Scene III

By day and night he wrongs me; every hour
He flashes into one gross crime or other,
That sets us all at odds: I’ll not endure it:
His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraidsscolds or reproaches us
On every trifle. When he returns from hunting,
I will not speak with him; say I am sick:
If you come slackless attentive or prompt of former services,
You shall do well; the fault of it I’ll answer.

Put on what weary negligence you please,
You and your fellows; I’ll have it come to question:
If he dislike it, let him to our sister,
Whose mind and mine, I know, in that are one,
Not to be over-ruled. Idle old man,
That still would manage those authorities
That he hath given away! Now, by my life,
Old fools are babes again; and must be used
With chequesrebukes or restraints as flatteries⁠—when they are seen abused.
Remember what I tell you.

And let his knights have colder looks among you;
What grows of it, no matter; advise your fellows so:
I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall,
That I may speak: I’ll write straight to my sister,
To hold my very course. Prepare for dinner. Exeunt.