_Lear._ Ha![3319][3320] 5 Makest thou this shame thy pastime?[3320] _Kent._ No, my lord.[3321] _Fool._ Ha, ha! he wears cruel garters. Horses are tied[3322][3323] by the heads, dogs and bears by the neck, monkeys by the[3322][3324] loins, and men by the legs: when a man's over-lusty at[3322][3325] legs, then he wears wooden nether-stocks.[3322][3326] 10 _Lear._ What's he that hath so much thy place mistook[3327] To set thee here?[3327] _Kent._ It is both he and she;[3328] Your son and daughter.[3328] _Lear._ No. _Kent._ Yes. 15 _Lear._ No, I say. _Kent._ I say, yea.[3329] _Lear._ No, no, they would not.[3330] _Kent._ Yes, they have.[3330] _Lear._ By Jupiter, I swear, no. 20 _Kent._ By Juno, I swear, ay.[3331] _Lear._ They durst not do't;[3332] They could not, would not do't; 'tis worse than murder,[3332][3333] To do upon respect such violent outrage: Resolve me with all modest haste which way Thou mightst deserve, or they impose, this usage,[3334] 25 Coming from us. _Kent._ My lord, when at their home I did commend your highness' letters to them, Ere I was risen from the place that show'd[3335] My duty kneeling, came there a reeking post,[3336] Stew'd in his haste, half breathless, panting forth[3337] 30 From Goneril his mistress salutations;[3338] Deliver'd letters, spite of intermission,[3339] Which presently they read: on whose contents[3340] They summon'd up their meiny, straight took horse;[3341] Commanded me to follow and attend 35 The leisure of their answer; gave me cold looks: And meeting here the other messenger,[3342] Whose welcome, I perceived, had poison'd mine-- Being the very fellow that of late[3343] Display'd so saucily against your highness-- 40 Having more man than wit about me, drew:[3344] He raised the house with loud and coward cries. Your son and daughter found this trespass worth The shame which here it suffers.[3345] _Fool._ Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.[3346][3347] 45 Fathers that wear rags[3346][3348] Do make their children blind;[3346][3348] But fathers that bear bags[3346][3348] Shall see their children kind.[3346][3348] Fortune, that arrant whore,[3346][3348] 50 Ne'er turns the key to the poor.[3346][3348] But, for all this, thou shalt have as many dolours for thy[3346][3349][3350] daughters as thou canst tell in a year.[3346][3349]