Sec. Serv. May it please your honour, Lord Lucius[1881][1882][1883]
Out of his free love hath presented to you[1882][1884] 175
Four milk-white horses, trapp'd in silver.[1882][1885]
Tim. I shall accept them fairly: let the presents
Be worthily entertain'd.
Enter a third Servant.
Third Serv. Please you, my lord, that honourable gentleman,[1886]
Lord Lucullus, entreats your company to-morrow to[1886][1887] 180
hunt with him, and has sent your honour two brace of[1886][1888]
greyhounds.[1886]
Tim. I'll hunt with him; and let them be received,[1889]
Not without fair reward.[1889]
Flav. [Aside] What will this come to?[1890][1891]
He commands us to provide and give great gifts, and all[1891][1892]185
out of an empty coffer:[1891]
Nor will he know his purse, or yield me this,
To show him what a beggar his heart is,
Being of no power to make his wishes good:
His promises fly so beyond his state 190
That what he speaks is all in debt, he owes[1893][1894]
For every word: he is so kind that he now[1893][1895]
Pays interest for't; his land's put to their books.[1893][1896]
Well, would I were gently put out of office,[1893]
Before I were forced out![1893][1897] 195
Happier is he that has no friend to feed
Than such that do e'en enemies exceed.
I bleed inwardly for my lord.[1898][1899] [Exit.
Tim. You do yourselves[1899]
Much wrong, you bate too much of your own merits.[1899]
Here, my lord, a trifle of our love.[1899] 200
Sec. Lord. With more than common thanks I will receive[1900][1901]
it.[1901]
Third Lord. O, he's the very soul of bounty![1902]