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King Lear · King Lear

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The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare, Act one, seen one a
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room of state in King Lear's palace, Enter Kent, Gloucester and Edmund Kent.
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I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall Gloucester.
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It did always seem so to us. But now in the division of
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the kingdom it appears not which of the dukes he values most, For equalities
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are so weighed that curiosity in neither can make choice of either's moiety. Is
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not this your son, my lord? His breathing, Sir, hath been
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at my charge. I have so often blushed to acknowledge him, that now
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I am brazed to it. I cannot conceive you, Sir, this young
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fellow's mother could. Whereupon she grew round wound, and had indeed, Sir
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a son for her cradle. Ere she had a husband for her bed.
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Do you smell a fault? I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue
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of it being so proper. But I have Sir a son by order of
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law, some year elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my
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account. Though this knave came something saucily into the world before he was sent
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for. Yet was his mother fair? There was good sport at his making,
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and the horse un must be acknowledged. Do you know this, noble
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gentleman Edmund? No, my Lord, my Lord of Kent, remember him
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hereafter as my honorable friend. My services to your lordship. I must love
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you, ensue to know you better, Sir, I shall study deserving he
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hath been out nine years, and away he shall again. The king is
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coming. Sound a senate enter, one bearing a coronet. Enter, King
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Lear, Cornwall, Albany, Goneril Reagan, Cordelia and attendants Lear attend the
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lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester. I shall, my Liege Exeant Gloucester
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and Edmund. Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map
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there. Know that we have divided in three our kingdom, and tis our
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fast intent to shake all cares and business from our age, conferring them on
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younger strengths, while we, unburdened, crawl toward death. Our son of
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Cornwall, and you are no less loving son of Albany. We have this
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hour a constant will to publish our daughter's several hours that future strife may be
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prevented. Now the princes France and Burgundy, great rifles in our youngest daughter's
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love long in our court, have made their amorous sojourn, and here are
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to be answered. Tell me, my daughters, since now we will divest
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us both of rule, interest of territory, cares of state, Which of
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you shall we say doth love us most that we our largest bounty may extend
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where nature doth with merit challenge Goneril, our eldest born, speak first,
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Sir, I love you more than words can wield, the matter dearer than
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eyesight, space, and liberty beyond what can be valued, rich or rare,
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no less than life with grace, health, beauty, honor, as
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much as child heir loved or father found a love that makes breath poor and
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speech unable beyond all manner of so much I love you, Cordelia. What
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shall Cordelia speak love? And be silent of all these bounds? Even from
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this line to this, with shadowy forests and with champaigns riched with plenteous rivers
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and wide skirted meads, we make thee lady to thine in an Albany's issue,
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be this perpetual? What says our second daughter, Ah dearest Reagan wife
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to Cornwall, speak, sir, I am made of the self same metal
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that my sister is, and bries me at her worth in my true art,
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I find she names me very deed of love. Only she comes to
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short that I profess myself an enemy to all other joys which the most precious
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square sense possesses, And find I am alone felicited in your dear Highness's love,
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then, poor Cordelia, And yet not so, since I am sure
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my love's more richer than my tongue to thee and thine hereditary. Ever,
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remain this ample third of our fair kingdom no less in space, validity,
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and pleasure than that conferred on Goneril. Now our joy, although the last
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not least to whose young love the vines of France and milk of Burgundy strive
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to be interested. What can you say to draw a third more opulent than
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your sisters? Speak nothing, my Lord, nothing, nothing, nothing can
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come of nothing. Speak again, unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
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my heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty according to my bond,
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no more, no less. How how Cordelia, mend your speech a little,
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lest you may mar your fortunes. Good, my Lord, you have
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begot me, bred me, loved me. I return those duties back as
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a right fit obey you, love you, and most honor you. Why
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have my sister's husbands if they say they love you all? Haply? When
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I shall wed, that lord whose hand must take my plight, shall carry
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half my love with him, half my care and duty. Sure I shall
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never marry like my sisters to love my father. All but goes thy heart
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with this ay, good, my Lord, so young and so untender,
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So young, my lord and true, Let it be so thy truth,
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then be thy dow For by the sacred radiance of the Sun, the mysteries
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of Acret and the Knight, by all the operation of the orbs, from
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whom we do exist and cease to be here, I disclaim all my paternal
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care, probinquity, and property of blood, and as a stranger to my
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heart and me, hold thee for them. This for ever the Barbara's Scythian,
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or he that makes his generation messes to Gorge's appetite, shall to my
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bosom be as well neighbor, pitied and relieved as thou my sometime daughter.
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Good, my leeche, peace, kent, come not between the dragon and
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his wrath. I lov'd her most, and thought to set my rest on
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her kind nursery to Cordelia, hence and avoid my sight. So be my
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grave my peace. As here I give her father's heart from her call France,
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who stairs call Burgundy, Cornwall and Albany. With my two daughter's dowers,
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digest this third let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her.
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I do invest you joint thee in my power, pre eminence, and all
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the large effects that troop with Majesty ourself by monthly course, with reservation of
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an hundred knights by you to be sustained, shall our abode make with you
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by deutons only we still retain the name and all the additions to a king.
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The sway, revenue, execution of the rest beloved sons be yours,
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which to confirm this coronet part betwixt you, Royal Leir, whom I have
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ever honored as my king, loved as my father, as my master,
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followed as my great patron, thought on in my prayers. The bow is
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bent and drawn, Make from the shaft let it fall, Rather though the
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fok convayed the region of my heart be kent un mannerly when leir is mad?
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What wouldst thou do? Old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have
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dread to speak when power to flattery bows to plainness, honors bound, when
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majesty falls to folly, reverse thy state, and in thy best consideration,
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check this hideous rashness. Answer my life, my judgment, Thy youngest daughter
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does not love the least. Nor are those empty hearted whose low sound reverbs
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no hollowness kent on thy life. No more my life I never held but
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as a pawn to wage against thine enemies, nor fear to lose it,
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Thy safety being the motive out of my sight. See better, lear and
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let me still remain the true blank of thine eye. Now by Apollo,
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Now by Apollo, King, Thou sweartst thy god in vain, all vassal
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mescreant he makes to strike him. Dear sir, forbear, do kill thy
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physician and the fee bestow upon the foul disease, Revoke thy gift. Or
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whilst I can vent clamor from my throat, I'll tell thee thou dost evil
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hear me recreant on thine allegiance hear me, since thou hast sought to make
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us break our vow, which we dost never yet, and with trained pride
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to come between our sentence and our power, which nor our nature nor our
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place can bear. Our potency made good, take thy reward. Five days
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do we allot THEE for provision, to shield THEE from diseases of the world,
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And on the sixth to turn thy hated back upon our kingdom. If
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on the tenth day following thy banished trunk be found in our dominions, the
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moment is thy death. Hey, by Jupiter, this shall not be revoked
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fairly. Well, King sith, thus thou will appear. Freedom lives hence,
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and banishment is here to Cordelia. The gods to their dear shelter.
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Take thee maid that justly thinks and hast most rightly said to Goneril and Reagan
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and your large speeches. May your deeds approve that good effects may spring from
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words of love. Thus kent Oh Princes, bid you all adieu. He'll
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shape his old course in a country new exit flourish, enter Gloucester with France
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and Burgundy and attendants. Here's France and Burgundy. My noble lord, my
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Lord of Burgundy, we first addressed towards you, who, with this king
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hath rivaled for our daughter. What in the least will you require in present
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dower with her? Nor cease your quest of love, most Royal Majesty,
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I crave no more than hath your highness offered, Nor will you tender less
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rite Noble Burgundy. When she was dear to us, we did hold her
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so, But now her price is fallen, Sir, There she stands if
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aught within that little seeming substance, or all of it, with our displeasure
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pierced, and nothing more may fitly like your grace. She is there,
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and she is yours. I know no answer will you with those infirmities she
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owes, unfriended, new adopted to our hate, dowed with our curse,
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and strangered with our oath. Take her or leave her? Pardon me,
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Royal Sir, election makes not up on such conditions. Then leave her,
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Sir, for by the power that made me, I tell you all her
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wealth to France for you, great King, I would not, from your
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love make such a stray to match you where I hate. Therefore beseech you
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to a virt your liking I'm all worthy away than on a wretch whom nature
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is ashamed almost to acknowledge her. This is most strange that she, who
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even but now was your best object, the argument of your praise, balm
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of your age, most best, most dearest in this trice of time,
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commit to thing so monstrous to dismantle so many fools of favor. Sure her
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offense must be of such a natural degree that monsters it, or your forvouched
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affection falling into daint, which to believe of her must be a faith that
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reason without miracle should never plant in me. Yet I beseech your majesty,
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if for I want that glib and oily art to speak and purpose not since
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what I well intend, I'll do it before I speak, that you make
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known. It is no vicious blot, murder of foulness, no unchaste action,
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or dishonored step that hath deprived me of your grace and favor. But
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even for want of that which I am richer a still soliciting eye and such
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a tongue as I am glad I have not, though not to have it,
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hath lost me in your liking. Better thou hadst not been born not
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to have pleased me better? Is it? But this a tardiness in nature
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which often leaves the history and spoke that it intends to do. My Lord
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of Burgundy, what are you to the lady? Love's not love when it
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is mingled with regards that stands aloof from the entire point? Will you have
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her? She is herself a dowry royal king. Give but that portion which
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yourself proposed. And here I take Cordelia by the hand, Duchess of Burgundy,
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nothing I have sworn. I am firm to Cordelia, I am sorry.
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Then you have so lost a father that you must lose a husband.
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Peace be with Burgundy, since that respects of fortune are his love, I
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shall not be his wife. FAIRI is Cordelia the ardmost rich, being poor,
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most choice, forsaken, and most love despised thee and thy virtues.
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Here I seize upon, be lawful. I take up what's cast away gods,
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gods. Tis strange that from their coldest neglect my love should kindle to
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inflamed respect, Thy dourless daughter, king thrown to my chance, is queen
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of us, of ours and our fair France, not all the dukes of
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Waterrish Burgundy can buy this unprized pressures made of me. Bid them farewell,
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Cordelia, doun kind, thou losest here a better where to find thou hast
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her France. Let her be thine, for we have no such daughter,
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nor shall ever see that face of hers again. Therefore be gone without our
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grace. I love our Benison, Come noble Burgundy, Flourish, excellent,
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Lear Burgundy, Cornwall, Albany, Gloucester and attendants. B Farewell to your
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sisters, the Jews of our father with washed eyes, Cordelia leaves you.
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I know what you are, and like a sister a most loath to call
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your faults as they are named. Love well our father, to your professed
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bosoms, I commit him, but yet allah us stood I within his grace.
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I would prefer him to a better place. So farewell to you both
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prescribe not us thou do ities. Let your study be to content your Lord,
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who hath received you at fortune's alms. You have obedience scanted and well
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are worth the want that you have wanted. Time shall unfold what plighted cunning
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hides, who covers faults at last shame them derides well. May you prosper
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come, my fair Cordelia, excellent Franz and Cordelia sister. It is not
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little I have to say of what most nearly appertains to us both. I
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think our father will hence to night, that's most certain, and with you
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next month, with us you see how full of changes his age is.
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The observation we have made of it. Hath not been little. He always
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loved our sister most, And with what poor judgment he hath now cast her
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off appears too grossly tis the infirmity of his age. Yet he hath,
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ever but slenderly known himself the best and soundest of his time. Hath been
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but rash than must we look to receive from his age, not alone the
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imperfections of long engraft condition, but therewithal, the unruly waywardness that infirm and
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choleric years bring with them. Set unconstant starts are we like to have from
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him? As this of Kent's banishment, there is further compliment of leave taking
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between France and him. Pray let us hit together. If our father carry
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authority with such dispositions as he bears, this last surrender of his will but
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offend us, we shall further think of it, we must do something.
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And in the heat exillant scene too a hall in the earl of Gloucester's castle,
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enter with a letter, Thou Nature art, my Goddess, to thy
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law, my services are bound. Wherefore should I stand in the plague of
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custom and permit the curiosity of nations to deprive me? For that I am
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some twelve or fourteen Moonshine's lag of a brother? Why bastard? Wherefore Base,
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when my dimensions are as well compact, to my mind is generous,
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and my shape as true as honest madam's issue, Why brande us with base,
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with baseness, bastardly base, Base, who, in the lusty stealth
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of nature, take more composition and fierce quality than doth with a dull,
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stale tyrid bed go to the creating of a whole tribe of fops between a
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sleep and wake. Well, then, legitimate, Edgar, I must have
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your land. Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund, as to the
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legitimate, fine word legitimate, well, my legitimate. If this letter speed
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and my invention thrive, Edmund, the base shall top the legitimate I grow,
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I prosper. How God's stand up for bastards enter Gloucester, Kent banished,
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thus and France in collar parted, and the king gone to night subscribed,
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his power confined to exhibition. All this upon the gad Edmund. How
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now, what news so please your lordship? None? Why so earnestly seek
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you to put up that letter? I know no news, my lord?
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What paper? Were you reading? Nothing? My lord? No? What
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needed then that terrible dispatch of it into your pocket? The quality of nothing
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hath not such need to hide itself. Let's see. Come. If it
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be nothing, I shall not need spectacles. I beseech you, sir,
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pardon me. It is a letter from my brother that I have not all
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over read, and for so much as I have perused, I find it
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not fit for your looking. Give me the letter, sir. I shall
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offend either to detain or give it. The contents, as in part I
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understand them, are to blame. Let's see. Let's see. I hope
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for my brother's justification he wrote this, but as an essay or taste of
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my virtue. This policy and reverence of age makes the world bitter to the
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best of our times, keeps our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish
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them. I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of
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aged tyranny, who sways not as it hath power, but as it is
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suffered. Come to me that of this I may speak more. If our
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father would sleep till I waked him, you should enjoy half his revenue forever,
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and live the beloved of your brother Edgar hum conspiracy, sleep till I
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waked him. You should enjoy half his revenue. My son, Edgar had
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he a hand to write this, a heart and brain to breed it in.
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When came this to you? Who brought it? It was not brought
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me, my lord? There's the cunning of it. I found it thrown
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in at the casement of my closet. You know the character to be your
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brother's. If the matter were good, my Lord, I durst swear it
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were his. But in respect of that, I would fain think it were
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not. It is his. It is his hand, my lord, But
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I hope his son heart is not in the contents. Hath he never before
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sounded you in this business, never, my Lord? But I have heard
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him oft maintain it to be fit that sons at perfect age and father's decline.
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The father should be as ward to the son, and the son manage
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his revenue. Oh, villain, villain, his very opinion in the letter,
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abhorred villain, unnatural, detested, brutish villain, worse than brutish.
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Go, sirrah seek him. I'll apprehend him, abominable villain. Where is
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he? I do not well know, my lord. If it shall please
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you to suspend your indignation against my brother till you can derive from him better
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testimony of his intent, you should run a certain course where if you violently
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proceed against him, mistaking his purpose, it would make a great gap in
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your own honor, and shake in peaces the heart of his obedience. I
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dare pawn down my life for him that he hath writ this, to feel
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my affection to your honor, and to no other pretense of danger. Think
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you so, if your honor judged meat, I would place you where you
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shall hear us confer of this, and by auricular assurance have your satisfaction,
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and that without any further delay than this very evening. He cannot be such
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a monster. Nor it is not sure to his father that so tenderly and
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entirely loves him heaven and earth, Edmund, seek him out, wind me
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into him. I pray you frame the business after your own wisdom. I
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would unstate myself to be in a due resolution. I will seek him,
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sir, presently, convey the business as I shall find means, and acquaint
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you withal. These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to
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us, though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus, and thus yet
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nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects. Love cools, friendship falls off.
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Brothers divide in cities, mutinies in countries, discord in palaces, treason,
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and the bond cracked TwixT son and father. This villain of mine comes
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under the prediction their's son against father. The king falls from bias of nature,
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theirs father against child. We have seen the best of our time.
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Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our
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graves. Find out this villain, Edmund, it shall lose thee nothing.
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Do it carefully, and the noble and true hearted kent banished his offense.
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Honesty tis strange exit. This is the excellent foppery of the world that when
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we are sick in fortune, often to the surfeit of our own behavior,
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we make guilty our own disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars,
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as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves,
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thieves and treatures by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars and adulters by an
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enforced obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil in by a
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divine thrusting on an admirable evasion of horror, master man to lay us goatish
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disposition to the charge of a star. My father compounded with my mother under
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the dragon's tale, and my nativity was under ursa major, so that it
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follows I am rough and lecherous art, I should have been that I am
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had the maidenly at star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing enter Edgar pat
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He comes like the catastrophe of the old comedy. My cue is villainous,
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melancholy, with a sigh like tom or Bedlam. Oh, these eclipses do
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portend, these divisions fasola me. How now, brother Edmund, what serious
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contemplation are you in? I am thinking rather of a prediction I read this
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other day? What should follow these eclipses? Do you busy yourself with that?
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I promise you the effects, he writes of succeed unhappily, as of
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unnaturalness between the child and the parent. Death, dearth, dissolusions of ancient
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amities, divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles, needless
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diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipitation of cohorts, nuptial breaches. And I
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know not what how long have you been a secretary astronomical? Come? Come?
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Whence saw you? My father last the night gone by? Spoke you
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with him. I two hours together parted you in good terms, founding no
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displeasure in him by word or countenance, none at all. Bethink yourself wherein
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you may have offended him, And at my entreaty forbear his presence until some
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little time hath qualified the heat of a displeasure, which at this instance so
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rageth in him, that with the mischief of your person it would scarcely allay
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some villain hath done me wrong. That's my fear. I pray you have
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a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower, and as I
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say, retire with me to my lodging. From whence I will fitly bring
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you to hear my lord speak. Pray you go, there's my key.
