LEAR.
No.
FOOL.
Why, to keep one’s eyes of either side’s nose, that what a man cannot smell out, he may spy into.
LEAR.
I did her wrong.
FOOL.
Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell?
LEAR.
No.
FOOL.
Nor I neither; but I can tell why a snail has a house.
LEAR.
Why?
FOOL.
Why, to put’s head in; not to give it away to his daughters, and leave his horns without a case.
LEAR.
I will forget my nature. So kind a father! Be my horses ready?
FOOL.
Thy asses are gone about ’em. The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason.