou'rt] Rowe. th'art F1 F2. tha'rt F3 F4.

[2685] [To the Poet. Hanmer.

[2686] honest-natured] Hyphened by Rowe.

[2687] 'tis] om. Pope.

[2688] never] Ff. ne'er Pope.

[2689] Ay, ... dissemble,] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.

[2690] love] yet love Capell.

feed him] and feed him Pope. feed him, and Keightley.

[2691] Keep] Keep him Heath conj.

[2692] Nor I] Nor I, my lord Steevens conj.

[2693] Look ... gold,] One line in Pope. Two in Ff.

[2694] a draught] F1. draught F2 F3 F4. the draught Rowe.

[2695] You ... company:] One line in Pope. Two in Ff.

but] not Hanmer. both Jackson conj.

in] is Collier MS.

[2696] apart] F3 F4. a part F1 F2.

[2697] two villains] four villains Seymour conj.

[To the Painter. Pope.

[2698] reside] Rowe. recide Ff.

[To the Poet. Pope.

[2699] you] F1. ye F2 F3 F4.

[2700] [To Painter] Edd. (Globe ed.). om. Ff.

You have work] F3 F4. You have worke F1 F2. You have work'd Hanmer. You have done work Malone. You've worked Steevens conj. You have worked Keightley.

there's] Ff. there's your Pope. there is your Johnson. there is Capell.

payment] payment for ye Anon. conj.

hence] F1. thence F2 F3 F4.

[To Poet] Edd. (Globe ed.). om. Ff.

[2701] [Beats....] Staunton. Beating and driving 'em out. Rowe. Exeunt. Ff. Exit beating and driving 'em out. Hanmer.

[2702] Scene III. Pope. Scene II. The same. Capell.

in] F3 F4. om. F1 F2.

[2703] part] pact Dyce ed. 2 (S. Walker conj.).

[2704] chance] F3 F4. chanc'd F1. chanc'e F2.

[2705] Peace ... here!] Spoken by one of the Senators. Staunton conj.

Lord] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.

[2706] Timon....] Enter Timon out of his Cave. Ff.

[2707] Thou ... hang'd] One line in Hanmer. Two in Ff.

comfort'st] Pope. comforts F1. comfort F2 F3 F4.

[2708] as a cauterizing] Rowe. as a Cantherizing F1. as a catherizing F2 F3 F4. cauterizing Pope. cancerizing Capell. as a cancering Steevens conj. as a cancerizing Rann (Steevens conj.). as a cauter Lettsom conj. See note (XVI).

cauterizing to the] cancer in the Anon. apud Rann conj.

[2709] Of ... Timon.] One line in Pope. Two in Ff.

[2710] I thank ... plague,] One line in Pope. Two in Ff.

[2711] general, gross] Pope. generall grosse Ff. general-gross Dyce, ed. 2 (S. Walker conj.).

[2712] Which now] And now Hanmer. But now Capell.

[2713] sense] sence Rowe. since Ff.

[2714] its] it's Rowe. it Ff.

fail] Capell. fall Ff. fault Hanmer.

restraining] refraining Johnson conj.

[2715] send] Ff. sends Rowe.

sorrowed render] Ff. sorrowed tender Pope. sorrow's tender Hanmer. sorrows' tender Capell. sorrow'd render. Dyce.

[2716] Together with] Rowe. Together, with Ff.

[2717] weigh ... dram;] weigh. Down by the dram, Johnson.

[2718] down ... As] ay, ev'n such heaps And sums of love and wealth, down by the dram, As Johnson conj.

[2719] in thee] instead Anon. conj.

[2720] Allow'd] Pope. Allowed Ff. Hallow'd Warburton.

[2721] so] om. Pope.

[2722] the approaches] th' approaches F1. h'approaches F2 F3 F4.

[2723] Timon,—] Timon— Rowe. Timon. Ff.

[2724] sir; thus:] sir; thus— Theobald. sir thus: Ff. sir, thus— Rowe.

[2725] But] om. Pope.

[2726] him,] him,— Hanmer.

[2727] whittle] whistle Becket conj.

[2728] at] in Hanmer.

[2729] reverend'st] reverends F1.

[2730] prosperous] phosphorus Jackson conj.

[2731] Why, I ... epitaph:] Why, I ... epitaph, Pope. Why I ... epitaph, Ff.

[2732] wreck] Hanmer. wracke F1 F2. wrack F3 F4.

[2733] bruit] F3 F4. bruite F1 F2. brute Rowe.

[2734] countrymen,—] Capell. countreymen. Ff.

[2735] These ... them.] One line in Pope. Prose in Ff.

thorough] thorow Ff. thro' Rowe.

them] om. Anon. conj.

[2736] aches, losses] F4. aches losses F1 F2 F3.

[2737] throes] F4. throwes F1 F2 F3.

[2738] voyage] voyages Pope.

I will] say, I will S. Walker conj., ending the lines will ... prevent ... well.

do them] om. Steevens conj. do 'em S. Walker conj.

[2739] some ... teach] do Some kindness to them, teach Pope, ending the lines do ... prevent.

[2740] I'll ... to] I will ... How to Anon. conj., ending the lines voyage, ... them ... wrath.

[2741] he ... again.] Omitted by Hanmer, reading Wild ... well as one line.

[2742] sequence] F1. frequence F2 F3 F4.