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If you do stir abroad, go armed, armed brother, brother, I
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advise you to the best. I am no honest man. If there be
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any good meaning towards you, I have told you what I have seen and
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heard, but faintly nothing like the image and horror of it. Pray you
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away, shall I hear from you? And one I do serve you in
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this business? Exit Edgar credulous father and a brother noble whose nature is so
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far from doing harms that he suspects none. On whose foolish honesty my practice
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is right easy, I see the business. Let me, if not by
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birth have lands by wit all with me? Is meet that I confession fit.
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Exit Scene three A room in the Duke of Albany's palace. Enter Goneril
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and Oswald her Steward. Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his
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fool I am madam by day and night. He wrongs me. Every hour
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he flashes into one gross crime or another that sets us all at odds.
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I'll not endure it, his knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us on
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every trifle. When he returns from hunting, I will not speak with him,
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say I am sick. If you come slack of former services, you
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shall do well. The fault of it, I'll answer. He's coming,
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Madam. I hear him put on what weary negligence you please? You and
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your fellows. I'd have it come to question. If he distaste it,
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let him to our sister, whose mind and mine I know, and that
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are one not to be overruled. A old man that still would manage those
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authorities that he hath given away now by my life. Old fools are babes
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again and must be used with checks as flatteries when they are seen abused.
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Remember what I have said, very well, Madam, And let his knights
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have colder looks among you. What grows of it? No matter? Advise
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your fellows. So I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall that
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I may speak. I'll write straight to my sister to hold my very course,
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prepare for dinner, exiant seene for a hall in Albany's Palace, enter
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Kent in disguise, if but as well I other accent spirow that can my
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speech diffuse? My good intent may carry through itself to that full issue for
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which I raised My likeness now banished. Cant if thou canst serve where thou
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dost stand condemned, so may it come thy master, whom thou lufst shall
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find thee full of labors horns within and to lear a knights. Let me
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not stay a jot for dinner, Go get it ready, exit first night?
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Ah. Now what art thou a man? Sir? What dost thou
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profess? What wouldst thou with us? I do profess to be no less
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than I seem. To serve him truly? That will put me in trust
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to love him that is honest, to converse with him that is wise and
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says little, to fear judgment, to fight when I cannot choose, and
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to eat no fish? What art thou a very honest hearted fellow and as
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poor as the king? If thou beast as poor for a subject as he
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for a king? Oh, poor enough? What wouldst thou service? Who
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wouldst thou serve? You? Dost thou know me, fellow? No,
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sir? But you have that and your countenance, which I would fain,
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call master, what's that authority? What services canst thou do? I can
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keep honest, counsel, ride, run mar a curious tale in telling it,
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and deliver a plain message bluntly, that which ordinary men are fit for.
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I am qualified in, and the best of me is diligence. How
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old art thou not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing,
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nor so old to dote unhear for anything? I have of yours on
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my back? Forty eight? Follow me? Thou shalt serve me? If
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I like thee, no worse after dinner, I will not part from thee
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yet. Dinner, Oh, dinner, where's my knave? My fool?
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Go you and call my fool hither exit? Second night? Enter oswald you
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you Sarah? Where's my daughter? So please you exit? What says the
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fellow there? Call the clock pole? Back? Exit? Third night?
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Where's my fool? Oh? I think the world's asleep? Enter third night?
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How now? Where's that mongrel? He says, My lord, your
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daughter is not well? Why came not the slave back to me? When
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I called him, sir? He answered me in the roundest manner, he
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would not, He would not, My lord, I know not what the
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matter is. But to my judgment, your Highness is not entertained with that
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ceremonious affection you were wont There's a great abatement of kindness appears as well in
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the general dependence, as in the Duke himself also and your daughter. Huh
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sayest thou? So I beseech you pardon me, my lord, if I
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be mistaken for my duty. Cannot be silent when I think your Highness wronged.
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Thou, but rememberest me of mine own conception. I have perceived a
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most faint neglect of late, which I have rather blamed as mine own jealous
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curiosity than as a very pretense and purpose of unkindness. I will look further
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into it. But where's my fool? I have not seen him these two
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days since my young lady's going into France. Or the fool hath much pind
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away? No more of that I have noted it. Well, go you
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and tell my daughter I would speak with her. Exit third night, go
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you call hither my fool. Exit another night? Enter oswald o you sir?
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You come hither? Sir? Who am I, sir? My lady's
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father, My lady's father, My lord's knave, you horse and dog,
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you slave, you cur I am none of these, my Lord. I
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beseech your pardon. Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal? He
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strikes him. I'll not be struck, my lord, nor tripped neither you
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base football player. He trips him. I thank thee, fellow, Thou
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servest me, and I love thee. To Oswald, come, sir,
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arise away, I'll teach you differences. Away away, if you will measure
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your lubber's length again, terry, but away, go to have you wisdom.
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He pushes Oswald out. So now, my friendly knave, I thank
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thee. There's ernest of thy service. He gives him money, And to
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the fool, let me hire him too. Here's my coxcomb. How now,
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my pretty knave, how dost thou Sarah, you were best? Take
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my coxcomb? Why fool? Why for taking one's part? That's out of
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favor? Nay, and thou canst not smile as the wind sits dealt catch
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cold shortly? There? Take my coxcomb? Why this fellow has banished two
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one's daughters and did the third of blessing against his will? If thou follow
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him, thou must needs wear my cocks comb. How now, nunco,
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would I had two coxcombs and two daughters. Why, my boy, if
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I gave them all my living, I'd keep my coxcombs myself. There's mine.
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Beg another of thy daughters. Take heed, Sarah, the whip truths.
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The dog musta kennel. He must be whipped out when the lady Brock
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may stand by the fire and stink a pestilent gold. To me, Sarah,
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I'll teach thee a speech. Do market, nuncle, have more than
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thou ShoWest, Speak less than thou knowest, lend less than thou owest,
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ride more than thou goest, learn more than thou throwest, set less than
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thou throwest, leave thy drink in thy horror, and keep in a door,
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and thou shalt have more than two tens to a score. Hmm,
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this is nothing, fool, then tis like the breath of an unfeed lawyer.
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You gave me nothing for it. Can you make no use of nothing?
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Nuncle? Why no, boy, nothing can be made out of nothing.
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To kent prithee, tell him so much the rent of his land comes
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to he will not believe a fool, a bit a fool dost thou know
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the difference, my between a bitter fool and a sweet one? No,
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lad, teach me that lord that counseled thee to give away thy land.
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Come place him here by me, do thou for him stand? The sweet
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and bitter fool will presently appear, the one in Motley here, the other
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found out there. Dost thou call me fool boy? All thy other titles
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thou hast given away that thou wast born with, this is not altogether fool,
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my lord. No faith lords and great men will not let me.
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If I had a monopoly out, they would have part aunt and loads too.
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They will not let me have all the fool to myself. They'll be
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snatching. N Uncle, give me an egg, and I'll give thee two
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crowns. What two crowns shall they be? Why? After I've cut the
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egg in the middle and eat up to meat the two crowns of the egg.
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When thou clovest thy crown in the middle and gavest the way both parts,
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thou boreest thine ass on thy back er the dirt thou hadst little wit
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in thy bald crowned. When thou gavest thy golden one away. If I
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speak like myself in this, let him be whipped that first finds it so
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fools head ne'er let's greece sin a year, for wise men are grown foppish
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and know not how their wits to wear. Their manners are so apish.
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When will you want to be so full of songs? Sarah, I have
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used it, nuncle ere, since thou madest thy daughters, thy mothers.
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For when thou gavest them the rod and putest down thine own breeches, then
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they first said, enjoyed it weep, And I for sorrow sung that such
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a king should play bo peep and go the fools among prythee nuncle, keep
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a school master that can teach thy fool to lie. I would fain learn
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to lie. And you lie, Sarah, we'll have you whipped. I
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marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are. They'll have me whip for speaking
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true. They'll have me whipped for lying, And sometimes I am whipped for
42:16
holding my peace. I had rather be any kind of thing than a fool,
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And yet I would not be thee uncle. Thou hast pared thy widow
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both sides and left nothing in the middle, here comes one of the pairings.
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And to Goneril, how now, daughter, what makes that frontal?
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Don me? Thinks thou art too much of late of the frown. Thou
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wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to care for her frowning.
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Now thou art to know without a figure. I am better than thou art.
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I am a fool. Thou art nothing to Goneril, Yes, forsooth,
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I will hold my tongue so to your face bids me, though you
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say nothing. Mam mam. He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, weary
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of all shall want some. He points to Leah. That's a shield.
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Peace cod Not only sir this you're all licensed fool, but other of your
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insolent retinue do hourly carp and quarrel, breaking forth in rank, and not
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to be endured riots. Sir, I had thought, by making this well
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known unto you, to have found a safe redress, but now grow fearful
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by what yourself, too late have spoken done. That you protect this course
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and put it on by your allowance, which if you should, the fault
43:35
would not scape censure nor the redress's sleep, which in the tender of a
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wholesome wheel, might in their working do you that offense which else were shame
43:44
that then necessity will call discreet proceeding. For you know, nunko the hedge
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sparrow fed the cuckoo so long that it had its head bit off by it
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young. So out went the candle and we were left darkling. Oh you
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d come, sir, I would you would make use of that good wisdom
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whereof I know you are fraught, and put away these dispositions that have late
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transform you from what you rightly are. May not in ask know when the
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cart draws the horse, whoop jug I love thee doth any here know me?
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This is not leir? Doth leir walk? Thus speak Thus where are
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his eyes either his notion weakens, his discernings are lethargyd ah waking tis not?
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So who is it that can tell me who I am? Dear saddle,
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I would learn that, for by the marks of sovereignty, knowledge and
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reason I should be false persuaded. I had daughters which they will make an
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obedient father. Your name a fair gentlewoman. This admiration, sir, is
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much of the favor of your other new pranks. I do beseech you to
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understand my purposes aright as you are all reverend, you should be wise.
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Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires, men so disordered, so
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debased and bold, that this our court, infected with their manners, shows
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like a riotous in epicurism and lust make it more like a tavern or a
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brothel than a graced place. The shame itself doth speak for instant remedy be
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then desired by her, that else will take the thing she begs a little
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to disquantity your train and the remainder that shall still depend to be such men
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as may besoort your age, which know themselves, and you darkness and devils
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saddle my horses call my train together, degenerate bastard, I'll not trouble thee
45:42
yet have I left a daughter? You strike my people, and your disordered
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rabble makes servants of their betters enter albany woe that too late repents, Oh
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sir, are you come? Is it your will? Speak? Sir?
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Prepare my horses ingratitude, Thou marble hearted fiend, more hideous when thou show'st
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thee in a child than the sea monster pray, sir, be patient to
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goneril detested kite. Thou liest my train are men of choice and rarest parts
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at all particulars of duty, know and in the most exact regards, support
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the worships of their name. Oh most small fault, How ugly didst thou
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Incordelia show, which, like an engine wrench'd by frame of nature from the
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fixed place, drew from my heart all love and added to the gall.
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Oh lear lear, lear beat at this gait that let thy folly in.
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He strikes his head and thy dear judgment out go go my people, exeant
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kent and knights. My Lord, I am guiltless as I am ignorant of
46:52
what hath moved you. It may be so, my Lord. He kneels
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here. Nature here, dear Goddess, here suspend thy purpose. If thou
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didst intend to make this creature fruitful into her womb, convey sterility, dry
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up in her, the organs of increase, and from her derogate body never
47:13
spring a babe to honor her. If she must team create her child of
47:16
spleen, that it may live and be a thwart this natured torment to her,
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let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, with cadent tears,
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fret channels in her cheeks, turn all her mother's pains and benefits to laughter
47:31
and contempt, that she may feel how sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
47:37
to have a thankless child away away exit now, Gods that we adore,
47:45
whereof comes this, never afflict yourself to know more of it. But let
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his disposition have that scope that dotage gives it. And to Leah, what
47:54
fifty of my followers at a clap within a fortnight? What's the matter,
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sir? To Goneril, I'll tell THEE life and death. I am ashamed
48:05
that thou hast power to shake my manhood. Thus that these hot tears which
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break from me before should make THEE worth them. Blasts and fogs upon thee
48:14
than tempted woundings of her father's curse pierce every sense about THEE. Old fond
48:19
eyes beweat this cause again, I'll pluck you out and cast you with the
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waters that you lose to temper clay. Ha. Let it be so.
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I have another daughter, who I am sure is kind and comfortable, when
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she shall hear of this with her nails. She'll flay thy wolfish visage.
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Thou shalt find that I'll resume the shape. If thou dost think I have
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cast off for ever exit? Do you mark that I cannot be so partial?
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Goneriil to the great love I bear you, pray you content? What
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Oswald ho to the fool, you, sir, more knave than fool after
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your master, No gomere, no collier terry take the fool with thee a
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fox when one has caught her, and such a daughter should sure to the
49:07
slaughter if my cap would buy a halter, So the fool follows after exit.
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This man hath had good counsel a hundred knights.'tis politic and safe
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to let him keep at point a hundred knights? Yes, that on every
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dream, each buzz, each fancy, each complaint dislike, he maynnguard his
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dotage with their powers and hold our lives in mercy. Oswald, I say,
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well, you may fear too far safer than trust too far. Let
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me still take away the harms. I fear not fear still to be taken.
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I know his heart what he hath uttered. I have writ to my
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sister if she sustain him in his hundred knights. When I have showed then
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fitness and to Oswald? How now, Oswald, what have you written that
49:52
letter to my sister? I met him? Take you some company and away
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to horse, inform her full of my particular fear and thereto add so what
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reasons of your own as may compact it more? Get you gone, and
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hasten your return? Exit Oswald. No, no, my lord, this
50:07
milky gentleness and course of yours, though I condemn it, not yet under
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pardon. You are much more a tasked for want of wisdom than praised for
50:15
harmful mildness. How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell. Striving to
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better oft we mar what's well? Nay? Then well? Well the event
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exit Scene five caught before the Duke of Albany's palace. Enter lear Kent,
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the fool and a gentleman to Kent. Go you before to Gloucester with these
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letters. Acquaint my daughter no further with anything you know that comes from her
50:50
demand out of the letter. If your diligence be not speedy, I shall
50:53
be there for you. I will not sleep, my lord, until I
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have delivered your letter. Exit. If a man's brains were in his heels,
51:05
Were it not in danger of kipes, Aye, boy, then I
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prithee be merry. Thy wit shall not go slipshod ha ha, shalt see
51:15
thy other daughter will use thee kindly for those. She's as like this as
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a crab's like an apple. Yet I can tell what I can tell?
51:23
What canst tell? Boy? Shall taste is like this as a crab does
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to a crab. Thou can'st tell why one's nose stands in the middle of
51:32
one's face. No, Why to keep one's eyes of either side's nose?
51:38
That what a man cannot smell out he may spy into? I did her
51:44
wrong? Can'st tell how an oyster makes his shell? No, nor I
51:50
neither. But I can tell why a snail has a house? Why why
51:54
to put his head in? Not to give it away to his daughter's and
51:59
leave his horns without a case. I will forget my nature, so kind
52:04
a father, be my horses ready, thy asses are gone about them.
52:08
The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason,
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because they are not eight. Yes, indeed, thou wouldst make a
52:17
good fool to take it again perforce monstering gratitude. If thou wert my fool
52:24
and uncle, I'd have thee beaten for being old before thy time? How's
52:30
that thou shouldst not have been old till thou haddest been wise. Oh,
52:36
let me not be mad, not mad, Sweet Heaven, keep me in
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temper. I would not be mad. How now are the horses ready?
52:45
Ready? My lord? Come boy? Excellent? All except the fool.
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She that's a maid now and laughs at my departure, shall not be a
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maid long unless things be cut shorter. Exit end of Act one, King
53:05
Lear, Act two seene one. A court within the castle of the Earl
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of Gloucester. Enter Edmund and Corran meeting save the e Cirin and you,
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sir, I have been with your father and given him notice that the Duke
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of Cornwall and Reagan his duchess, will be here with him this night.
53:28
How comes that? Nay? I know not you have heard of the news
53:31
abroad? I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but ear kissing
53:35
arguments. Not, I pray you, what are they? Have you heard
53:39
of? No? Likely wars toward TwixT the two Dukes of Cornwall in Albany.
53:45
Not a word you may do then in time, fare you well,
53:49
sir, exit the Duke be here tonight the better best this weaves itself.
53:59
Perform to my business. My father hath set guard to take my brother,
54:04
and I have one thing of a queasy question which I must act. Briefness
54:09
and fortune work brother, a word, descend, brother, I say,
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enter Edgar. My father watches, Sir, fly this place. Intelligence is
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given where you are hid. You have now the good advantage of the night.
54:30
Have you not spoken against the Duke of Cornwall. He's coming hither now
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with a knight in haste and Reagan with him. Have you said nothing upon
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his party against the Duke of Albany. Advise yourself. I am sure,
54:43
aunt not a word. I hear my father coming. Pardon me in cunning,
54:49
I must draw my sword upon you. Draw seem to defend yourself.
54:53
Now quit you well yield, come before my father. Light ho here fly,
55:00
brother torches torches, so farewell, exit Edgar. Some blood drawn on
55:09
me would beget opinion of my more fierce endeavor. I have seen drunkards do
55:16
more than this in sport. He wounds himself in the arm. Father,
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father, stop, stop, no help. Enter Gloucester and servants with torches.
