32542952Kent. That from your life of difference and decay,

32552953Haue followed your sad steps. 3256 Lear. You'r welcome hither.

32572954Kent. Nor no man else, 3258als chearles, darke and deadly,

32592955Your eldest daughters haue foredoome themselues,

32602956And desperatly are dead. 3261 Lear. So thinke I to.

32622957Duke. He knowes not what he sees, and vaine it is,

32632958That we present vs to him. 3265 Edg. Very bootlesse. Enter Captaine.

32662959Capt. Edmund is dead my Lord.

32672960Duke. Thats but a trifle heere, 3268you Lords and noble friends,

2961Know our intent, 3269what comfort to this decay may come, 3270shall be

2962applied: for vs we wil resigne 3271during the life of this old maiesty,

32722963to him our absolute power, you to your rights 3273with boote, and

2964such addition as your honor 3274haue more then merited, all friends

2965shall 3275tast the wages of their vertue, and al foes 3276the cup of their de-

2966seruings, O see, see.

32772967Lear. And my poore foole is hangd, no, no life, 3278why should a

2968dog, a horse, a rat of life 3279and thou no breath at all, O thou wilt

2969come no more, 3280neuer, neuer, neuer, 3281pray you vndo this button,

2970thanke you sir, O, o, o, o. Edg. He faints my Lord, my Lord.

32852971Lear. Breake hart, I prethe breake. 3286Edgar. Look vp my Lord.

32872972Kent. Vex not his ghost, O let him passe,

2973He hates him 3288that would vpon the wracke,

2974Of this tough world 3289stretch him out longer.

32902975Edg. O he is gone indeed.

32912976Kent. The wonder is, he hath endured so long,

32922977He but vsurpt his life.

32932978Duke. Beare them from hence, our present busines

32942979Is to generall woe, friends of my soule, you twaine

32952980Rule in this kingdome, and the goard state sustaine.

32962981Kent. I haue a iourney sir, shortly to go,

32972982My maister cals, and I must not say no.

32982983Duke. The waight of this sad time we must obey,

32992984Speake what we feele, not what we ought to say,

33002985The oldest haue borne most, we that are yong,

33012986Shall neuer see so much, nor liue so long.