Gon. And let his knights have colder looks among you;
What grows of it, no matter; advise your fellows so: 24
I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall,
That I may speak: I'll write straight to my sister
To hold my very course. Prepare for dinner.
Scene Four
[The same]
Enter Kent [disguised.]
Kent. If but as well I other accents borrow,
That can my speech diffuse, my good intent
May carry through itself to that full issue
For which I raz'd my likeness. Now, banish'd Kent, 4
If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd,
So may it come, thy master, whom thou lov'st,
Shall find thee full of labours.
Horns within. Enter Lear, [Knights,] and Attendants.
Lear. Let me not stay a jot for dinner: go,
get it ready. [Exit an Attendant.] How now!
what art thou? 10
Kent. A man, sir.
Lear. What dost thou profess? What wouldst
thou with us?
Kent. I do profess to be no less than I seem;
to serve him truly that will put me in trust; to
2 diffuse: disguise
3 carry through: accomplish
issue: conclusion
4 raz'd: erased
12 dost . . . profess: is thy profession
