leopard; wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion, and
the spots of thy kindred were jurors on thy life; all thy safety
were remotion, and thy defence absence. What beast couldst thou
be that were not subject to a beast? and what beast art thou
already, that seest not thy loss in transformation!

APEMANTUS.
If thou couldst please me with speaking to me, thou
mightst have hit upon it here; the commonwealth of Athens is
become a forest of beasts.

TIMON.
How has the ass broke the wall, that thou art out of the
city?

APEMANTUS.
Yonder comes a poet and a painter: the plague of company
light upon thee! I will fear to catch it, and give way. When I
know not what else to do, I'll see thee again.

TIMON.
When there is nothing living but thee, thou shalt be
welcome. I had rather be a beggar's dog than Apemantus.

APEMANTUS.
Thou art the cap of all the fools alive.

TIMON.
Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon!