_Tim._ You gods, reward them! Prithee, man, look cheerly. These old fellows[2045] Have their ingratitude in them hereditary:[2046] Their blood is caked, 'tis cold, it seldom flows; 215 'Tis lack of kindly warmth they are not kind; And nature, as it grows again toward earth, Is fashion'd for the journey, dull and heavy. [_To a Serv._] Go to Ventidius. [_To Flav._] Prithee, be not sad;[2047] Thou art true and honest; ingeniously I speak,[2048] 220 No blame belongs to thee. [_To Serv._] Ventidius lately[2049] Buried his father, by whose death he's stepp'd Into a great estate: when he was poor, Imprison'd, and in scarcity of friends, I clear'd him with five talents: greet him from me; 225 Bid him suppose some good necessity Touches his friend, which craves to be remember'd With those five talents. [_Exit Serv._] [_To Flav._] That had, give't these fellows[2050] To whom 'tis instant due. Ne'er speak or think[2051] That Timon's fortunes 'mong his friends can sink.[2052] 230 _Flav._ I would I could not think it: that thought is bounty's foe;[2053] Being free itself, it thinks all others so. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [1933] ACT II. SCENE I.] Rowe. om. Ff. A Senator's house.] Capell, substantially. A publick Place in the City. Rowe. [1934] with ... hand.] Capell. om. Ff. [1935] _thousand: to_] Ff. _thousand to_ Steevens. [1936] _twenty_] Ff. _ten_ Pope. _twain_ Farmer conj. _two_ Singer conj. _moe_] F1. _more_ F2 F3 F4. [1937] _me_] _'em_ Malone conj. [1938] _And able horses_] F1 F2. _An able horse_ F3 F4. _Ten able horse_ Theobald. _Ten able horses_ Hanmer. _Ay, able horses_ Jackson conj. _A stable o' horses_ Collier (Collier MS.). _Two able horses_ Singer conj. _porter_] _grim porter_ Staunton conj. _gate_] After this Johnson conjectures that a line is lost. [1939] _rather one that_] _one that rathen_ Becket conj. [1940] _by_] _by it_ Theobald. [1941] _found ... in_] Hanmer. _sound ... in_ Ff. _found ... on_ Capell. _find ... in_ Capell conj. [1942] _my_] om. Pope. [1943] _when--'Commend_] _when Commend_ F1. _then Commend_ F2 F3 F4. _with--Commend_ Rowe. [1944] _Plays_] _Play'ng_ Hanmer. _hand, thus: but_] Ff. _hand,--thus but_ Pope. _him_] F1. _him sirrah_ F2 F3 F4. [1945] _reliances ... Have_] _reliance ... Has_ Pope. [1946] _on his_] _on's_ S. Walker conj. [1947] _Which_] _Who_ Pope. [1948] _'I go, sir!'_] _I go sir?_ F1. _I goe sir?_ F2 F3. _I go, sir?_ F4. _Ay, go, sir:_ Pope. Omitted by Dyce and Staunton. _I ... you_,] One line in Pope. Two in Ff. [1949] _in compt._] Theobald. _in. Come._ Ff. _in count._ Hanmer. [1950] SCENE II.] Rowe. om. Ff. A hall....] Timon's Hall. Rowe. [1951] Flavius,] Rowe. Steward, Ff (and elsewhere).