The Historie of King Lear.
¶That rightly thinks, and ha
st mo
st iu
stly
said,
¶And your large
speeches may your deedes approue,
¶That good effects may
spring from wordes of loue:
200Thus
Kent O Princes, bids you all adew,
¶Heele
shape his old cour
se in a countrie new.
¶Enter France and Burgundie with Gloster.
¶Glost. Heers
France and
Burgundie my noble Lord.
205Lear. My L. of
Burgũdie,
¶we fir
st addres towards you,
Who with a King
¶hath riuald for our daughter,
What in the lea
st
¶will you require in pre
sent
Dower with her,
¶or cea
se your que
st of loue?
210Burg. Royall maie
sty,
¶I craue no more then what
Your highnes offered,
¶nor will you tender le
sse
?¶Lear. Right noble
Burgundie,
¶when
she was deere to
We did hold her
so,
215but now her pri
se is fallen,
Sir there
she
stands,
¶if ought within that little
Seeming
sub
stãce,
¶or al of it with our di
splea
sure peec'
st,
¶And nothing el
se may fitly like your grace,
¶Shees there, and
she is yours.
220Burg. I know no an
swer.
¶Lear. Sir will you with tho
se infirmities
she owes,
¶Vnfriended, new adopted to our hate,
¶Couered with our cur
se, and
stranger'd with our oth,
225Burg. Pardon me royall
sir,
¶election makes not vp
On such conditions.
¶Lear. Then leaue her
sir, for by the powre that made
¶I tell you all her wealth, for you great King,
¶I would not from your loue make
such a
stray,
230To match you where I hate, therefore be
seech you,
¶To auert your liking a more worthier way,
¶Then on a wretch whome nature is a
shamed
¶Almo
st to acknowledge hers.
¶Fra. This is mo
st
strange,
235that
she, that euen but now
Was your be
st obiect,
¶the argument of your prai
se,
Balme of your age,
¶mo
st be
st, mo
st deere
st,
Should in this trice of time
¶commit a thing,
So mon
strous to di
smantell
¶so many foulds of fauour,
