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EDMUND . Brother , I advise you to the best ; I am no honest man if there be any good meaning toward you : I have told you what I have seen and heard . But faintly ; nothing like the image and horror of it : pray you , away ! EDGAR . Shall I hear from you anon ? EDMUND . I do serve you in this business . [ Exit Edgar . ] A credulous father ! and a brother noble , Whose nature is so far from doing harms That he suspects none ; on whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy ! I see the business . Let me , if not by birth , have lands by wit ; All with me’s meet that I can fashion fit . [ Exit . ] SCENE III . A Room in the Duke of Albany’s Palace Enter Goneril and Oswald . GONERIL . Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool ? OSWALD . Ay , madam . GONERIL . By day and night , he wrongs me ; every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other , That sets us all at odds ; I’ll not endure it : His knights grow riotous , and himself upbraids us On every trifle . When he returns from hunting , I will not speak with him ; say I am sick . If you come slack of former services , You shall do well ; the fault of it I’ll answer . [ Horns within . ] OSWALD . He’s coming , madam ; I hear him . GONERIL . Put on what weary negligence you please , You and your fellows ; I’d have it come to question : If he distaste it , let him to our sister , Whose mind and mine , I know , in that are one , Not to be overruled . Idle old man , That still would manage those authorities That he hath given away ! Now , by my life , Old fools are babes again ; and must be us’d With checks as flatteries , when they are seen abus’d . Remember what I have said . OSWALD . Very well , madam . GONERIL . And let his knights have colder looks among you ; What grows of it , no matter ; advise your fellows so ; I would breed from hence occasions , and I shall , That I may speak . I’ll write straight to my sister To hold my very course . Prepare for dinner . [ Exeunt . ] SCENE IV . A Hall in Albany’s Palace Enter Kent , disguised . KENT . If but as well I other accents borrow , That can my speech defuse , my good intent May carry through itself to that full issue For which I rais’d my likeness . Now , banish’d Kent , If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn’d , So may it come , thy master , whom thou lov’st , Shall find thee full of labours . Horns within . Enter King Lear , Knights and Attendants . LEAR . Let me not stay a jot for dinner ; go get it ready . [ Exit an Attendant . ] How now ! what art thou ? KENT . A man , sir . LEAR . What dost thou profess ? What wouldst thou with us ? KENT . I do profess to be no less than I seem ; to serve him truly that will put me in trust ; to love him that is honest ; to converse with him that is wise and says little ; to fear judgement ; to fight when I cannot choose ; and to eat no fish . LEAR . What art thou ?
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