117100The mistresse of Heccat, and the might,

118101By all the operation of the orbs,

119102From whome we doe exsist and cease to be

120103Heere I disclaime all my paternall care,

121104Propinquitie and property of blood,

122105And as a stranger to my heart and me

123106Hould thee from this for euer, the barbarous Scythyan,

124107Or he that makes his generation

108Messes 125to gorge his appetite

126109Shall bee as well neighbour'd, pittyed and relieued

127110As thou my sometime daughter.

128111Kent. Good my Liege.

129112Lear. Peace Kent, 130come not between the Dragon & (his wrath,

131113I lou'd her most, and thought to set my rest

132114On her kind nurcery, hence and auoide my sight?

133115So be my graue my peace as here I giue,

134116Her fathers heart from her, call France, who stirres?

135117Call Burgundy, Cornwell, and Albany,

136118With my two daughters dower digest this third,

137119Let pride, which she cals plainnes, marrie her:

138120I doe inuest you iointly in my powre,

139121Preheminence, and all the large effects

140122That troope with Maiestie, our selfe by monthly course

141123With reseruation of an hundred knights,

142124By you to be sustayn'd, shall our abode

143125Make with you by due turnes, onely we still retaine

144126The name and all the additions to a King,

127The sway, 145reuenue, execution of the rest,

146128Beloued sonnes be yours, which to confirme,

147129This Coronet part betwixt you.

148130Kent. Royall Lear,

149131Whom I haue euer honor'd as my King,

150132Loued as my Father, as my maister followed,

151133As my great patron thought on in my prayers.

152134Lear. The bow is bẽt & drawen make from the shafte.

153135Kent. Let it fall rather,

136Though the forke inuade 154the region of my heart,

137Be Kent vnmannerly 155when Lear is man,