SCENE III. The woods. Timon's cave, and a rude tomb seen. Timon of Athens  Shakespeare homepage  |  Timon of Athens  | Act 5, Scene 3 

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 Enter a Soldier, seeking TIMON  Soldier  By all description this should be the place. 

 Who's here? speak, ho! No answer! What is this? 

 Timon is dead, who hath outstretch'd his span: 

 Some beast rear'd this; there does not live a man. 

 Dead, sure; and this his grave. What's on this tomb 

 I cannot read; the character I'll take with wax: 

 Our captain hath in every figure skill, 

 An aged interpreter, though young in days: 

 Before proud Athens he's set down by this, 

 Whose fall the mark of his ambition is. 



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