Cap.
Good evening, Varro; what, you come for money?

Var.
Is't not your business too?

Cap.
It is; and your's too? Isidore?

Isid.
It is so.

Cap.
'Would we were all discharg'd!

Var.
I fear it.

Cap.
Here comes the lord. Enter Timon, and his train.

Tim.
So soon as dinner's done, we'll forth again.
My Alcibiades,—Well, what's your Will? [They present their bills.

Cap.
My lord, here is a note of certain dues.

Tim.
Dues? whence are you?

Cap.
Of Athens here, my lord.

Tim.
Go to my Steward.

Cap.
Please it your lordshep, he hath put me off
To the succession of new days, this month:
My master is awak'd by great occasion,
To call upon his own; and humbly prays you,
That with your other noble parts you'll suit,
In giving him his Right.

Tim.
Mine honest friend,
I pr'ythee, but repair to me next morning.

Cap.
Nay, good my lord—

Tim.
Contain thyself, good friend.

Var.
One Varro's servant, my good lord—

Isid.
From Isidore, he prays your speedy payment—

Cap.
If you did know, my lord, my master's wants—

Var.

'Twas due on forfeiture, my lord, six weeks, and past.—

Isid.
Your Steward puts me off, my lord, and I
Am sent expressly to your lordship.

Tim.
Give me breath:—
I do beseech you, good my lords, keep on, [Exeunt lords.
I'll wait upon you instantly.—Come hither:
Hows goes the world, that I am thus encountred
With clam'rous claims of debt, of broken bonds,
And the detention of long-since-due debts,
Against my honour?

Flav.
Please you, gentlemen,
The time is unagreeable to this business:
Your importunity cease, 'till after dinner;
That I may make his lordship understand
Wherefore you are not paid.

Tim.
Do so, my friends; see them well entertain'd. [Exit Timon.

Flav.
Pray, draw near. [Exit Flavius.

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