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Ventidius

Most honored Timon, It hath pleased the gods

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Ventidius
Most honored Timon,
It hath pleased the gods to remember my father’s age
And call him to long peace.
He is gone happy and has left me rich.

I gave it freely ever, and there’s none
Can truly say he gives if he receives.

Then, as in grateful virtue I am bound
To your free heart,
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O, Silius, Silius, I have done enough

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Ventidius
O, Silius, Silius,
I have done enough. A lower place, note well,
May make too great an act. For learn this, Silius:
Better to leave undone than by our deed
Acquire too high a fame when him we serve ‘s away.
Caesar and Antony have ever won
More in their officer than person. Sossius,
One of my place in Syria,
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Act 3
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