_Lear._ Dost thou know me, fellow? 25 _Kent._ No, sir; but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master. _Lear._ What's that?[2804] _Kent._ Authority. _Lear._ What services canst thou do?[2805] 30 _Kent._ I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a[2806] curious tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message bluntly: that which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of me is diligence. _Lear._ How old art thou? 35 _Kent._ Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing,[2807] nor so old to dote on her for any thing: I have years on my back forty eight. _Lear._ Follow me; thou shalt serve me: if I like thee no[2808][2809] worse after dinner, I will not part from thee yet. Dinner,[2809][2810] 40 ho, dinner! Where's my knave? my fool? Go you, and[2810] call my fool hither. [_Exit an Attendant._[2811] _Enter_ OSWALD.[2812] You, you, sirrah, where's my daughter?[2813] _Osw._ So please you,-- [_Exit._[2814] _Lear._ What says the fellow there? Call the clotpoll[2815] 45 back. [_Exit a Knight._] Where's my fool, ho? I think[2816] the world's asleep. _Re-enter_ Knight.[2817] How now! where's that mongrel? _Knight._ He says, my lord, your daughter is not well.[2818] _Lear._ Why came not the slave back to me when I 50 called him? _Knight._ Sir, he answered me in the roundest manner,[2819][2820] he would not. _Lear._ He would not![2821] _Knight._ My lord, I know not what the matter is; but,[2819] 55 to my judgement, your highness is not entertained with that ceremonious affection as you were wont; there's a great abatement of kindness appears as well in the general dependants[2822] as in the duke himself also and your daughter. _Lear._ Ha! sayest thou so? 60 _Knight._ I beseech you, pardon me, my lord, if I be[2819] mistaken; for my duty cannot be silent when I think your highness wronged.[2823] _Lear._ Thou but rememberest me of mine own conception:[2824] I have perceived a most faint neglect of late; which I[2825] 65 have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity than as[2826] a very pretence and purpose of unkindness: I will look[2827] further into't. But where's my fool? I have not seen him[2828] this two days.[2829] _Knight._ Since my young lady's going into France, sir,[2830] 70 the fool hath much pined away. _Lear._ No more of that; I have noted it well. Go you,[2831] and tell my daughter I would speak with her. [_Exit an[2832] Attendant._] Go you, call hither my fool. [_Exit an Attendant._