_Tim._ Five thousand drops pays that. What yours?--and[2192][2199][2200] yours?[2192][2199] _First Var. Serv._ My lord,--[2192][2201][2202] _Sec. Var. Serv._ My lord,--[2192][2202][2203] _Tim._ Tear me, take me, and the gods fall upon you![2204] [_Exit._ 100 _Hor._ Faith, I perceive our masters may throw their caps at their money: these debts may well be called desperate ones, for a madman owes 'em. [_Exeunt._ _Re-enter_ TIMON _and_ FLAVIUS.[2205] _Tim._ They have e'en put my breath from me, the slaves. Creditors? devils! 105 _Flav._ My dear lord,--[2206] _Tim._ What if it should be so? _Flav._ My lord,--[2206][2207] _Tim._ I'll have it so. My steward! _Flav._ Here, my lord. 110 _Tim._ So fitly? Go, bid all my friends again, Lucius, Lucullus, and Sempronius: all:[2208] I'll once more feast the rascals. _Flav._ O my lord,[2209] You only speak from your distracted soul;[2209] There is not so much left, to furnish out[2209][2210] 115 A moderate table.[2209][2211] _Tim._ Be it not in thy care; Go,[2212] I charge thee, invite them all: let in the tide[2213] Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide. [_Exeunt._ SCENE V. _The Senate-house._[2214] _The Senate sitting._[2215] _First Sen._ My lord, you have my voice to it; the fault's[2216][2217] Bloody; 'tis necessary he should die:[2216] Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. _Sec. Sen._ Most true; the law shall bruise him.[2218] _Enter_ ALCIBIADES, _attended_. _Alcib._ Honour, health, and compassion to the senate![2219] 5 _First Sen._ Now, captain?[2220] _Alcib._ I am an humble suitor to your virtues; For pity is the virtue of the law, And none but tyrants use it cruelly. It pleases time and fortune to lie heavy 10 Upon a friend of mine, who in hot blood Hath stepp'd into the law, which is past depth To those that without heed do plunge into 't. He is a man, setting his fate aside,[2221][2222] Of comely virtues:[2222][2223] 15 Nor did he soil the fact with cowardice--[2222][2223] An honour in him which buys out his fault--[2222][2223] But with a noble fury and fair spirit,[2222][2223][2224] Seeing his reputation touch'd to death,[2223][2225] He did oppose his foe:[2223] 20 And with such sober and unnoted passion[2226] He did behave his anger, ere 'twas spent,[2227] As if he had but proved an argument.[2228]