honourable virtuous lord, my very exquisite friend. May it please your honour, my lord hath sent-- Ha! what has he sent? I am so much endeared to that lord; he's ever sending: how shall I thank him, thinkest thou? And what has he sent now? Has only sent his present occasion now, my lord; requesting your lordship to supply his instant use with so many talents. I know his lordship is but merry with me; He cannot want fifty five hundred talents. But in the mean time he wants less, my lord. If his occasion were not virtuous, I should not urge it half so faithfully. Dost thou speak seriously, Servilius? Upon my soul,'tis true, sir. What a wicked beast was I to disfurnish myself against such a good time, when I might ha' shown myself honourable! how unluckily it happened, that I should purchase the day before for a little part, and undo a great deal of honoured! Servilius, now, before the gods, I am not able to do,--the more beast, I say:--I was sending to use Lord Timon myself, these gentlemen can witness! but I would not, for the wealth of Athens, I had done't now. Commend me bountifully to his good lordship; and I hope his honour will conceive the fairest of me, because I have no power to be kind: and tell him this from me, I count it one of my greatest afflictions, say, that I cannot pleasure such an honourable gentleman. Good Servilius, will you befriend me so far, as to use mine own words to him? Yes, sir, I shall. I'll look you out a good turn, Servilius. True as you said, Timon is shrunk indeed; And he that's once denied will hardly speed. Do you observe this, Hostilius? Ay, too well. Why, this is the world's soul; and just of the same piece Is every flatterer's spirit. Who can call him His friend that dips in the same dish? for, in My knowing, Timon has been this lord's father, And kept his credit with his purse, Supported his estate; nay, Timon's money Has paid his men their wages: he ne'er drinks, But Timon's silver treads upon his lip; And yet--O, see the monstrousness of man When he looks out in an ungrateful shape!-- He does deny him, in respect of his, What charitable men afford to beggars. Religion groans at it. For mine own part, I never tasted Timon in my life, Nor came any of his bounties over me, To mark me for his friend;