Come away.
ISIDORE'S SERVANT. [To VARRO'S SERVANT.]
There's the fool hangs on your back already.
APEMANTUS
No, thou stand'st single; thou'rt not on him yet.
CAPHIS
Where's the fool now?
APEMANTUS. He last asked the question. Poor rogues and usurers' men! bawds between gold and want!
ALL SERVANTS
What are we, Apemantus?
APEMANTUS
Asses.
ALL SERVANTS
Why?
APEMANTUS. That you ask me what you are, and do not know yourselves. Speak to 'em, fool.
FOOL
How do you, gentlemen?
ALL SERVANTS
Gramercies, good fool. How does your mistress?
FOOL. She's e'en setting on water to scald such chickens as you are. Would we could see you at Corinth!
APEMANTUS
Good! gramercy.
[Enter PAGE.]
FOOL
Look you, here comes my mistress' page.
PAGE. [To the FOOL.] Why, how now, Captain! what do you in this wise company? How dost thou, Apemantus?
APEMANTUS. Would I had a rod in my mouth, that I might answer thee profitably.
PAGE. Prithee, Apemantus, read me the superscription of these letters: I know not which is which.
APEMANTUS
Canst not read?
PAGE
No.
APEMANTUS. There will little learning die, then, that day thou art hanged. This is to Lord Timon; this to Alcibiades. Go; thou wast born a bastard, and thou'lt die a bawd.
PAGE
Thou wast whelped a dog, and thou shalt famish a dog's death.
Answer not; I am gone.
[Exit PAGE.]
APEMANTUS
E'en so thou outrunn'st grace. —
Fool, I will go with you to Lord Timon's.
FOOL
Will you leave me there?
APEMANTUS
If Timon stay at home. You three serve three usurers?
ALL SERVANTS
Ay; would they served us!
APEMANTUS
So would I, as good a trick as ever hangman served thief.
FOOL
Are you three usurers' men?
ALL SERVANTS
Ay, fool.