Apem. Come with me, fool, come. 120
Fool. I do not always follow lover, elder brother, and[2004]
woman; sometime the philosopher.[2004][2005]
[Exeunt Apemantus and Fool.
Flav. Pray you, walk near: I'll speak with you anon[2006]
[Exeunt Servants.[2007]
Tim. You make me marvel; wherefore, ere this time,[2008]
Had you not fully laid my state before me, 125
That I might so have rated my expense
As I had leave of means?
Flav. You would not hear me,[2009]
At many leisures I proposed.[2010]
Tim. Go to:
Perchance some single vantages you took,
When my indisposition put you back; 130
And that unaptness made your minister,[2011]
Thus to excuse yourself.
Flav. O my good lord,
At many times I brought in my accounts,
Laid them before you; you would throw them off,[2012]
And say, you found them in mine honesty.[2013] 135
When for some trifling present you have bid me
Return so much, I have shook my head and wept;[2014]
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 140
Prompted you in the ebb of your estate
And your great flow of debts. My loved lord,[2015]
Though you hear now, too late!—yet now's a time—[2016]
The greatest of your having lacks a half[2017]
To pay your present debts.[2017][2018]
Tim. Let all my land be sold.[2017] 145