Alcib. Descend, and keep your words.
[The Senators descend, and open the gates.[2791]
Enter Soldier.
Sold. My noble general, Timon is dead; 65
Entomb'd upon the very hem o' the sea;
And on his grave-stone this insculpture, which[2792]
With wax I brought away, whose soft impression
Interprets for my poor ignorance.[2793]
Alcib. [Reads] 'Here lies a wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft:[2794]70
Seek not my name: a plague consume you wicked caitiffs left![2795]
Here lie I, Timon; who, alive, all living men did hate:[2796]
Pass by and curse thy fill; but pass and stay not here thy gait.'[2797]
These well express in thee thy latter spirits:
Though thou abhorr'dst in us our human griefs,[2798] 75
Scorn'dst our brain's flow and those our droplets which[2799]
From niggard nature fall, yet rich conceit
Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for aye
On thy low grave, on faults forgiven. Dead[2800]
Is noble Timon: of whose memory 80
Hereafter more. Bring me into your city,
And I will use the olive with my sword,[2801]
Make war breed peace, make peace stint war, make each
Prescribe to other as each other's leech.
Let our drums strike. [Exeunt.85
FOOTNOTES:
[2644] Act v. Scene i.] Capell. Act v. Scene ii. Pope. See note (XIV).
The woods ... cave.] Capell, substantially.
[2645] Enter ...] Dyce. Enter Poet and Painter. Ff. Enter ... Timon behind unseen. Capell.
[2646] As ... abides.] Prose in F1. Two lines, the first ending farre, in F2 F3 F4.