Page Prithee, Apemantus, read me the superscription of
these letters: I know not which is which.
APEMANTUS Canst not read?
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APEMANTUS There will little learning die then, that day thou
art hanged. This is to Lord Timon; this to
Alcibiades. Go; thou wast born a bastard, and thou't
die a bawd.
Page Thou wast whelped a dog, and thou shalt famish a
dog's death. Answer not; I am gone.
[Exit]
APEMANTUS E'en so thou outrunnest grace. Fool, I will go with
you to Lord Timon's.
Fool Will you leave me there?
APEMANTUS If Timon stay at home. You three serve three usurers?
All Servants Ay; would they served us!
APEMANTUS So would I,--as good a trick as ever hangman served thief.
Fool Are you three usurers' men?
All Servants Ay, fool.
Fool I think no usurer but has a fool to his servant: my
mistress is one, and I am her fool. When men come
to borrow of your masters, they approach sadly, and
go away merry; but they enter my mistress' house
merrily, and go away sadly: the reason of this?
Varro's Servant I could render one.
APEMANTUS Do it then, that we may account thee a whoremaster
and a knave; which not-withstanding, thou shalt be
no less esteemed.
Varro's Servant What is a whoremaster, fool?
Fool A fool in good clothes, and something like thee.
'Tis a spirit: sometime't appears like a lord;
sometime like a lawyer; sometime like a philosopher,
with two stones moe than's artificial one: he is
very often like a knight; and, generally, in all
shapes that man goes up and down in from fourscore
to thirteen, this spirit walks in.
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