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APEMANTUS

          Come with me, fool, come.



              FOOL
          I  do  not  always  follow  lover,  elder  brother  and  woman;  sometime  the
          philosopher.



              STEWARD
          Pray you, walk near: I’ll speak with you anon. [125]

                                                             [Exeunt Apemantus, Fool and Servants]


              TIMON

               You make me marvel wherefore ere this time
               Had you not fully laid my state before me,
               That I might so have rated my expense
               As I had leave of means.



              STEWARD
                               You would not hear me.

               At many leisures I propos’d −



              TIMON
                               Go to. [130]
               Perchance some single vantages you took,
               When my indisposition put you back,

               And that unaptness made your minister
               Thus to excuse yourself.



              STEWARD
                               O my good lord,
               At many times I brought in my accompts, [135]
               Laid them before you; you would throw them off,

               And say you found them in mine honesty.
               When for some trifling present you have bid me
               Return so much, I have shook my head and wept:

               Yea, ’gainst th’ authority of manners, pray’d you [140]
               To hold your hand more close. I did endure
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