No Fear Shakespeare: King Lear: Act 1, scene v

	LEAR
	No.

LEAR

No.

	FOOL
	Why, to keep one's eyes of either side 's nose, that what a
20	man cannot smell out, he may spy into.

FOOL

Why, to keep the eyes on the sides, so that you can see anything that you can't sniff out.

	LEAR
	I did her wrong—

LEAR

I was wrong to her—

	FOOL
	Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell?

FOOL

Do you know how an oyster makes its shell?

	LEAR
	No.

LEAR

No.

	FOOL
	Nor I neither. But I can tell why a snail has a house.

FOOL

Me neither. But I know why a snail carries its house on its back.

	LEAR
25	Why?

LEAR

Why?

	FOOL
	Why, to put 's head in—not to give it away to his daughters
	and leave his horns without a case.

FOOL

So that he always has a roof over his head. He can't give his house away to his daughters, leaving himself without shelter.

	LEAR
	I will forget my nature. So kind a father!—Be my horses
	ready?

LEAR

I want to forget what I am. Such a kind father!—Are my horses ready?

	FOOL
30	Thy asses are gone about 'em. The reason why the seven
	stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason.

FOOL

Your attendant asses are getting the horses ready. There's a nice reason why the constellation Pleiades has only seven stars in it.

	LEAR
	Because they are not eight?

LEAR

Because it doesn't have eight?

	FOOL
	Yes indeed. Thou wouldst make a good fool.

FOOL

That's right. You'd make a good fool.

	LEAR
	To take 't again perforce— Monster ingratitude!

LEAR

I could take back my crown by force—What outrageous ingratitude!