32603051And desperately are dead. Lear. So I thinke too.

32623052Alb. He knowes not what he sees, and vaine it is

32633053That we present vs to him.

32653054Edgar Very bootlesse. Enter Captaine

32663055Cap: Edmund is dead my Lord.

32673056Alb: Thats but a trifle heere: you Lords and Noble friends,

32683057know our intent, what comfort to this decay may come, shalbe

32703058applied: for vs we will resigne during the life of this old maiesty

32723059to him our absolute power, you to your rights with boote, and

32733060such addition as your honors haue more then merited, al friends

32743061shall taste the wages of their vertue, and all foes the cup of their

32763062deseruings: O see, see.

32773063Lear. And my poore foole is hangd: no, no life, why should

32783064a dog, a horse, a rat haue life, and thou no breath at all? O thou

32793065wilt come no more, neuer, neuer, neuer: pray vndo this button;

32813066thanke you sir, O, o, o, o, o.

32843067Edg, He faints, my Lord, my Lord.

32853068Lear: Breake heart, I prethe breake.

32863069Edg: Looke vp my Lord.

32873070Kent: Vex not his ghost, O let him passe,

32883071he hates him much, that would vpon the wracke

32893072Of this tough world stretch him out longer.

32903073Edg: O he is gone indeed.

32913074Kent: The wonder is, he hath endured so long,

32923075He but vsurpt his life.

32933076Duke: Beare them from hence, our present businesse

32943077Is to generall woe: friends of my soule, you twaine

32953078Rule in this kingdome, and the good state sustaine.

32963079Kent: I haue a iourney sir, shortly to go,

32973080My master cals, and I must not say no.

32983081Duke The waight of this sad time we must obay,

32993082Speake what we feele, not what we ought to say:

33003083The oldest haue borne most, we that are yong,

33013084Shall neuer see so much, nor liue so long.