PERSONS REPRESENTED.

TIMON, a noble Athenian.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act II. sc. 2. Act III. sc. 4; sc. 6. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2.

Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 3.

LUCIUS, a Lord, and a flatterer of Timon.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2.
LUCULLUS, a Lord, and a

Appears, Act I. sc. 2.

JEMPRONIUS, a Lord, and a

Appears, Act I. sc. 2.

Act III. sc. 2. flatterer of Timon. Act III. sc. 1. flatterer of Timon. Act III. sc. 3.

VENTIDIUS, one of Timon's false friends.
Appears, Act I. sc. 2.

APEMANTUS, a churlish philosopher.
Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act II. sc. 2.

Athenian general.

Act IV. sc. 3.

ALCIBIADES, an Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act IV. sc. 3.

Act II. sc. 2. Act III. sc. 5.
Act V. sc. 5.

FLAVIUS, steward to Timon.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2. Act II. sc. 2.

Act III. sc. 4.

Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 3. Act V. sc. 2.

FLAMINIUS, servant to Timon.

Appears, Act II. sc. 2. Act III. sc. 1; sc. 4.
LUCILIUS, servant to Timon.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1.

SERVILIUS, servant to Timon.

Appears, Act II. sc. 2. Act III. sc. 2; so. 4.

CAPHIS, servant to Timon's creditors

Two Servants of Varro, a creditor of Timon.
Appear, Act II. sc. 2. Act III. sc. 4.

A Servant of Isidore, a creditor of Timon.
Appears, Act II. sc. 2.

Cupid and Maskers.
Appear, Act I. sc. 2.

Three Strangers.

Appear, Act III. sc. 2.

Poet.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1. Act V. sc. 1.

Painter.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1. Act V. sc. 1.

Jeweller.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1.

Merchant.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1.

An old Athenian.
Appears, Act I. sc. 1.
A Page.

Appears, Act II. sc. 2.

A Fool.

Appears, Act II. sc. 2.

PHRYNIA, a mistress to Alcibiades.

Appears, Act IV. sc. 3.

TIMANDRA, a mistress to Alcibiades.

Appears, Act IV. sc. 3.

Other Lords, Senators, Officers, Soldiers, Banditti, and Attendants.
SCENE, ATHENS, AND THE WOODS ADJOINING.

'The Life of Tymon of Athens' was first published in the folio collection of 1623. The text, in this first edition, has no division into acts and

TIMON OF
OF ATHENS.

ACT I.

SCENE I.-Athens. A Hall in Timon's House.

Enter Poet, Painter, Jeweller, Merchant, and others, at several

POET. Good day, sir.

PAIN.

doors.

I am glad you are well.

POET. I have not seen you long: How goes the world?
PAIN. It wears, sir, as it grows.

POET.
Ay, that 's well known:
But what particular rarity? what strange,
Which manifold record not matches? See,
Magic of bounty! all these spirits thy power
Hath conjur'd to attend. I know the merchant.
PAIN. I know them both; th' other 's a jeweller.
MER. O, 't is a worthy lord!

JEW.

Nay, that's most fix'd. MER. A most incomparable man; breath'd, as it were, To an untirable and continuate goodness:

He passes.

JEW. I have a jewel here.

MER. O, pray, let's see 't: For the lord Timon, sir?

POET.

A thing slipp'd idly from me.

Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes

From whence 't is nourished: The fire i' the flint
Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame
Provokes itself, and, like the current, flies
Each bound it chafes. What have you there?

PAIN. A picture, sir.—When comes your book forth}
POET. Upon the heels of my presentment, sir.
Let's see your piece.

POET. So 't is; this comes off well and excellent.
PAIN. Indifferent.

POET.

Admirable: How this grace

Speaks his own standing! what a mental power
This eye shoots forth! how big imagination
Moves in this lip! to the dumbness of the gesture
One might interpret.

PAIN. It is a pretty mocking of the life.
Here is a touch: Is 't good?

POET.

I will say of it,

It tutors nature: artificial strife

Lives in these touches, livelier than life.

Enter certain Senators, and pass over.

PAIN. How this lord 's follow'd!

POET. The senators of Athens:-Happy men!

PAIN. Look, more!

POET. You see this confluence, this great flood of visitors.

I have, in this rough work, shap'd out a man

Whom this beneath world doth embrace and hug

With amplest entertainment: My free drift

Halts not particularly, but moves itself
In a wide sea of wax: no levell'd malice
Infects one comma in the course I hold;
But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on,
Leaving no tract behind.

I'll unbolt to you.

PAIN. How shall I understand you?
POET.
You see how all conditions, how all minds,
(As well of glib and slippery creatures, as