Enter Kent and a Gentleman, severally3 KENT Who’s there, besides foul weather? GENTLEMAN One minded like the weather, most unquietly2. KENT I know you. Where’s the king? GENTLEMAN Contending4 with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea Or swell the curlèd waters ’bove the main6, That things might change or cease. KENT But who is with him? GENTLEMAN None but the fool, who labours to out-jest9 His heart-struck injuries10. KENT Sir, I do know you, And dare, upon the warrant of my note12 Commend a dear thing to you13. There is division — Although as yet the face of it is covered With mutual cunning — ’twixt Albany and Cornwall, Who have — as who have not, that their great stars16 Throned and set high? — servants, who seem no less17, Which are to France the spies and speculations18 Intelligent of19 our state. What hath been seen, Either in snuffs and packings20 of the dukes, Or the hard rein which both of them hath borne21 Against the old kind king, or something deeper, Whereof perchance these are but furnishings23.
