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Gon. This admiration, sir, is much o' the favour

Of other your new pranks. I do beseech you

To understand my purposes aright:

As you are old and reverend, should be wise.

Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires;

Men so disorder'd, so debosh'd, and bold,

That this our court, infected with their manners,

Shows like a riotous inn: epicurism and lust

Make it more like a tavern or a brothel

Than a grac'd palace. The shame itself doth speak

For instant remedy; be then desir'd,

By her that else will take the thing she begs,

A little to disquantity your train;

And the remainder, that shall still depend,

To be such men as may besort your age,

Which know themselves and you.

Lear. Darkness and devils!

Saddle my horses; call my train together.

Degenerate bastard! I'll not trouble thee:

Yet have I left a daughter.

Gon. You strike my people, and your disorder'd rabble

Make servants of their betters.

Lear. Woe, that too late repents;

[To Albany.] O! sir, are you come?

Is it your will? Speak, sir. Prepare my horses.

Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,

More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child,

Than the sea-monster.

 260 admiration: sign of wonder

265 disorder'd: disorderly

debosh'd: debauched

272 disquantity: reduce

273 depend: remain dependants

274 besort: befit

