Undone by goodness!"
is the exclamation of his faithful steward; nor are the inferior domestics less sensible of his worth:—
"1 Serv. So noble a master fallen!—and not
One friend, to take his fortune by the arm!—
3 Serv. Yet do our hearts wear Timon's livery,
That see I by our faces."[449:A]
When Flavius visits his master in his seclusion, and with the most disinterested views and the most heart-felt commiseration, offers him his wealth and his attendance, Timon starts back with amazement bordering on distraction, afflicted and aghast at the recognition, when too late, of genuine friendship, and self-convicted of injustice towards his fellow-creatures:—
"Had I a steward so true, so just, and now
So comfortable? It almost turns
My dangerous nature wild.[449:B] Let me behold