_Gon._ By day and night he wrongs me; every hour[2773][2774] He flashes into one gross crime or other,[2774] 5 That sets us all at odds: I'll not endure it: His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us[2775] On every trifle. When he returns from hunting,[2776] I will not speak with him; say I am sick: If you come slack of former services, 10 You shall do well; the fault of it I'll answer. _Osw._ He's coming, madam; I hear him. [_Horns within._[2777] _Gon._ Put on what weary negligence you please,[2778][2779] You and your fellows; I'ld have it come to question:[2778][2780] If he distaste it, let him to our sister,[2778][2781] 15 Whose mind and mine, I know, in that are one,[2778] Not to be over-ruled. Idle old man,[2782] That still would manage those authorities[2782] That he hath given away! Now, by my life,[2782] Old fools are babes again, and must be used[2782][2783] 20 With checks as flatteries, when they are seen abused.[2782][2784] Remember what I tell you. _Osw._ Very well, madam.[2785] _Gon._ And let his knights have colder looks among you;[2786] What grows of it, no matter; advise your fellows so:[2786][2787] I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall,[2788] 25 That I may speak: I'll write straight to my sister,[2788][2789] To hold my very course. Prepare for dinner. [_Exeunt._[2789][2790] SCENE IV. _A hall in the same._ _Enter_ KENT, _disguised_.[2791] _Kent._ If but as well I other accents borrow,[2792][2793] That can my speech defuse, my good intent[2792][2794] May carry through itself to that full issue[2792] For which I razed my likeness. Now, banish'd Kent,[2792][2795] If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd,[2792] 5 So may it come, thy master whom thou lovest[2792][2796] Shall find thee full of labours.[2792] _Horns within. Enter_ LEAR, Knights, _and_ Attendants.[2797] _Lear._ Let me not stay a jot for dinner; go get it ready. [_Exit an Attendant._] How now! what art thou?[2798] _Kent._ A man, sir. 10 _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[2799] 15 judgement; to fight when I cannot choose, and to eat no fish. _Lear._ What art thou?[2800] _Kent._ A very honest-hearted fellow, and as poor as the king. _Lear._ If thou be as poor for a subject as he is for a[2801] 20 king, thou art poor enough. What wouldst thou?[2802] _Kent._ Service. _Lear._ Who wouldst thou serve?[2803] _Kent._ You.