Without the Walls of Athens.
 Enter TIMON.

Timon	Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall
	That girdles in those wolves, dive in the earth
	And fence not Athens! Matrons, turn incontinent!
	Obedience fail in children! Slaves and fools,
	Pluck the grave wrinkled Senate from the bench,
	And minister in their steads! To general filths
	Convert, o'th' instant, green virginity!
	Do't in your parents' eyes! Bankrupts, hold fast;
	Rather than render back, out with your knives,
	And cut your trusters' throats! Bound servants, steal:
	Large-handed robbers your grave masters are,
	And pill by law! Maid, to thy master's bed;
	Thy mistress is o'th' brothel! Son of sixteen,
	Pluck the lined crutch from thy old limping sire,
	With it beat out his brains! Piety and fear,
	Religion to the gods, peace, justice, truth,
	Domestic awe, night-rest, and neighbourhood,
	Instruction, manners, mysteries, and trades,
	Degrees, observances, customs, and laws,
	Decline to your confounding contraries;
	And yet confusion live! Plagues incident to men,
	Your potent and infectious fevers heap
	On Athens, ripe for stroke! Thou cold sciatica,
	Cripple our senators that their limbs may halt
	As lamely as their manners! Lust and liberty
	Creep in the minds and marrows of our youth,
	That 'gainst the stream of virtue they may strive,
	And drown themselves in riot! Itches, blains,
	Sow all th' Athenian bosoms, and their crop
	Be general leprosy! Breath infect breath,
	That their society, as their friendship, may
	Be merely poison! Nothing I'll bear from thee
	But nakedness, thou detestable town!
	Take thou that too, with multiplying bans!
	Timon will to the woods, where he shall find
	Th' unkindest beast more kinder than mankind.
	The gods confound - hear me, you good gods all-
	Th' Athenians both within and out that wall;
	And grant, as Timon grows, his hate may grow
	To the whole race of mankind, high and low!
	Amen.
													[Exit.
