Speeches (Lines) for Fool in "The Tragedy of Timon of Athens"

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# Act / Scene Speech text
1 II / 2
  • How do you, gentlemen?
  • How do you, gentlemen?
  • Apemantus. That you ask me what you are, and do not know
    yourselves. Speak to 'em, fool.

    Fool. How do you, gentlemen?

2 II / 2
  • She's e'en setting on water to scald such chickens
    as you are. Would we coul...
  • She's e'en setting on water to scald such chickens
    as you are. Would we could see you at Corinth!
  • 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!

3 II / 2
  • Look you, here comes my mistress' page.
  • Look you, here comes my mistress' page.
  • Apemantus. Good! gramercy.

    Fool. Look you, here comes my mistress' page.

4 II / 2
  • Will you leave me there?
  • Will you leave me there?
  • Apemantus. E'en so thou outrunnest grace. Fool, I will go with
    you to Lord Timon's.

    Fool. Will you leave me there?

5 II / 2
  • Are you three usurers' men?
  • Are you three usurers' men?
  • Apemantus. So would I,--as good a trick as ever hangman served thief.

    Fool. Are you three usurers' men?

6 II / 2
  • I think no usurer but has a fool to his servant: my
    mistress is one, and I a...
  • I think no usurer but has a fool to his servant: my
    mistress is one, and I am her fool. When men come
    to borrow of your masters, they approach sadly, and
    go away merry; but they enter my mistress' house
    merrily, and go away sadly: the reason of this?
  • All Servants. Ay, fool.

    Fool. I think no usurer but has a fool to his servant: my
    mistress is one, and I am her fool. When men come
    to borrow of your masters, they approach sadly, and
    go away merry; but they enter my mistress' house
    merrily, and go away sadly: the reason of this?

7 II / 2
  • A fool in good clothes, and something like thee.
    'Tis a spirit: sometime't a...
  • A fool in good clothes, and something like thee.
    'Tis a spirit: sometime't appears like a lord;
    sometime like a lawyer; sometime like a philosopher,
    with two stones moe than's artificial one: he is
    very often like a knight; and, generally, in all
    shapes that man goes up and down in from fourscore
    to thirteen, this spirit walks in.
  • Apemantus. Do it then, that we may account thee a whoremaster
    and a knave; which not-withstanding, thou shalt be
    no less esteemed.

    Fool. A fool in good clothes, and something like thee.
    'Tis a spirit: sometime't appears like a lord;
    sometime like a lawyer; sometime like a philosopher,
    with two stones moe than's artificial one: he is
    very often like a knight; and, generally, in all
    shapes that man goes up and down in from fourscore
    to thirteen, this spirit walks in.

8 II / 2
  • Nor thou altogether a wise man: as much foolery as
    I have, so much wit thou...
  • Nor thou altogether a wise man: as much foolery as
    I have, so much wit thou lackest.
  • Fool. A fool in good clothes, and something like thee.
    'Tis a spirit: sometime't appears like a lord;
    sometime like a lawyer; sometime like a philosopher,
    with two stones moe than's artificial one: he is
    very often like a knight; and, generally, in all
    shapes that man goes up and down in from fourscore
    to thirteen, this spirit walks in.

    Fool. Nor thou altogether a wise man: as much foolery as
    I have, so much wit thou lackest.

9 II / 2
  • I do not always follow lover, elder brother and
    woman; sometime the philosop...
  • I do not always follow lover, elder brother and
    woman; sometime the philosopher.
  • Apemantus. Come with me, fool, come.

    Fool. I do not always follow lover, elder brother and
    woman; sometime the philosopher.

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