Must be their schoolmasters: Shut up your doors; And what they may incense him to, being apt Corn. Shut up your doors, my lord; 'tis a wild night; My Regan counsels well: come out o'the storm. [Exeunt. ACT III. SCENE I. A Heath. A Storm is heard, with Thunder and Lightning. Enter KENT, and a Gentleman, meeting. Kent. Who's here, beside foul weather? Gent. One minded like the weather, most unquietly. Kent. I know you; Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful element: Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change, or cease: tears his white hair; Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear2 would' couch, The lion and the belly-pinched wolf the cub-drawn bear-] i. e. whose dugs are drawn dry by its young. For no animals leave their dens by night but for prey. Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, Kent. But who is with him? Gent. None but the fool; who labours to out-jest His heart-struck injuries. Kent. Sir, I do know you; And dare, upon the warrant of my art,3 Commend a dear thing to you. There is division, With mutual cunning, 'twixt Albany and Cornwall; To make your speed to Dover, you shall find I am a gentleman of blood and breeding; 3 the warrant of my art,] On the strength my skill in physiognomy. Either in snuffs and packings-] Snuffs are dislikes, and packings underhand contrivances. are but furnishings;] Or samples. 6 have secret feet] i. e. secret footing. Gent. I will talk further with you. Kent. No, do not. For confirmation that I am much more That yet you do not know. Fye on this storm! Gent. Give me your hand: Have you no more to say? Kent. Few words, but, to effect, more than all yet; That, when we have found the king, (in which your pain That way; I'll this :) he that first lights on him, Holla the other. [Exeunt severally. SCENE II. Another Part of the Heath. Storm continues. Enter LEAR and Fool. Lear. Blow, wind, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts, and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing' fires, 7-thought-executing-] Doing execution with rapidity equal to thought. Vaunt couriers-] Avant couriers, Fr. This phrase is not unfamiliar to other writers of Shakspeare's time. It originally meant the foremost scouts of an army. Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once, Fool. O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry house is better than this rain-water out o'door. Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters blessing; here's a night pities neither wise men nor fools. Lear. Rumble thy bellyfull! Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: That have with two pernicious daughters join'd Fool. He that has a house to put his head in, has a good head-piece. The cod-piece that will house, So beggars marry many. The man that makes his toe What he his heart should make, Shall of a corn cry woe, And turn his sleep to wake. for there was never yet fair woman, but she made mouths in a glass. 9 court holy-water-] proverbial for fair words. You owe me no subscription;] Subscription for obedience. GG 2 Enter KENT. Lear. No, I will be the pattern of all patience, I will say nothing. Kent. Who's there? Fool. Marry, here's grace, and a cod-piece; that's a wise man, and a fool. Kent. Alas, sir, are you here? things that love night, Love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies Gallow the very wanderers of the dark, And make them keep their caves: Since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never Remember to have heard: man's nature cannot carry The affliction, nor the fear. Lear. Let the great gods, Unwhipp'd of justice: Hide thee, thou bloody hand; These dreadful summoners grace.-I am a man, Kent. Alack, bare-headed! Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel; Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest; Repose you there: while I to this hard house, Gallow-] signifies to scare or frighten. 3 concealing continents,] Continent stands for that which contains or incloses. * These dreadful summoners grace.] Summoners are here the officers that summon offenders before a proper tribunal. |