Page 3091 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

Than one which holds a trencher.

TIMON
Well; what further?

OLD ATHENIAN
One only daughter have I, no kin else,
On whom I may confer what I have got. [125]
The maid is fair, o’ th’ 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; [130]

Myself have spoke in vain.

TIMON
The man is honest.

OLD ATHENIAN
Therefore he will be, Timon.
His honesty rewards him in itself;
It must not bear my daughter.

TIMON
Does she love him?

OLD ATHENIAN
She is young and apt: [135]
Our own precedent passions do instruct us
What levity’s in youth.

TIMON
[to Lucilius] Love you the maid?

LUCILIUS
Ay, my good lord, and she accepts of it.