SCENE V.
Enter Kent, and Steward, severally.
Stew.
8 noteGood downing 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.
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Kent.
I love thee not.
Stew.
Why then I care not for thee.
Kent.
If I had thee in Lipsbury 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 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
clamr'ous 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;
9 note
I'll make a sop o'th' moonshine of you; you whorson,
cullionly, barber-monger, draw.
[Drawing his sword.
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Stew.
Away, I have nothing to do with thee.
Kent.
Draw, you rascal; you come with letters
against the King; and take Vanity, 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! murther! help!—
Kent.
Strike, you slave; stand, rogue, stand, you
neat slave, strike.
[Beating him.
Stew.
Help ho! murther! murther!—
Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