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Now, Edmund, where's the villain? Here? Stood he in the
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dark, his sharp sword out, mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon
55:37
to stand auspicious mistress. But where is he? Look, Sir, I
55:43
bleed, where is the villain? Edmund? To fly this way? So
55:46
when by no means he could pursue him, ho go after exit? Some
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servants, by no means, what persuade me to the murder of your lordship?
55:59
But that I told him the revenging gods against Patricides, did all their
56:02
thunders bend, spoke with how manifold and strong upon the child was bound to
56:08
the father, Sir in fine, Seeing how loathly opposite, I stood to
56:13
his unnatural purpose in fell motion with his prepared sword. He charges home when
56:19
my unprovided body landst mine arm. But when he saw my best alarmed spirits
56:23
bold in the quarrel's right, roused to the encounter, or whether gasted by
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the noise I made full, suddenly he fled. Let him fly far.
56:35
Not in this land shall he remain uncaught and found despatched. The noble Duke,
56:43
my master, my worthy arch and patron, comes to night by his
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authority, I will proclaim it that he which finds him shall deserve our thanks.
56:55
Bringing the murderous coward to the stake he that conceals him death. When
57:02
I dissuaded him from his intent and found him pite to do it with cursed
57:07
speech, I threatened to discover him. He replied, Thou, unpossessing bastard,
57:13
dost thou think if I would stand against thee? Would the reposal of
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any trust virtue are worth in THEE? Make thy words faith? No what
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I should deny as this I would I, though thou didst produce my very
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character, I'd turn it all to thy suggestion, plot and damned practice.
57:35
And thou must make a dullard of the world if they not thought the prophets
57:38
of my death were very pregnant and potential spurs to make THEE seek it strong
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and fastened. Villain? Would he deny his letter? I never got him
57:52
hark the Duke's trumpets. I know not why he comes all ports, all
57:58
bar the villain, and shall not escape. The Duke must grant me that,
58:02
besides his picture, I will send far and near, that all the
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kingdom may have due note of him and of my land. Loyal and natural
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boy. I'll work the means to make THEE capable into cornwall Reagan and attendants.
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How now, my noble friend, since I came hither, which I
58:22
can call? But now I have heard strange news. If it be true,
58:30
all vengeance comes too short, which can pursue the offender? How dost
58:36
my lord? Oh madam? My old heart is cracked? It's cracked.
58:42
What did my father's god son seek your life? He whom my father named
58:49
your edgar O lady, lady shame would have it? Hid? Was he
58:55
not companion with the riot as knights that tend upon my father? I know
59:01
not, madam. It is too bad, too bad, yes, madam,
59:07
he was of that consort. No marvel then, though he were ill
59:12
affected till they have put him on the old man's death to have the expense
59:17
and waste of his revenues. I have this present evening from my sister,
59:22
been well informed of them, and with such cautions that if they come to
59:28
so Joan at my house, I'll not be there, nor I assure THEE.
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Reagan Edmund, I hear that you have shown your father a childlike office.
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Twas my duty, sir. He did beray his practice and received this
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hurt you see striving to apprehend him? Is he pursued? I, my
59:51
good Lord? If he be taken, he shall never more be feared of
59:55
doing harm. Make your own purpose, how in my drinks you please?
1:00:00
For you, Edmund, whose virtue and obedience doth this instant so much commend
1:00:06
itself. You shall be ours natures of such deep trust we shall much need
1:00:12
you. We first seize on. I shall serve you, sir, truly.
1:00:16
However else for him, I thank your grace. You know not why
1:00:23
we came to visit you thus out of season, threading dark eyed night occasions,
1:00:30
noble cluster of some boys, wherein we must have use of your advice.
1:00:35
Our father ye hath writ so hath our sister, of differences which I
1:00:39
best thought yet fit to answer from ome the several messengers from hence attend despatch
1:00:47
our good old friend, Lay comforts to your bosom, and bestow your needful
1:00:52
counsel to our business which graves the instant. Use I serve you, madam,
1:01:00
Your graces are right welcome, excitant flourish scene too before Gloucester's castle,
1:01:14
enter Kent, and Oswald severally good dawning to THEE friend aught of this house?
1:01:20
Ay, where may we set our horses? Ha ha and the mire
1:01:27
prithee. If thou lovest me tell me I love THEE not? Why then
1:01:32
I care not for THEE? If I had THEE in Lipsbury penfuled, I
1:01:37
would make THEE care for me. Why dost thou use me thus? I
1:01:43
know THEE? Not, fellow, I know THEE? What dost thou know
1:01:47
me? For a knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats,
1:01:54
a base proud, shallow beggarly three suited, one hundred pound, filthy,
1:02:01
wor stood stocking knave, a lily livered action taking horsen glass gazing, super
1:02:10
serviceable, finnacal rogue, one trunk inheriting slave, one that wouldst be a
1:02:19
bad in a way of good service and art, nothing but the composition of
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a nave beggar, coward pander, and the sun and air of a mongrel
1:02:30
bitch, a one whom I will beat into clamorous whining. If thou deniest
1:02:36
the least syllable of thy addition, why what a monstrous fellow art thou thus
1:02:43
to reil on one that's neither known of THEE nor knows thee. Oh what
1:02:46
a brazen faced varlet art thou to deny? Thou knowest me? Is it
1:02:53
two days ago since I beat thee and tripped up thy heels before the king?
1:03:00
Draw you rogue, For though it be night yet the moon shines.
1:03:06
I'll make a sop of the moonshine of you. Draw you horse and culon
1:03:12
ye barbermonger, draw away. I have nothing to do with thee. Draw
1:03:19
you rascal. You come with letters against the king and take vanity the puppet's
1:03:24
part against the royalty of her father. Draw you rogue, or also carbonado
1:03:31
your shanks, Draw your rascal, come your ways? Help o murder,
1:03:37
Help strike you slave? Oswald tries to escape, stand rogue, Stand you
1:03:45
need slaves. Strike He beats him. Help, Oh murder, murder?
1:03:52
Enter Edmund Cornwall, Reagan, Gloucester and servants. How now, what's the
1:03:59
matter with you? Goodman boy? Can you please come? I'll flesh you.
1:04:04
Come on, young master? Weapons arms? What's the matter here?
1:04:10
Keep peace upon your lives? He dies, that strikes again? What is
1:04:15
the matter? The messengers from our sister and the king, what is your
1:04:18
difference? Speak? I am scarce in breath, my lord. Ah,
1:04:26
no marvel, you have so bestirred your valor, you cowardly rascal. Nature
1:04:31
disclaims in thee A tailor made thee. Thou art a strange fellow, A
1:04:38
tailor make a man I a tailor, sir, A stone cutter or a
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painter, could not have made him so ill, though he had been but
1:04:48
two hours at the trade to Oswald speak, Yet how grew your quarrel?
1:04:55
This ancient ruffian sir, whose life I have spared at suit of his grave?
1:05:00
Thou horsen z thou unnecessary letter, my lord? If you'll give me
1:05:05
leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar and daub the walls of
1:05:12
a jake's with him. Spare my gray beard, you wagtail peace Arrah,
1:05:18
you beastly knave. Know you no reverence? Yes, sir, but anger
1:05:24
hath a privilege? Why art thou angry that such a knave as this should
1:05:30
wear a sword who wears no honesty? Such smiling rogues as these like rats
1:05:40
off bite the holy cords a twain, which are two intrnse to and loose
1:05:46
smooth every passion that, in the natures of their lord's rebel bring oil to
1:05:53
the fire, snow to their colder moods, reneg a firm, and turn
1:06:00
their halcyon beaks with every gale and very of their masters, knowing not like
1:06:09
dogs, but following a plague upon your epileptic visage. Smile you my speeches,
1:06:16
as if I were a fool goose. An I had you upon sarrem
1:06:23
plain, I'd drive ye cackling home to Camelot. What art thou, mad
1:06:29
old fellow? How fell you out say that no contraries hold more antipathy than
1:06:36
I? And such a knave? Why dost thou call him knave? What
1:06:42
is his fault? His countenance likes me not no more perchance does mine or
1:06:48
his or hers? Sir, tis my preoccupation to be plain. I have
1:06:56
seen better faces in my time than stands on any show that I see before
1:07:01
me at this instant. This is some fellow who, having been praised for
1:07:06
bluntness, doth affect a saucy roughness and constrains the garb quite from his nature.
1:07:13
He cannot flatter, he an honest mind and plain. He must speak
1:07:17
truth, and they will take it. So if not he's plain. These
1:07:24
kinds of knaves I know which in this plainness harbor more craft and more corrupt
1:07:28
ends than twenty silly, ducking observants that stretch their duties nicely, sir,
1:07:33
in good faith, in sincere verity, under the allowance of your great aspect,
1:07:41
whose influence like the wreath of radiant fire on flickering Phoebus's front. What
1:07:47
means by this to go out of my dialect which you discommend, or much
1:07:55
I know, Sir, I am no flatterer. He that beguile you in
1:08:00
a plain accent was a plain knave, which for my part I will not
1:08:05
be, though I should win your displeasure to entreat me to it. What
1:08:12
was the offense you gave him? I never gave him any. It pleased
1:08:16
the King his master, very late to strike at me upon his misconstruction,
1:08:21
when he compact and flattering his displeasure tripped me behind, being down, insulted,
1:08:29
railed, and put upon him such a deal of man that worthied him
1:08:33
got praises of the King for him attempting, who was self subdued, And
1:08:39
in the fleshment of this dread exploit drew on me here again. None of
1:08:45
these rogues and cowards, but Ajax is there fool, Fetch forth the stocks,
1:08:51
you stub an ancient knave, you reverent braggot, will teach you.
1:08:57
Sir, I am too old to learn. Call not your stocks for me.
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I serve the King on whose employment I was sent to you. You
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shall do small respect, show too bold malice against the grace and person of
1:09:17
my master stocking his messenger. Fetch forth the stocks, as I have life
1:09:25
and honor. There shall he sit till noon, till noon till night,
1:09:30
my lord, and all night to Why, Madam, if I were your
1:09:35
father's dog, you should not use me so, sir, Being his knave,
1:09:41
I will this is a fellow of the self same color our sister speaks
1:09:45
of. Come bring away the stocks, stocks brought out. Let me beseech
1:09:51
your grace not to do so. His fault is much, and the good
1:09:56
King his master will check him for it. Your purposed low correction is such
1:10:01
as basest and contemptedness. Wretches for pilferings and most common trespasses are punished with.
1:10:10
The King must take it ill that he so slightly valued in his messenger
1:10:15
should have him thus restrained. I'll answer that my sister may receive it much
1:10:21
more worse to have a gentleman abused, assaulted for following her affairs put in
1:10:28
his legs. Kent is put in the stalks, exellent all but Gloucester and
1:10:33
Kent. I am sorry for thee friend tis the Duke's pleasure, whose disposition
1:10:41
all the world well knows will not be rubbed nor stopped. I'll entreat for
1:10:46
thee. Pray do not, sir, I have watched and traveled hard.
1:10:55
Some time I shall sleep out the rest. I'll whistle. A good man's
1:11:02
fortune may grow out at heels, give you good morrow. The dukes to
1:11:09
blame in this twill be ill taken. Exit, good king, that must
1:11:18
approve the common saw. Thou, out of Heaven's benediction, comest to the
1:11:25
warm sun. Approach thou beacon to this under globe, that by thy comfortable
1:11:34
beings I may peruse this letter. Nothing almost sees miracles but misery I notis
1:11:45
from Cordelia, who hath most fortunately been informed of my obscured course, and
1:11:54
shall find time from this enormous state seeking to give losses their remedy. All
1:12:00
weary and overwatched, take advantage. Heavy eyes not to behold this shameful lodging
1:12:13
fortune. Good night, smile once more, Ah, turn thy wheel.
1:12:24
Hmm, he sleeps. Scene three, The open country Enter Edgar, I
1:12:39
heard myself proclaimed, and by the happy hollow of a tree, escaped the
1:12:44
hunt. No port is free, no place that God and most unusual vigilance
1:12:49
does not attend my taking. While I may escape, I will preserve myself
1:12:56
and am bethought to take the basest and most poorest shape that ever penury in
1:13:00
contempt of man brought near to beast my face. I'll grime with filth,
1:13:08
blanket my loins elf, all my hair in knots, and with present nakedness
1:13:13
outface the winds and persecutions of the sky. The country gives me proof and
1:13:18
precedent of bedlam beggars who with roaring voices strike in their numbed and mortified bare
1:13:26
arms, pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary, and with
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this horrible object from low farms, poor pelting villages, sheep cuts and mills,
1:13:38
sometime with lunatic bands, sometime with prayers enforce their charity. Poor turly
1:13:45
God, poor arm. That's something yet, Edgar, I nothing am exit.
1:14:03
Scene four, before Gloucester's Castle Kent is still in the stocks, and
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to Leah the fool and a gentleman. Tis strange that they should so depart
1:14:17
from home and not send back my messenger. As I learned the night before,
1:14:23
there was no purpose in them of this. Remove hail to thee noble
1:14:29
master. Huh makes thou to shame thy pastime? No, my lord,
1:14:35
haha, he wears cruel garters. Horses are tied by the head, dogs
1:14:41
and bears by the neck, monkeys by the loins, and men by the
1:14:45
legs. When a man is over lusty at legs, then he wears wooden
1:14:49
nether stocks. What's he that hath so much thy place misstoked to set thee
1:14:55
here? It is both he and she your son and daughter. No,
1:15:02
yes, no, I say, I say yeay, no, No,
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they would not. Yes they have. By Jupiter, I swear no.
1:15:15
By Juno, I swear I. They dares not do it. They would
1:15:20
not, could not do it. Tis worse the murder to do upon respect.
1:15:25
Such violent outrage resolved me with all modest haste, which way thou mightst
1:15:30
deserve, or they impose this usage coming from us, my lord? When
1:15:38
at their home I did commend your Highness's letters to them. Ere I was
1:15:43
risen from the place that showed my duty kneeling, came there a reeking post,
1:15:49
stewed in his haste, half breathless, panting forth from Goneril his mistress
1:15:59
salutations, delivered letters spite of intermission, which presently they read, on whose
1:16:08
contents they summoned up their many straight took course, commanded me to follow and
1:16:15
attend. The leisure of their answer gave me cold looks, and meeting here
1:16:23
the other messenger, whose welcome I perceived had poisoned mine, being the very
1:16:30
fellow which of late displayed so saucily against Your Highness, having more man than
1:16:38
wit about me, drew He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
1:16:45
Your son and daughter found this trespass worth the shame which here it suffers.
1:16:56
Winter's not gone yet if the wild beast fly that way. Fathers that wear
1:17:00
rags do make their children blind, But fathers that their bags shall see their
1:17:06
children kind fortune. That errant whore ne'er turns the key to the poor.
1:17:13
But for all this thou shalt have as many dollars for their daughters as thou
1:17:17
canst tell in a year Oh, how this mother swells up toward my heart
1:17:24
hysterica. Pass it down, thy climbing sorrow, thy elements below? Where
1:17:30
is this daughter with the earl? Sir? Here within, follow me not
1:17:36
stay here? Exit made you no more offense, But what you speak of
1:17:44
none? How chance the king comes with so small a number, And thou
1:17:49
hadst been set in the stocks for that question, thou hadst well deserved it.
1:17:56
A wifle will set thee to school, to ant to teach thee.
1:18:00
There's no laboring in the winter. All that follow their noses are led by
1:18:04
their eyes, but blind men. And there's not a nose among twenty but
1:18:09
can smell him that's stinking. Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs
1:18:15
down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following it. But the
1:18:17
great one that goes up the hill, let him draw thee after. When
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a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again, I would
1:18:28
have none, but knaves follow it. Since a fool gives it. That
1:18:32
sir, which serves and seeks for gain, and follows but for form,
1:18:36
will pack when it begins to rain and leave thee in the storm. But
1:18:42
I will tarry the fool will stay and let the wise man fly. The
1:18:46
knave turns, fool that runs away, the fool no knave, perdee.
1:18:51
Where learn't you? This fool? Not in the stalks? Fool and to
1:18:58
Lear and Gloucester deny to speak with me. They are sick, they are
1:19:03
weary, they have traveled all the night. Mere fetches the images of revolt
1:19:09
and flying off. Petch me a better answer, my dear lord. You
1:19:14
know the fiery quality of the duke, how unremovable and fixed he is in
1:19:18
his own course vengeance, plague, death, confusion? Fiery? What quality?
1:19:26
Why Goster gosta Art speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife?
1:19:30
Well, my good Lord, I have informed them, so informed them.
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Dost thou understand me, ma'am I, my good lord? The king would
1:19:41
speak with Cornwall, the dear father would with his daughter speak commands her service?
1:19:46
Are they inform'd of this? My breath and blood? Fiery? The
1:19:50
fiery Duke tell the hot Duke that no, but not yet. Maybe he
1:19:57
is not well. Infirmity doth to neglect all office where to our health is
1:20:01
bound. We are not ourselves when nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
1:20:06
to suffer with the body. I'll forbear, and I'm fallen out with my
1:20:11
more headier will to take the indisposed and sickly fit for the sound man death
1:20:15
on my state? Wherefore should he sit here? This act persuades me that
1:20:20
this remotion of the Duke and her is practice. Only give me my servant
1:20:26
forth, go tell the Duke and wife. I'd speak with them now.
