Timon comes from his cave.
Tim. Thou sun, that comfort'st, burn! Speak, and be hang'd:[2707]
For each true word, a blister! and each false 130
Be as a cauterizing to the root o' the tongue,[2708]
Consuming it with speaking!
First Sen. Worthy Timon,—
Tim. Of none but such as you, and you of Timon.[2709]
First Sen. The senators of Athens greet thee, Timon.
Tim. I thank them, and would send them back the plague,[2710]135
Could I but catch it for them.
First Sen. O, forget
What we are sorry for ourselves in thee.
The senators with one consent of love
Entreat thee back to Athens; who have thought
On special dignities, which vacant lie 140
For thy best use and wearing.
Sec. Sen. They confess
Toward thee forgetfulness too general, gross:[2711]
Which now the public body, which doth seldom[2712]
Play the recanter, feeling in itself
A lack of Timon's aid, hath sense withal[2713] 145
Of its own fail, restraining aid to Timon;[2714]
And send forth us, to make their sorrowed render.[2715]
Together with a recompense more fruitful[2716]
Than their offence can weigh down by the dram;[2717][2718]
Ay, even such heaps and sums of love and wealth,[2718] 150
As shall to thee blot out what wrongs were theirs,[2718]
And write in thee the figures of their love,[2719]
Ever to read them thine.
Tim. You witch me in it,
Surprise me to the very brink of tears:
Lend me a fool's heart and a woman's eyes, 155
And I'll beweep these comforts, worthy senators.
First Sen. Therefore, so please thee to return with us,
And of our Athens, thine and ours, to take
The captainship, thou shalt be met with thanks,
Allow'd with absolute power, and thy good name[2720] 160
Live with authority: so soon we shall drive back[2721]
Of Alcibiades the approaches wild;[2722]
Who, like a boar too savage, doth root up
His country's peace.