_Kent._ That such a slave as this should wear a sword, Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,[3216] Like rats, oft bite the holy cords a-twain[3217] Which are too intrinse to unloose; smooth every passion[3218] 70 That in the natures of their lords rebel;[3219] Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods;[3220] Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks[3221] With every gale and vary of their masters,[3222] Knowing nought, like dogs, but following.[3223][3224] 75 A plague upon your epileptic visage![3223] Smile you my speeches, as I were a fool?[3223][3225] Goose, if I had you upon Sarum plain,[3226] I'ld drive ye cackling home to Camelot.[3227] _Corn._ What, art thou mad, old fellow?[3228] 80 _Glou._ How fell you out? say that.[3228][3229] _Kent._ No contraries hold more antipathy Than I and such a knave. _Corn._ Why dost thou call him knave? What is his fault?[3230] _Kent._ His countenance likes me not. 85 _Corn._ No more perchance does mine, nor his, nor hers.[3231] _Kent._ Sir, 'tis my occupation to be plain: I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulders that I see[3232] Before me at this instant. _Corn._ This is some fellow,[3233][3234] 90 Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect[3233] A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb[3233][3235] Quite from his nature: he cannot flatter, he,--[3233][3236] An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth![3233][3237] An they will take it, so; if not, he's plain.[3233][3238] 95 These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness[3233][3239] Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends[3233][3240] Than twenty silly ducking observants[3233][3241] That stretch their duties nicely.[3233] _Kent._ Sir, in good faith, in sincere verity,[3242] 100 Under the allowance of your great aspect,[3243] Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire On flickering Phœbus' front,-- _Corn._ What mean'st by this?[3244] _Kent._ To go out of my dialect, which you discommend[3245] so much. I know, sir, I am no flatterer: he that beguiled[3246] 105 you in a plain accent was a plain knave; which, for my part, I will not be, though I should win your displeasure to[3247] entreat me to't.[3247][3248] _Corn._ What was the offence you gave him?[3249]