[_Exeunt Lear, Kent, and Attendants._[2993] _Gon._ Do you mark that, my lord?[2994] 305 _Alb._ I cannot be so partial, Goneril, To the great love I bear you,--[2995][2996] _Gon._ Pray you, content. What, Oswald, ho![2995][2997][2998] [_To the Fool_] You, sir, more knave than fool, after your master.[2995][2997][2999] _Fool_. Nuncle Lear, nuncle Lear, tarry; take the fool[3000][3001] 310 with thee.[3000][3002] A fox, when one has caught her,[3002] And such a daughter, Should sure to the slaughter, If my cap would buy a halter:[3003] 315 So the fool follows after. [_Exit._[3004] _Gon_. This man hath had good counsel: a hundred knights![3005][3006] 'Tis politic and safe to let him keep[3005][3007] At point a hundred knights: yes, that on every dream,[3008] Each buzz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike, 320 He may enguard his dotage with their powers And hold our lives in mercy. Oswald, I say![3009] _Alb._ Well, you may fear too far. _Gon._ Safer than trust too far:[3010] Let me still take away the harms I fear, Not fear still to be taken: I know his heart.[3011] 325 What he hath utter'd I have writ my sister: If she sustain him and his hundred knights,[3012] When I have show'd the unfitness,-- _Re-enter_ OSWALD.[3013] How now, Oswald![3014] What, have you writ that letter to my sister?[3014][3015] _Osw._ Yes, madam.[3016] 330 _Gon._ Take you some company, and away to horse:[3017] Inform her full of my particular fear,[3018] And thereto add such reasons of your own As may compact it more. Get you gone;[3019] And hasten your return. [_Exit Oswald._] No, no, my lord,[3020] 335 This milky gentleness and course of yours[3021] Though I condemn not, yet, under pardon,[3022] You are much more attask'd for want of wisdom[3023] Than praised for harmful mildness.[3024] _Alb._ How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell:[3025] 340 Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.[3025][3026] _Gon._ Nay, then--[3027] _Alb._ Well, well; the event. [_Exeunt._[3028] SCENE V. _Court before the same._ _Enter_ LEAR, KENT, _and_ Fool.[3029] _Lear._ Go you before to Gloucester with these letters.[3030] Acquaint my daughter no further with any thing you know than comes from her demand out of the letter. If your diligence be not speedy, I shall be there afore you.[3031] _Kent._ I will not sleep, my lord, till I have delivered 5 your letter. [_Exit._