GONERIL
Why not by the hand, sir? How have I offended? All's not offence that indiscretion finds And dotage terms
so. KING LEAR
O sides, you are too tough; Will you yet hold? How came my man i' the stocks? CORNWALL
I set him there, sir: but his own disorders Deserved much less advancement. KING LEAR
You! did you? REGAN
I pray you, father, being weak, seem so. If, till the expiration of your month, You will return and sojourn
with my sister, Dismissing half your train, come then to me: I am now from home, and out of that provision Which
shall be needful for your entertainment. KING LEAR
Return to her, and fifty men dismiss'd? No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose To wage against the enmity
o' the air; To be a comrade with the wolf and owl, Necessity's sharp pinch! Return with her? Why, the hot-
blooded France, that dowerless took Our youngest born, I could as well be brought To knee his throne,
and, squire-like; pension beg To keep base life afoot. Return with her? Persuade me rather to be slave
and sumpter To this detested groom.
Pointing at OSWALD GONERIL
At your choice, sir. KING LEAR
I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad: I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell: We'll no more meet,
no more see one another: But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter; Or rather a disease that's
in my flesh, Which I must needs call mine: thou art a boil, A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle, In my
corrupted blood. But I'll not chide thee; Let shame come when it will, I do not call it: I do not bid the thunder-
bearer shoot, Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove: Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure: I
can be patient; I can stay with Regan, I and my hundred knights. REGAN
Not altogether so: I look'd not for you yet, nor am provided For your fit welcome. Give ear, sir, to my sister; For
those that mingle reason with your passion Must be content to think you old, and so But she knows what
she does. KING LEAR
Is this well spoken?
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