Scene IV
Before Gloucester's castle. Kent in the stocks
Enter Lear, Fool, and Gentleman.[3313]
Lear. 'Tis strange that they should so depart from home,[3314]
And not send back my messenger.[3315]
And not send back my messenger.[3315]
Gent. As I learn'd,[3316]
The night before there was no purpose in them[3316][3317]
Of this remove.[3316][3318]
The night before there was no purpose in them[3316][3317]
Of this remove.[3316][3318]
Kent. Hail to thee, noble master!
Kent. No, my lord.[3321]
Fool. Ha, ha! he wears cruel garters. Horses are tied[3322][3323]
by the heads, dogs and bears by the neck, monkeys by the[3322][3324]
loins, and men by the legs: when a man's over-lusty at[3322][3325]
legs, then he wears wooden nether-stocks.[3322][3326] 10
by the heads, dogs and bears by the neck, monkeys by the[3322][3324]
loins, and men by the legs: when a man's over-lusty at[3322][3325]
legs, then he wears wooden nether-stocks.[3322][3326] 10
Lear. No.
Kent. Yes. 15
Lear. No, I say.
Kent. I say, yea.[3329]
Lear. No, no, they would not.[3330]
Kent. Yes, they have.[3330]
Lear. By Jupiter, I swear, no. 20
Kent. By Juno, I swear, ay.[3331]
Lear. They durst not do't;[3332]
They could not, would not do't; 'tis worse than murder,[3332][3333]
To do upon respect such violent outrage:
Resolve me with all modest haste which way
Thou mightst deserve, or they impose, this usage,[3334] 25
Coming from us.
They could not, would not do't; 'tis worse than murder,[3332][3333]
To do upon respect such violent outrage:
Resolve me with all modest haste which way
Thou mightst deserve, or they impose, this usage,[3334] 25
Coming from us.
Kent. My lord, when at their home
I did commend your highness' letters to them,
Ere I was risen from the place that show'd[3335]
My duty kneeling, came there a reeking post,[3336]
Stew'd in his haste, half breathless, panting forth[3337] 30
From Goneril his mistress salutations;[3338]
Deliver'd letters, spite of intermission,[3339]
Which presently they read: on whose contents[3340]
They summon'd up their meiny, straight took horse;[3341]
Commanded me to follow and attend 35
The leisure of their answer; gave me cold looks:
And meeting here the other messenger,[3342]
Whose welcome, I perceived, had poison'd mine—
Being the very fellow that of late[3343]
Display'd so saucily against your highness— 40
Having more man than wit about me, drew:[3344]
He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
Your son and daughter found this trespass worth
The shame which here it suffers.[3345]
I did commend your highness' letters to them,
Ere I was risen from the place that show'd[3335]
My duty kneeling, came there a reeking post,[3336]
Stew'd in his haste, half breathless, panting forth[3337] 30
From Goneril his mistress salutations;[3338]
Deliver'd letters, spite of intermission,[3339]
Which presently they read: on whose contents[3340]
They summon'd up their meiny, straight took horse;[3341]
Commanded me to follow and attend 35
The leisure of their answer; gave me cold looks:
And meeting here the other messenger,[3342]
Whose welcome, I perceived, had poison'd mine—
Being the very fellow that of late[3343]
Display'd so saucily against your highness— 40
Having more man than wit about me, drew:[3344]
He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
Your son and daughter found this trespass worth
The shame which here it suffers.[3345]
Fool. Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.[3346][3347] 45
Fathers that wear rags[3346][3348]
Do make their children blind;[3346][3348]
But fathers that bear bags[3346][3348]
Shall see their children kind.[3346][3348]
Fortune, that arrant whore,[3346][3348] 50
Ne'er turns the key to the poor.[3346][3348]
But, for all this, thou shalt have as many dolours for thy[3346][3349][3350]
daughters as thou canst tell in a year.[3346][3349]
Fathers that wear rags[3346][3348]
Do make their children blind;[3346][3348]
But fathers that bear bags[3346][3348]
Shall see their children kind.[3346][3348]
Fortune, that arrant whore,[3346][3348] 50
Ne'er turns the key to the poor.[3346][3348]
But, for all this, thou shalt have as many dolours for thy[3346][3349][3350]
daughters as thou canst tell in a year.[3346][3349]
Lear. O, how this mother swells up toward my heart!
Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow,[3351] 55
Thy element's below! Where is this daughter?
Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow,[3351] 55
Thy element's below! Where is this daughter?
Gent. Made you no more offence but what you speak of?[3355]
Fool. An thou hadst been set i' the stocks for that[3359][3360]
question, thou hadst well deserved it.[3361]
question, thou hadst well deserved it.[3361]
Kent. Why, fool?
Fool. We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee 65
there's no labouring i' the winter. All that follow their[3360][3362]
noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and there's not[3362]
a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking. Let[3363]
go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it
break thy neck with following it; but the great one that[3364] 70
goes up the hill, let him draw thee after. When a wise man[3365]
gives thee better counsel, give me mine again: I would have
none but knaves follow it, since a fool gives it.
That sir which serves and seeks for gain,[3366][3367]
And follows but for form,[3367] 75
Will pack when it begins to rain,[3367][3368]
And leave thee in the storm.[3367][3369]
But I will tarry; the fool will stay,[3367][3370]
And let the wise man fly:[3367][3371]
The knave turns fool that runs away;[3367][3372] 80
The fool no knave, perdy.[3367][3372]
there's no labouring i' the winter. All that follow their[3360][3362]
noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and there's not[3362]
a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking. Let[3363]
go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it
break thy neck with following it; but the great one that[3364] 70
goes up the hill, let him draw thee after. When a wise man[3365]
gives thee better counsel, give me mine again: I would have
none but knaves follow it, since a fool gives it.
That sir which serves and seeks for gain,[3366][3367]
And follows but for form,[3367] 75
Will pack when it begins to rain,[3367][3368]
And leave thee in the storm.[3367][3369]
But I will tarry; the fool will stay,[3367][3370]
And let the wise man fly:[3367][3371]
The knave turns fool that runs away;[3367][3372] 80
The fool no knave, perdy.[3367][3372]
Kent. Where learned you this, fool?
Re-enter Lear, with Gloucester.[3374]
Lear. Deny to speak with me? They are sick? they are weary?[3375]
They have travell'd all the night? Mere fetches;[3376][3377] 85
The images of revolt and flying off.[3377][3378]
Fetch me a better answer.[3379]
They have travell'd all the night? Mere fetches;[3376][3377] 85
The images of revolt and flying off.[3377][3378]
Fetch me a better answer.[3379]
Glou. My dear lord,[3380]
You know the fiery quality of the duke;[3380]
How unremoveable and fix'd he is[3380]
In his own course.[3380] 90
You know the fiery quality of the duke;[3380]
How unremoveable and fix'd he is[3380]
In his own course.[3380] 90
Lear. Vengeance! plague! death! confusion![3380][3381]
Fiery? what quality? Why, Gloucester, Gloucester,[3380][3382]
I'ld speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife.[3380]
Fiery? what quality? Why, Gloucester, Gloucester,[3380][3382]
I'ld speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife.[3380]
Glou. Well, my good lord, I have inform'd them so.[3383]
Lear. Inform'd them! Dost thou understand me, man?[3383] 95
Glou. Ay, my good lord.
