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To him that worships thee! [45]
                                                              [Throwing the money back at Lucullus]



              LUCULLUS
          Ha? Now I see thou art a fool, and fit for thy master.
                                                                                                           [Exit]



              FLAMINIUS
               May these add to the number that may scald thee!

               Let molten coin be thy damnation,
               Thou disease of a friend, and not himself! [50]
               Has friendship such a faint and milky heart
               It turns in less than two nights? O you gods!

               I feel my master’s passion. This slave unto his honour
               Has my lord’s meat in him:
               Why should it thrive and turn to nutriment [55]
               When he is turn’d to poison?

               O may diseases only work upon ’t,
               And when he’s sick to death, let not that part of nature
               Which my lord paid for, be of any power
               To expel sickness, but prolong his hour! [60]

                                                                                                           [Exit]



                                                    Scene II         IT


                             Enter Lucius, with Hostilius and two other Strangers.



              LUCIUS
          Who,  the  Lord  Timon?  He  is  my  very  good  friend  and  an  honourable

          gentleman.



              FIRST STRANGER
          We know him for no less, though we are but strangers to him. But I can tell
          you  one  thing,  my  lord,  and  which  I  hear  from  common  rumours:  now  [5]
          Lord Timon’s happy hours are done and past, and his estate shrinks from him.



              LUCIUS
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