Second Senator

Alcibiades
Honor, health, and compassion to the Senate!
First Senator
Now, captain?

He’s truly valiant that can wisely suffer
The worst that man can breathe

Alcibiades
I am an humble suitor to your virtues,
For pity is the virtue of the law,
And none but tyrants use it cruelly.
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First Senator
We are for law. He dies. Urge it no more,
On height of our displeasure. Friend or brother,
He forfeits his own blood that spills another.
Alcibiades
Must it be so? It must not be.
My lords, I do beseech you, know me.

Is this the balsam that the usuring Senate
Pours into captains’ wounds?
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First Senator
The Senators of Athens greet thee, Timon.
Timon
I thank them and would send them back the plague,
Could I but catch it for them.
First Senator
O, forget
What we are sorry for ourselves in thee.
The Senators with one consent of love
Entreat thee back to Athens,
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