Lear. The king would speak with Cornwall; the dear father[3384]
Would with his daughter speak, commands her service:[3385]
Are they inform'd of this? My breath and blood![3386]
'Fiery'? 'the fiery duke'? Tell the hot duke that—[3387] 100
No, but not yet: may be he is not well:[3388]
Infirmity doth still neglect all office[3389]
Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves[3389][3390]
When nature being oppress'd commands the mind[3389][3391]
To suffer with the body: I'll forbear;[3389] 105
And am fall'n out with my more headier will,[3392]
To take the indisposed and sickly fit[3393]
For the sound man. [Looking on Kent] Death on my state! wherefore[3393][3394]
Should he sit here? This act persuades me[3393][3395]
That this remotion of the duke and her[3393] 110
Is practice only. Give me my servant forth.[3396]
Go tell the duke and's wife I'ld speak with them,[3397]
Now, presently: bid them come forth and hear me,
Or at their chamber-door I'll beat the drum
Till it cry sleep to death.[3398] 115
Would with his daughter speak, commands her service:[3385]
Are they inform'd of this? My breath and blood![3386]
'Fiery'? 'the fiery duke'? Tell the hot duke that—[3387] 100
No, but not yet: may be he is not well:[3388]
Infirmity doth still neglect all office[3389]
Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves[3389][3390]
When nature being oppress'd commands the mind[3389][3391]
To suffer with the body: I'll forbear;[3389] 105
And am fall'n out with my more headier will,[3392]
To take the indisposed and sickly fit[3393]
For the sound man. [Looking on Kent] Death on my state! wherefore[3393][3394]
Should he sit here? This act persuades me[3393][3395]
That this remotion of the duke and her[3393] 110
Is practice only. Give me my servant forth.[3396]
Go tell the duke and's wife I'ld speak with them,[3397]
Now, presently: bid them come forth and hear me,
Or at their chamber-door I'll beat the drum
Till it cry sleep to death.[3398] 115
Glou. I would have all well betwixt you. [Exit.[3399]
Lear. O me, my heart, my rising heart! But down![3400]
Fool. Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels[3401]
when she put 'em i' the paste alive; she knapped 'em o' the[3402]
coxcombs with a stick, and cried 'Down, wantons, down!' 120
'Twas her brother that, in pure kindness to his horse, buttered[3403]
his hay.
when she put 'em i' the paste alive; she knapped 'em o' the[3402]
coxcombs with a stick, and cried 'Down, wantons, down!' 120
'Twas her brother that, in pure kindness to his horse, buttered[3403]
his hay.
Re-enter Gloucester, with Cornwall, Regan, and Servants.[3404]
Lear. Good morrow to you both.
Corn. Hail to your grace!
[Kent is set at liberty.[3405]
Reg. I am glad to see your highness.
Lear. Regan, I think you are; I know what reason[3406] 125
I have to think so: if thou shouldst not be glad,[3407]
I would divorce me from thy mother's tomb,[3408]
Sepulchring an adultress. [To Kent] O, are you free?[3409]
Some other time for that. Beloved Regan,
Thy sister's naught: O Regan, she hath tied[3410][3411] 130
Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture, here:[3410]
I have to think so: if thou shouldst not be glad,[3407]
I would divorce me from thy mother's tomb,[3408]
Sepulchring an adultress. [To Kent] O, are you free?[3409]
Some other time for that. Beloved Regan,
Thy sister's naught: O Regan, she hath tied[3410][3411] 130
Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture, here:[3410]
[Points to his heart.[3412]
Reg. I pray you, sir, take patience: I have hope[3415]
You less know how to value her desert 135
Than she to scant her duty.[3416]
You less know how to value her desert 135
Than she to scant her duty.[3416]
Reg. I cannot think my sister in the least[3417]
Would fail her obligation: if, sir, perchance[3417][3419]
She have restrain'd the riots of your followers,[3417]
'Tis on such ground and to such wholesome end[3417] 140
As clears her from all blame.[3417]
Would fail her obligation: if, sir, perchance[3417][3419]
She have restrain'd the riots of your followers,[3417]
'Tis on such ground and to such wholesome end[3417] 140
As clears her from all blame.[3417]
Lear. My curses on her!
Reg. O, sir, you are old;
Nature in you stands on the very verge[3420][3421]
Of her confine: you should be ruled and led[3420][3422]
By some discretion that discerns your state[3420] 145
Better than you yourself. Therefore I pray you[3420][3423]
That to our sister you do make return;[3420]
Say you have wrong'd her, sir.
Nature in you stands on the very verge[3420][3421]
Of her confine: you should be ruled and led[3420][3422]
By some discretion that discerns your state[3420] 145
Better than you yourself. Therefore I pray you[3420][3423]
That to our sister you do make return;[3420]
Say you have wrong'd her, sir.
