_Flav._ O you gods![2599] 455 Is yond despised and ruinous man my lord? Full of decay and failing? O monument[2600] And wonder of good deeds evilly bestow'd![2600] What an alteration of honour[2601][2602] Has desperate want made![2601] 460 What viler thing upon the earth than friends[2603] Who can bring noblest minds to basest ends! How rarely does it meet with this time's guise, When man was wish'd to love his enemies![2604] Grant I may ever love, and rather woo[2605] 465 Those that would mischief me than those that do![2605][2606] Has caught me in his eye: I will present[2607][2608] My honest grief unto him, and, as my lord,[2608][2609] Still serve him with my life. My dearest master![2608] _Tim._ Away! what art thou?[2610] _Flav._ Have you forgot me, sir?[2611] 470 _Tim._ Why dost ask that? I have forgot all men;[2612] Then, if thou grant'st thou'rt a man, I have forgot thee.[2613] _Flav._ An honest poor servant of yours.[2614] _Tim._ Then I know thee not:[2615] I never had honest man about me, I; all[2616] 475 I kept were knaves, to serve in meat to villains.[2617] _Flav._ The gods are witness, Ne'er did poor steward wear a truer grief For his undone lord than mine eyes for you. _Tim._ What, dost thou weep? come nearer; then I love thee,[2618][2619] 480 Because thou art a woman, and disclaim'st Flinty mankind, whose eyes do never give But thorough lust and laughter. Pity's sleeping:[2620][2621] Strange times, that weep with laughing, not with weeping![2621] _Flav._ I beg of you to know me, good my lord, 485 To accept my grief, and whilst this poor wealth lasts To entertain me as your steward still.