Page 3156 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

And drown themselves in riot! Itches, blains,
Sow all th’ Athenian bosoms, and their crop
Be general leprosy! Breath infect breath, [30]
That their society, as their friendship, may

Be merely poison! Nothing I’ll bear from thee
But nakedness, thou detestable town!
Take thou that too, with multiplying bans!
Timon will to the woods, where he shall find, [35]

Th’ unkindest beast more kinder than mankind.
The gods confound − ear me, you good gods all −
Th’ Athenians both within and out that wall;
And grant, as Timon grows, his hate may grow

To the whole race of mankind, high and low! [40]
Amen.
[Exit]

Scene II IT

Enter Steward, with two or three Servants.

FIRST SERVANT
Hear you, master steward, where’s our master?
Are we undone, cast off, nothing remaining?

STEWARD
Alack, my fellows, what should I say to you?

Let me be recorded by the righteous gods,
I am as poor as you.

FIRST SERVANT
Such a house broke? [5]
So noble a master fall’n, all gone, and not
One friend to take his fortune by the arm,

And go along with him.

SECOND SERVANT

As we do turn our backs