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You shall do well; the fault of it I'll answer.

Osw. He's coming, madam;
I hear him.

[Horns within. Gon. Put on what weary negligence you please,

You and your fellows; I'd have it come to question:

If he distaste it, let him to my sister,

Whose mind and mine, I know, in that are one,

Not to be over-ruled.

old man,

Idle

That still would manage those

authorities

That he hath given away!
Now, by my life,
Old fools are babes again,
and must be used

With checks as flatteries, when they are abused.

seen

Remember what I have said.

Osw.

Well, madam.

Gon. And let his knights have colder looks among

you;

What grows of it, no matter; advise your fellows so:

I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall,

That I may speak: I'll write straight to my sister

To hold my very
Prepare for dinner.

course.

[Exeunt.

SCENE IV. A Hall in the
Same.

Enter KENT, disguised.

Kent. If but as well I other accents borrow,

That can my speech diffuse, my good intent

May carry through itself to that full issue

For which I razed my like

ness.

Now,

banish'd

Kent,

If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd,

So may it come, thy master, whom thou lovest,

Shall find thee full of labours.

Horns within.

Enter LEAR,

Knights, and Attendants.

Lear. Let me not stay a jot for dinner go, get it ready. [Exit an Attendant.

How now! what art thou?
Kent. A man, sir.

Lear. What dost thou profess? What would'st thou with us?

Kent. I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust; to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgement; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.

Lear. What art thou? Kent. A very honest-hearted fellow, and as poor as the king.

Lear. If thou be as poor for a subject as he is for a king, thou are poor enough. What would'st thou?

Kent. Service.

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