Lear. Is this well spoken?[3484]
Reg. I dare avouch it, sir: what, fifty followers?[3485]
Is it not well? What should you need of more? 235
Yea, or so many, sith that both charge and danger[3486]
Speak 'gainst so great a number? How in one house[3487]
Should many people under two commands
Hold amity? 'Tis hard, almost impossible.[3488]
Gon. Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance 240
From those that she calls servants or from mine?
Reg. Why not, my lord? If then they chanced to slack you,[3489]
We could control them. If you will come to me,[3490]
For now I spy a danger, I entreat you[3491]
To bring but five and twenty: to no more[3492] 245
Will I give place or notice.
Lear. I gave you all—[3493]
Reg. And in good time you gave it.
Lear. Made you my guardians, my depositaries,
But kept a reservation to be follow'd[3494]
With such a number. What, must I come to you[3495] 250
With five and twenty, Regan? said you so?[3496]
Reg. And speak't again, my lord; no more with me.[3497]
Lear. Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd,[3498][3499]
When others are more wicked; not being the worst[3498][3500]
Stands in some rank of praise. [To Gon.] I'll go with thee:[3501] 255
Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty,
And thou art twice her love.[3502]
Gon. Hear me, my lord:
What need you five and twenty, ten, or five,
To follow in a house where twice so many
Have a command to tend you?