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Scena. 4a.

Enter Obba with a basket about to spreade the table And Grunnio speakes to him out of his hole.
Grun:
Is this the wedding day? soe Ioue mee loue
These teethe as yet toucht not one crust this day

Obb:
Neither shall they, hence thou spidercatcher.

He offers to pull him out.
Grun:
Obba why art thou soe extreme angry?
And why dost thou soe vnmercifully
Without my dinner turne mee out of dores?

Obb:
Wee nothing haue to doing with you now
Thy mrs daughter hath cast of Timon
Come out of thy hole thou shalt not lurke here.

He pulls him out.
Grun:
O cruell Obba hast thou noe pitty?
O suffer but my nose to smell the meate
I truly am more hungry than hunger.

Obb:
Wert thou hunger itselfe in the Abstracte
Thou shouldst not moue mee to compassion.

Grun:
Must I then Grunnio bee hungerstaru'd?
What shall I doe? what will become of mee?
Nothing's at home but leane long legg'd spiders.

Obb:
Goe fatte thyselfe with them:

Grun:
ffarewell Obba
Inhumane Obba. [I] if I die this day
One legge of mutton put into my graue
I may suppe better in the world belowe.

Exit Grunnio.