Act 5, Scene 4

Modern spelling. Stage directions omitted.

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SOLDIER

By all description this should be the place.
Who’s here? Speak, ho! No answer? What is this?
Timon is dead, who outstretched his span.
Some beast read 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 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.

All of Timon of Athens

Act 1

Act 1, Scene 1 Act 1, Scene 2,

Act 2

Act 2, Scene 1 Act 2, Scene 2,

Act 3

Act 3, Scene 1 Act 3, Scene 2 Act 3, Scene 3 Act 3, Scene 4 Act 3, Scene 5 Act 3, Scene 6,

Act 4

Act 4, Scene 1 Act 4, Scene 2 Act 4, Scene 3,

Act 5

Act 5, Scene 1 Act 5, Scene 2 Act 5, Scene 3 Act 5, Scene 4 Act 5, Scene 5

Open Timon of Athens in the 1623 First Folio. See its words in the cloud.

Modern spelling for reading. The edition is public domain in the United States. Edition source.