The Historie of King Lear.
set a worke by a reproueable badnes
¶in him
selfe.
¶Bast. How malicious is my fortune, that I mu
st re
1980pent to bee
iu
st
? this is the letter he
spoke of,
¶which approues him an intelli-
gent partie to the aduanta
¶ges of
France, O heauens that his trea-
son were,
¶or not I the detecter.
¶Corn. Goe with me to the Dutches.
1985Bast. If the matter of this paper be certaine, you haue
¶mighty
busines in hand.
¶Corn. True or fal
se, it hath made thee Earle of
Glo¶ster,
seeke
out where thy father is, that hee may bee
¶readie for our appre-
hension.
1990Bast. If I find him comforting the King, it will
stuffe
¶his
su
s-
pition more fully, I will per
seuere in my cour
se of
¶loyaltie,
though the conflict be
sore betweene that and
¶my bloud.
¶Corn. I will lay tru
st vpon thee, and thou
shalt find
1995a dearer
father in my loue.
¶Enter Gloster and Lear, Kent, Foole, and Tom.
¶Glost. Here is better then the open ayre, take it thank
¶fully, I
will peece out the comfort with what addition I
2000can, I will not be
long from you.
¶Ken. All the power of his wits haue giuen way to
¶impatience,
the Gods deserue your kindnes.
¶Edg. Fretereto cals me, and tels me
Nero is an ang
2005ler in the
lake of darknes, pray innocent beware
¶the foule fiend.
¶Foole. Prithe Nunckle tell me, whether a mad man be
¶a Gen-
tleman or a Yeoman.
¶Lear. A King, a King,
¶to haue a thou
sand with red burning
spits
¶come hi
szing in vpon them.
2014.1Edg. The foule fiend bites my backe,
¶Foole. He's mad, that tru
sts in the tamenes of a Wolfe, a hor-
¶ses health, a boyes loue, or a whores oath.
¶Lear. It
shalbe done, I wil arraigne them
straight,
.5Come
sit thou here mo
st learned Iu
stice
¶Thou
sapient
sir
sit here, no you
shee Foxes--
¶Edg. Looke where he
stands and glars, wan
st thou eyes, at
¶tral madam come ore the broome
Bessy to mee.
¶Foole. Her boat hath a leake, and
she mu
st not
speake,
.10Why
she dares not come, ouer to thee.