Lear. Ask her forgiveness?[3424]
Do you but mark how this becomes the house:[3425]
[Kneeling] 'Dear daughter, I confess that I am old;[3426] 150
Age is unnecessary: on my knees I beg
That you'll vouchsafe me raiment, bed and food.'
Do you but mark how this becomes the house:[3425]
[Kneeling] 'Dear daughter, I confess that I am old;[3426] 150
Age is unnecessary: on my knees I beg
That you'll vouchsafe me raiment, bed and food.'
Reg. Good sir, no more; these are unsightly tricks:
Return you to my sister.
Return you to my sister.
Lear. [Rising] Never, Regan:[3427]
She hath abated me of half my train; 155
Look'd black upon me; struck me with her tongue,[3428]
Most serpent-like, upon the very heart:
All the stored vengeances of heaven fall[3429]
On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones,[3429][3430]
You taking airs, with lameness.[3429]
She hath abated me of half my train; 155
Look'd black upon me; struck me with her tongue,[3428]
Most serpent-like, upon the very heart:
All the stored vengeances of heaven fall[3429]
On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones,[3429][3430]
You taking airs, with lameness.[3429]
Corn. Fie, sir, fie![3431] 160
Lear. You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames[3432]
Into her scornful eyes. Infect her beauty,
You fen-suck'd fogs, drawn by the powerful sun[3433]
To fall and blast her pride.[3433][3434]
Into her scornful eyes. Infect her beauty,
You fen-suck'd fogs, drawn by the powerful sun[3433]
To fall and blast her pride.[3433][3434]
Lear. No, Regan, thou shalt never have my curse:
Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give[3437][3438]
Thee o'er to harshness: her eyes are fierce, but thine[3438][3439]
Do comfort and not burn. 'Tis not in thee[3438] 170
To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train,[3438]
To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes,
And in conclusion to oppose the bolt
Against my coming in: thou better know'st[3440]
The offices of nature, bond of childhood, 175
Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude;[3441]
Thy half o' the kingdom hast thou not forgot,[3442]
Wherein I thee endow'd.
Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give[3437][3438]
Thee o'er to harshness: her eyes are fierce, but thine[3438][3439]
Do comfort and not burn. 'Tis not in thee[3438] 170
To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train,[3438]
To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes,
And in conclusion to oppose the bolt
Against my coming in: thou better know'st[3440]
The offices of nature, bond of childhood, 175
Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude;[3441]
Thy half o' the kingdom hast thou not forgot,[3442]
Wherein I thee endow'd.
Reg. Good sir, to the purpose.[3443]
Lear. Who put my man i' the stocks? [Tucket within.[3444]
Corn. What trumpet's that?
Reg. I know't; my sister's: this approves her letter,[3445] 180
That she would soon be here.
That she would soon be here.
Enter Oswald.[3446]
Is your lady come?
Lear. This is a slave whose easy-borrow'd pride[3447]
Dwells in the fickle grace of her he follows.[3448]
Out, varlet, from my sight!
Dwells in the fickle grace of her he follows.[3448]
Out, varlet, from my sight!
Corn. What means your grace?
Lear. Who stock'd my servant? Regan, I have good hope[3449] 185
Thou didst not know on't. Who comes here?
Thou didst not know on't. Who comes here?
Enter Goneril.[3450]
O heavens,
If you do love old men, if your sweet sway[3451][3452]
Allow obedience, if yourselves are old,[3451][3453]
Make it your cause; send down, and take my part![3451]
[To Gon.] Art not ashamed to look upon this beard?[3454] 190
O Regan, wilt thou take her by the hand?[3455]
If you do love old men, if your sweet sway[3451][3452]
Allow obedience, if yourselves are old,[3451][3453]
Make it your cause; send down, and take my part![3451]
[To Gon.] Art not ashamed to look upon this beard?[3454] 190
O Regan, wilt thou take her by the hand?[3455]
Gon. Why not by the hand, sir? How have I offended?
