Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Apem. compare to thy Flatterers?
Tim. Tim.
Tim. Women neerest, but men: men are the things
Tim. themselues. What would'st thou do with the world A‑
Tim. pemantus, if it lay in thy power?
Ape. Ape.
Ape. Giue it the Beasts, to be rid of the men.
Tim. Would'st thou haue thy selfe fall in the confu
Tim. sion of men, and remaine a Beast with the Beasts.
Ape. I Timon.
Tim. A beastly Ambition, which the Goddes graunt
Tim. thee t'attaine to. If thou wert the Lyon, the Fox would
Tim. beguile thee: if thou wert the Lambe, the Foxe would
Tim. eate thee: if thou wert the Fox, the Lion would suspect
Tim. thee, when peraduenture thou wert accus'd by the Asse:
Tim. If thou wert the Asse, thy dulnesse would torment thee;
Tim. and still thou liu'dst but as a Breakefast to the Wolfe. If