Gon. Safer than trust too far:[3010]
Let me still take away the harms I fear,
Not fear still to be taken: I know his heart.[3011] 325
What he hath utter'd I have writ my sister:
If she sustain him and his hundred knights,[3012]
When I have show'd the unfitness,—
Re-enter Oswald.[3013]
How now, Oswald![3014]
What, have you writ that letter to my sister?[3014][3015]
Osw. Yes, madam.[3016] 330
Gon. Take you some company, and away to horse:[3017]
Inform her full of my particular fear,[3018]
And thereto add such reasons of your own
As may compact it more. Get you gone;[3019]
And hasten your return. [Exit Oswald.] No, no, my lord,[3020] 335
This milky gentleness and course of yours[3021]
Though I condemn not, yet, under pardon,[3022]
You are much more attask'd for want of wisdom[3023]
Than praised for harmful mildness.[3024]
Alb. How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell:[3025] 340
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.[3025][3026]
Gon. Nay, then—[3027]
Alb. Well, well; the event. [Exeunt.[3028]
Scene V. Court before the same.
Enter Lear, Kent, and Fool.[3029]