All's not offence that indiscretion finds[3456]
And dotage terms so.
All's not offence that indiscretion finds[3456]
And dotage terms so.
Lear. O sides, you are too tough;
Will you yet hold? How came my man i' the stocks?[3457] 195
Will you yet hold? How came my man i' the stocks?[3457] 195
Lear. You! did you?
Reg. I pray you, father, being weak, seem so.[3460]
If, till the expiration of your month,[3461]
You will return and sojourn with my sister, 200
Dismissing half your train, come then to me:
I am now from home and out of that provision[3462]
Which shall be needful for your entertainment.
If, till the expiration of your month,[3461]
You will return and sojourn with my sister, 200
Dismissing half your train, come then to me:
I am now from home and out of that provision[3462]
Which shall be needful for your entertainment.
Lear. Return to her, and fifty men dismiss'd?
No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose 205
To wage against the enmity o' the air,[3463][3464]
To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,—[3463][3465]
Necessity's sharp pinch! Return with her?
Why, the hot-blooded France, that dowerless took[3466][3467]
Our youngest born, I could as well be brought[3467] 210
To knee his throne, and, squire-like, pension beg[3468]
To keep base life afoot. Return with her?
Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter
To this detested groom. [Pointing at Oswald.[3469]
No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose 205
To wage against the enmity o' the air,[3463][3464]
To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,—[3463][3465]
Necessity's sharp pinch! Return with her?
Why, the hot-blooded France, that dowerless took[3466][3467]
Our youngest born, I could as well be brought[3467] 210
To knee his throne, and, squire-like, pension beg[3468]
To keep base life afoot. Return with her?
Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter
To this detested groom. [Pointing at Oswald.[3469]
Gon. At your choice, sir.
Lear. I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad:[3470] 215
I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell:
We'll no more meet, no more see one another:
But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter;
Or rather a disease that's in my flesh,[3471]
Which I must needs call mine: thou art a boil,[3472] 220
A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle,[3473][3474]
In my corrupted blood. But I'll not chide thee;[3473]
Let shame come when it will, I do not call it:[3475]
I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot,[3476]
Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove:[3477] 225
Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure:
I can be patient; I can stay with Regan,
I and my hundred knights.
I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell:
We'll no more meet, no more see one another:
But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter;
Or rather a disease that's in my flesh,[3471]
Which I must needs call mine: thou art a boil,[3472] 220
A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle,[3473][3474]
In my corrupted blood. But I'll not chide thee;[3473]
Let shame come when it will, I do not call it:[3475]
I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot,[3476]
Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove:[3477] 225
Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure:
I can be patient; I can stay with Regan,
I and my hundred knights.
Reg. Not altogether so:[3478][3479]
I look'd not for you yet, nor am provided[3478][3480]
For your fit welcome. Give ear, sir, to my sister;[3478][3481] 230
For those that mingle reason with your passion[3478][3482]
Must be content to think you old, and so—[3483]
But she knows what she does.
I look'd not for you yet, nor am provided[3478][3480]
For your fit welcome. Give ear, sir, to my sister;[3478][3481] 230
For those that mingle reason with your passion[3478][3482]
Must be content to think you old, and so—[3483]
But she knows what she does.
Lear. Is this well spoken?[3484]
Reg. I dare avouch it, sir: what, fifty followers?[3485]
Is it not well? What should you need of more? 235
Yea, or so many, sith that both charge and danger[3486]
Speak 'gainst so great a number? How in one house[3487]
Should many people under two commands
Hold amity? 'Tis hard, almost impossible.[3488]
Is it not well? What should you need of more? 235
Yea, or so many, sith that both charge and danger[3486]
Speak 'gainst so great a number? How in one house[3487]
Should many people under two commands
Hold amity? 'Tis hard, almost impossible.[3488]
Gon. Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance 240
From those that she calls servants or from mine?
From those that she calls servants or from mine?
Reg. Why not, my lord? If then they chanced to slack you,[3489]
We could control them. If you will come to me,[3490]
For now I spy a danger, I entreat you[3491]
To bring but five and twenty: to no more[3492] 245
Will I give place or notice.
