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The Duke of Albany's palace.
[Enter GONERIL, and OSWALD, her steward]
GONERIL
Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool?
OSWALD
Aye madam.
GONERIL
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By day | and night,| he wrongs | me, eve|ry hour
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He flash|es in|to one | gross crime, or other,
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That sets | us all | at odds.| I'll not | endure
it:
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His knights | grow ri/otous, and | himself |
upbraids us
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On eve|ry trifle.| When he re|turns from |
hunting,
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I will / not speak | with him,/ say I | am sick,
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If you come slack | of form|er serv|ices,
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You shall / do well,| the fault | of it I'll |
answer.
OSWALD
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He's com|ing mad|am, I | hear him.|
[Horns within]
GONERIL
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Put on | what wea|ry neg|ligence | you please,
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You and your | fellows:| I'll have it | come to |
question;
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If he | dislike it,| let him | to our | sister,
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Whose mind | and mine | I know | in that | are
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Not to | be ove|r-ruled.| Idle old man,
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That still | would man|age those | autho|rities
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That he | hath given | away.| Now* by | my life,
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Old fools are babes | again,| and must | be used
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With checks | as flat|teries, when | they are
seen | abused.
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Remem|ber what | I have / said.
OSWALD
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Well | madam.
GONERIL
And let his knights have colder looks among you: what grows of it no matter,
advise your fellows so, I'll write straight to my sister to hold my course;
prepare for dinner.
[Exeunt]