Fool. I think no usurer but has a fool to his servant:
my mistress is one, and I am her fool. When men come to 100
borrow of your masters, they approach sadly and go away
merry; but they enter my mistress' house merrily and[1987][1998]
go away sadly: the reason of this?
Var. Serv. I could render one.
Apem. Do it then, that we may account thee a whoremaster[1999]105
and a knave; which notwithstanding, thou shalt be
no less esteemed.
Var. Serv. What is a whoremaster, fool?
Fool. A fool in good clothes, and something like thee.
'Tis a spirit: sometime 't appears like a lord; sometime like[2000]110
a lawyer; sometime like a philosopher, with two stones[2001]
moe than 's artificial one: he is very often like a knight;[2002]
and, generally, in all shapes that man goes up and down in
from fourscore to thirteen, this spirit walks in.
Var. Serv. Thou art not altogether a fool. 115
Fool. Nor thou altogether a wise man: as much foolery
as I have, so much wit thou lack'st.
Apem. That answer might have become Apemantus.
All Serv. Aside, aside; here comes Lord Timon.[2003]
Re-enter Timon and Flavius.