We could control them. If you will come to me,[3490]
For now I spy a danger, I entreat you[3491]
To bring but five and twenty: to no more[3492] 245
Will I give place or notice.
Lear. I gave you all—[3493]
Reg. And in good time you gave it.
Lear. Made you my guardians, my depositaries,
But kept a reservation to be follow'd[3494]
With such a number. What, must I come to you[3495] 250
With five and twenty, Regan? said you so?[3496]
But kept a reservation to be follow'd[3494]
With such a number. What, must I come to you[3495] 250
With five and twenty, Regan? said you so?[3496]
Reg. And speak't again, my lord; no more with me.[3497]
Lear. Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd,[3498][3499]
When others are more wicked; not being the worst[3498][3500]
Stands in some rank of praise. [To Gon.] I'll go with thee:[3501] 255
Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty,
And thou art twice her love.[3502]
When others are more wicked; not being the worst[3498][3500]
Stands in some rank of praise. [To Gon.] I'll go with thee:[3501] 255
Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty,
And thou art twice her love.[3502]
Gon. Hear me, my lord:
What need you five and twenty, ten, or five,
To follow in a house where twice so many
Have a command to tend you?
What need you five and twenty, ten, or five,
To follow in a house where twice so many
Have a command to tend you?
Reg. What need one?[3503] 260
Lear. O, reason not the need: our basest beggars[3504]
Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life's as cheap as beast's: thou art a lady;[3505]
If only to go warm were gorgeous, 265
Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,[3506]
Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But for true need,—[3507]
You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need![3508]
You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,[3509]
As full of grief as age; wretched in both: 270
If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts[3510]
Against their father, fool me not so much[3511]
To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,[3512]
And let not women's weapons, water-drops,[3513]
Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, 275
I will have such revenges on you both[3514]
That all the world shall—I will do such things,—[3515]
What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be
The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep;[3516]
No, I'll not weep:[3517] 280
I have full cause of weeping; but this heart[3517][3518]
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,[3517][3519]
Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!
Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life's as cheap as beast's: thou art a lady;[3505]
If only to go warm were gorgeous, 265
Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,[3506]
Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But for true need,—[3507]
You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need![3508]
You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,[3509]
As full of grief as age; wretched in both: 270
If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts[3510]
Against their father, fool me not so much[3511]
To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,[3512]
And let not women's weapons, water-drops,[3513]
Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, 275
I will have such revenges on you both[3514]
That all the world shall—I will do such things,—[3515]
What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be
The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep;[3516]
No, I'll not weep:[3517] 280
I have full cause of weeping; but this heart[3517][3518]
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,[3517][3519]
Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!
[Exeunt Lear, Gloucester, Kent, and Fool.[3520]
Corn. Let us withdraw; 'twill be a storm.
[Storm and tempest.[3521][3522]
Reg. This house is little: the old man and his people[3522][3523] 285
Cannot be well bestow'd.[3522][3524]
Cannot be well bestow'd.[3522][3524]
Gon. 'Tis his own blame; hath put himself from rest,[3522][3525]
And must needs taste his folly.[3522][3526]
And must needs taste his folly.[3522][3526]
Reg. For his particular, I'll receive him gladly,
But not one follower.
But not one follower.
Corn. Follow'd the old man forth: he is return'd.[3529]
Re-enter Gloucester.
Glou. The king is in high rage.
Corn. 'Tis best to give him way; he leads himself.[3533] 295
Gon. My lord, entreat him by no means to stay.
Glou. Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds[3534]
Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about[3535][3536]
There's scarce a bush.[3535][3537]
Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about[3535][3536]
There's scarce a bush.[3535][3537]
Reg. O, sir, to wilful men
The injuries that they themselves procure 300
Must be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors:
He is attended with a desperate train;
And what they may incense him to, being apt[3538]
To have his ear abused, wisdom bids fear.
The injuries that they themselves procure 300
Must be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors:
He is attended with a desperate train;
And what they may incense him to, being apt[3538]
To have his ear abused, wisdom bids fear.
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