1:20:30
Presently, bid them come forth and hear me. Or at their chamber door,
1:20:34
I'll beat the drum till it cries sleep to death. I would have
1:20:39
all well betwixt you exit. Oh me, my heart, my rising heart,
1:20:46
But down cry to it, nuncle, as the Cockney did to the
1:20:51
eels when she put him in a paste alive, She napped them. Oh
1:20:56
the cocks combs with a stick and cried down Wanton's down. Twas her brother
1:21:01
that, in pure kindness to his horse, buttered his hay. And to
1:21:06
Cornwall. Reagan, Gloucester and servants, good morrow, do you both pail
1:21:13
to your grace? Kent is here set at liberty. I am glad to
1:21:17
see your Highness, Reagan. I think you are. I know what reason
1:21:23
I have to think so if thou shouldst not be glad I would divorce me
1:21:27
from thy mother's tomb, sepulchering an adulteress to Kent. Oh, are you
1:21:32
free some other time for that beloved Reagan? Thy sisters not, Oh Reagan,
1:21:39
she hath tied sharp toothstone kindness like a vulture. Here laying his hand
1:21:45
on his heart, I can scarce speak to thee thou not believe with how
1:21:48
depraved a quality, Oh Reagan, I pray you, sir, take patience.
1:21:55
I have hope you must know how to value her desert than she discant
1:21:59
her duty. Say how is that? I cannot think my sister in the
1:22:03
least would fail her obligation. If Sir, perchance she have restrained the riots
1:22:11
of your followers, tis on such crowned and to such wholesome, and as
1:22:15
clear asir, from all blame. My curse is on her, Oh sir,
1:22:21
you are old nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine.
1:22:27
You should be ruled and led by some discretion. Let discerner state better
1:22:31
than you yourself. Therefore, I pray you that to our sister you do
1:22:38
make return. So you have wronged her, sir, ask her forgiveness?
1:22:43
Do you but mark how this becomes the house. He kneels. Dear daughter,
1:22:47
I confess that I am old. Age is unnecessary on my knees.
1:22:53
I beg that you'll vouchsafe me raiment bed and food good Sir, No more,
1:22:59
these are slightly tricks. Return you to my sister rising. Never Reagan,
1:23:04
she hath abated me of half my train. Look black upon me,
1:23:09
struck me with her tongue most serpent like upon the very heart. All the
1:23:14
stored vengeances of heaven fall on her, ingrateful top strike her young bones.
1:23:19
You taking airs with lameness. Fie, sir, fi, you nimble lightnings,
1:23:25
dart your blinding flames into her scornful eyes, infect her beauty. You
1:23:30
fend such fogs drawn by the powerful sun to fall and blast her pride.
1:23:35
Oh the blessed gods, so will you wish on me when the rash mood
1:23:41
is on. No, Reagan, thou shalt never have my curse. Thy
1:23:45
tender hefted nature shall not give thee awe to harshness. Her eyes are fierce,
1:23:49
But thine do comfort and not burn. Tis not in thee to grudge
1:23:54
my pleasures, to cut off my train, to bandy hasty words, to
1:23:58
scant my sizes, and in conclusion to oppose the bolt against my coming in.
1:24:02
Thou better knowest the offices of nature, bond of childhood, effects of
1:24:08
courtesy, dues of gratitude, Thy half of the kingdom. Hast thou not
1:24:12
forgot wherein I thee endowed, good sir, to the berbose who put my
1:24:17
man in the stocks? Ah, what trumpet's that? I know it?
1:24:23
My sisters, this approves her letter that she would soon be here. Enter
1:24:29
Oswald, is your lady? Come? This is a slave whose easy borrowed
1:24:33
pride dwells in the fickle grace of her He follows out Violet from my sight?
1:24:39
What means your grace? Who stocked my servant? Reagan? I have
1:24:44
good hope thou didst not know? Aunt? Enter Goneril, who comes here?
1:24:48
Oh heavens, if you do love old men, if your sweet sway,
1:24:54
allow obedience, if yourselves are old, make it your cause sent down?
1:24:58
And take my part to Goneril. H not a shame to look upon
1:25:01
this beard, Oh Reagan. Wilt thou take her by the hand? Why
1:25:06
not by the hand, sir? How have I offended? All's not offense?
1:25:11
That indiscretion finds in dotage terms. So oh sides, you are too
1:25:15
tough? Will you yet help? How came my man in the stocks?
1:25:20
I set him there, sir, But his own disorders deserved much less advancement.
1:25:27
You you did. I brave you, father, being weak, seems
1:25:32
though, if till the expiration of your month you will return, and Sir
1:25:38
Johanne, with my sister, dismissing half your train, come then to me.
1:25:44
I am now from home, and out of that provision which shall be
1:25:46
needful for your entertainment, Return to her and fifty men dismissed. No,
1:25:54
Rather, I abjure all ruse and choose to wage against the end of the
1:25:58
air, to be a comrade with the wolf and owl necessity's sharp pinch.
1:26:02
Return with her. Why the hot blooded France that dowerless took our youngest born,
1:26:08
I could as well be brought to knee his throne and squire like pension
1:26:12
Beck to keep base life afoot. Return with her. Persuade me rather to
1:26:16
be slave and sumpter to this detested groom. He points to Oswald. At
1:26:23
your choice, sir, I prithee daughter, do not make me mad.
1:26:28
I will not trouble thee my child. Farewell, we'll no more meat,
1:26:31
no more see one another. But yet thou art my flesh, my blood,
1:26:36
my daughter, or rather a disease that in my flesh, which I
1:26:42
must needs call mine. Thou art a boil, a plague, sore,
1:26:45
an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood. But I'll not chide thee. Let
1:26:50
shame come when it will, I do not call it. I do not
1:26:55
bid the thunderbearer shoot, nor tell tales of thee to high judging jove men
1:27:00
win. Thou canst be better at thy leisure? I can be patient,
1:27:04
I can stay with the Reagan, I and my hundred knights, not altogether.
1:27:10
So I look not for you yet, nor am provided for your fit.
1:27:14
Welcome, Give ea, sir, to my sister. For those that
1:27:18
mingle reason with your passion must be content to think you old and so.
1:27:25
But she knows what she does? Is this well spoken? I'd aer a
1:27:30
vouch it, sir? What fifty followers? Is it not? Well?
1:27:35
What should you need of more? Yeah? Here were so many sith that
1:27:40
both charge and danger speak, and so great a number. How in one
1:27:44
house should many people underdue commands? Old? Amity tis odd almost impossible?
1:27:50
Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance from those that she calls
1:27:55
servants or from mine? Why not, my lord? If that answer to
1:28:00
splack you, we would control them. If you will come to me for
1:28:04
now I spy a danger. I entreat you to bring, but five and
1:28:10
twenty to no more will I give place or notice. I gave you all,
1:28:16
and in good time you gave it, made you my guardians, my
1:28:20
depositories, but kept a reservation to be followed with such a number. What
1:28:26
must I come to you with five and twenty? Reagan said you so,
1:28:30
and speak it again, my lord, No more with me those wicked creatures?
1:28:35
Yet do look well favored when others are more wicked? Not being the
1:28:40
worst, stands in some rank of praise to Goneril, I'll go with thee
1:28:45
thy fifty, Yet doth double five and twenty and thou art twice her love?
1:28:50
Hear me, my lord? What needs you five and twenty ten or
1:28:55
five to follow? When a house where twice so many have a command to
1:28:58
tend you white need one? Oh reason? Not the need? Our basest
1:29:03
beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous, Allow not nature more than nature needs.
1:29:10
Man's life is cheap as beasts. Thou art a lady, if only
1:29:14
to go warm were gorgeous white nature needs not what thou gorgeous wearst which scarcely
1:29:19
keeps thee warm. But for true need, you, Heavens, give me
1:29:24
that patience, patience, I need you, see me, hear you.
1:29:28
God's a poor old man, as full of grief as age, wretched in
1:29:31
both. If it be you that stirs these daughter's hearts against their father,
1:29:36
fool me not so much to bear it. Tamely touch me with noble anger,
1:29:42
and let not woman's weapons water drops tain my man's cheeks. No,
1:29:47
Hugh, unnatural hags. I will have such revenges on you both that all
1:29:51
the world share. I will do such things. Mohi't they are yet?
1:29:56
I know not, But they shall be the terrors of the earth. You'll
1:29:59
think I'll no, I'll not weep. I have full course of weeping.
1:30:02
But this heart shall break into a hundred thousand floors where I'll weep. Oh,
1:30:08
fool, I shall go mad. Excellent lear Gloucester kent the fall,
1:30:14
and gentleman, let us withdraw twill be a storm. This house is little.
1:30:19
The old man and his people cannot be well bestowed tis his own blame.
1:30:25
Hath put himself from rest, and must needs taste his folly for his
1:30:29
particular I'll receive him gladly, but not one follower. So I am purposed.
1:30:34
Where is my Lord of Gloucester? Followed the old man? Forth?
1:30:39
He is returned, enter Gloucester. The king is in high rage. Whither
1:30:44
is he going? He calls to horse? But will I know not?
1:30:47
Whither tis best to give him away? He leads himself, my Lord,
1:30:53
entreat him by no means to stay alack. The night comes on, and
1:30:58
the high winds sorely ruffle for many miles about. There's scarce, a bush
1:31:04
oser, a wilful men. The injuries that they themselves brokeure must be their
1:31:11
schoolmasters. Shut up your doors. He is attended with a desperate train,
1:31:16
and what they may in sense him to being apt to have his ear abused
1:31:23
wisdom bids fear. Shut up your doors, my lord, tis a wild
1:31:28
night, My Reagan Council's well, come out of the storm. Excellent end
1:31:34
of Act two, Act three, seene one A heath a storm with thunder
1:31:45
and lightning, enter Kent, and a gentleman meeting. Who's there besides foul
1:31:53
weather, one minded like the weather most unquietly, Bye, know you?
1:32:00
Where's the king? Contending with the fretful elements, bids the wind blow the
1:32:06
earth into the sea, or swell the curled waters above the main, that
1:32:12
things might change or cease, tears his white hair, which the impetuous blasts
1:32:17
with eyeless rage catch in their fury and make nothing of strives in his little
1:32:25
world of man to outscorn the to and fro conflicting wind and rain this night,
1:32:31
wherein the cub drawn there would crouch the lion and the belly pinched wolf
1:32:38
keep their fur dry unbonneted. He runs and bids what will take all?
1:32:44
But who is with him? None but the fool who labors to outjest his
1:32:49
heart struck injuries. Sir, I do know you, and dare, upon
1:32:57
the warrant of my note, commend a dear thing to you. There is
1:33:01
division, although has yet the face of it be covered with mutual cunning,
1:33:09
TwixT Albany and Cornwall, who have not that their great stars thrown and set
1:33:17
high servants who seem no less, which are to france the spies and speculations
1:33:26
intelligent of our state? What hath been seen, either in snuffs and packings
1:33:32
of the dukes, or the hard rain which both of them have borne against
1:33:39
the old kind king, or something deeper, whereof perchance these are but furnishings.
1:33:48
But true it is from France there comes a power into this scattered kingdom,
1:33:55
who already wise in our negligence, have secret feet in some of our
1:34:01
best ports, and are at point to show their open banner now to you.
1:34:10
If on my credit you dare build so far to make your speed to
1:34:15
Dover, you shall find some that will thank you, making just report of
1:34:20
how unnatural, and be madding sorrow the king hath caused to plane. I
1:34:29
am a gentleman of blood and breeding, and from some knowledge an assurance,
1:34:34
offer this office to you. I will talk further with you. No,
1:34:41
do not, for confirmation that I am much more than my outlaw. Open
1:34:47
this purse and take what it contains. If you shall see Cordelia as fear
1:34:55
not, but you shall show her this ring, and she will tell you
1:35:01
who your fellow is, that yet you do not know. Fie on this
1:35:08
storm. I will go seek the king. Give me your hand. Have
1:35:14
you no more to say few words, but to effect more than all yet
1:35:20
that when we have found the king in which you're pain that way, I'll
1:35:27
this he that first lights on him, Pollah the other exent severally. Scene
1:35:39
two, another part of the heath. The storm continues, Enter Leah and
1:35:45
the fall. Blow winds and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow you cataracts
1:35:54
and hurricanoes, spout till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks you
1:36:00
offer us, and thought executing fires, want couriers to oak, cleaving thunderbolts
1:36:04
singe my white heads, and thou all shaking thunder strike flat the thick rotundity
1:36:11
of the world, crack nature's molds. All Germans spill at once that making
1:36:17
grateful man. Oh Nuncle court, Holy water in a dry house is better
1:36:23
than this rain water out of the door. Good nuncle in and ask thy
1:36:28
daughter's blessing. Here's a knight pities neither wise men nor fools, rumble thy
1:36:34
bellyful spit, fire, spout, rain, nor rain, wind, thunder
1:36:40
fire of my daughters. I tax you, not you elements with unkindness.
1:36:44
I never gave you kingdom, called you children. You owe me no subscription.
1:36:49
Then let for your horrible pleasure here I stand your slave, a poor,
1:36:55
infirm, weak and despised old man. But yet I call you servile
1:37:00
ministers, that will, with two pernicious daughters join your high engendered battle against
1:37:05
their heads so old and white as this, Oh, oh tis foul.
1:37:13
He that has a house to put his head in has a good head piece.
1:37:16
The cord piece that will house before the head has any the head,
1:37:20
and he shall louse so beggars marry many. The man that makes his toe
1:37:27
what he his heart should make, shall have a corn cry wool, and
1:37:30
turn his sleep to wake. For there was never yet fair woman, but
1:37:35
she made mouths in a glass, And to kent no, I will be
1:37:41
the pattern of all patients. I will say nothing. Who's there, Mary,
1:37:49
Here's grace and a cord piece. That's a wise man and a fool
1:37:56
a lester? Are you here? Things that night love nuts, Such nights
1:38:01
as these, the wrathful skies gallow the very wanderers of the dark, and
1:38:10
make them keep their caves. Since I was man, such sheets of fire,
1:38:16
such bursts of horrid thunder, such groans of roaring wind and rain,
1:38:24
I never remember to have heard. Man's nature cannot carry the affliction, nor
1:38:31
the fear. Let the great gods that keep this dreadful pother our heads find
1:38:38
out their enemies. Now tremble, thou wretch that hast within the undivulged crimes,
1:38:44
unwhipped of justice, Hide thee thou bloody hand, thou perjured, and
1:38:48
thou similar man of virtue that art incestuous kate if to peace's shake, that
1:38:54
under covert and convenient seeming, has practiced on man's life, close pent up
1:39:00
guilts, rive your concealing continence, and cry these dreadful summoner's grace. I
1:39:06
am a man more sinned against than sinning, a lack bare headed gracious my
1:39:14
lord, hard by here is a hobble some friendship? Will it lend you
1:39:19
against the tempest Freepose you there? Whilst I to this hard house, more
1:39:27
harder than the stones whereof tis raised, which even now demanding, after you
1:39:34
denied me to come in return and force their scanted courtesy, my wits begin
1:39:45
to turn. Come on, my boy, how does my boy hot cold?
1:39:48
I am cold myself? Where is this straw? My fellow? They
1:39:53
aught of our necessities? Is strange that can make vile things precious? Your
1:40:00
hovel, poor fool, and knave. I have one part in my heart
1:40:04
that's sorry. Yet for thee he that hasn't a little tiny wit with hey
1:40:13
ho the wind and the rain must make content with his fortunes fit for the
1:40:18
rain it raineth every day, True boy, Come bring us to this hovel,
1:40:28
excellent Leah and kent. This is a brave knight to cool a cortisan.
1:40:33
I'll speak a prophecy. Ere I go when priests are more in words
1:40:39
than matter, when brewers mar their malt with water, when nobles are their
1:40:44
tailor's tutors, no heretics burnt, but wenches suitors. When every case in
1:40:49
law is right, no squire in debt, nor no poor knight. When
1:40:57
slanders do not live in tongues, nor cut purses come not to throngs.
1:41:01
When usurers tell their gold in the field, and bods and horrors do churches
1:41:06
build. Then shall the realm of Albion come to great confusion? Then comes
1:41:14
the time who lives to see it that going shall be used with feet.
1:41:18
This prophecy Merlin shall make for I live before his time. Exit Scene three.
1:41:30
A room in Gloucester's castle. Enter Gloucester and Edmund a lack a lack,
1:41:38
Edmund, I like not this unnatural dealing. When I desired their leave
1:41:42
that I might pity him, they took from me the use of mine own
1:41:45
house, charged me on pain of perpetual displeasure. Neither to speak of him,
1:41:50
entreat for him, nor any ways sustain him, most savage and unnatural.
1:41:59
Go to say you nothing. There is division betwixt the dukes, and
1:42:02
a worse matter than that I have received a letter this night tis dangerous to
1:42:08
be spoken. I have locked the letter in my closet. These injuries the
1:42:13
King now bears will be revenged home. There is part of a power already
1:42:17
footed. We must incline to the King. I will seek him and privily
1:42:24
relieve him. Go you and maintain talk with the Duke, that my charity
1:42:29
be not of him perceived. If he ask for me, I am ill
1:42:32
and gone to bed. If I die for it, as no less is
1:42:38
threatened me. The King, my old master, must be relieved. There
1:42:43
is some strange thing toward Edmund. Pray you be careful exit this courtesy forbid
1:42:53
thee. Shall the Duke instantly know, and of that letter too. This
1:42:59
seems a fair deserving, and must draw me that which my father loses no
1:43:04
less than all the younger rises when the old doth fall Exit Scene four,
1:43:17
A part of the heath with a hovel storm continues. Enter lear Kent and
1:43:26
the fall. Here is the place, my lord, good, my lord,
1:43:30
enter the tyranny of the open nights, too rough for nature to endure.
