The Historie of King Lear.
They are Per
sian attire, but let them be
¶chang'd.
2040Kent. Now good my Lord lie here awhile.
¶Lear. Make no noi
se, make no noi
se, draw the cur
¶tains,
so,
so,
so,
Weele go to supper it'h morning, so, so, so,
¶Glost. Come hither friend,
2045where is the King my mai
ster.
¶Kent. Here
sir, but trouble him not his wits are gon.
¶Glost. Good friend I prithy take him in thy armes,
¶I haue or'e heard a plot of death vpon him,
¶Ther is a Litter ready lay him in't,
2050& driue towards Douer frend,
Where thou
shalt meet
¶both welcome & protection, take vp thy
¶If thou
should'
st dally halfe an houre, his life
¶with thine
And all that offer to defend him
¶stand in a
ssured lo
sse,
Take vp the King
2055and followe me, that will to
some proui
sion
¶Giue thee quicke conduct.
2056.1Kent. Oppre
ssed nature
sleepes,
¶This re
st might yet haue balmed thy broken
sinewes,
¶Which if conuenience will not alow
stand in hard cure,
¶Come helpe to beare thy mai
ster, thou mu
st not
stay behind.
.5Glost. Come, come away.
Exit.
¶Edg. When we our betters
see bearing our woes: we
scarcely
¶thinke, our mi
series, our foes.
¶Who alone
suffers
suffers, mo
st it'h mind,
¶Leauing free things and happy
showes behind,
.10But then the mind much
sufferance doth or'e
scip,
¶When griefe hath mates, and bearing fellow
ship:
¶How light and portable my paine
seemes now,
¶When that which makes me bend, makes the King bow.
¶He childed as I fathered,
Tom away,
.15Marke the high noy
ses and thy
selfe bewray,
¶When fal
se opinion who
se wrong thoughts defile thee,
¶In thy iu
st proofe repeals and reconciles thee,
¶What will hap more to night,
safe
scape the King,
¶Enter Cornwall, and Regan, and Gonorill, and Bastard.
2060Corn. Po
st
speedily to my Lord your hu
sband
shew
¶him this
The army of France is landed, seeke out the vilaine Gloster.
¶Regan. Hang him in
stantly.
¶Gon. Plucke out his eyes.
