I pray you, father, being weak, seem so. If till the expiration of your month You will return and sojourn with my sister, Dismissing half your train, come then to me.

I pray you, father, being weak, seem so.
If till the expiration of your month
You will return and sojourn with my sister,
Dismissing half your train, come then to me.

– William Shakespeare

King Lear, Act 2, Scene 4. The fundamental shift in power is again shown here when Regan tells Lear that since he is weak to act like it. She instructs him to get rid of half his knights, return to spend the rest of the month with Goneril, then he can come back to stay with her.

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