Alb. What's the matter, sir?[2981]
Lear. I'll tell thee. [To Gon.] Life and death! I am ashamed[2982]290
That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus;
That these hot tears, which break from me perforce,[2983]
Should make thee worth them. Blasts and fogs upon thee![2984][2985]
The untented woundings of a father's curse[2985]
Pierce every sense about thee! Old fond eyes,[2986] 295
Beweep this cause again, I'll pluck ye out[2987]
And cast you with the waters that you lose,[2988]
To temper clay. Yea, is it come to this?[2989]
Let it be so: yet have I left a daughter,[2990]
Who, I am sure, is kind and comfortable:[2991] 300
When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails
She'll flay thy wolvish visage. Thou shalt find[2992]
That I'll resume the shape which thou dost think
I have cast off for ever: thou shalt, I warrant thee.
[Exeunt Lear, Kent, and Attendants.[2993]
Gon. Do you mark that, my lord?[2994] 305
Alb. I cannot be so partial, Goneril,
To the great love I bear you,—[2995][2996]
Gon. Pray you, content. What, Oswald, ho![2995][2997][2998]
[To the Fool] You, sir, more knave than fool, after your master.[2995][2997][2999]
Fool. Nuncle Lear, nuncle Lear, tarry; take the fool[3000][3001] 310
with thee.[3000][3002]
A fox, when one has caught her,[3002]
And such a daughter,
Should sure to the slaughter,
If my cap would buy a halter:[3003] 315
So the fool follows after. [Exit.[3004]
Gon. This man hath had good counsel: a hundred knights![3005][3006]
'Tis politic and safe to let him keep[3005][3007]
At point a hundred knights: yes, that on every dream,[3008]
Each buzz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike, 320
He may enguard his dotage with their powers
And hold our lives in mercy. Oswald, I say![3009]
Alb. Well, you may fear too far.