_Lear._ Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow![3579] You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout[3580][3581] Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks![3580][3582] You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,[3580][3583] Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,[3580][3584] 5 Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,[3580][3585] Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world![3580][3586] Crack nature's moulds, all germins spill at once[3580][3587] That make ingrateful man![3580][3588] _Fool._ O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry house is[3589] 10 better than this rain-water out o' door. Good nuncle, in,[3589][3590] and ask thy daughters' blessing: here's a night pities[3589][3591] neither wise man nor fool.[3589][3592] _Lear._ Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain![3593] Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: 15 I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;[3594] I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,[3595] You owe me no subscription: then let fall[3596][3597] Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave,[3596][3598] A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man:[3596] 20 But yet I call you servile ministers,[3596] That have with two pernicious daughters join'd[3596][3599] Your high-engender'd battles 'gainst a head[3596][3600] So old and white as this. O! O! 'tis foul![3596][3601] _Fool._ He that has a house to put's head in has a good[3602] 25 head-piece. The cod-piece that will house[3603] Before the head has any,[3603] The head and he shall louse;[3603] So beggars marry many.[3603] 30 The man that makes his toe[3603][3604] What he his heart should make[3603][3605] Shall of a corn cry woe,[3603][3606] And turn his sleep to wake.[3603] For there was never yet fair woman but she made mouths[3607] 35 in a glass. _Lear._ No, I will be the pattern of all patience;[3608] I will say nothing. _Enter_ KENT. _Kent._ Who's there? _Fool._ Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a 40 wise man and a fool. _Kent._ Alas, sir, are you here? things that love night[3609][3610] Love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies[3609] Gallow the very wanderers of the dark,[3609][3611] And make them keep their caves: since I was man,[3609][3612] 45 Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,[3609] Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never[3609][3613] Remember to have heard: man's nature cannot carry[3609] The affliction nor the fear.[3609]