Page 1828 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

REGAN

Till noon! till night, my Lord; and all night too.

KENT
Why, Madam, if I were your father’s dog,
You should not use me so.

REGAN
Sir, being his knave, I will. [130]

CORNWALL
This is a fellow of the self-same colour

Our sister speaks of. Come, bring away the stocks.
(Stocks brought out.)

GLOUCESTER
Let me beseech your Grace not to do so.
His fault is much, and the good King his master
Will check him for’t: your purpos’d low correction [135]

Is such as basest and contemned’st wretches
For pilf’rings and most common trespasses
Are punish’d with: the King must take it ill,

That he, so slightly valued in his messenger,
Should have him thus restrained.

CORNWALL
I’ll answer that. [140]

REGAN
My sister may receive it much more worse
To have her gentleman abus’d, assaulted,
For following her affairs. Put in his legs.

(Kent is put in the stocks.)

CORNWALL
Come, my Lord, away.
(Exeunt all but Gloucester and Kent.)