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King Lear (Modern, Extended Folio)
16143.1
1615Storm still. Enter Kent [disguised] and a Gentleman, separately.
1616Kent
Who's there besides foul weather?
1617Gentleman
One minded like the weather, most unquietly.
1618Kent
I know you. Where's the King?
1619Gentleman
Contending with the fretful elements;
1620Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea,
1621Or swell the curlèd waters 'bove the main
1623Kent
But who is with him?
1624Gentleman
None but the Fool, who labors to out-jest
1625His heart-struck injuries.
1626Kent
Sir, I do know you,
1627And dare upon the warrant of my note
1628Commend a dear thing to you. There is division,
1629Although as yet the face of it is covered
1630With mutual cunning, twixt Albany and Cornwall,
1631Who have--as who have not that their great stars
1632Throned and set high?--servants who seem no less,
1633Which are to France the spies and speculations
1634Intelligent of our state. What hath been seen,
1635Either in snuffs and packings of the dukes,
1636Or the hard rein which both of them hath born
1637Against the old kind King, or something deeper,
1638Whereof, perchance, these are but furnishings.
1639Gentleman
I will talk further with you.
1640Kent
No, do not.
1641For confirmation that I am much more
1642Than my out-wall, open this purse and take
1643What it contains. If you shall see Cordelia,
1644As fear not but you shall, show her this ring,
1645And she will tell you who that fellow is
1646That yet you do not know. Fie on this storm.
1647I will go seek the King.
1648Gentleman
Give me your hand.
1649Have you no more to say?
1650Kent
Few words but to effect more than all yet,
1651That when we have found the King--in which your pain
1652That way, I'll this--he that first lights on him
1653Holla the other.
31Exeunt [separately].