M.William Shak-
speare
HISHistorie, of King Lear.
¶Enter Kent, Gloster, and Bastard.
¶I Thought the King had more affected the
5Duke of
Al-
bany then Cornwell.
¶Glost. It did allwaies
seeme
so to vs, but
¶now in the
diui
sion of the kingdomes, it ap
¶peares not which of
the Dukes he values
¶mo
st, for equalities are
so weighed, that cu-
rio
sitie in nei
10ther, can make choi
se of eithers moytie.
¶Kent. Is not this your
sonne my Lord?
¶Glost. His breeding
sir hath beene at my charge, I haue
¶so of-
¶ten blu
sht to acknowledge him, that now I am braz'd to it.
15Kent. I cannot conceiue you.
¶Glost. Sir, this young fellowes mother Could, wher
¶upon
shee
grew round wombed, and had indeed Sir a
¶sonne for her cradle,
ere
she had a hu
sband for her bed,
¶doe you
smell a fault?
20Kent. I cannot wi
sh the fault vndone, the i
ssue of it
¶being
so
proper.
¶Glost. But I haue
sir a
sonne by order of Law,
some
¶yeare el-
der then this, who yet is no deerer in my ac
¶count, though this
knaue came
something
sawcely into the
25world before hee was
sent for, yet was his mother faire,
¶there was good
sport at his
makeing, & the whore
son mu
st
¶be acknowledged, do you know
this noble gentle
¶man
Edmund?
B
