Page 3139 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

TITUS

Do you hear, sir?

SECOND VARRO’S SERVANT
By your leave, sir −

STEWARD
What do ye ask of me, my friend? [45]

TITUS
We wait for certain money here, sir.

STEWARD
Ay,

If money were as certain as your waiting,
’Twere sure enough.
Why then preferr’d you not your sums and bills
When your false masters eat of my lord’s meat? [50]
Then they could smile, and fawn upon his debts,

And take down th’ int’rest into their glutt’nous maws.
You do yourselves but wrong, to stir me up;
Let me pass quietly.

Believe ’t, my lord and I have made an end; [55]
I have no more to reckon, he to spend.

LUCIUS’S SERVANT
Ay, but this answer will not serve.

STEWARD
If ’twill not serve, ’tis not so base as you,
For you serve knaves.
[Exit]

FIRST VARRO’S SERVANT

How? What does his cashier’d [60] worship mutter?

SECOND VARRO’S SERVANT