How now? are the horses ready?
GENTLEMAN.
Ready, my lord.
LEAR.
Come, boy.
FOOL.
She that’s a maid now, and laughs at my departure,
Shall not be a maid long, unless things be cut shorter.
[Exeunt.]
ACT II
SCENE I. A court within the Castle of the Earl of Gloucester
Enter Edmund and Curan, meeting.
EDMUND.
Save thee, Curan.
CURAN.
And you, sir. I have been with your father, and given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his Duchess will be here with him this night.