Into our city with thy banners spread : Which nature loaths,) take thou the destin'd tenth ; Let die the spotted. 1 Sen. All have not offended; For those that were, it is not square,4 to take, 2 Sen. What thou wilt, Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile, 1 Sen. Set but thy foot Against our rampir'd gates, and they shall ope; 2 Sen. Throw thy glove, Or any token of thine honour else, That thou wilt use the wars as thy redress, Shall make their harbour in our town, till we Alcib. Then there's my glove; Descend, and open your uncharged ports ;5 Both. 'Tis most nobly spoken. Alcib. Descend, and keep your words. [The Senators descend, and open the gates. [4] Not regular, not equitable. JOHNS. [5] Uncharged means unattacked. MASON. [6] Not a soldier shall quit his station, or be let loose upon you; and,i any commits violence, he shall answer it regularly to the law. JOHNS. Enter a Soldier. Sol. My noble general, Timon is dead; And, on his grave-stone, this insculpture; which Alcib. [Reads.] Here lies a wretched corse, of Seek not my name: A plague consume you wicked cailiffs left! Here lie I Timon; who, alive, all living men did hate : Pass by, and curse thy fill; but pass, and stay not here thy gait.7 These well express in thee thy latter spirits: Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for aye Is noble Timon; of whose memory Dead Hereafter more.-Bring me into your city, And I will use the olive with my sword: Make war breed peace; make peace stint war; make each Prescribe to other, as each other's leech. 8 Let our drums strike. [Exeunt. [7] This epitaph is in sir Thomas North's translation of Plutarch, with the difference of one word only, wretches instead of caitiffs. STEEV. |