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I think no usurer but has a fool to his servant; my mistress is one, and I am
her fool. When men come to borrow of your masters, they approach sadly,
and go away merry; but they enter my master’s house merrily, and go away
sadly. The reason of this? [105]

VARRO’S SERVANT
I could render one.

APEMANTUS
Do it then, that we may account thee a whoremaster and a knave; which
notwithstanding, thou shalt be no less esteemed.

VARRO’S SERVANT
What is a whoremaster, fool? [110]

FOOL
A fool in good clothes, and something like thee. ’Tis a spirit; sometime ’t
appears like a lord, sometime like a lawyer, sometime like a philosopher,

with two stones moe than’s artificial one. He is very often like a knight; and
generally in all shapes that man goes up and [115] down in, from fourscore
to thirteen, this spirit walks in.

VARRO’S SERVANT
Thou art not altogether a fool.

FOOL
Nor thou altogether a wise man. As much foolery as I have, so much wit thou

lack’st.

APEMANTUS
That answer might have become Apemantus. [120]

ALL SERVANTS
Aside, aside; here comes Lord Timon.

Re-enter Timon and Steward.