The Historie of King Lear.
625Foole. Let me hire him too, heer's my coxcombe.
¶Lear. How now my prety knaue, how do'
st thou
?
¶Foole. Sirra, you were be
st take my coxcombe.
¶Foole. Why for taking on's part, that's out of fauour,
630nay and
thou can'
st not
smile as the wind
sits, thou't catch
¶cold
shortly,
there take my coxcombe; why this fellow
¶hath bani
sht two
on's daughters, and done the third a
¶ble
ssing again
st his will, if
thou follow him, thou mu
st
¶needs weare my coxcombe, how
now nuncle, would
635I had two coxcombes, and two daughters.
¶Foole. If I gaue them any liuing, id'e keepe my cox
¶combs
my
selfe, ther's mine, beg another of thy
¶daughters.
640Lear. Take heede
sirra, the whip.
¶Foole. Truth is a dog that mu
st to kenell, hee mu
st bee
¶whipt
out, when Ladie oth'e brach may
stand by the fire
¶and
stincke.
¶Lear. A pe
stilent gull to mee.
645Foole. Sirra ile teach thee a
speech.
¶ Lear. Doe.
¶Foole. Marke it vncle;
¶haue more then thou
shewe
st,
¶speake
le
sse then thou knowe
st,
650lend le
sse then thou owe
st,
¶ride more
then thou goe
st,
¶learne more then thou trowe
st,
¶set le
sse then
thou throwe
st,
¶leaue thy drinke and thy whore,
655and keepe in a
doore,
¶and thou
shalt haue more,
¶then two tens to a
score.
¶Lear. This is nothing foole.
¶Foole. Then like the breath of an vnfeed Lawyer,
660you gaue
me nothing for't, can you make no v
se of no
¶thing vncle?
¶Lear. Why no boy,
¶nothing can be made out of nothing.
¶Foole. Preethe tell him
so much the rent of his land
665comes to,
he will not beleeue a foole.
¶Foole. Doo'
st know the difference my boy, be
¶tweene a bitter
foole, and a sweete foole.
¶Lear. No lad, teach mee.
Foole. That Lord that counsail'd thee to giue away thy land,
Come place him heere by mee, doe thou for him stand,
The sweet and bitter foole will presently appeare,
The one in motley here, the other found out there.
Lear. Do'st thou call mee foole boy?
