_Lear._ O, reason not the need: our basest beggars[3504] Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life's as cheap as beast's: thou art a lady;[3505] If only to go warm were gorgeous, 265 Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,[3506] Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But for true need,--[3507] You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need![3508] You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,[3509] As full of grief as age; wretched in both: 270 If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts[3510] Against their father, fool me not so much[3511] To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,[3512] And let not women's weapons, water-drops,[3513] Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, 275 I will have such revenges on you both[3514] That all the world shall--I will do such things,--[3515] What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep;[3516] No, I'll not weep:[3517] 280 I have full cause of weeping; but this heart[3517][3518] Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,[3517][3519] Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad! [_Exeunt Lear, Gloucester, Kent, and Fool._[3520] _Corn._ Let us withdraw; 'twill be a storm. [_Storm and tempest._[3521][3522] _Reg._ This house is little: the old man and his people[3522][3523] 285 Cannot be well bestow'd.[3522][3524] _Gon._ 'Tis his own blame; hath put himself from rest,[3522][3525] And must needs taste his folly.[3522][3526] _Reg._ For his particular, I'll receive him gladly, But not one follower. _Gon._ So am I purposed.[3527][3528] 290 Where is my lord of Gloucester?[3528] _Corn._ Follow'd the old man forth: he is return'd.[3529] _Re-enter_ GLOUCESTER. _Glou._ The king is in high rage. _Corn._ Whither is he going?[3530][3531] _Glou._ He calls to horse; but will I know not whither.[3530][3532] _Corn._ 'Tis best to give him way; he leads himself.[3533] 295 _Gon._ My lord, entreat him by no means to stay. _Glou._ Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds[3534] Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about[3535][3536] There's scarce a bush.[3535][3537] _Reg._ O, sir, to wilful men The injuries that they themselves procure 300 Must be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors: He is attended with a desperate train; And what they may incense him to, being apt[3538] To have his ear abused, wisdom bids fear.