_Pain._ 'Tis common: A thousand moral paintings I can show,[1653] That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's[1654] More pregnantly than words. Yet you do well 95 To show Lord Timon that mean eyes have seen[1655] The foot above the head. _Trumpets sound. Enter_ LORD TIMON, _addressing himself courteously_ _to every suitor; a_ Messenger _from_ VENTIDIUS _talking with_ _him_; LUCILIUS _and other servants following_.[1656] _Tim._ Imprison'd is he, say you? _Mess._ Ay, my good lord: five talents is his debt;[1657] His means most short, his creditors most strait: Your honourable letter he desires 100 To those have shut him up; which failing,[1658] Periods his comfort. _Tim._ Noble Ventidius! Well,[1659] I am not of that feather to shake off My friend when he must need me. I do know him[1660] A gentleman that well deserves a help: 105 Which he shall have: I'll pay the debt and free him. _Mess._ Your lordship ever binds him.[1657][1661] _Tim._ Commend me to him: I will send his ransom; And, being enfranchised, bid him come to me: 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, 110 But to support him after. Fare you well. _Mess._ All happiness to your honour![1657][1662] [_Exit._ _Enter an old_ Athenian. _Old Ath._ Lord Timon, hear me speak. _Tim._ Freely, good father. _Old Ath._ Thou hast a servant named Lucilius. _Tim._ I have so: what of him? 115 _Old Ath._ Most noble Timon, call the man before thee.[1663] _Tim._ Attends he here, or no? Lucilius![1664] _Luc._ Here, at your lordship's service.[1665] _Old Ath._ This fellow here, Lord Timon, this thy creature,[1666] By night frequents my house. I am a man 120 That from my first have been inclined to thrift, And my estate deserves an heir more raised Than one which holds a trencher. _Tim._ Well, what further? _Old Ath._ One only daughter have I, no kin else, On whom I may confer what I have got: 125 The maid is fair, o' the youngest for a bride,[1667] And I have bred her at my dearest cost In qualities of the best. This man of thine Attempts her love: I prithee, noble lord,[1668] Join with me to forbid him her resort; 130 Myself have spoke in vain. _Tim._ The man is honest.[1669] _Old Ath._ Therefore he will be, Timon:[1669][1670] His honesty rewards him in itself;[1669] It must not bear my daughter. _Tim._ Does she love him?