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Timon of Athens - Act 5, scene 3

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Act 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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2459  Before proud Athens he’s set down by this,
2460 10 Whose fall the mark of his ambition is.
He exits.