Tim. You gods, reward them!
Prithee, man, look cheerly. These old fellows[2045]
Have their ingratitude in them hereditary:[2046]
Their blood is caked, 'tis cold, it seldom flows; 215
'Tis lack of kindly warmth they are not kind;
And nature, as it grows again toward earth,
Is fashion'd for the journey, dull and heavy.
[To a Serv.] Go to Ventidius. [To Flav.] Prithee, be not sad;[2047]
Thou art true and honest; ingeniously I speak,[2048] 220
No blame belongs to thee. [To Serv.] Ventidius lately[2049]
Buried his father, by whose death he's stepp'd
Into a great estate: when he was poor,
Imprison'd, and in scarcity of friends,
I clear'd him with five talents: greet him from me; 225
Bid him suppose some good necessity
Touches his friend, which craves to be remember'd
With those five talents. [Exit Serv.] [To Flav.] That had, give't these fellows[2050]
To whom 'tis instant due. Ne'er speak or think[2051]
That Timon's fortunes 'mong his friends can sink.[2052] 230
Flav. I would I could not think it: that thought is bounty's foe;[2053]
Being free itself, it thinks all others so. [Exeunt.
FOOTNOTES:
[1933] Act ii. Scene i.] Rowe. om. Ff.
A Senator's house.] Capell, substantially. A publick Place in the City. Rowe.
[1934] with ... hand.] Capell. om. Ff.
[1935] thousand: to] Ff. thousand to Steevens.
[1936] twenty] Ff. ten Pope. twain Farmer conj. two Singer conj.
moe] F1. more F2 F3 F4.