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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.