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I would have put my wealth into donation, [85]
And the best half should have return’d to him,
So much I love his heart. But I perceive
Men must learn now with pity to dispense,

For policy sits above conscience.
[Exeunt]

Scene III IT

Enter Timon’s Third Servant with Sempronius, another of Timon’s friends.

SEMPRONIUS

Must he needs trouble me in ’t? Humh!
’Bove all others?
He might have tried Lord Lucius, or Lucullus;
And now Ventidius is wealthy too,

Whom he redeem’d from prison. All these [5]
Owes their estates unto him.

SERVANT
My lord,
They have all been touch’d and found base metal,
For they have all denied him.

SEMPRONIUS

How? Have they denied him?
Has Ventidius and Lucullus denied him? [10]
And does he send to me? Three? Humh?
It shows but little love or judgment in him.

Must I be his last refuge? His friends, like physicians,
Thrive, give him over; must I take th’ cure upon me?
H’as much disgrac’d me in ’t; I’m angry at him [15]
That might have known my place. I see no sense for ’t.

But his occasions might have wooed me first:
For, in my conscience, I was the first man
That e’er received gift from him.
And does he think so backwardly of me now, [20]