1:43:38
Let me alone, good, my lord enter here, wilt break my
1:43:44
heart? I had rather break mine own? Could my lord enter? Thou
1:43:49
think'stis much that this contentious storm invades us to the skin, so tis to
1:43:55
thee. But where the greater malady is fixed, the letter is scarce.
1:44:00
Else thou'lt shun a bear. But if thy flight lay towards the raging sea,
1:44:04
thou'dst meet the bear in the mouth. When the mind's free, the
1:44:09
body is delicate. The tempest in my mind does from my senses take all
1:44:14
feeling else save what beats there filial ingratitude. Is it not as this mouth
1:44:19
should tear this hand for lifting food to it? But I will punish ho
1:44:26
no, I will weep no more. It's such a night to shut me
1:44:31
out. Poor, I will endure in such a night as this ole vegan
1:44:38
goneril your kind old father, whose frank heart gave all. Oh that way
1:44:45
madness lies, make me shun that. No more of that good my lord,
1:44:51
enter here, pretty, go in thyself, seek thine own knees.
1:44:57
This tempest will not give me leave to ponder on things would hurt me more.
1:45:02
But I'll go in in, boy, go first, you houseless poverty,
1:45:08
Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.
1:45:12
Exit the fall, poor naked wretches, wheresoeer you are by the pelting of
1:45:17
this pitiless storm? How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, your loops
1:45:24
and windows raggedness defend you from seasons such as these? Oh, I attain
1:45:30
too little care of this, Take pomp, expose thyself to feel what wretches
1:45:35
feeled, that thou mayst shake the super flux to them and show the heavens
1:45:41
more. Just Adam and arf, Adam and arf, poor harm, Enter
1:45:46
the fall from the hovel. Come not in here, nuicole, Here's a
1:45:50
spirit, help me, help me give me thy hand. Who's there a
1:45:57
spirit? A spirit? He says, his name's poor Tom. What art
1:46:01
thou that dust grumble there at the straw? Come forth, enter Edgar,
1:46:09
disguised as poor Tom Away. The foul fiend follows me through the sharp orthorn,
1:46:16
blows the cold wind. Hum, go to thy cold bed and warm
1:46:21
thee. Didst thou give all to thy two daughters? And art thou come
1:46:27
to this? Who gives anything to poor Tom whom the foul fiend hath led
1:46:32
through fire and through flame, through forward and whirlpool, our barg and quagmire
1:46:40
that hath laid knives under his pillow and halters in his pew set rat's pain
1:46:45
by his porridge made him proud of heart to ride on a bay trotting horse
1:46:49
over four inched bridges to course his own shadow for a traitor. Bless thy
1:46:54
five wets Tom's cold doo doo doody doody. Bless thee from whirlwind star blasting
1:47:05
and taking do poor tomson charity Hume. The foul fiend vexes there Could I
1:47:13
have him? Now? And there? And there again and there? What
1:47:17
have his daughters brought him to this pass? Couldst thou say nothing? Didst
1:47:23
thou give them all? Nay? He reserved a blanket? Else we had
1:47:27
been all samed. Now, all the plagues that in the pendulous air hang
1:47:31
fated all men's faults light on thy daughters. Gee hath no daughter, Sir,
1:47:39
death traitor. Nothing could have subdued nature to such loneness but his unkind
1:47:45
daughters. Is it the fashion that discarded fathers should have thus little mercy on
1:47:49
their flesh, judicious punishment twas this flesh begot those Pelican daughters. Pillcock sat
1:47:57
on pillycock Hill. Halloo ooh, halloo, Lou Lou, this cold night
1:48:04
will turn us all to fools and madmen. Take heed of the foul fiend.
1:48:10
Obey thy parents, Keep thy word justly, swear not commit not with
1:48:15
man's sworn spouse. Set not thy sweetheart on proud array. Tom's a cold
1:48:23
What hast thou been? A serving man? Proud in heart and mind that
1:48:28
curled my hair, wore gloves in my cap, served the lust of my
1:48:32
mistress's heart, and did the act of darkness with her. Swore as many
1:48:39
oaths as I spake words, and broke them in the sweet face of heaven.
1:48:41
One that slept in a contriving of lust and waked to do it wine
1:48:46
love died deeply, dice dearly, and in woman out paramour, the turk
1:48:56
false of heart, light of air, bloody of hand, hogin's sloth,
1:48:59
fox in dealth, wolf ingredients, dog in madness, lying in prey.
1:49:02
Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray thy poor heart
1:49:05
to woman. Keep thy foot out of brothel, thy hand out of placket,
1:49:11
thy pen from lender's book, and defy the foul fiend. Still through
1:49:15
the hawthorn blows, the cold wind says some money, noney delphin, my
1:49:23
boy boy set let him trop by. Why thou wert better in thy grave
1:49:30
than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies is man no
1:49:35
more than this, Consider him well, thou ow'st the worm, no silk,
1:49:40
the beast, no hide, the sheet, no wool, the cat,
1:49:44
no perfume. Huh, Here's three ones are sophisticated. Thou art the
1:49:48
thing itself unaccommodated. Man is no more but such a poor bear forked animal
1:49:56
as thou art off off you lending, come unbutton. Here he tears off
1:50:01
his clothes, prythee uncle be contented. Tis anoddy night to swim in.
1:50:09
Now a little fire in a wild field were like an old letcher's heart,
1:50:13
a small spark all the rest one's body called. Look, here comes a
1:50:17
walking fire enter Gloucester with a torch. This is the foul fiend, Flippity
1:50:24
Gibbit. He begins at curfew and walks till the first cock. He gives
1:50:29
the web and the pen, squints the eye and makes the hair lip,
1:50:32
mildews the white weight, and hurts the poor creature of earth. So with
1:50:36
old footed thrice the old he met the nightmare and her ninefold, bid her
1:50:43
a light and her troth plight. And I write the witch, I write
1:50:47
thee How far's your grace? What's he to Gloucester? Who's there? What
1:50:57
ist you seek? What are you there? Names poor tom that eats the
1:51:02
swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the walnut, and the water,
1:51:09
that, in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages,
1:51:12
eats cow dung for salads, swallows the old rat, and the ditch
1:51:16
dog drinks the green mantle of the standing pool. Who is whipped from tithing
1:51:19
to tithing and stuck to punished and imprisoned. Who hath had three suits to
1:51:24
his back, six shirts to his body, harsh to royd, and weapons
1:51:27
to wear? But mice and rats and such small deer have been Tom's food
1:51:31
for seven long year. Beware my follower, peace, smokin' peace, thou
1:51:39
fiend, what hath your grace no better company? The Prince of darkness is
1:51:44
a gentleman modo he's called and mahoo our flesh and blood, my lord,
1:51:51
is grown so vile that it doth hate what gets it? Poor Tom's a
1:51:57
cold Go in with me. My duty cannot suffer to obey in all your
1:52:01
daughter's hard commands, though their injunction be to bar my doors and let this
1:52:08
tyrannous knight take hold upon you. Yet have I ventured to come seek you
1:52:13
out and bring you where both fire and food is ready? First, let
1:52:17
me talk with this philosopher. To Edgar, what is the cause of thunder?
1:52:23
Good? My lord, take this offer, go into the house.
1:52:29
I'll talk a word with this same learned theban To Edgar, what is your
1:52:33
study? How to prevent the fiend and to kill vermin? Let me ask
1:52:38
you one word in private? Lear and Edgar talk apart. Importune him once
1:52:45
more to go, my lord, his wits begin to unsettle. Canst thou
1:52:50
blame him? His daughters seek his death? Ah? That good? Can
1:52:56
he said it would be thus, poor banished man, Thou sayest the king
1:53:00
grows mad. I'll tell THEE, friend, I am almost mad myself.
1:53:05
I had a son now outlawed from my blood. He sought my life.
1:53:11
But lately, very late I loved him, friend, no father, his
1:53:15
son dearer true to tell THEE the grief hath crazed my wits. What a
1:53:21
knight's this? I do beseech your grace, Oh, cry you mercy,
1:53:28
sir, noble philosophy, your company. Tom's a cold in fellow. There
1:53:33
into the hovel. Keep thee warm. Come let in all this this way,
1:53:40
my lord with him, I will keep still with my philosopher. Good,
1:53:45
my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow. Take him
1:53:49
you on, Sarah, come on, go along with us, Come good
1:53:55
Athenian. No words, no words, Hush child Roland to the dark tower
1:54:01
came His word was still fie foe and FuMB I smell the blood of a
1:54:09
British man. Exiant. Scene five. A room in Gloucester's castle, Enter
1:54:19
Cornwall, and Edmund, I will have my revenge. Ere I depart his
1:54:26
house, How my Lord I may be censured. That nature thus gives way
1:54:31
to loyalty. Something fears me to think of. I now perceive it was
1:54:36
not altogether your brother's evil disposition made him seek his death, but a provoking
1:54:42
merit set a work by a reprovable badness in himself. How malicious is my
1:54:48
fortune that I must repent to be just? This is the letter he spoke
1:54:54
of, which approves him an intelligent party to the advantages of France. Oh
1:54:58
heavens that this treason were not or not I the detector, go with me
1:55:05
to the Duchess. If the matter of this paper be certain, you have
1:55:10
mighty business in hand. True or false. It hath made thee Earl of
1:55:15
Gloucester seek out where thy father is, that he may be ready for our
1:55:18
apprehension. If I find him comforting the king, it will stuff his suspicion
1:55:26
more fully. I will persevere in my course of loyalty, though the conflict
1:55:31
be sore between that and my blood. I will lay trust upon THEE and
1:55:38
thou shalt find a dearer father in my love. Exellent Scene six. A
1:55:47
chamber in a farmhouse adjoining the castle, enter Gloucester, lear Kent. The
1:55:54
fool and edgar here is better than the open air. Take it thankfully.
1:56:00
I will peace out the comfort with what addition I can. I will not
1:56:04
be long from you. All the power of his wits have given way to
1:56:10
his impatience. The gods reward your kindness. Exit Gloucester. Farrato calls me
1:56:18
and tells me Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness. Pray innocent
1:56:24
and beware of the foul faend prithe Nunko. Tell me whether a madman be
1:56:29
a gentleman or a yeoman, a king, a king. No, he's
1:56:33
a yeoman that has a gentleman to his son. For he's a mad yeoman
1:56:38
that sees his son a gentleman before him to have a thousand with red burning
1:56:44
spits come hissing in upon him. The foul fain bites my back. He's
1:56:49
mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a
1:56:53
boy's love, or a hoarse oath. It shall be done. I will
1:56:58
arraign them straight to Edgar. Come sit thou here, most learned justiceir to
1:57:03
the fool Thou safeien, sir, sit here? Now shall she foxes look
1:57:12
where he's downs and glares onst thou eyes a trial, Madam, Come o
1:57:17
the barn Bessie to me her boat hath a leak, and she must not
1:57:23
speak. Why she darest not come over to thee. The foul fiend aunt's
1:57:28
poor Tom, in the voice of a nightingale, happy dance cries in Tom's
1:57:32
belly for two white herring croak, not black angel. I have no food
1:57:38
for thee. How do you, sir? Stand you not so amazed?
1:57:44
Will you lie down and rest upon the cushions. I'll see their trial first.
1:57:49
Bring in their evidence to Edgar, thou robed man of justice, Take
1:57:56
thy place to the fool, and thou his yoke fellow of equity, bench
1:58:00
by his side, to Kent. You are of the commission, Sit you
1:58:05
too, Let us deal justly. Sleepiest or wakest thou jolly shepherd, thy
1:58:13
sheep be in the corn, and for one blast of nouminikan mouth, thy
1:58:17
sheep shall take no arm. Po Ah, the cat is gray. The
1:58:25
rein her first tis Goneril. I here take my oath before this honorable assembly.
1:58:31
She kicked the poor king her father. Come hither, mistress. Is
1:58:36
your name Goneril? She cannot deny it? Cry you mercy. I took
1:58:41
you for a joint stool. And here's another who's warped and looks proclaim what
1:58:47
store her heart is made on? Stop her? There? Arms, armed,
1:58:50
sword fire, corruption in the place, false justice, sir? Why
1:58:56
hast thou let her escape? Bless thy five wets? Oh pity, sir?
1:59:01
Where is the patience now that you so oft have boasted to retain my
1:59:08
tears? Begin to take his part so much they'll mar my counterfeiting the little
1:59:14
dogs and all tray Blanche and sweet heart, see they bark at me.
1:59:20
Tom will throw his head at them avauntchie curs, be thy mouth or black
1:59:26
or white tooth that poisons. If it bite mastiff, greyhound, mongrel,
1:59:30
grim hound, or spaniel brack or a lemb or bop tail tight or trundle
1:59:34
tail, Tom will make them weep and whale for with throwing Thus my head,
1:59:40
dogs leap the atch, and all are fled. Do d D D
1:59:45
cessa, come march to wakes and fairs and market towns. Poor Tom thy
1:59:50
arn is dry. Then let them anatomize reagans. See what breeds about her
1:59:57
heart? Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts? You,
2:00:01
sir, I entertain you for one of my hundred only I do not
2:00:06
like the fashion of your garments. You will say they are Persian, but
2:00:11
let them be changed. Now, good my lord, lie here and rest
2:00:17
awhile, make no noise, Make no noise, draw the curtains. So
2:00:25
so we'll go to supply the morning, and I'll go to bed at noon.
2:00:30
Enter Gloucester. Come hither, friend, where is the king? My
2:00:34
master? Here, sir, but trouble him that his wits are gone,
2:00:42
Good friend, I prithee take him in thy arms. I have or heard
2:00:45
a plot of death upon him. There is a litter. Ready, lay
2:00:49
him in it, and drive towards dover, Friend, where thou shalt meet
2:00:54
both welcome and protection. Take up thy master. If thou shouldst half an
2:01:00
hour his life with thine and all that offer to defend him, stand in
2:01:05
assured loss, take up, take up and follow me. That will to
2:01:10
some provision give thee quick conduct o pressed nature sleeps. This rest might yet
2:01:17
have bound thy broken sinews, which, if convenience will not allow, stand
2:01:27
in hard cure to the fool. Come help to bear thy master. Come
2:01:33
Come away exeant kent Gloucester in the full bearing off the king. When we
2:01:42
our betters see bearing our woes. We scarcely think our miseries are foes.
2:01:48
Who alone suffers suffers most of the mind, leaving free things and happy shows
2:01:57
behind. But then the man find much sufferance. Doth o'er skip when grief
2:02:02
hath mates in bearing fellowship. How light and portable my pain seems now,
2:02:10
When that which makes me bend makes the king bow He childed as I fathered
2:02:18
talm away mark, the eye noises, and thyself berat. When false opinion,
2:02:25
whose wrong thought defils thee in thy just proof repeals and reconciles thee.
2:02:31
What will app more tonight? Safe? Escape the king lurk Lerk Exit Scene
2:02:45
seven. A room in Gloucester's castle, Enter Cornwall, Reagan, Goneril,
2:02:53
Edmund and servants to Goneril host speedily to my lord your husband, show him
2:03:00
this letter. The army of France is landed. Seek out the traitor Gloucester
2:03:05
excellence. Some servants hang him instantly, pluck out his eyes, leave him
2:03:13
to my displeasure, Edmund, keep you our sister company. The revenges we
2:03:19
are bound to take upon your traitorous father are not fit for your beholding.
2:03:25
Advise the Duke where you are going to a most festinate preparation. We are
2:03:30
bound to the like. Our posts shall be swift and intelligent. Betwixt us.
2:03:34
Farewell, dear sister, farewell my Lord of Gloucester. Enter Oswald.
2:03:42
How now, where's the king? My Lord of Gloucester hath conveyed him.
2:03:45
Hence some five or six and thirty of his knights hot questrests after him,
2:03:49
met him at gate, who with some other of the Lord's dependants are gone
2:03:55
with him towards Dover, where they boast to have well armed friends. Get
2:03:59
all for your mistress. Exit Oswald. Farewell, sweet Lord and sister Edmund.
2:04:06
Farewell, Exiant Goneril and Edmund. Go seek the traitor Gloucester. Pinion
2:04:13
him like a thief. Bring him before us exillent servants. Though well,
2:04:17
we may not pass upon his life without the form of justice. Yet our
2:04:23
power shall do a courtesy to our wrath, which men may blame but not
2:04:28
control. Enter Gloucester, brought in by two or three servants. Who's there?
2:04:33
The traitor ingradful fox t is here? Bind fast his corky arms.
2:04:40
What men, your graces good? My friends? Consider you are my guests,
2:04:45
do mean no foul play friends. Bind him, I say, servants,
2:04:49
tie his hands, hard art, old, filthy trader, unmerciful lady
2:04:55
as you are, I'm none to this chair. Bind him, villain,
2:05:00
thou shalt find Reagan plucks his beard by the kind gods, tis most ignobly
2:05:08
done to pluck me by the beard so white, and such a traitor,
2:05:13
naughty lady. These hares which thou dost ravish from my chin will quicken and
2:05:17
accuse thee. I am your host, with robbers hands, my hospitable favors.
2:05:24
You should not ruffle. Thus, what will you do? Come,
2:05:29
sir? What letters had you late from France? Be simple? Answered?
2:05:32
For we know the truth, and what confederacy have you with the traitors late
2:05:38
footed in the kingdom? To Whose hands have you sent the lunatic king?
2:05:44
Speak? I have a letter, guessingly set down, which came from one
2:05:48
that's of a neutral heart, and not from one opposed, cunning and false.
