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o be thought of him? Does the rumour hold for true that
he's so full of gold? PAINTER. Certain. Alcibiades reports it; Phrynia and
Timandra had gold of him. He likewise enrich'd poor straggling soldiers
with great quantity. 'Tis said he gave unto his steward a mighty sum.
POET. Then this breaking of his has been but a try for his friends?
PAINTER. Nothing else. You shall see him a palm in Athens againand
flourish with the highest. Therefore 'tis not amiss we tender our loves to
him in this suppos'd distress of his; it will show honestly in usand is very
likely to load our purposes with what they travail forif it be just and true
report that goes of his having. POET. What have you now to present unto
him? PAINTER. Nothing at this time but my visitation; only I will
promise him an excellent piece. POET. I must serve him so tootell him of
an intent that's coming toward him. PAINTER. Good as the best.
Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation.
Performance is ever the duller for his actand but in the plainer and
simpler kind of people the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is
most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament
which argues a great sickness in h [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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But to the matter that we have in hand
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