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SERVILIUS

          H’as only sent his present occasion now, my lord: requesting your lordship to
          supply his instant use [35] with so many talents.



              LUCIUS
               I know his lordship is but merry with me,
               He cannot want fifty − five hundred talents.



              SERVILIUS

               But in the meantime he wants less, my lord.
               If his occasion were not virtuous, [40]
               I should not urge it half so faithfully.



              LUCIUS
               Dost thou speak seriously, Servilius?



              SERVILIUS
               Upon my soul, ’tis true, sir.



              LUCIUS
          What a wicked beast was I to disfurnish myself against such a good time,

          when I might ha’ shown [45] myself honourable! How unluckily it happen’d,
          that I should purchase the day before for a little part, and undo a great deal
          of  honour!  Servilius,  now  before  the  gods,  I  am  not  able  to  do  (the  more
          beast, I say!) − I was sending to use Lord Timon myself, these gentlemen

          can [50] witness; but I would not, for the wealth of Athens, I had done ’t
          now. Commend me bountifully to his good lordship; and I hope his honour
          will conceive the fairest of me, because I have no power to be kind. And tell
          him this from me: I count it one of my greatest afflictions, [55] say, that I

          cannot  pleasure  such  an  honourable  gentleman.  Good  Servilius,  will  you
          befriend me so far as to use mine own words to him?



              SERVILIUS
          Yes, sir, I shall. [60]
                                                                                                           [Exit]



              LUCIUS
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