2:05:55
Where hast thou sent the king to Dover? Wherefore de Dover? Wast
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thout not charged at Beryl? Wherefore to Dover? Let him first answer that
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I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course well boarded
2:06:11
over sir, because I would not see thy cruel nails pluck out his poor
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old eyes, nor thy fierce sister in his anointed flesh stick boorish fangs the
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sea with such a storm as his bare head in hell black night endur'd would
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have buoyed up and quench'd the stell'd fires. Yet, poor old heart,
2:06:38
he hope the heavens to reign. If wolves had at thy gait howl'd that
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stern time, thou shouldst have said, good porter, turn the key,
2:06:49
all cruels else subscrib'd. But I shall see the winged vengeance overtake such children
2:06:58
see it. Thou shalt never fellows, hold the chair upon these eyes of
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thine. I'll set my foot. He that will think to live till he
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be old, give me some help, Oh cruel, Oh ye gods,
2:07:15
one side will mark another the other. Do if you see vengeance? Hold
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your hand, my lord. I have served you ever since I was a
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child. But better service have I never done you than now to bid you
2:07:28
hold. Oh, now, you dog, If you did wear a beard
2:07:31
upon your chin, I'd shake it on this quarrel. Cornwall draws his sword.
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What do you mean, my villain? He lunges at him. Nay,
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then come on and take the chance of anger. He wounds cornwall.
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Give me thy sword, a peasant stand up. Thus she takes a sword
2:07:50
and runs at him behind. Oh I am slain, my lord, you
2:07:55
have one eye left to see some mischief on him? Oh he dies,
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lest it seem more? Prevent it out, vile jelly. Where is thy
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lusteron now? All dark and comfortless? Where's my son? Edmund? Edmund
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enkindle all the sparks of nature to quit this horrid act? Thou dreader's villain?
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Thou call'st on him that hates thee. It was he that made the
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overture of thy treasons to us? Who is too good to bity thee?
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O my follies? Then Edgar was abused. Kind gods, forgive me that
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and prosper him. Go thrust him out at gates and let him smell his
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waded over exit a servant with Gloucester. How is it, my lord?
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How look you I have received a Hurtllow me lady, turn out that eyeless
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villain. Throw this slave upon the dunghill. Reagan, I bleed apace untimely
2:09:09
comes this hurt. Give me your arm exit Cornwall, supported by Reagan.
2:09:16
I'll never care what wickedness I'd do if this man come to good, If
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she lived long and in the end meet the old course of death, women
2:09:24
will altern monsters. Let's follow the old earl and get the bedlamb to lead
2:09:31
him where he would. His roguish madness allows itself to anything. Go thou.
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I'll fetch some flax and whites of eggs to apply to his bleeding face.
2:09:39
Now Heaven help it exit by opposite doors. End of Act three,
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Act four, Scene one. The heath enter Edgar, yet better thus and
2:09:58
known to be con ted, then still contemned and flattered to be worst,
2:10:05
The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune stands still in experance, lives not
2:10:09
in fear. The lamentable change is from the best the worst returns to laughter.
2:10:16
Welcome, then, thou, unsubstantial air, that I embrace the wretch
2:10:22
that thou hast blown unto the worst, owes nothing to thy blasts, enter
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Gloucester, led by an old man. But who comes here my father poorly
2:10:35
lad world, World, O world, But that thy strange mutations make us
2:10:43
hate thee life would not yield to age. Oh, my good Lord,
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I have been your tenant and your father's tenant these four score years away.
2:10:56
Get thee away, good friend, begone. Thy comforts can do me no
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good at all thee they may hurt. You cannot see your way. I
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have no way, and therefore want no eyes. I stumbled when I saw
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full oft tis seen our means secure us and our mere defects prove our commodities.
2:11:20
Oh, dear son Edgar, the food of thy abused father's wrath.
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Might I but live to see thee in my touch? I'd say I had
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eyes again? Oh No, who's there? Oh God? Who est can
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say? I am at the worst? I am worse than heir I was?
2:11:43
Tis poor, mad tom and worse I may be. Yet the worst
2:11:50
is not so long as we can say this is the worst fellow? Where
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goest is it a beggar man? Madman and beggar two? He has some
2:12:01
reason else he could not beg In the last night's storm, I such a
2:12:05
fellow saw, which made me think a man a worm. My son came
2:12:11
then into my mind, and yet my mind was then scarce. Friends with
2:12:16
him, I have heard more since. As flies to wanton boys, are
2:12:22
we to the gods? They kill us for their sport. How should this
2:12:26
be bad? Is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, angering itself
2:12:31
and others. Bless thee master, is that the naked fellow ay my lord,
2:12:39
then prithee get thee gone. If for my sake thou wilt o'ertake us,
2:12:43
hence a mile or twain in the way toward dover, do it for
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ancient love, and bring some covering for this naked soul, which I'll entreat
2:12:52
to lead me alack, sir, he is mad. Tis the time's plague
2:12:56
when mad men lead the blind. Do as I bid thee, or rather
2:13:01
do thy pleasure above the rest be gone? I bring him the best peril
2:13:07
that I have command? What will exit surrah, naked fellow? Poor Tom's
2:13:15
a cold I cannot daub bit further. Come hither, fellow, And yet
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I must bless thy sweet eyes. They plead knowest thou the waited dover both
2:13:28
stoyle and gait archway and footpath. Poor tarm hath been scared out of his
2:13:33
good wit. Bless thee good Man's son from the foul fiend. Five fiends
2:13:37
have been in poor Tom at once of lust, as obedicut obedidence, Prince
2:13:45
of dumbness, Mahu of stealing, Modo of murder, flippity, Gibbet of
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mopping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and waiting women. So bless thee
2:13:56
master here take this purse, Thou whom the heaven's plagues have humbled to all
2:14:03
strokes, that I am wretched, makes thee the happier heavens deal so still.
2:14:09
Let the superfluous and lust dieted man that slaves your ordinance, that will
2:14:15
not see because he does not feel fuel your power quickly. So distribution should
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undo excess, and each man have enough. Dost thou know, dover,
2:14:26
I master, there is a cliff whose high and bending head looks fearfully in
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the confined deep. Bring me but to the very brim of it, and
2:14:35
I'll repair the misery. Thou dost bear with something rich about me? From
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that place, I shall no leading need give me thy arm. Poor Tom
2:14:46
shall lead thee exiant scene too. Before the Duke of Alban's palace enter Goneril
2:15:00
and Edmund Oswald, meeting them, Welcome, my lord, I marvel our
2:15:05
mild husband not met us on the way. Now, where's your master madam
2:15:09
within, but never man so changed. I told him of the army that
2:15:16
was landed. He smiled at it. I told him you were coming.
2:15:20
His answer was the worse of Gloucester's treachery and the loyal service of his son.
2:15:26
When I informed him. Then he called me sot and told me I
2:15:30
had turned the wrong side out. What most he should dislike seems pleasant to
2:15:35
him? What like offensive to Edmund? Then shall you go no further.
2:15:41
It is the cowish terror of his spirit that dares not undertake. He'll not
2:15:46
feel wrongs which tie him to an answer. Our wishes on the way may
2:15:50
prove effects back Edmund to my brother. Hasten his musters and conduct his powers.
2:15:56
I must change arms at home and give the dis staff into my husband's
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hands. This trusty servant shall pass between us ere long you are like to
2:16:05
hear. If you dare venture in your own, behalf a mistress's command giving
2:16:11
a favor. Wear this spare speech, Decline your head this kiss. If
2:16:16
it durst speak, would stretch thy spirits up into the air. Conceive and
2:16:22
fare thee well yours in the ranks of death, my most dear Gloucester.
2:16:28
Exit Edmund, oh the difference of man and man to thee. A woman's
2:16:35
services are due my fool usurps my body, Madam, Here comes my lord,
2:16:41
Exit, enter albany. I have been worth the whistle, oh goneril,
2:16:48
you are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face.
2:16:52
I fear your disposition. That nature which contemns it origin cannot be bordered.
2:16:58
Certain in its she that herself will sliver and disbranch from her material sap
2:17:05
must perforce whither and come to deadly use no more. The text is foolish
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wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile filths. Savor but themselves. What
2:17:18
have you done? Tigers not daughters? What have you performed? A father
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and a gracious aged man whose reverence even the head lugged bear would lick,
2:17:31
most barbarous, most degenerate? Have you madded? Could my good brothers suffer
2:17:39
you to do it? A man a prince by him so benefited? If
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that the heavens do not their visible spirits send quickly down to tame these vile
2:17:50
offenses, it will come. Humanity must perforce prey on itself like monsters of
2:17:56
the deep. Milk livered man the bearest cheek for blows, I head for
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wrongs who hast not in thy brows, and I discerning thine honor from thy
2:18:05
suffering that not knowest fools? Do those villains pity who are punished ere they
2:18:11
have done their mischief? Where's thy drum? France spreads his banners in our
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noiseless land with plumed helm. Thy slayer begins threats, whilst thou, a
2:18:20
mortal fool, sits still and criest alac. Why does he so see thyself
2:18:26
devil? Proper deformity seems not in the fiend so horrid as in woman,
2:18:33
Oh vain fool, Thou changed and self covered thing? For shame, de
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monster, not thy feature wit my fitness to let these hands obey my blood.
2:18:45
They are apt enough to dislocate and tear thy flesh and bones. Howe'er
2:18:50
thou art a fiend, a woman's shape doth shield thee marry your manhood?
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Now enter a messenger, What news, oh my good lord? The Duke
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of Cornwall's dead, slain by his servant going to put out the other eye
2:19:05
of Gloucester Glocester's eyes, a servant that he bred thrilled with remorse opposed against
2:19:13
the act, bending his sword to his great master, who thereat and rage
2:19:16
flew on him and amongst them felt him dead, but not without that harmful
2:19:22
stroke, which, since hath plucked him after this shows you are above you
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justicers, that these are nether crime. So speedily convenge, Oh poor Gloucester
2:19:33
lost, he is other. I both both, my lord. This letter,
2:19:37
Madam craves a speedy answer tis from your sister. One way I like
2:19:41
this well, but being widow and my Gloucester with her, may all the
2:19:46
building in my fancy pluck upon my hateful life. Another way, the news
2:19:52
is not so tart. I'll read an answer. Exit. Where was his
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son when they did take his eyes? Come with my lady hither? He
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is not here. No, my good lord, I met him back again.
2:20:05
Knows he the wickedness I, my good lord, twas he informed against
2:20:09
him and quit the house on purpose that their punishment might have the freer course.
2:20:15
Gloucester. I live to thank THEE for the love thou ShoWest the king,
2:20:20
and to revenge thine eyes. Come hither, friend, tell me what
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more thou know'st exant. Scene three, the French camp near Dover, and
2:20:35
to Kent and a gentleman. Why the King of France has so suddenly gone
2:20:41
back? Know you the reason? Something he left imperfect in the state which,
2:20:46
since his coming forth is thought of, which imports to the kingdom so
2:20:50
much fear and danger, that his personal return was most required and necessary.
2:20:56
Who hath he left behind him? General, the Mareschal of France, Monsieur
2:21:01
lefarre? Did your letters pierce the queen to any demonstration of grief? Ay?
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Sir? She took them, read them in my presence, and now
2:21:13
and then an ample tear trilled down her delicate cheek. It seemed she was
2:21:18
a queen over her passion, who most rebel like sought to be king oer
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her. Oh, then it moved her not to a rage, patience and
2:21:31
sorrow strove who should express her goodliest you have seen sunshine and rain at once?
2:21:39
Her smiles and tears were like a better day, those happy smilets that
2:21:43
played on her ripe lip. Seemed not to know what guests were in her
2:21:48
eyes, which parted thence as pearls from diamonds dropped in brief sorrow would be
2:21:56
a rarity most beloved, if all could so become it made she no verbal
2:22:01
question. Faith. Once or twice she heaved the name of Father pantingly forth,
2:22:09
as if it pressed her heart. Cried sisters, sisters, shame of
2:22:15
ladies, sisters, kent father, sisters. What if the storm in the
2:22:20
night let pity not be believed? There she shook the holy water from her
2:22:26
heavenly eyes and clamor moistened. Then away she started to deal with grief alone.
2:22:33
It is the stars, the stars above us, govern our conditions.
2:22:39
Else oneself, mate and mate could not beget such different issues. You spoke
2:22:46
not with her sense? No was this before the king returned? No,
2:22:52
since, well, sir, the poor distressed liers in the town, who
2:22:58
sometimes in his better tune, remembers what we are come about, and by
2:23:05
no means will yield to see his daughter. Why, good sir, a
2:23:09
sovereign shame so elbows him. His own unkindness that stripped her from his benediction,
2:23:18
turned her to foreign casualties, gave her dear rights to his dog hearted
2:23:24
daughters. These things sting his mind so venomously that burning shame detains him from
2:23:31
Cordelia, A lack poor gentleman of Albaniese and Cornwall's powers you heard not tis
2:23:41
so they are afoot Well, sir, I'll bring you to our master lear
2:23:48
and leave you to attend him some dear cause will in concealment wrap me up
2:23:54
a while. When I am known aright, you shall not grieve lending me
2:23:58
this sequaintance, I pray you go along with me, exiant scene for the
2:24:07
French camp a tent, and to Cordelia, physician and soldiers a lack tis
2:24:16
he why he was met even now as mad as the vexed sea, singing
2:24:22
aloud, crowned with rank fumitu and furrow weeds, with har loocks, hemlock,
2:24:28
nettles, cuckoo flowers, darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
2:24:33
in our sustaining corn. To soldiers a century, send forth, search every
2:24:39
acre in the high grown field, and bring him to our eye, Exiant
2:24:45
soldiers, to physician, What can man's wisdom in the restoring his breathed sense
2:24:50
he that helps him take all my outward worth? There is means, madam,
2:24:56
our fast and nurse of nature is reposed which he lacks, that to
2:25:01
provoke in him are many simple as operative whose power will close the eye of
2:25:05
anguish all blessed secrets, all you, unpublished virtues of the earth spring with
2:25:11
my tears, be aident and remediate in the good man's distress. Seek seek
2:25:18
for him, lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life that wants the means to
2:25:22
lead it. Enter a messenger, news, Madam, the British powers are
2:25:28
marching hitherward tis known before our preparation stands in expectation of them. Oh,
2:25:35
dear father, it is thy business that I go about. Therefore, great
2:25:41
France, my mourning and important tears hath pitied. No blown ambition doth our
2:25:48
arms in sight, But love, dear love, and our aged father's right.
2:25:56
Soon may I hear and see him exent Scene five a room in Gloucester's
2:26:05
castle, and to Reagan and Oswald. But are my brother's powers set forth?
2:26:13
I madam himself in person there, Madam, with much ado, Your
2:26:18
sister is the better soldier. Lord Edmund spake not with your lord at home,
2:26:24
No, Madam, what might im brought my sister's letter to him?
2:26:28
I know not, Lady faith, he has posted ends on serious matter.
2:26:35
It was great ignorance Gloucester's eyes being out to let him live where he arrives.
2:26:41
He moves all hearts against us. Edmund I think is gone in pity
2:26:46
of his misery, to despatch his knighted life. Moreover, to descry the
2:26:52
strength of the enemy. I must needs after him, Madam. With my
2:26:56
letter, our troops set forth tomorrow. Stay with us. The ways are
2:27:03
dangerous. I may not, Madam, my lady charged my duty in this
2:27:07
business? Why should she write to Edmund? Might not you transport her purposes
2:27:13
by word? But like something I know not what, I'll love thee much.
2:27:18
Let me unseal the letter, Madam, I had rather. I know
2:27:22
your lady does not love her husband. I am sure of that, And
2:27:26
at her late being here, she gave strange ayeliads and most speaking looks to
2:27:33
noble Edmund. I know you are of her bosom, I madam, I
2:27:39
speak an understanding you are. I know it. Therefore, I do advise
2:27:43
you take this note. My lord is dead, Edmund and I have talked,
2:27:48
and more convenient as he for my hand than for your ladies. You
2:27:54
may add more. If you do find him, pray you give him this.
2:27:58
And when your mistress is the much from you, I pray desire her
2:28:01
call her wisdom doer, So fare you well? And if you do chance
2:28:07
to hear of that blind rader, preferment falls on him that cuts him off.
2:28:13
Would I could meet him? Madam? I should show what party I
2:28:16
do follow fairly well. Exiant Scene six the country near Dover, enter Gloucester,
2:28:30
and Edgar dressed as a peasant. When shall I come to the top
2:28:35
of that same hell? You do? Climb up it? Now? Look
2:28:39
how we labor? Methinks the ground is even horrible steep hark. Do you
2:28:45
hear the sea? No? Truly? Why then your other senses grow imperfect
2:28:50
by your eyes anguish? So may it be? Indeed, methinks thy voice
2:28:56
is altered, and thou speakest in better phrase and matter than that dotst You
2:29:01
are much deceived In nothing am I changed? But in my garments methinks you're
2:29:05
better spoken. Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still.
2:29:11
How fearful and dizzy tis to cast one's eyes so low? The crows and
2:29:16
chuffs that wing the midway air show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way
2:29:22
down hangs one that gathers samphire a dreadful trade. Methinks he seems no bigger
2:29:30
than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the beach appear like mice,
2:29:35
and yond tall anchoring bark diminished to her cock, her cock a boy almost
2:29:41
too small for sight, the murmuring surge that on the unnumbered idle pebble chafs
2:29:46
cannot be heard so high I'll look no more, lest my brain turn and
2:29:50
the deficient sight topple down. Headlong. Set me where you stand, Give
2:29:56
me your hand. You are now within a foot of the extreme verge for
2:30:01
all beneath the moon. Would I not leap upright? Let go my hand?
