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3a. Scena.

Enter Hermogenes, Stilpo & Speusippus in gownes
Herm.
Most graue Philosophers your company
Doth much delight mee: truly I doe loue
Your witty disputations.

Stil.
A man may loue two manner of waies, effectiuely or causally

Herm:
I pray thee giue mee these 2 termes:

Stil.
Noe they are mine as well κατα χρησιν
as κατα χτησιν a talente shall not buy them.

Herm:

There is a quæstion that long hath troubled mee: Whether there be a man
in the moone?

Speu:

To wit a numerically Indiuiduall which may haue there really and
intrinsecally an entitatiue acte and essence besides a formall existence,
or whether that bee Platoes Idea abstracted from the humane species
which they affirme to bee vnder the concaue of the Moone.

Stil.

The Moone may bee taken 4 manner of waies either specificatiuely, or
Quidditatiuely, or Superficially or Catapodially.

Herm:

To morrow if Ioue please Ile buy these termes

Stil:

The man in the moone is not in the Moone Superficially, although he bee
in the Moone (as the Greekes will haue it) Catapodially, Specificatiuely
& Quidditatiuely.

Speus:

I proue the contrary to thee. thus.
Whatsoeuer is moued to the motion of the Moone is in the Moone Superficially
But the man in the Moone is moued to the motion of the Moone. ergo
The man in the Moone really exists in the Moone Superficially.

Stil:

I answere by distinguishing. The man in the Moone is moued to the
motion of the Moone, according to a formall conceipte æquiuocally &
virtually, not entitatiue vniuocally & naturally, it is true respectiuely
& vt quo, but not simply & vt quod.

Herm:

Stilpo, how wilt thou sell these articles of distinction?

Stil:

ffor 20
1:

Herm:

ffor such trifles? how deare are thy wares? wilt take. 16.

Stil:

Dost thinke Philosophy is soe litle worth? I cannot.

Herm:

Bee it soe: because these phrases please mee, & their terminations ende
all alike, thou shalt haue 20
l. repeate them againe.

Stil:

A thinge may bee moued entitatiuely or formally.

Herm:

Entitatiuely or formally? I pray thee resolue mee of that scruple
Am I moued entitatiuely or formally?

Speu:

Thou art moued formally prioristically in the thing considered, not
posterioristically in the manner of considering.

Tim:

Hermogenes remembrest thou thy vow?

Timon ariseth from the grounde.

Hermogenes?

Herm:
What wouldst thou haue.

Tim.
Houseroome

Suffer mee not to perish with the colde

Vnder the open ayre.

Herm:

Thou art troublesome
I hearde from Pseudocheus a most skillfull Chronographer that the
Moone was an Ilande pendante in the Ayre & that there inhabite
many Myriades of men.

Stil:

Tis true not circumscriptiuely as the last Spheare, not repletiuely [as]
[God], but definitiuely as an Angell, this hee spake tentatiuely not
dogmatically.

Tim:
What wilt thou not vouchesafe to looke on mee?

Herm:
Bee [*] gone, bee gone, thou art troublesome I say

Tim:
Thou thanklesse wretch dost thou reiect mee thus?
Thus proudly tramplest on my miseries?

Herm:
If thou are wretched, goe and hange thyselfe
An haltar soone will mitigate thy griefe

Stil:

A man may hange himselfe 2 manner of waies either aptitudinally
and catachrestically, or perpendicularly & inhæsiuely choose wch of these thou wilt.

Tim:
O Titan seest thou this, & is it seene?
Eternall darknes ceaze vppon the day
Yee starres goe backeward, & a fearefull fire
Burne vp the Articke & Antarticke Pole
Noe age, noe country yeelds a faithfull friende
A cursed furie ouerflowes my breast
I will consume this Cittie into dust
And ashes, where is fire? Tysiphone
Bring here thy flames, I am to mischiefe bente
These naked handes [doe] wante but some instrumente.

Herm:
Stilpo Speusippus vent your Sentences
Appease his fury it doth rage to much.

Speu:
Man's like vnto the Sea that ebbes & flowes
And all things in this world vnstable are.

Stil:
There's nothing on the earth that's permanent
As cloudes disperse the force of Boreas
Soe all things into nothing doe returne

Speu:
Aduersity cannot daunte a wise man

Stil:
Art thou opprest with griefe? be patient

Speu:
A heauy burthen patience makes light

Stil:
Hath fortune left thee naked & forlorne?
Then clothe thyselfe with vertue.

Speu:
Vertue alone beatifies the minde:

Stil:
Shee is not blinde.

Speus:
Shee cannot bee deceau'd

Stil:
Shee doth despise noe man:

Speu:
Shee none forsakes

Stil:
Shee is not angry.

Speu:
Doth not change.

Stil:
Nor rage

Speu:
With comfort shee reliues the grieued soule

Stil:
Shees fairer euery day than other.

Speu:
The nearer shee the fairer doth appeare

Tim:
This grieues mee worse than all my pouerty
Hence hence yee Varletts.

Stil:
The chiefest good in vertue doth consiste

Speu:
Whose rage is moderate that man is wise

Stil:
Hee that is wise is rich.

Speu.
Whom fortune quailes
Is poore & base.

Timon beates them.
Tim:
Your counsaile hath deseru'd these thanks.

Speu:
Oh, oh
Oh dost thou buffet a philosopher?
Will a free Cittie such a deede allowe?

Stil:
O I am holy oh withdraw thy handes

Herm:
I'le runne away, & take mee to my heeles.

Tim:
Not soe, not soe Ile recompence thy pride.

Timon beates him, Herm: runnes away, Tim: followes him in at one dore & enters at another.
Stil:
How doth thy heade Speusippus:

Speu:
It dothake
As well posterioristically
As prioristically: let vs hence
Least hee againe assault vs with his fistes.

Tim:
What? hath hee thus escaped from my handes?
Thou Goddes Nemesis reuenge my wronge
Let him o let him wander vp & downe
A wretche vnknowne through Cities & through townes
Let him desire to die, and yet not die
And when hees deade rewarde him Rhadamant
According to his meritts: hee deserues
The paine of Sysiphus, thirste of Tantalus
And in thy lake (Cocytus) to remaine.

Enter Laches.
Lach:
My mrs voyce doth ecchoe in my eares
How full of fury is his countenance?
His tongue doth threaten & his hearte doth sighe
The greatnes of his spirit will not downe.

Tim:
Thee, thee O Sunne I doe to witnesse call
These harde misfortunes I haue not deseru'd.

Lach:
But sitte vppon some other earthe & pray
This place is barbarous: here their proude handes
Scorne to relieve a poore man in his neede.

Timon standes vp.
Tim:
O thou reuenge, come wholy to my hands
I will reuenge:

Lach:
That takes not griefe away

Tim:
But it will lessen griefe, something Ile doe
Ile not consume this day in idlenesse
Inuite these rascalls.

Lach:
What shall they doe here?

Tim:
I haue prepared them a worthy feaste
Goe call them therefore, tell them there remaines
Of soe much wealth as yet some ouerplus.

Exit Timon at one dore Lach: at another.