[2743] take his] make Long MS. make his Staunton conj.

haste] taste Pope. tatch Warburton conj. MS. halter Collier (Collier MS.).

[2744] Trouble ... him] One line in Pope. Two, the first ending shall, in Ff.

Trouble] Vex Pope.

[2745] Who] F1. Which F2 F3 F4. Whom Malone.

[2746] sour] Rowe. foure F1 F2. four F3 F4. your S. Walker conj.

[2747] [Retires ...] Dyce. Exit Timon. Ff.

[2748] His ... nature.] Arranged as in Capell. Prose in Ff. One line in Pope.

[2749] unremoveably] om. Pope.

[2750] nature] his nature Pope.

[2751] dear] F4. deere F1 F2. deer F3. dead Rowe. dread Hanmer. near Anon. conj.

[2752] Scene II.] Dyce. Scene IV. Pope. Scene III. Capell.

Before....] Edd. The walls.... Rowe. Athens. A Council-Chamber. Capell.

[2753] two ... and....] two other ... with.... Ff.

[2754] thy] they F2.

I have] I've Dyce (ed. 2).

[2755] Besides ... approach.] As in Pope. One line in Ff.

[2756] courier] Rowe. currier Ff.

one] once Upton conj.

[2757] Whom] Ff. Who Pope. And Hanmer. When Singer (ed. 2).

in general] on several Singer (ed. 2).

[2758] made ... force] had ... force Hanmer. took ... truce Staunton conj.

[2759] made] bade Jackson conj.

[2760] Enter....] Capell. Enter the other Senators. Ff, after moved.

[2761] Third. Sen.] 1. S. Capell.

[2762] enemies'] Theobald (ed. 2). enemies Ff. enemy's Delius.

[2763] foes] foe's Johnson.

[2764] Scene III.] Dyce. Scene V. Johnson. Scene IV. Capell. Warburton continues the Scene. Pope puts the whole in the margin.

[2765] The woods.... Enter....] The woods. A rude Tomb seen. Enter.... Capell. Enter a Souldier in the Woods, seeking Timon. Ff.

[2766] Who's] F3 F4. Whose F1. Whos F2.

[spying the Tomb. Capell.

[2767] See note (XVII).

who] he Capell.

[2768] read] F3 F4. reade F1 F2. rear'd Theobald (Warburton). did Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. Vol. LX. p. 127). made Delius.

there does] here does Theobald (Warburton). here did Capell (MS. correction).

not live] no live F2. not lye Capell conj.

[2769] Dead ... wax] As in Ff. Three lines in Capell, ending tomb ... take ... wax. Three lines in Singer (ed. 1), ending grave ... character ... wax.

[2770] Scene IV.] Dyce. Scene II. Rowe. Scene V. Pope.

Before....] Theobald.

[2771] Enter....] Enter Alcibiades with his Powers before Athens. Ff.

[2772] [A parley....] Parley sounded. Capell. Sounds a Parly. Ff.

[2773] Enter Senators....] Enter Senators &c.... Capell. The Senators appeare.... Ff.

[2774] strong] stung S. Walker conj.

[2775] of] F1. to F2 F3 F4.

[2776] ingratitude] ingratitudes Capell.

[2777] their] its Hanmer.

[2778] means] 'mends Theobald.

[2779] griefs] Theobald. greefe F1 F2. grief F3 F4.

[2780] Shame ... excess] Theobald. (Shame that they wanted, cunning in excesse) F1. Shame (that they wanted cunning in excesse) F2 F3 F4. Shame that they wanted coming in excess Johnson conj.

[2781] March,] March on, oh Pope.

[2782] And ... spotted.] Put in the margin by Pope.

[2783] All] We all Hanmer.

[2784] it is ... take,] is't not severe to take? Collier (Collier MS.).

[2785] revenges ... like] Steevens (1778). revenge ... like Ff. revenge ... like to Pope.

[2786] all together] F3 F4. altogether F1. al together F2.

[2787] thou'lt] thoul't F4. thou't F1 F2 F3.

[2788] Descend] Defend F1.

[2789] Timon's] Timon Hanmer.

[2790] render'd to your] Dyce (Chedworth conj.). remedied to your F1. remedied by your F2 F3 F4. remedied by Pope. remedied to Johnson. remedy'd, to your Malone. remitted to your Singer (ed. 2.). See note (XVIII).

[2791] [The Senators....] Malone. Senators come from the Walls, and deliver their keys to Alcibiades. Capell. om. Ff.

Enter Soldier.] Capell. Enter a Soldier. Theobald. Enter a Messenger. Ff.

[2792] his] the Pope (ed. 2).

[2793] Interprets] Interpreteth Pope.

poor] poorer S. Walker conj. (withdrawn).

[2794] Alcib. [Reads] Alcibiades reades the Epitaph. Ff.

[2795] wicked] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.

[2796] alive] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.

[2797] pass and] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.]

gait] Johnson. gate Ff. gaite Pope.

[2798] abhorr'dst] abhorred'st Rowe.

human] Rowe. humane Ff.

[2799] brain's] Steevens. braines F1 F2 F3. brains F4. brine's Hanmer. brains' Dyce, ed. 2 (S. Walker conj.).

[2800] grave ... Dead] Ff. grave.—On: faults forgiven.—Dead Theobald. grave our faults—forgiv'n, since dead Hanmer. grave.—One fault's forgiven.—Dead Tyrwhitt conj.

[2801] use] twine S. Walker conj. prune Anon. conj.

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