2:30:07
Hear friends another purse in it, a jewel well worth a poor man's
2:30:13
taking. Fairies and gods prosper it with thee go thou further off, Bid
2:30:18
me farewell, and let me hear thee going now, fare you well,
2:30:22
good sir, with all my heart. Why I do trifle thus with his
2:30:26
despair is done to cure it. Kneeling, O, you, mighty gods,
2:30:33
this world I do renounce, and in your sights shake patiently my great
2:30:39
affliction off. If I could bear it longer and not fall to quarrel with
2:30:46
your great opposeless wills my snuff and loathed part of nature should burn itself out
2:30:54
if edgar live, Oh bless him now, fellow fare thee well gone,
2:31:01
sir, farewell Gloucester throws himself forward. And yet I know not how conceit
2:31:09
may rob the treasury of life when life itself yields to the theft. Had
2:31:15
he been where he thought? By this? Had thought been passed alive or
2:31:20
dead? O you, sir friend, here you, sir, speak thus
2:31:28
mighty pass Indeed, yet he revives, sir, what are you? Sir?
2:31:33
Away? And let me die? Hadst thou been aught? But gossamer
2:31:39
feathers air so many fathom down precipitating, thou'dst shiver like an egg, But
2:31:46
thou dost breathe hast heavy substance, bleedst not speaks art sound ten mass at
2:31:56
each make not the altitude which thou hast perpendicularly fell Thy life is a miracle.
2:32:01
Speak yet again? But have I fallen? Or no? From the
2:32:05
dread summit of this chalky born look up a height The shrill gorged lark so
2:32:11
far cannot be seen nor heard. But do but look up a lack I
2:32:16
have no eyes? Is wretchedness deprived that benefit to end itself by death?
2:32:22
Twas yet some comfort when misery could beguile the tyrant's rage and frustrate his proud
2:32:28
will give me your arm up. So howest will you your legs? You
2:32:35
stand too well, too well, this is a pole strangeness upon the crown
2:32:41
of the cliff. What thing was that which parted from you? A poor,
2:32:45
unfortunate beggar. As I stood here below, he thought his eyes were
2:32:48
two full moons. He had a thousand noses, horned, welked, and
2:32:52
waved like the enriched sea. It was some fiend. Therefore, thou happy
2:32:58
father, think that the clearest gods, who make them honors of men's impossibility,
2:33:03
have preserved thee I do remember now. Henceforth I'll bear affliction till it
2:33:07
do cry out itself enough enough and die. That thing you speak of,
2:33:13
I took it for a man, often twould say the fiend, the fiend
2:33:20
he led me to that place, Bear free and patient thoughts. But who
2:33:24
comes here into lear fantastically dressed with wild flowers? The safest sense will ne'er
2:33:31
accommodate his master. Thus, no, they cannot touch me for coining.
2:33:37
I am the king himself, Oh thou side, piercing sight Nature's above art
2:33:43
in that respect, there's your press money. That fellow handles his bow like
2:33:50
a crow keeper. Draw me a clother's yard. Look, look a mouse,
2:33:56
Peace, peace, This piece of toasted cheese will do it. There's
2:34:03
my gauntlet. I'll prove it on a giant. Bring up the brown bills.
2:34:09
Oh well, flown bird? Is the cloud? Did the cloud?
2:34:13
Who give the word? Sweet marger pass? I know that voice. He
2:34:20
falls to his knees. Huh, goneril with a white beard. They flattered
2:34:26
me like a dog and told me I had white hairs in my beard.
2:34:28
There the black ones were there to say aye and no to everything I said
2:34:33
ay and no too? Was no good divinity? When the rain came to
2:34:39
wet me once, and the wind to make me chatter, when the thunder
2:34:43
would not piece at my bidding. There I found them there, I smelt
2:34:46
em out, go to They are not men of their words. They told
2:34:52
me I was everything tis a lie. I'm not egg you proof the trick
2:34:58
of that voice? I do well. Remember it's not the king. Ay,
2:35:03
every inch a king. When I do stare see how the subject quakes,
2:35:07
I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause? Adultery thou shalt
2:35:15
not die di for adultery. No, the wren goes to it, and
2:35:18
the small gilded flight as a letter in my sight, let copulation thrive.
2:35:24
For Gloucester's bastard son was kinder to his father than my daughter's. Got between
2:35:30
the lawful sheets to it luxury pell mell for I lack soldiers. Behold yon
2:35:37
simpering dame, whose face between her fork's prestiges snow that means his virtue,
2:35:43
and has shake the head to ear of pleasure's name. The fitune nor the
2:35:48
soiled horse, goes to it with a more riotous appetite. Down from the
2:35:52
waist they are centaurs, their women all above. But to the girdle do
2:35:58
the gods inherit? Beneath is all the fiends as hell. There's darkness.
2:36:05
There is the sulfurous pit, burning, scolding, stench, consumption of hi
2:36:11
fi pie pah wah. Give me an ounce of sifet good apothecary to sweeten
2:36:18
my imagination. There's money for thee he gives flowers. Oh, let me
2:36:22
kiss that hand, Let me wipe it first. It smells of mortality,
2:36:28
a ruined piece of nature. This great world shall so wear out to nought.
2:36:35
Dost thou know me? I remember thine eyes well enough? Dost thou
2:36:39
squiny at me? No? Did I've worst blind? Cupid? While not
2:36:46
love? Read thou this challenge mark, But the penning of it were all
2:36:52
the letters sons. I could not see one. I would not take this
2:36:56
from report it is, and my heart breaks, said it read what with
2:37:03
the case of eyes? Oh oh, are you there with me? No
2:37:07
eyes in your head, nor no money in your purse. Your eyes are
2:37:11
in a heavy case, your purse in the light. Yet you see how
2:37:16
this world goes? I see it feelingly? What ard mad a man may
2:37:24
see how the world goes with no eyes? Look with thine ears, see
2:37:28
how yon justice rails upon yon simple thief hark in thine ear, change places
2:37:35
and handy andy, Which is the justice? Which is the thief? Thou
2:37:39
hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar, Hi, sir, and
2:37:45
the creature runs from the cur There Thou might'st behold the great image of authority.
2:37:50
A dog's obeyed in office, Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand.
2:37:56
Why dost thou lash that haar strike the own back? Thou hotly lustedt
2:38:01
to use her in that kind for which thou whipped her. The usurer hangs
2:38:07
a cousiner through tattered clothes. Small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns
2:38:13
hide all plaits sin with gold, and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks
2:38:20
arm it in rags. A pigmy straw does pierce it. None doth offend
2:38:26
none, I say none. I label them giving flowers. Take that of
2:38:31
me, my friend, who have the power to seal the accuser's lips,
2:38:35
get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the
2:38:41
things thou dost not now now now now, pull off my boots harder,
2:38:50
harder, so oh, matter and impersonency mixed reason in madness. If thou
2:38:58
wilt weep my fortunes my eyes, I know THEE well enough. Thy name
2:39:03
is Gloucester. Thou must be patient. We came crying hither Thou know'st the
2:39:07
first time we smelt the air, we wall and cry. I will preach
2:39:11
to THEE. Mark he takes off his coronet of flowers. Alack, alack.
2:39:18
The day when we are born, we cry that we are come to
2:39:22
this great stage of fools. This a good block, it were a delicate
2:39:28
stratagem to sure a troop of horse with feldt I'll put in proof. And
2:39:33
when I have stolen upon these sons in law, then kill, kill,
2:39:39
kill, kill kill. He throws down his flowers and stamps on them.
2:39:46
Enter a gentleman and two attendants, Gloucester and Edgar. Draw back. Oh
2:39:52
here he is. Lay hand upon him, Sir, your most dear daughter.
2:39:58
No rescue. What a prisoner I am, even the natural fool of
2:40:03
fortune. Use me well, you shall have ransom, Let me have surgeons.
2:40:11
I am cut to the brains. You shall have anything, No seconds
2:40:16
or myself. Why this would make a man of salt to use his eyes
2:40:22
for garden water pots aye, and for laying autumn's dust. I will die
2:40:28
bravely like a smug bridegroom. What I will be jovial? Come come,
2:40:35
I am a king. My masters know you that you are a royal one.
2:40:39
And we obey you. Then there's life in't nay and you get it.
2:40:45
You shall get it by running sartha Arthur exit, running, followed by
2:40:50
attendants. A sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch past speaking of in a
2:40:56
king, thou hast one daughter her who redeems nature from the general curse which
2:41:01
twain have brought her to hail. Gentle sir, sir, speed you.
2:41:07
What's your will? Do you hear aught serve a battle toward most sure and
2:41:11
vulgar? Every one hears that which can distinguish sound. But by your favor?
2:41:16
How near is the other army near? And on speedy foot? The
2:41:20
main descry stands on the hourly thought. I thank you, sir. That's
2:41:24
all though, that the Queen, on special cause is here, her army
2:41:28
is moved on. I thank you, sir. Exit, gentlemen, you
2:41:33
ever, gentle gods, take my breath from me, Let not my worser
2:41:39
spirit tempt me again to die before you. Please well pray you father.
2:41:45
Now, good sir, what are you? A most poor man, made
2:41:50
tame to fortune's blows, who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows,
2:41:54
and pregnant to good pity, give me your hand. I'll lead you
2:41:58
to some biding heart, the bounty and the benison of heaven, to boot
2:42:03
and boot and to oswald a proclaimed prize. Most happy that eyeless head of
2:42:11
thine was first framed flesh to raise my fortunes, thou old, unhappy traitor,
2:42:16
briefly thyself. Remember the sword is out that must destroy thee. Now
2:42:22
let thy friendly hand put strength enough to it. Edgar intervenes. Wherefore,
2:42:28
bold peasant, dost thou support a published traitor, Hence, lest that the
2:42:35
infection of his fortune take like hold on thee, let go his arm shall
2:42:39
not lack go, sir without fur occasion, Let go slave, or thou
2:42:45
diest good gentlemen, go your gait and let poor vote pass, and Chadapin
2:42:50
swaggered out of my life. Two not been so long as tis way of
2:42:52
wortnight. Nay, I'm not near the old man. Keep out to wurry
2:42:56
your eyes. Try whether you're cast out of my shall be playing with you
2:43:01
out dunghill, you'll pit your teeth. Ser come no matter for your voins
2:43:09
they fight. Slay Thou hast slain me, villain, Take my purse,
2:43:16
if ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body, and give the letters which
2:43:20
thou findest about me to Edmund, Earl of Gloucester. Seek him out upon
2:43:26
the British party. Oh, untimely death, Ugh, I know thee well,
2:43:37
A serviceable villain as duty as to the vices of my mistress's badness would
2:43:41
desire. What is he dead? Sit you down, father, rest you.
2:43:48
Let's see these pockets, the letters that he speaks of. May be
2:43:50
my friend, he's dead. I'm only sorry he had no other death's man.
2:43:56
Let us see leave gentle wax and manners. Blame us not to know
2:44:01
our enemy's minds. We'd rip their hearts their papers. Is more lawful he
2:44:07
reads the letter. Let our reciprocal vows be remembered. You have many opportunities
2:44:13
to cut him off. If your will want not, time and place will
2:44:18
be fruitfully offered. There is nothing done. If he return the conqueror,
2:44:22
then am i the prisoner and his bed my jail from the loathed warmth?
2:44:26
Whereof deliver me and supply the place for your labor, your wife, so
2:44:31
I would say, affectionate servant goneril oh, in distinguished space of woman's will
2:44:39
a plot upon her virtuous husband's life, in the exchange my brother here in
2:44:43
the sands, thee a'll rake up the post, unsanctified of murderous letchures,
2:44:48
and in the mature time, with this ungracious paper strike the sight of the
2:44:54
death practiced duke for him tis well that of thy death and business. I
2:44:58
can tell the king is mad. How stiff is my vile sense? That
2:45:05
I stand up and have ingenious feeling of my huge sorrows? Better I were
2:45:11
distract So should my thoughts be severed from my griefs and woes by wrong imaginations
2:45:18
lose the knowledge of themselves. Give me your hand far off, methinks I
2:45:26
hear the beaten drum. Come father, I'll bestow you with a friend exiant
2:45:37
scene seven, a tent in the French camp, lear on a bed asleep,
2:45:46
soft music playing, Enter Cordelia and Kent, physician, gentlemen and others
2:45:54
attending, O thou good Kent. How shall I live and work to match
2:46:00
thy goodness? My life will be too short, and every measure will fail
2:46:05
me to be acknowledged, Madam is or paid. All my reports go with
2:46:11
the modest truth, nor more nor clipped, but so be better suited.
2:46:18
These weeds are memories of those worser hours. I prithee put them off.
2:46:24
Pardon dear madam, yet to be known shortens my made intent, my boon.
2:46:31
I make it that you know me not till time, and I think
2:46:37
meet then be it so, my good Lord, to the physician, how
2:46:43
does the king madam sleep still cure this great breach in his abused nature,
2:46:50
the untuned and jarring senses? Oh, wind up of this child changed father.
2:46:58
So please your majesty, that we may wake the king he hath slept
2:47:01
long, be governed by your knowledge, and proceed in the sway of your
2:47:05
own will? Is he arrayed? Ay, Madam, in the heaviness of
2:47:11
sleep, we put fresh garments on him. Be by, good Madam,
2:47:16
when we do awake him. I doubt not of his temperance very well,
2:47:20
music, sounds of stage, please you door near louder the music there.
2:47:26
Kneeling by the chair and kissing his hand. Oh, my dear father,
2:47:31
restoration, Hang thy medicine on my lips, and let this kiss repair those
2:47:37
violent harms that my two sisters have in thy reverence made kind and dear princess,
2:47:46
Had you not been their father, these white flakes had challenged pity of
2:47:52
them? Was this a face to be opposed against the warring winds, To
2:47:58
stand against the deep dread bolted thunder, in the most terrible and nimble stroke
2:48:03
of quick cross lightning, To watch poor perdue with this thin helm, mine
2:48:11
enemy's dog, though he had bit me, should have stood that night against
2:48:15
my fire and wst Thou fain, poor father, to hovel thee with swine
2:48:20
and rogues, forlorn in short and musty straw, A lack a lack tis
2:48:28
wonder that thy life in wits at once had not concluded all he wakes.
2:48:35
Speak to him, madam, do you tis fittest? How does my royal
2:48:41
lord? How fares your majesty? You do me wrong to take me out
2:48:46
the grave? Thou art a soul in bliss, But I am bound upon
2:48:52
a wheel of fire that mine own tears do scald like molten lead. Sir,
2:48:58
do know me? You are a spirit? I know? When did
2:49:05
you die? Still? Still far wide? He's scarce awake, let him
2:49:11
alone, Awhile where have I been? Where am i? Fair? Daylight?
2:49:16
I am mightily abused. I should even die with pity to see another.
2:49:20
Thus, I know not what to say. I will not swear.
2:49:26
These are my hands that sea, I feel this pin prick. Would I
2:49:33
were assured of my condition? Oh look upon me, sir, and hold
2:49:37
your hands in benediction, or me lear falls to his knees. No Sir,
2:49:43
you must not kneel, pray, do not mock me. I am
2:49:46
a very foolish, fond old man for score and upward, not an hour
2:49:52
more nor less, and to deal plainly, I fear I am not in
2:49:58
my perfect mine. The methinks I should know you and know this man.
2:50:05
Yet I am doubtful, for I am mainly ignorant what place this is,
2:50:11
and all the skill I have remembers not these garments, nor I know not
2:50:16
where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me, for as
2:50:22
I am a man, I think this lady to be my child Cordelia,
2:50:26
And so I am I am. Be your tears wet, yes, faith,
2:50:35
I pray, weep not. If you have poison for me, I
2:50:39
will drink it. I know you do not love me, for your sisters
2:50:43
have as I do, remember, done me wrong. You have some cause,
2:50:48
they have not no cause. No cause? Am I in France,
2:50:56
in your own kingdom, Sir, do not abuse me. Be comforted,
2:51:01
good madam. The great rage you see is killed in him, And yet
2:51:03
it is danger to make him even or the time he has lost, desire
2:51:07
him to go in trouble him no more till further settling. Will it please
2:51:11
your highness walk you must bear with me. Bray you now forget and forgive.
2:51:18
I am old and foolish. Exit all but Kent and gentleman. Holds
2:51:26
it true, sir that the Duke of Cornwall was so slain? Most certain,
2:51:31
Sir, who is conductor of his people? As tis said the bastard
2:51:37
son of Gloucester, They say, Edgar, his banished son, is with
2:51:41
the Earl of Kent in Germany. Report is changeable. Tis time to look
2:51:48
about the powers of the kingdom. Approach apace. The arbitrament is like to
2:51:54
be bloody. Fare you well, sir. Exit. My point and period
2:52:01
will be thoroughly wrought or well or ill as this day's battle's fought. Exit.
2:52:13
End of Act four, Act five, Scene one. The camp of
2:52:20
the British forces near Dover enter with drum and colors, Edmund Reagan, officers,
2:52:30
soldiers and others. To an officer know of the Duke, if his
2:52:35
last purpose hold or whether since he is advised by Aught to change the course
2:52:41
to Reagan. He's full of alteration and self reproving to an officer, bring
2:52:48
his constant pleasure. Exit Officer. Our sister's man is certainly misgarried tis to
2:52:56
be doubted. Madam. Now as we Lord, you know the goodness I
2:53:00
intend upon you, tell me but truly, but then speak the truth.
