[Exeunt Senators]
ALCIBIADES Now the gods keep you old enough; that you may live
Only in bone, that none may look on you!
I'm worse than mad: I have kept back their foes,
While they have told their money and let out
Their coin upon large interest, I myself
Rich only in large hurts. All those for this?
Is this the balsam that the usuring senate
Pours into captains' wounds? Banishment!
It comes not ill; I hate not to be banish'd;
It is a cause worthy my spleen and fury,
That I may strike at Athens. I'll cheer up
My discontented troops, and lay for hearts.
'Tis honour with most lands to be at odds;
Soldiers should brook as little wrongs as gods.
[Exit]
TIMON OF ATHENS
ACT III
SCENE VI The same. A banqueting-room in Timon's house.
[Music. Tables set out: Servants attending.
Enter divers Lords, Senators and others, at
several doors]
First Lord The good time of day to you, sir.
Second Lord I also wish it to you. I think this honourable lord
did but try us this other day.
First Lord Upon that were my thoughts tiring, when we
encountered: I hope it is not so low with him as
he made it seem in the trial of his several friends.
Second Lord It should not be, by the persuasion of his new feasting.
First Lord I should think so: he hath sent me an earnest
inviting, which many my near occasions did urge me
to put off; but he hath conjured me beyond them, and
I must needs appear.
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