Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Ape. Wert thou not Beggar: willing misery
Ape. Out‑liues: incertaine pompe, is crown'd before:
Ape. The one is filling still, neuer compleat:
Ape. The other, at high wish: best state Contentlesse,
Ape. Hath a distracted and most wretched being,
Ape. Worse then the worst, Content.
Ape. Thou should'st desire to dye, being miserable.
Tim. Tim.
Tim. Not by his breath, that is more miserable.
Tim. Thou art a Slaue, whom Fortunes tender arme
Tim. With fauour neuer claspt: but bred a Dogge.
Tim. Had'st thou like vs from our first swath proceeded,
Tim. The sweet degrees that this breefe world affords,
Tim. To such as may the passiue drugges of it
Tim. Freely command'st: thou would'st haue plung'd thy self
Tim. In generall Riot, melted downe thy youth
Tim. In different beds of Lust, and neuer learn'd
Tim. The Icie precepts of respect, but followed
Tim. The Sugred game before thee. But my selfe,
Tim. Who had the world as my Confectionarie,