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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
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