Page 1917 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

Requires a fitter place.

ALBANY
Sir, by your patience, [60]
I hold you but a subject of this war,
Not as a brother.

REGAN
That’s as we list to grace him;

Methinks our pleasure might have been demanded,
Ere you had spoke so far. He led our powers,
Bore the commission of my place and person; [65]
The which immediacy may well stand up,

And call itself your brother.

GONERIL
Not so hot;
In his own grace he doth exalt himself
More than in your addition.

REGAN
In my rights,

By me invested, he compeers the best. [70]

ALBANY
That were the most, if he should husband you.

REGAN
Jesters do oft prove prophets.

GONERIL
Holla, holla!
That eye that told you so look’d but a-squint.

REGAN
Lady, I am not well; else I should answer

From a full-flowing stomach. General, [75]