Page 3126 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

SERVANTS

My lord, my lord.

TIMON
I will dispatch you severally: [to Servilius] you to Lord Lucius; [to Flaminius]
to Lord Lucullus you (I [190] hunted with his honour to-day); [to Third
Servant] you, to Sempronius. Commend me to their loves; and I am proud,

say, that my occasions have found time to use ’em toward a supply of money.
Let the request be fifty talents. [195]

FLAMINIUS
As you have said, my lord.
[Exeunt Servants]

STEWARD
[aside] Lord Lucius and Lucullus? Humh!

TIMON
[to Steward] Go you, sir, to the senators,

Of whom, even to the state’s best health, I have
Deserv’d this hearing: bid ’em send o’ th’ instant [200]
A thousand talents to me.

STEWARD
I have been bold,

For that I knew it the most general way,
To them to use your signet and your name;
But they do shake their heads, and I am here
No richer in return.

TIMON
Is ’t true? can ’t be? [205]

STEWARD

They answer in a joint and corporate voice
That now they are at fall, want treasure, cannot
Do what they would, are sorry; you are honourable,