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[calling out after him] I’ll look you out a good turn, Servilius. [To the others]
          True,  as  you  said,  Timon  is  shrunk  indeed;  and  he  that’s  once  denied  will
          hardly speed.
                                                                                                           [Exit]



              FIRST STRANGER
               Do you observe this, Hostilius?




              HOSTILIUS
               Ay, too well.



              FIRST STRANGER
               Why, this is the world’s soul,
               And just of the same piece [65]
               Is every flatterer’s sport. Who can call him his friend

               That dips in the same dish? For in my knowing
               Timon has been this lord’s father,
               And kept his credit with his purse; [70]
               Supported his estate; nay, Timon’s money
               Has paid his men their wages. He ne’er drinks

               But Timon’s silver treads upon his lip;
               And yet − O see the monstrousness of man,
               When he looks out in an ungrateful shape! − [75]

               He does deny him, in respect of his,
               What charitable men afford to beggars.



              SECOND STRANGER
               Religion groans at it.



              FIRST STRANGER
                               For mine own part,
               I never tasted Timon in my life,
               Nor came any of his bounties over me, [80]

               To mark me for his friend. Yet I protest,
               For his right noble mind, illustrious virtue,
               And honourable carriage,

               Had his necessity made use of me,
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