Draw, you whoreson, cullionly barber-monger,
draw. 37
Osw. Away! I have nothing to do with thee.
Kent. Draw, you rascal; you come with let-
ters against the king, and take vanity the pup-
pet's part against the royalty of her father.
Draw, you rogue, or I'll so carbonado your
shanks: draw, you rascal; come your ways.
Osw. Help, ho! murder! help! 44
Kent. Strike, you slave; stand, rogue, stand;
you neat slave, strike. [Beating him.]
Osw. Help, oh! murder! murder!
Enter Bastard [Edmund], Cornwall, Regan, Gloucester, [and] Servants.
Edm. How now! What's the matter? 48
Kent. With you, goodman boy, if you please: come,
I'll flesh ye; come on, young master.
Glo. Weapons! arms! What's the matter here?
Corn. Keep peace, upon your lives: 52
He dies that strikes again. What is the matter?
Reg. The messengers from our sister and the king.
Corn. What is your difference? speak.
Osw. I am scarce in breath, my lord. 56
Kent. No marvel, you have so bestirred your
valour. You cowardly rascal, nature disclaims
in thee: a tailor made thee.
Corn. Thou art a strange fellow; a tailor
make a man? 61
Kent. Ay, a tailor, sir: a stone-cutter or a
36 cullionly: knavish
barber-monger: patron of the barber's shop
40 vanity the puppet's: Vanity, a personified character in the Morality plays
42 carbonado: slice
46 neat: mere, very
49 goodman: a plebeian form of address
58 disclaims: claims no share