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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