Poor pelting villages, sheep cotes and mills, Sometime with lunatick bans," sometime with prayers, Enforce their charity.-Poor Turlygood! poor Tom! That's something yet;-Edgar I nothing am. [Exit. SCENE IV. Before Gloster's Castle, Enter LEAR, Fool, and Gentleman. Lear. "Tis strange, that they should so depart from Mak'st thou this shame thy pastime ? Kent. No, my lord. Fool. Ha, ha; look! he wears cruel 3 garters! Horses are tied by the heads; dogs, and bears, by the neck; monkies by the loins, and men by the legs : when a man is over-lusty at legs, then he wears wooden nether-stocks.4 Lear. What's he, that hath so much thy place mistook Lear. No. Kent. Yes. Lear. No, I say. Kent. I say, yea. Lear. No, no; they would not. Kent. Yes, they have. Lear. By Jupiter, I swear no. Kent. By Juno, I swear, ay. Lear. They durst not do't; They could not, would not do't; 'tis worse than murder, To do upon respect such violent outrage : Kent. My lord, when at their home Which presently they read: on whose contents, The leisure of their answer; gave me cold looks: Whose welcome, I perceiv'd, had poison'd mine, Display'd so saucily against your highness,) 5 People, train or retinue. He rais'd the house with loud and coward cries: Fool. Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way. Fathers, that wear rags, Do make their children blind; Shall see their children kind. poor. * Ne'er turns the key to the But, for all this, thou shalt have as many dolours for thy daughters, as thou can'st tell in a year. Lear. O, how this mother swells up toward heart! Hysterica passio! down, thou climbing sorrow, Lear. Stay here. my Follow me not; [Exit. Gent. Made you no more offence than what you speak of? Kent. None. How chance the king comes with so small a train ? Fool. An thou hadst been set i' the stocks for that question, thou hadst well deserved it. Kent. Why, fool? Fool. We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labouring in the winter. All that follow their noses are led by their eyes, but blind men; 6 A quibble between dolours and dollars. • and there's not a nose among twenty, but can smell him that's stinking. Let go thy hold, when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following it; but the great one that goes up the hill, let him draw thee after. When a wise man 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, And follows but for form, Will pack, when it begins to rain, And leave thee in the storm. The knave turns fool, that runs away; Kent. Where learn'd you this, fool? Fool. Not i' the stocks, fool, Re-enter LEAR, with GLOSTER. Lear. Deny to speak with me? They are sick? they are weary ? They have travell'd hard to-night? Mere fetches; Fetch me a better answer. Glo My dear lord, You know the fiery quality of the duke ; In his own course. Lear. Vengeance! plague! death! confusion!Fiery? what quality? Why Gloster, Gloster, I'd speak with the duke of Cornwall, and his wife. Glo. Well, my good lord, I have inform'd them so. Lear. Inform'd them! Dost thou understand me, man ? Glo. Ay, my good lord. Lear. The king would speak with Cornwall; the dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her ser vice : Are they inform'd of this?-My breath and blood! Fiery the fiery duke?-Tell the hot duke, thatNo, but not yet:-may be, he is not well : Infirmity doth still neglect all office, Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves, And am fallen out with my more headier will, For the sound man.-Death on my state! wherefore [Looking on KENT. Should he sit here? This act persuades me, That this remotion of the duke and her Is practice only. Give me my servant forth : Till it cry-Sleep to death. Glo. I'd have all well betwixt you. [Exit. Lear. O me, my heart, my rising heart!-but, down. Fool. Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the 8 Removing from their own house. VOL. IX. 9 Artifice. |