Reading The Life of Tymon of Athens — William Shakespeare

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Tim.

Well sir, I will: therefore I will sir thus:

If Alcibiades kill my Countrymen,

Let Alcibiades know this of Timon,

That Timon cares not. But if he sacke faire Athens,

And take our goodly aged men by'th'Beards,

Giuing our holy Virgins to the staine

Of contumelious, beastly, mad‑brain'd warre:

Then let him know, and tell him Timon speakes it,

In pitty of our aged, and our youth,

I cannot choose but tell him that I care not,

And let him tak't at worst: For their Kniues care not,

While you haue throats to answer. For my selfe,

There's not a whittle, in th'vnruly Campe,

But I do prize it at my loue, before

The reuerends Throat in Athens. So I leaue you

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