Timon, or the Misanthrope (25)

HERMES Then you have cheated Zeus, who thinks that you observe his decrees and enrich those who in his opinion deserve riches ?

RICHES Yes, and very properly, my friend, for although he

knew that I was blind, he kept sending me to search for a thing so hard to find, which long ago became eclipsed in the world; even a Lynceus could not find it easily, so dim and tiny is its light. So, as the good men are few and wicked men in great numbers fill the cities, it is easier for me to fall in with then in my wanderings and to get into their nets.

HERMES Then how is it that when you leave them you escape easily, since you do not know the way ?

RICHES For some reason I become sharp of eye and swift of foot then, but only for the time of ny escape.