King Lear (Folio 1, 1623)
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Actus Tertius. Scena Prima.
1615
Storme still. Enter Kent, and a Gentleman, seuerally.
¶Kent. I know you: Where's the King?
¶Gent. Contending with the fretfull Elements;
1620Bids the winde blow the Earth into the Sea,
¶Or swell the curled Waters 'boue the Maine,
¶That things might change, or cease.
¶Kent. But who is with him?
1625His heart-strooke iniuries.
¶Kent. Sir, I do know you,
¶And dare vpon the warrant of my note
¶Commend a deere thing to you. There is diuision
¶(Although as yet the face of it is couer'd
1630With mutuall cunning) 'twixt Albany, and Cornwall:
¶Who haue, as who haue not, that their great Starres
¶Which are to France the Spies and Speculations
¶Intelligent of our State. What hath bin seene,
1635Either in snuffes, and packings of the Dukes,
¶Or the hard Reine which both of them hath borne
¶Gent. I will talke further with you.
1640Kent. No, do not:
¶For confirmation that I am much more
¶Then my out-wall; open this Purse, and take
1645And she will tell you who that Fellow is
¶That yet you do not know. Fye on this Storme,
¶I will go seeke the King.
¶Gent. Giue me your hand,
¶Haue you no more to say?
1650Kent. Few words, but to effect more then all yet;
¶That when we haue found the King, in which your pain
¶That way, Ile this: He that first lights on him,
¶Holla the other.
Exeunt.