_Apem._ So would I,--as good a trick as ever hangman[1994][1997] 95 served thief.[1994] _Fool._ Are you three usurers' men? _All Serv._ Ay, fool.[1984] _Fool._ I think no usurer but has a fool to his servant: my mistress is one, and I am her fool. When men come to 100 borrow of your masters, they approach sadly and go away merry; but they enter my mistress' house merrily and[1987][1998] go away sadly: the reason of this? _Var. Serv._ I could render one. _Apem._ Do it then, that we may account thee a whoremaster[1999] 105 and a knave; which notwithstanding, thou shalt be no less esteemed. _Var. Serv._ What is a whoremaster, fool? _Fool._ A fool in good clothes, and something like thee. 'Tis a spirit: sometime 't appears like a lord; sometime like[2000] 110 a lawyer; sometime like a philosopher, with two stones[2001] moe than 's artificial one: he is very often like a knight;[2002] and, generally, in all shapes that man goes up and down in from fourscore to thirteen, this spirit walks in. _Var. Serv._ Thou art not altogether a fool. 115 _Fool._ Nor thou altogether a wise man: as much foolery as I have, so much wit thou lack'st. _Apem._ That answer might have become Apemantus. _All Serv._ Aside, aside; here comes Lord Timon.[2003] _Re-enter_ TIMON _and_ FLAVIUS. _Apem._ Come with me, fool, come. 120 _Fool._ I do not always follow lover, elder brother, and[2004] woman; sometime the philosopher.[2004][2005] [_Exeunt Apemantus and Fool._ _Flav._ Pray you, walk near: I'll speak with you anon[2006] [_Exeunt Servants._[2007] _Tim._ You make me marvel; wherefore, ere this time,[2008] Had you not fully laid my state before me, 125 That I might so have rated my expense As I had leave of means? _Flav._ You would not hear me,[2009] At many leisures I proposed.[2010] _Tim._ Go to: Perchance some single vantages you took, When my indisposition put you back; 130 And that unaptness made your minister,[2011] Thus to excuse yourself.