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| <H3>SCENE III. The Duke of Albany's palace.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter GONERIL, and OSWALD, her steward</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>GONERIL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>OSWALD</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=2>Yes, madam.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>GONERIL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=3>By day and night he wrongs me; every hour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>He flashes into one gross crime or other,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>That sets us all at odds: I'll not endure it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>On every trifle. When he returns from hunting,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>I will not speak with him; say I am sick:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>If you come slack of former services,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>You shall do well; the fault of it I'll answer.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>OSWALD</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=11>He's coming, madam; I hear him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Horns within</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>GONERIL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=12>Put on what weary negligence you please,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>You and your fellows; I'll have it come to question:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>If he dislike it, let him to our sister,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>Whose mind and mine, I know, in that are one,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Not to be over-ruled. Idle old man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>That still would manage those authorities</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>That he hath given away! Now, by my life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>Old fools are babes again; and must be used</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>With cheques as flatteries,--when they are seen abused.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>Remember what I tell you.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>OSWALD</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=22>Well, madam.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>GONERIL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=23>And let his knights have colder looks among you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>What grows of it, no matter; advise your fellows so:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>That I may speak: I'll write straight to my sister,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>To hold my very course. Prepare for dinner.</A><br> | |
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