Page 1840 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

And dotage terms so.

LEAR
O sides! you are too tough; [195]
Will you yet hold? How came my man i’th’stocks?

CORNWALL
I set him there, Sir; but his own disorders
Deserv’d much less advancement.

LEAR
You! did you?

REGAN
I pray you, father, being weak, seem so.
If, till the expiration of your month, [200]
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.

LEAR
Return to her? and fifty men dismiss’d? [205]
No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
To wage against the enmity o’th’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 [210]

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. [215]