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Commend me to him; I will send his ransom;
And being enfranchis’d, bid him come to me.
’Tis not enough to help the feeble up, [110]
But to support him after. Fare you well.

MESSENGER
All happiness to your honour!

[Exit]

Enter an Old Athenian.

OLD ATHENIAN
Lord Timon, hear me speak.

TIMON
Freely, good father.

OLD ATHENIAN
Thou hast a servant nam’d Lucilius.

TIMON
I have so. What of him? [115]

OLD ATHENIAN
Most noble Timon, call the man before thee.

TIMON
Attends he here or no? Lucilius!

LUCILIUS
Here, at your lordship’s service.

OLD ATHENIAN
This fellow here, Lord Timon, this thy creature,
By night frequents my house. I am a man [120]
That from my first have been inclin’d to thrift,

And my estate deserves an heir more rais’d