Scene Four
[The Heath. Before a Hovel]
Enter Lear, Kent, and Fool.
Kent. Here is the place, my lord; good my lord, enter:
The tyranny of the open night's too rough
For nature to endure. Storm still.
Lear. Let me alone.
Kent. Good my lord, enter here.
Lear. Wilt break my heart? 4
Kent. I'd rather break mine own. Good my lord, enter.
Lear. Thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm
Invades us to the skin: so 'tis to thee;
But where the greater malady is fix'd, 8
The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'dst shun a bear;
But if thy flight lay toward the roaring sea,
Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free
The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind 12
Doth from my senses take all feeling else
Save what beats there. Filial ingratitude!
Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand
For lifting food to 't? But I will punish home: 16
No, I will weep no more. In such a night
To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure.
In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril!
Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all,— 20
O! that way madness lies; let me shun that;
No more of that.
Kent. Good, my lord, enter here.
