Of other your new pranks. I do beseech you As you are old and reverend, should be wise. That this our court, infected with their manners, Than a graced palace. The shame itself doth speak For instant remedy; be then desired By her, that else will take the thing she begs, And the remainder, that shall still depend, Darkness and devils! Lear. Gon. You strike my people, and your disorder'd rabble Make servants of their betters. Enter ALBANY. Lear. Woe, that too late repents; O ! sir, are you come? Prepare my horses. Is it your will? Speak, sir. More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child, Alb. Pray sir, be patient. Lear [To GONERIL.] Detested kite! thou liest : My train are men of choice and rarest parts, The worships of their name. O most small fault, How ugly didst thou in Cordelia show! Which, like an engine, wrench'd my frame of nature From the fix'd place, drew from my heart all love, [Striking his head. And thy dear judgement out! Go, go, my people. Alb. My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant Of what hath moved you. Lear. Into her womb convey sterility! Gon. Never afflict yourself to know the cause; But let his disposition have that scope Re-enter LEAR. Lear. What! fifty of my followers at a clap; Within a fortnight! Alb. What's the matter, sir? Lear. I'll tell thee. [To GONERIL.] Life and death! I am ashamed That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus, The untented woundings of a father's curse Gon. Do you mark that, my lord? Alb. I cannot be so partial, Goneril, To the great love I bear you,— Gon. Pray you, content. What, Oswald, ho! [To the Fool.] You, sir, more knave than fool, after your master. Fool Nuncle Lear, nuncle Lear! tarry, and take the fool with thee. A fox, when one has caught her, Should sure to the slaughter, If my cap would buy a halter; Gon. This man hath had good counsel. hundred knights! "Tis politic and safe to let him keep [Exit. A At point a hundred knights; yes, that on every dream, Each buzz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike, Re-enter OSWALD. What have you writ that letter to my sister? Osw. Ay, madam. How now, Oswald ! away to Gon. Take you some company, and horse: Inform her full of my particular fear; [Exit OSWALD. No, no, my lord, This milky gentleness and course of yours Though I condemn not, yet, under pardon, Alb. How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell: Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. Gon. Nay, then Alb. Well, well; the event. [Exeunt. SCENE V. Court before the Same. Enter LEAR, KENT, and Fool. Lear. Go you before to Gloucester with these letters. Acquaint my daughter no further with any thing you know than comes from her demand out of the letter. If your diligence be not speedy I shall be there afore you. Kent. I will not sleep, my lord, till I have delivered your letter. [Exit. Fool. If a man's brains were in's heels, were 't not in danger of kibes ? Lear. Ay, boy. Fool. Then, I prithee, be merry; thy wit shall ne'er go slip-shod. Lear. Ha, ha, ha! Fool. Shalt see thy other daughter will use thee kindly; for though she's as like this as a crab's like an apple, yet I can tell what I can tell. Lear. What canst tell, boy? Fool. She will taste as like this as a crab does |