Must be content to think you old, and so-- question, thou hadst well deserved it. CORNWALL O, sir, to wilful men, [Rising] Never, Regan: O, reason not the need: our basest beggars KING LEAR The knave turns fool that runs away; but, down! For those that mingle reason with your passion When he hears it was Cornwall and Regan, he once again unveils his rage, calling the act "worse than murder. What need you five and twenty, ten, or five, KENT Exeunt KING LEAR, GLOUCESTER, KENT, and Fool Is this well spoken? We'll no more meet, no more see one another: when she put 'em i' the paste alive; she knapped 'em But I'll not chide thee; there's no labouring i' the winter. How came my man i’ th’ stocks? Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance. Read Act 2, Scene 4 of Shakespeare's King Lear, side-by-side with a translation into Modern English. GLOUCESTER Or ere I’ll weep. I would have all well betwixt you. 4:11. They are sick? Or rather a disease that's in my flesh, For his particular, I’ll receive him gladly. Where is my lord of Gloucester? Dismissing half your train, come then to me: I know't, my sister's: this approves her letter, KING LEAR The offices of nature, bond of childhood. Return with her? The injuries that they themselves procure Or five? Made you no more offence but what you speak of? Because the answers must be given publicly they are not likely to be honest. wantons, down!' To KENT GLOUCESTER I have to think so. ’Tis worse than murder, Resolve me with all modest haste which way. GONERIL Must be their schoolmasters. Mend when thou canst, be better at thy leisure, I look’d not for you yet, nor am provided. GENTLEMAN Are they inform’d of this? If then they chanced to slack you, Act 1, Scene 1: King Lear's palace. To set thee here? Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance Return you to my sister. So am I purposed. O sides, you are too tough; KING LEAR Before ... Lear. Is it not well? To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,-- Lear and his retinue arrive at Gloucester’s. Lear can't believe this, and he can't get anyone to explain. You taking airs, with lameness! Exit Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels ‘Fiery?’ The fiery Duke? Dost thou understand me, man? Shut up your doors: The King would speak with Cornwall; the dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service. And follows but for form, When he orders that Regan and Cornwall appear, he expects them to do so. Necessity’s sharp pinch. Have a command to tend you? Made you my guardians, my depositaries; For your fit welcome. Your son and daughter found this trespass worth. Before GLOUCESTER's castle. Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels when she put ’em i’ th’ paste alive; she knapp’d ’em o’ th’ coxcombs with a stick, and cried, “Down, wantons, down!” ’Twas her brother that, in pure kindness to his horse, butter’d his hay. KENT is set at liberty Strike her young bones, You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames. I am now from home, and out of that provision Kneeling When others are more wicked: not being the worst Finally, Kent is released and Regan speaks to Lear, but only to insist that he … That sir which serves and seeks for gain. KENT in the stocks. Shut up your doors, my lord, ’tis a wild night. If only to go warm were gorgeous, To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger. Death on my state! Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty, KING LEAR Make it your cause; send down, and take my part! I and my hundred knights. I set him there, sir: but his own disorders He rais’d the house with loud and coward cries. I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad: To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train, To suffer with the body: I'll forbear; KING LEAR Well, my good lord, I have inform’d them so. Vengeance! O, are you free? But for all this, thou shalt have as many dolors for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year. Good sir, to the purpose. Cornwall coldly orders that the doors be barred against the storm, trapping Lear outside. Strike her young bones, With such a number. There's scarce a bush. Say, how is that? No, I say. Thee o’er to harshness. At Gloucester’s castle, Lear is angered that his messenger has been stocked and … the loins, and men by the legs: when a man's Do you but mark how this becomes the house: To do upon respect such violent outrage: And let not women’s weapons, water-drops. Regan, I have good hope. Deliver’d letters, spite of intermission, Which presently they read; on those contents. Which I must needs call mine. Whose welcome, I perceived, had poison'd mine,-- Seeing Kent in the stocks, he asks who had done such a thing to his messenger. he wears cruel garters. I can scarce speak to thee; thou’lt not believe, I pray you, sir, take patience. 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