To this detested groom. |[Looking on the Steward.|

Gonerill. At your choice, sir.

Lear. Now, I pr’ythee, daughter, do not make me mad;

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,

Which I must needs call mine: thou art a bile,

A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle,

In my corrupted blood. But I’ll not chide thee;