Second Lord If you had sent but two hours before,--
TIMON Let it not cumber your better remembrance.
[The banquet brought in]
Come, bring in all together.
Second Lord All covered dishes!
First Lord Royal cheer, I warrant you.
Third Lord Doubt not that, if money and the season can yield
it.
First Lord How do you? What's the news?
Third Lord Alcibiades is banished: hear you of it?
First Lord |
| Alcibiades banished!
Second Lord |
Third Lord 'Tis so, be sure of it.
First Lord How! how!
Second Lord I pray you, upon what?
TIMON My worthy friends, will you draw near?
Third Lord I'll tell you more anon. Here's a noble feast toward.
Second Lord This is the old man still.
Third Lord Will 't hold? will 't hold?
Second Lord It does: but time will--and so--
Third Lord I do conceive.
TIMON Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to
the lip of his mistress: your diet shall be in all
places alike. Make not a city feast of it, to let
the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place:
sit, sit. The gods require our thanks.
You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with
thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves
praised: but reserve still to give, lest your
deities be despised. Lend to each man enough, that
one need not lend to another; for, were your
godheads to borrow of men, men would forsake the
gods.
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