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Timon of Athens - Act 5, scene 3
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Timon of Athens - Act 5, scene 3Act 5, scene 3
⌜Scene 3⌝
Synopsis:
One of Alcibiades’ soldiers discovers Timon’s tomb and, since he cannot read Timon’s epitaph, he resolves to bring a wax impression of it to Alcibiades.
Enter a Soldier in the woods, seeking Timon.SOLDIER
2451 By all description this should be the place.
2452 Who’s here? Speak, ho! No answer? What is this?
⌜He reads an epitaph.⌝
2453 Timon is dead, who hath out-stretched his span.
2454 Some beast read this; there does not live a man.
2455 5 Dead, sure, and this his grave. What’s on this tomb
2456 I cannot read. The character I’ll take with wax.
2457 Our captain hath in every figure skill,
2458 An aged interpreter, though young in days.
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Before proud Athens he’s set down by this,2460 10 Whose fall the mark of his ambition is.
He exits.