2:53:07
Do you not love my sister in honored love? But have you never found
2:53:11
my brother's way to be the fourfended place that thought abuses you? I am
2:53:18
doubtful that you have been conjunct and bosomed with her. As far as we
2:53:22
call us, no bind mine, honor, Madam, I never shall endure
2:53:28
dear my Lord, be not familiar with her. Fear me not She and
2:53:33
the Duke her husband enter with drum and colors, Albany, goneril and soldiers.
2:53:41
I had rather lose the battle than that sister should loosen him and me,
2:53:46
Our very loving sister, well be met, Sir. This I heard
2:53:52
the King is come to his daughter with others whom the rigor of our state
2:53:56
forced to cry out where I could not be honest. I never yet was
2:54:01
valiant for this business. It toucheth us as France invades our land, not
2:54:07
bolts the king with others whom I fear most just and heavy causes make a
2:54:13
pose. Sir, you speak nobly? Why is this reasoned? Combine together
2:54:20
against the enemy. For these domestic and particular broils are not the question here.
2:54:26
Let's then determine with the ancient of war on our proceeding. I shall
2:54:30
attend you presently at your text. Sister, you'll go with us, No
2:54:35
to the most convenient pray you go with us? Oh, I know the
2:54:39
riddle. I will go excellent both the armies as Albany is going out,
2:54:46
Enter Edgar. If ere your grace had speech with man so poor, hear
2:54:52
me one word to his captains. I'll overtake you to Edgar. Speak before
2:54:58
you fight the battle. Ope this letter. If you have victory, let
2:55:03
the trumpet sound for him that brought it wretched. Though I seem I can
2:55:09
produce a champion that will prove what is avouched there. If you miscarry your
2:55:13
business of the world, hath so an end and machination ceases fortune? Love
2:55:20
you Stay till I have read the letter. I was forbid it. When
2:55:24
time shall serve, Let but the herald cry, and I'll appear again.
2:55:30
Exit Why fare thee well, I will o'erlook thy paper. Enter Edmund.
2:55:37
The enemies in view, draw up your powers. Here is the guess of
2:55:41
their true strength and forces by diligent discovery. But your haste has now urged
2:55:46
on you. We will greet the time. Exit to both these sisters have
2:55:52
I sworn my love, each jealous of the other as the stung are of
2:55:58
the adder. Which of them shall I take? Both? Um one or
2:56:09
neither neither can be enjoyed? Of both remain alive. To take the widow
2:56:18
exasperates makes matter, sister goneril, and hardly shall I carry out my side.
2:56:26
Her husband, being alive now, then will use his countenance for the
2:56:31
battle which being done. Let her, who would be rid of him,
2:56:37
devise his speedy taking off, as for the mercy which he intends to Leer
2:56:41
and to Cordelia. The battle done, and they within our power shall never
2:56:46
see his pardon, for my state stands on me to defend, not to
2:56:54
debate. Exit Scene two, a field between the two camps, Alarum within,
2:57:07
Enter with drum and colors, lear, Cordelia holding his hand, and
2:57:13
soldiers over the stage and exitent Enter Edgar and Gloucester. Here, Father,
2:57:22
take the shadow of this tree for your good host. Pray that the right
2:57:26
may thrive. If ever I return to you again, I'll bring you comfort
2:57:31
grace, go with you, sir. Exit Edgar Alarum and retreat within.
2:57:39
Enter Edgar away, old man, give me thy hand. Away, King
2:57:45
Lear hath lost he and his daughter ten give me thy hand. Come on
2:57:48
no further, sir, A man may rot even here what in ill thought?
2:57:54
Again, men must endure their going. Hence, even as they're coming
2:57:58
hither ripeness is all. Come on, and that's true too. Exeant Scene
2:58:09
three. The British camp near Dover enter in Conquest with Drum and colors,
2:58:16
Edmund, Lea and Cordelia as prisoners, officers, soldiers, et cetera.
2:58:26
Some officers take them away good guard until their greater pleasures first be known,
2:58:31
that are to censor them. We are not the first who, with best
2:58:35
meaning, have incurred the worst for the oppressed king. I am cast down
2:58:43
myself, could else out frown false fortunes frown to Edmund. Shall we not
2:58:48
see these daughters and these sisters? No, no, no, no,
2:58:52
Come let's away to prison. We two alone will sing like birds of the
2:58:58
cage. When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down and ask of
2:59:03
THEE forgiveness. So we'll live and pray and sing and tell old tales,
2:59:09
and laugh at gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues talk of court news,
2:59:13
and we'll talk with them too, who loses, and who wins, who's
2:59:18
in who's out, And take upon the mystery of things as if we were
2:59:24
God's spies. And we'll wear out in a wall in prison. Packs and
2:59:28
sects of great ones that ebb and flow by the moon, take them away
2:59:35
upon such sacrifices, My Cordelia, the gods themselves throw incense. Have I
2:59:39
caught thee? He embraces her. He that parts us shall bring a brand
2:59:45
from heaven and fire. As hence, like foxes wipe thine eyes. The
2:59:50
good years shall devour them flesh and fell ere they shall make us weep.
2:59:54
We'll see em starve. First come excellent Lear and Cordelia guarded. Come hither,
3:00:03
captain Hark. Take thou this note, go follow them to prison.
3:00:09
One step I advanced thee. If thou dost as this instructs thee, thou
3:00:16
dost make thy way to noble fortunes. Know thou this that men are as
3:00:22
the time is to be tender minded, does not become a sword. Thy
3:00:28
great employment will not bear question either say thou doot or thrive by other means.
3:00:37
I'll do it, my Lord, about it, and right happy when
3:00:41
thou hast done mark, I say, instantly, and carry it so as
3:00:46
I have set it down. I cannot draw a cart nor eat dry oats.
3:00:50
If it be man's work, I'll do it. Exit, flourish,
3:00:56
enter Albany, Goneril, Reagan and officers. Sir, you have showed to
3:01:01
day your valiant strain and fortune led you well. You have the captives who
3:01:07
are the opposites of this day's strife. We do require them of you,
3:01:11
so to use them as we shall find their merits, and our safety may
3:01:16
equally determine. Sir, I thought it fit to send the old and miserable
3:01:20
king to some retention and appointed guard, whose age has charms in it,
3:01:26
with title more to pluck the common bosom on his side, and turn our
3:01:31
impressed lances in our eyes, which do command them with him. I sent
3:01:35
the Queen my reason all the same, and they are ready to morrow,
3:01:41
or at further space, to appear where you shall hold your session. At
3:01:46
this time we sweat and bleed. The friend hath lost his friend, and
3:01:52
the best quarrels in the heat are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.
3:01:58
The question of Cordelia and her father requires a fitter place, Sir, by
3:02:05
your patience, I hold you but a subject of this war, not as
3:02:09
a brother. That's as we list to grace him. Methinks our pleasure might
3:02:16
have been demanded ere you had spoke so a he led our powers for the
3:02:22
commission of my place in person, the which immediacy he may well stand up
3:02:26
and call itself your brother not so hot in his own grace, he doth
3:02:33
exalt himself more than in your addition, in my rights. By me invested,
3:02:37
he can bears the best that were the most. If he should husband
3:02:43
you jestures, do oft prove profits Halla, Halla, that I that told
3:02:48
you so looked but a squint, Lady, I am not well. Else
3:02:52
I should answer from a full flowing stomach to Edmund, General, take thou
3:03:00
my soldiers, prisoners, patrimony, dispose of them of me. The walls
3:03:05
are thine witness the world that I create there, my lord Avda mean you
3:03:11
to enjoy him. The let alone lies not in your good will nor in
3:03:16
thine lord, half blooded fellow. Yes to Edmund, let the drums,
3:03:22
drike and prove my idle thine stay yet here, reason edmund, I arrest
3:03:30
thee on capital treason, and in thine arrest this gilded serpent. He points
3:03:37
to Goneril. For your claim, fair sister, I bar it in the
3:03:41
interest of my wife Tis. She is subcontracted to this lord, and I
3:03:46
her husband, contradict your bands. If you will marry, make your loves
3:03:52
to me. My lady is bespoke on interlude. Thou art armed Gloucester.
3:03:58
Let the trumpets if none appear to prove upon thy person, thy heinous manifest
3:04:03
and many treasons. There is my pledge. He throws down his glove.
3:04:09
I'll prove it on thy heart. Ere I taste bread. Thou art in
3:04:13
nothing less than I have here proclaimed thee sick, oh sick. If not,
3:04:18
I'll ne'er trust medicine. There's my exchange, throwing down his glove.
3:04:24
What in the world he is that names me traitor villain? Like he lies?
3:04:30
Call by thy trumpet, he that dares approach on him on you who
3:04:35
not, I will maintain my truth and honor firmly a herald ho enter,
3:04:41
a herald trust to thy single virtue for thy soldiers all levied in my name
3:04:48
have in my name took their discharge. My sickness grows upon me. She
3:04:54
is not well. Convey her to my tent. Exit. Reagan supported a
3:05:00
herald, ho a herald. A trumpet sounds. If any man of quality
3:05:05
or degree within the lists of the army will maintain upon Edmund supposed, Earl
3:05:13
of Gloucester, that he is a manifold traitor, Let him appear by the
3:05:18
third sound of the trumpet. He is bold in his defense. First trumpet
3:05:24
again, Second trumpet again, third trumpet, trumpet answers within enter Edgar,
3:05:35
armed a trumpet before him, Ask him his purposes? Why he appears upon
3:05:41
this call the trumpet? What are you? You name? Your quality?
3:05:48
And why you answer this present summons? No, my name is lost by
3:05:54
treason's tooth, bare norn and canker bit. Yet, my noble the adversary,
3:06:00
I come to cope. Which is that adversary? What's he that speaks
3:06:05
for Edmund, Earl of Gloucester himself? What sayest thou to him? Draw
3:06:09
thy sword? That if my speech offend a noble heart, thy arm may
3:06:16
do thee justice here is mine? He draws his sword, behold, it
3:06:20
is the privilege of mine, honors, my oath, and my profession.
3:06:24
I protest Morga, thy strength, youth, place, and eminence, despite
3:06:30
thy victor's sword and fire, new fortune, thy valor, and thy heart.
3:06:35
Thou art a traitor, false to thy gods, thy brother and thy
3:06:39
father, consporant gainst this high illustrious prince, and from the extremest upward of
3:06:46
thy head to the descent and dust beneath thy foot, a most toad spotted
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traitor, Say thou no, this sword, this arm, and my best
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spirits are bent to prove upon thy heart. I speak thou liest in wisdom.
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I should ask thy name. But since thy outside looks so fair and
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warlike, and that thy tongue some say of breeding breathes what safe and nicely,
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I might well delay. By rule of knighthood I disdain and spurn back.
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Do I toss those treasons to thy head with the hell hated lie,
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or whelm thy heart, which for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise.
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This sword of mine shall give them instant way where they shall rest forever.
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Trumpets speak alarums fights. Edmond falls to Edgar about to kill Edmund, Save
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him, Save him. This is mere practice Gloucester. By the law of
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arms. Thou wast not bound to answer an unknown opposite. Thou art not
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vanquished, but cozened and beguile. Shut your mouth, Dame, or with
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this paper I shall stop it. Hold sir to Goneril, Thou worse than
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any name. Read thine own evil, no tearing, Lady. I perceive
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you know it. Say if I do, the laws are mine, not
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thine. Who can arraign me for it? Most monstrous? Knowst thou this
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paper? Ask me not what I know? Exit Goneril, Go after her.
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She's desperate. Govern her, Exit Officer. What you have charged me
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with? That? Have I done? And more? Much more? The
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time will bring it out tis past, and so am I. But what
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art thou that hast this fortune on me? If thou art noble, I
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do forgive thee let's exchange charity. I am no less in blood than thou
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Art Edmund. If more more thou hast wronged me. My name is Edgar
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and thy father's son. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
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make instruments to plague us the dark and vicious place where thee god cost him
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his eyes. Thou hast spoken right? Tis true? The wheel is come
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full circle. I am here, methought thy very gait did prophecy a royal
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nobleness. I must embrace thee. Let sorrow split my heart if ever I
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did hate thee or thy father worthy prince, I note, where have you
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hid yourself? How have you known the miseries of your father by nursing them?
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My lord, list a brief tale, and when tis told, how
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my heart would burst. The bloody proclamation to escape that followed me so near,
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Oh, our live sweetness, that with the pain of death, we'd
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hourly die rather than die at once taught me to shift into a madman's rags,
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to assume a semblance that very dogs disdained. And in this habit that
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I my father, with his bleeding rings their precious stones new lost, became
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his guide, led him, begged for him, saved him from despair.
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Never o fault revealed myself unto him until some half hour passed. When I
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was armed, not sure, though hoping of this good success, I asked
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his blessing, and from first to last told him my pilgrimage. But his
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flawed heart a lacked too weak the conflict to support to two extremes of passion,
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joy and grief burst smilingly. The speech of yours hath moved me,
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and shall perchance too good. But speak you once you look as you had
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something more to say. If there be more more, woeful, hold it
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in, for I am almost ready to dissolve. Hearing of this, this
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would have seemed appear to such as love not sorrow, But another to amplify
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too much would make much more and top extremity. Whilst I was big in
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clamor, came there a man, who, having seen me in my worst
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estate, shunned my abhorred society. But then finding who twas that so endured
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with his strong arms. He fastened on my neck and bellowed out as he'd
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burst Heaven threw him on. My father told the most piteous tale of Leir
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and him that ever ear received, which, in recounting his grief, grew
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puissant, and the strings of life began to crack twice. Then the trumpet
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sounded, and there I left him tranced. But who was this Kent,
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Sir? The banished Kent, who in disguise followed his enemy king and did
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him service improper for a slave. Enter a gentleman with a bloody knife.
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Help help, Oh help, what kind of help? Speak man? What
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means that bloody knife tis hot? It smokes? It came even from the
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heart of Oh she's dead? Who dead? Speak man? Your lady,
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sir, your lady and her sister by her is poisoned. She hath confessed
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it. I was contracted to them both. All three now marry in an
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instant. Here comes Kent, and to Kent produce their bodies, be they
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alive or dead. This judgment of the heaven that makes us tremble, touches
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us not with pity. Exit, gentlemen, I am come to bid my
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king and master, I good night? Is he not here? Great thing
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of us? Forgot? Speak Edmund? Where's the king? And where's Cordelia?
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Goneril's and Reagan's bodies are brought out black? Why thus yet Edmund was
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beloved the one the other poisoned for my sake, and after slew herself even
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so cover their faith. I pant for life. Some good I mean to
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do despite of mine own nature quickly said, be brief in it to the
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castle, for my writ is on the life of Leir and on Cordelia.
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Nay, send in time, run run o, run to who, my
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lord, who has the office? Send thy token of reprieve well thought odd
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to an officer, take my sword, give it to the captain Hastee for
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thy life. Exit officer. He hath commission from thy wife and me to
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hang Cordelia in the prison, and to lay the blame upon her own despair,
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that she forbid herself. The gods defend her bear him. Hence a
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while Edmund is borne off enter Lear with Cordelia in his arms, followed by
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the officer and others. How how, how, how oh you are men
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of stone, and I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so that
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Heaven's vultur'd crack. She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead
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and when one lives. She is dead as earth. Lend me a looking
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glass. If that her breath will mist or stain the stone? Why he
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then she lives? Is this the promised end or image of that horror?
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Fall? And cease? This feather stirs? She lives? If it be
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so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have
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felt. Oh, my good master, Prithee away tis noble, kent your
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friend. The plague upon you, murderers, trait us all. I might
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have saved her. Now she's gone for ever. Cordelia, Cordelia, stay
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a little? Ah, what est thou sayest? Her voice was ever soft,
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gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman? I killed the slave
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that was a hanging thee did I not, fellow? I have seen the
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day with my good biting falshion that I would have made them skip. I
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am old now, and these same crosses spoil me. Who are you?
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Mine? Eyes are not the best. I'll tell you straight. If fortune
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brag of two she loved and hated one of them, we behold. This
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is a dull sight? Are you not kent the same? Your servant kent?
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Where is your servant chaos? He's a good fellow. I can tell
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you that he'll strike, and quickly too. He's dead and rotten. No,
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my good lord, I am the very men. I'll see that straight.
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That from your first of difference and decay have followed your sad step.
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You're welcome hither nor no man else. All's cheerless, dark and deadly.
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Your eldest daughters have fordone themselves and desperately are dead. Aye, So I
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think he knows not what he says. And vain is it that we present
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us to him? Very bootless? Enter a messenger. Edmund is dead,
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my lord, that's but a trifle here. You lords and noble friends know
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our intent. What comfort to this great decay may come shall be applied for
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us. We will resign during the life of this old majesty to him our
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absolute power to Edgar and kent to you your rights with boot and such addition
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as your honors have more than merited. All friends shall taste the wages of
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their virtue and all the cup of their deservings. Oh see see, And
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my poor fool is hanged. No, no, no life. Why should
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a dog ohes a rat have life? And thou no breath at all?
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Thou come no more, never never, never, never pray you undo this
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button? Thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her?
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Look her lips? Look there, Look there he dies. He faints,
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My lord, my lord, break heart, I prithee, break look
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up, my lord, that's not his ghost. Oh let him pass.
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He hates him, that would upon the wreck of this rough world stretch him
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out longer. He is gone. Indeed, though wonder is he hath endured
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so long he but usurped his life bear them from Hence our present business is
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general woe to Kent and Edgar. Friends of my soul, You twain rule
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this realm, and the Gord state sustain. I have a journey, sir,
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shortly to go, My master calls me. I must not say no.
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The weight of this sad, sad time. We must obey, speak
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what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest have borne.
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Most we that are young shall never see so much, nor live so
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long. Exen with a dead march. End of King Lear by William Shakespeare