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King Lear (Folio 1, 1623)
1614Actus Tertius. Scena Prima.
1615Storme still. Enter Kent, and a Gentleman, seuerally.
1618Kent. I know you: Where's the King?
1619Gent. Contending with the fretfull Elements;
1620Bids the winde blow the Earth into the Sea,
1621Or swell the curled Waters 'boue the Maine,
1623Kent. But who is with him?
1625His heart-strooke iniuries.
1626Kent. Sir, I do know you,
1627And dare vpon the warrant of my note
1628Commend a deere thing to you. There is diuision
1629(Although as yet the face of it is couer'd
1630With mutuall cunning) 'twixt Albany , and Cornwall:
1631Who haue, as who haue not, that their great Starres
1633Which are to France the Spies and Speculations
1634Intelligent of our State. What hath bin seene,
1636Or the hard Reine which both of them hath borne
1639Gent. I will talke further with you.
1641For confirmation that I am much more
1645And she will tell you who that Fellow is
1646That yet you do not know. Fye on this Storme,
1647I will go seeke the King.
1648Gent. Giue me your hand,
1649Haue you no more to say?
1651That when we haue found the King, in which your pain
1653Holla the other. Exeunt.