Sold. By all description this should be the place. Who's here? speak, ho! No answer! What is this?[2766] Timon is dead, who hath outstretch'd his span:[2767] Some beast read this; there does not live a man.[2768] Dead, sure; and this his grave. What's on this tomb[2769] 5 I cannot read; the character I'll take with wax:[2769] 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. [Exit.10

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · Scene III.] Dyce. Scene V. Johnson. Scene IV. Capell. Warburton continues the Scene. Pope puts the whole in the margin.Note 2 · The woods.... Enter....] The woods. A rude Tomb seen. Enter.... Capell. Enter a Souldier in the Woods, seeking Timon. Ff.Note 3 · Who's] F3 F4. Whose F1. Whos F2. [spying the Tomb. Capell.Note 4 · See note (XVII). who] he Capell.Note 5 · read] F3 F4. reade F1 F2. rear'd Theobald (Warburton). did Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. Vol. LX. p. 127). made Delius. there does] here does Theo Note 6 · Dead ... wax] As in Ff. Three lines in Capell, ending tomb ... take ... wax. Three lines in Singer (ed. 1), ending grave ... character ... w