_Fool._ Mark it, nuncle:[2860] Have more than thou showest,[2861] Speak less than thou knowest,[2861] Lend less than thou owest,[2861] 115 Ride more than thou goest,[2861] Learn more than thou trowest,[2861] Set less than thou throwest;[2861] Leave thy drink and thy whore,[2861] And keep in-a-door,[2861][2862] 120 And thou shalt have more[2861] Than two tens to a score.[2861] _Kent._ This is nothing, fool.[2863] _Fool._ Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer,[2864] you gave me nothing for't. Can you make no use of[2865] 125 nothing, nuncle?[2866] _Lear._ Why, no, boy; nothing can be made out of nothing. _Fool._ [To Kent] Prithee, tell him, so much the rent of[2867] his land comes to: he will not believe a fool. 130 _Lear._ A bitter fool![2868] _Fool._ Dost thou know the difference, my boy, between[2868][2869] a bitter fool and a sweet fool?[2868][2870] _Lear._ No, lad; teach me.[2868] _Fool._ That lord that counsell'd thee[2871][2872][2873] 135 To give away thy land,[2872][2873] Come place him here by me;[2872][2873] Do thou for him stand:[2872][2873][2874] The sweet and bitter fool[2872][2873] Will presently appear;[2872][2873] The one in motley here,[2872][2873] 140 The other found out there.[2872][2873] _Lear._ Dost thou call me fool, boy?[2872][2875] _Fool._ All thy other titles thou hast given away; that[2872] thou wast born with.[2872] 145 _Kent._ This is not altogether fool, my lord.[2872] _Fool._ No, faith, lords and great men will not let me; if[2872] I had a monopoly out, they would have part on't: and[2872][2876][2877] ladies too, they will not let me have all the fool to myself;[2872][2877][2878] they'll be snatching. Give me an egg, nuncle, and I'll give[2872][2879] 150 thee two crowns. _Lear._ What two crowns shall they be? _Fool._ Why, after I have cut the egg in the middle and[2880] eat up the meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou clovest thy crown i' the middle and gavest away both parts,[2881] 155 thou borest thine ass on thy back o'er the dirt: thou hadst[2882] little wit in thy bald crown when thou gavest thy golden one away. If I speak like myself in this, let him be whipped[2883] that first finds it so.[2884] [_Singing_] Fools had ne'er less wit in a year;[2885][2886] 160 For wise men are grown foppish, And know not how their wits to wear,[2887] Their manners are so apish. _Lear._ When were you wont to be so full of songs, sirrah?[2888]