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What means that trump? How now? [110]
Enter Servant.
SERVANT
Please you, my lord, there are certain ladies most desirous of admittance.
TIMON
Ladies? What are their wills?
SERVANT
There comes with them a forerunner, my lord, which bears that office to
signify their pleasures. [115]
TIMON
I pray let them be admitted.
Enter Cupid.
CUPID
Hail to thee, worthy Timon, and to all that of this bounties taste! The five
best senses acknowledge thee their patron, and come freely to gratulate thy
plenteous bosom. [120]
There, taste, touch, all, pleas’d from thy table rise;
They only now come but to feast thine eyes.
TIMON
They’re welcome all; let ’em have kind admittance.
Music, make their welcome!
[Exit Cupid]
LUCULLUS
You see, my lord, how ample y’are belov’d. [125]
Music. Re-enter Cupid, with a masque of Ladies as Amazons, with lutes in
their hands, dancing and playing.
APEMANTUS
