Page 3118 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3
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’Twas due on forfeiture, my lord, six weeks and past. [35]



              ISIDORE’S SERVANT
          Your steward puts me off, my lord, and I am sent expressly to your lordship.



              TIMON
               Give me breath.
               I do beseech you, good my lords, keep on;
               I’ll wait upon you instantly. [40]

                                                                           [Exeunt Alcibiades and Lords]
               [To Steward] Come hither. Pray you,
               How goes the world, that I am thus encounter’d
               With clamorous demands of debt, broken bonds,

               And the detention of long since due debts
               Against my honour?



              STEWARD
                               [to Caphis and other servants] Please you, gentlemen, [45]
               The time is unagreeable to this business.
               Your importunacy cease till after dinner,

               That I may make his lordship understand
               Wherefore you are not paid.



              TIMON
                               Do so, my friends.
               See them well entertain’d.

                                                                                                           [Exit]



              STEWARD
                               Pray draw near. [50]


                                              Enter Apemantus and Fool.



              CAPHIS
          Stay, stay; here comes the fool with Apemantus: let’s ha’ some sport with
          ’em.
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