Page 3123 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

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