Items related to Shakespeare's tragedy of Timon of Athens
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...thee. Apemantus. An thou hadst hated meddlers sooner, thou shouldst have loved thyself better now. What man didst thou ever know unthrift that was beloved after his means? Timon. Who, without those means thou talkest of, didst thou ever know beloved? Apemantus. Myself. Timon. I understand thee; thou hadst some means to keep a dog. Apemantus. What things in the world canst thou nearest compare to thy flatterers? 3„ Timon. Women nearest; but men. men are the things themselves. What wouldst thou do with the world, Apemantus, if it lay in thy power? Apemantus. Give it the beasts, to be rid of the men. Timon. Wouldst thou have thyself fall in the confusion of men, and remain a beast with the beasts? Apemantus. Ay, Timon. limon. A beastly ambition, which the gods grant thee t' attain to! If thou wert the lion, the fox would beguile thee; if thou wert the lamb, the fox would eat thee; if thou wert the fox, the lion would suspect thee, when peradventure thou wert accused by the ass; if thou wert the ass, thy dulness would torment thee, and still thou livedst but as a breakfast to the wolf; if thou wert the wolf, thy greediness would afflict thee, and oft thou shouldst hazard thy life for thy dinner; wert thou the unicorn, pride and wrath would confound thee and make thine own self the conquest of thy fury; wert thou a bear, thou wouldst be killed by the horse; wert thou a horse, thou wouldst be seized by the leopard; wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion, and the spots of thy kindred were jurors on thy life: all thy safety were remotion and thy defence absence. What beast couldst thou be, that were not subject to a beast? and what a beast art thou already, that seest not thy loss in transformation! 33, Apemantus. If thou couldst please...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217046967
- ISBN 13 9780217046961
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages58
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