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The very heart of kindness. [280]

SECOND LORD
He pours it out. Plutus the god of gold
Is but his steward. No meed but he repays
Seven-fold above itself: no gift to him
But breeds the giver a return exceeding

All use of quittance.

FIRST LORD
The noblest mind he carries [285]
That ever govern’d man.

SECOND LORD
Long may he live in fortunes. Shall we in?

I’ll keep you company.
[Exeunt]

Scene II IT

Hautboys playing loud music. A great banquet serv’d in; and then enter

Lord Timon, Athenian Lords and Senators; Ventidius which Timon redeem’d
from prison; Lucullus and Alcibiades. Steward and others in attendance. Then
comes, dropping after all, Apemantus, discontentedly, like himself.

VENTIDIUS
Most honoured Timon,
It hath pleas’d the gods to remember my father’s age,

And call him to long peace.
He is gone happy, and has left me rich.
Then, as in grateful virtue I am bound [5]

To your free heart, I do return those talents,
Doubled with thanks and service, from whose help
I deriv’d liberty.

TIMON
O by no means,