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APEMANTUS
Not worth my thinking. How now Poet?
POET
How now Philosopher?
APEMANTUS
Thou liest.
POET
Art not one? [220]
APEMANTUS
Yes.
POET
Then I lie not.
APEMANTUS
Art not a poet?
POET
Yes.
APEMANTUS
Then thou liest. Look in thy last work, where [225] thou hast feign’d him a
worthy fellow.
POET
That’s not feign’d, he is so.
APEMANTUS
Yes, he is worthy of thee, and to pay thee for thy labour. He that loves to be
flattered is worthy o’ th’ flatterer. Heavens, that I were a lord! [230]
TIMON
What wouldst do then, Apemantus?
