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EDGAR . I heard myself proclaim’d , And by the happy hollow of a tree Escap’d the hunt . No port is free , no place That guard and most unusual vigilance Does not attend my taking . While I may scape I will preserve myself : and am bethought To take the basest and most poorest shape That ever penury in contempt of man , Brought near to beast : my face I’ll grime with filth , Blanket my loins ; elf all my hair in knots , And with presented nakedness outface The winds and persecutions of the sky . The country gives me proof and precedent Of Bedlam beggars , who , with roaring voices , Strike in their numb’d and mortified bare arms Pins , wooden pricks , nails , sprigs of rosemary ; And with this horrible object , from low farms , Poor pelting villages , sheep - cotes , and mills , Sometime with lunatic bans , sometime with prayers , Enforce their charity . Poor Turlygod ! poor Tom , That’s something yet : Edgar I nothing am . [ Exit . ] SCENE IV . Before Gloucester’s Castle ; Kent in the stocks Enter Lear , Fool and Gentleman . LEAR . ’ Tis strange that they should so depart from home , And not send back my messenger . GENTLEMAN . As I learn’d , The night before there was no purpose in them Of this remove . KENT . Hail to thee , noble master ! LEAR . Ha ! Mak’st thou this shame thy pastime ? KENT . No , my lord . FOOL . Ha , ha ! he wears cruel garters . Horses are tied by the heads ; dogs and bears by the neck , monkeys by the loins , and men by the legs : when a man is overlusty at legs , then he wears wooden nether - stocks . LEAR . What’s he that hath so much thy place mistook To set thee here ? KENT . It is both he and she , Your son and daughter . LEAR . No . KENT . Yes . LEAR . No , I say . KENT . I say , yea . LEAR . No , no ; they would not . KENT . Yes , they have . LEAR . By Jupiter , I swear no . KENT . By Juno , I swear ay . LEAR . They durst not do’t . They could not , would not do’t ; ’ tis worse than murder , To do upon respect such violent outrage : Resolve me , with all modest haste , which way Thou mightst deserve or they impose this usage , Coming from us . KENT . My lord , when at their home I did commend your highness ’ letters to them , Ere I was risen from the place that show’d My duty kneeling , came there a reeking post , Stew’d in his haste , half breathless , panting forth From Goneril his mistress salutations ; Deliver’d letters , spite of intermission , Which presently they read ; on those contents , They summon’d up their meiny , straight took horse ; Commanded me to follow and attend The leisure of their answer ; gave me cold looks : And meeting here the other messenger , Whose welcome I perceiv’d had poison’d mine , Being the very fellow which of late Display’d so saucily against your highness , Having more man than wit about me , drew ; He rais’d the house with loud and coward cries . Your son and daughter found this trespass worth The shame which here it suffers . FOOL . Winter’s not gone yet , if the wild geese fly that way . Fathers that wear rags Do make their children blind , But fathers that bear bags Shall see their children kind . Fortune , that arrant whore , Ne’er turns the key to th ’ poor . But for all this , thou shalt have as many dolours for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year .
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