Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
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page 53 of 149 (35%)
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Laid them before you; you would throw them off,
And say you found them in mine honesty. When for some trifling present you have bid me Return so much, I have shook my head, and wept; Yea, 'gainst the authority of manners, pray'd you To hold your hand more close: I did endure Not seldom, nor no slight checks, when I have Prompted you in the ebb of your estate And your great flow of debts. My loved lord, Though you hear now, too late, yet now's a time, The greatest of your having lacks a half To pay your present debts. TIMON. Let all my land be sold. FLAVIUS. 'Tis all engag'd, some forfeited and gone; And what remains will hardly stop the mouth Of present dues; the future comes apace: What shall defend the interim? and at length How goes our reckoning? TIMON. To Lacedaemon did my land extend. FLAVIUS. O my good lord! the world is but a word; Were it all yours to give it in a breath, How quickly were it gone! |
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