King Lear (Quarto 1, 1608)
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The Historie of King Lear.
¶By all the operation of the orbs,
120Heere I disclaime all my paternall care,
¶Propinquitie and property of blood,
¶And as a stranger to my heart and me
¶Hould thee from this for euer: the barbarous Scythyan,
¶Or he that makes his generation
¶Shall bee as well neighbour'd, pittyed and relieued
¶As thou my sometime daughter.
¶Kent. Good my Liege.
¶On her kind nurcery, hence and auoide my sight?
¶So be my graue my peace as here I giue,
¶Her fathers heart from her, call France, who stirres?
135Call Burgundy, Cornwell, and Albany,
¶With my two daughters dower digest this third,
¶Let pride, which she cals plainnes, marrie her:
¶I doe inuest you iointly in my powre,
¶Preheminence, and all the large effects
¶With reseruation of an hundred knights,
¶Make with you by due turnes, onely we still retaine
¶The name and all the additions to a King,
¶Beloued sonnes be yours, which to confirme,
¶This Coronet part betwixt you.
¶Kent. Royall Lear,
¶Whom I haue euer honor'd as my King,
150Loued as my Father, as my maister followed,
¶As my great patron thought on in my prayers.
¶Kent. Let it fall rather,
Though the forke inuade ¶the region of my heart,
Be Kent vnmannerly 155when Lear is man,
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