_Poet._ Ay, that's well known: But what particular rarity? what strange,[1602] Which manifold record not matches? See,[1603][1604] 5 Magic of bounty! all these spirits thy power[1604] Hath conjured to attend. I know the merchant.[1605] _Pain._ I know them both; th' other's a jeweller. _Mer._ O, 'tis a worthy lord! _Jew._ Nay, that's most fix'd. _Mer._ A most incomparable man, breathed, as it were,[1606] 10 To an untirable and continuate goodness:[1607] He passes.[1607][1608] _Jew._ I have a jewel here--[1609] _Mer._ O, pray, let's see't: for the Lord Timon, sir?[1610] _Jew._ If he will touch the estimate: but, for that-- 15 _Poet._ [_Reciting to himself_] 'When we for recompense have praised the vile,[1611] It stains the glory in that happy verse Which aptly sings the good.' _Mer._ [_Looking on the jewel_] 'Tis a good form.[1612] _Jew._ And rich: here is a water, look ye.[1613] 20 _Pain._ You are rapt, sir, in some work, some dedication[1614][1615] To the great lord.[1614][1616] _Poet._ A thing slipp'd idly from me. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes[1617] From whence 'tis nourish'd: the fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame[1618] 25 Provokes itself, and, like the current, flies[1619] Each bound it chafes. What have you there?[1619][1620][1621] _Pain._ A picture, sir. When comes your book forth?[1621][1622] _Poet._ Upon the heels of my presentment, sir.[1621] Let's see your piece.[1621] 30 _Pain._ 'Tis a good piece.[1621][1623] _Poet._ So 'tis: this comes off well and excellent.[1624] _Pain._ Indifferent. _Poet._ Admirable: how this grace[1625] Speaks his own standing! what a mental power[1625] This eye shoots forth! how big imagination 35 Moves in this lip! to the dumbness of the gesture One might interpret. _Pain._ It is a pretty mocking of the life. Here is a touch; is't good? _Poet._ I will say of it,[1626] It tutors nature: artificial strife 40 Lives in these touches, livelier than life.[1627] _Enter certain_ Senators, _and pass over_. _Pain._ How this lord is follow'd![1628] _Poet._ The senators of Athens: happy man![1629] _Pain._ Look, moe![1630]