SCENE V.
Enter Kent, and Steward, severally.
Stew.
4 note
Good dawning to thee, friend. Art of this house?
Kent.
Ay.
Stew.
Where may we set our horses?
Kent.
I'th' mire.
Stew.
Pr'ythee, if thou lov'st me, tell me.
Kent.
I love thee not.
Stew.
Why then I care not for thee.
Kent.
If I had thee in 5 noteLipsbury pinfold, I would
make thee care for me.
Stew.
Why dost thou use me thus? I know thee
not.
Kent.
Fellow, I know thee.
Stew.
What dost thou know me for?
Kent.
A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats,
a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound,
filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lilly-liver'd,
action-taking knave; a whorson, glass-gazing,
super-serviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting
slave; one that would'st be a bawd in way of
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good service; and art nothing but the composition of
a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and
heir of a mungril bitch; one whom I will beat into
clam'rous whining, if thou deny'st the least syllable
of thy addition.
Stew.
Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus
to rail on one, that is neither known of thee, nor
knows thee?
Kent
What a brazen-fac'd varlet art thou, to deny
thou know'st me? Is it two days ago, since I tript
up thy heels, and beat thee before the King? Draw,
you rogue; for tho' it be night, yet the moon shines;
6 note
I'll make a sop o'th' moonshine of you. You whoreson,
cullionly * notebarber-monger, draw.
[Drawing his sword.
Stew.
Away, I have nothing to do with thee.
Kent.
Draw, you rascal. You come with letters
against the King; and take 7 noteVanity the Puppet's
part, against the royalty of her father. Draw, you
rogue, or I'll so carbonado your shanks—Draw, you
rascal. Come your ways.
Stew.
Help, ho! murder! help!—
Kent.
Strike, you slave. Stand, rogue, stand, you
† noteneat slave, strike.
[Beating him.
Stew.
Help ho! murder! murder!—
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Samuel Johnson [1765], The plays of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of Various Commentators; To which are added notes by Sam. Johnson (Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and] C. Corbet [etc.], London) [word count] [S11001].
