| 1 & 2 Good day Sir. / I am glad y'are well. I haue not seene you long, how goes the World? | Laugh! Howl! Oldy Gregorio de' Monti has loosely wouen dyed water again. See, |
| 3 & 4 It weares sir, as it growes, I that's well knowne: But what particular Rarity? What strange, | his witts rust away – loss irreparable. 'E waits to walk, run, charge in the water! Grant witt |
| 5 & 6 Which manifold record not matches: see Magicke of Bounty, all these spirits thy power | to set surch t' shadow, catch 'n' kill his married wife before he goes to play Tymon! Men, pic– |
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married wife. Micaela. She came back and things got better. |
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| 7 & 8 Hath coniur'd to attend. I know the Merchant. I know them both; th' other's a Ieweller. | ture 'im, check'd, alone, then bemoan that horrid state! Now think he'l write th' hoot? W– |
| 9 & 10 O 'tis a worthy Lord. Nay that's most fixt. A most incomparable man, breath'd as it were, | hat pla-man in extremis writes o' holiday? M-Manco! Brother's sad t-t-t-t-to B so far away! |
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Manco. Cervantes' nickname. He died in Madrid, in a diabetic coma, 13/ 23 April, 1616. Marlowe, his dear friend Sancho Panza, was far away in Italy. t-t-t-t-to. Cervantes and Kit Marlowe both stammered. |
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| 11 & 12 To an vntyreable and continuate goodnesse: He passes. I haue a Iewell heere. O pray let's see't. | Euen as hope was stale, as ye resolve to die alone in Spain, Sancho'l be there yet t' greet 'n' ade U. |
| 13 & 14 For the Lord Timon, sir? If he will touch the estimate. But for that– | Wait for me t' test! I'l arriue. U'l B seein' th-th-th-th' ol' Fido-foot. Chr. M. |
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test.The old way to test diabetes was to taste the urine for sweetness. |
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The Life of Tymon of Athens. First Folio of Shakespeare. Tragedies. p. 80. 0nly lines of dialogue are counted.
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