Enter Flaminius, Servilius, and other Servants.[2034]
Servants. My lord? my lord?[2035]
Tim. I will dispatch you severally: you to Lord Lucius:[2036]
to Lord Lucullus you: I hunted with his honour[2036]
to-day: you to Sempronius: commend me to their loves;[2036]
and, I am proud, say, that my occasions have found time to[2036] 190
use 'em toward a supply of money: let the request be fifty[2036][2037]
talents.[2036]
Flam. As you have said, my Lord.
Flav. [Aside] Lord Lucius and Lucullus? hum![2038]
Tim. Go you, sir, to the senators—[2039] 195
Of whom, even to the state's best health, I have[2040]
Deserved this hearing—bid 'em send o' the instant
A thousand talents to me.
Flav. I have been bold,[2041]
For that I knew it the most general way,
To them to use your signet and your name, 200
But they do shake their heads, and I am here
No richer in return.
Tim. Is't true? can't be?
Flav. They answer, in a joint and corporate voice,
That now they are at fall, want treasure, cannot[2042]
Do what they would; are sorry—you are honourable,— 205
But yet they could have wish'd—they know not—[2043]
Something hath been amiss—a noble nature
May catch a wrench—would all were well—'tis pity:—
And so, intending other serious matters,
After distasteful looks and these hard fractions, 210
With certain half-caps and cold-moving nods[2044]
They froze me into silence.