21791916Edg. Yet better thus, and knowne to be contemnd,
21801917Then
still contemn'd and
flattered to be wor
st,
21811918The lowe
st and mo
st deie
cted thing of Fortune
21821919Stands
still in experience,
liues not in feare,
21831920The lamentable change is from the be
st,
21891922Who's here,
my father parti,
eyd,
2190world, world, O world!
21911923But that thy
strange mutations make vs hate thee,
21921924Life would not yeeld to age.
Enter Glost. led by an old man. 21931925Old man O my good Lord, I haue beene your tenant,
2194& your
1926fathers tenant this fore
score---
21951927Glost. Away, get thee away,
good friend be gon,
21961928Thy comforts can doe me no good at all,
21981930Old man. Alack
sir, you cannot
see your way.
21991931Glost. I haue no way,
and therefore want no eyes,
22001932I
stumbled when I
saw, full oft tis
seene
22011933Our meanes
secure vs,
and our meare defe
cts
22021934Proue our comodities, ah deere
sonne
Edgar,
22031935The food of thy abu
sed fathers wrath,
22041936Might I but liue to
see thee in my tuch,
22071939Edg. O Gods, who i
st can
say I am at the wor
st,
22101942Edg. And wor
se I may be yet, the wor
st is not.
22111943As long as we can
say,
this is the wor
st.
22141946Old man. Mad man,
and begger to.
22151947Glost. A has
some rea
son, el
se he could not beg,
22161948In the la
st nights
storme I
such a fellow
saw,
22171949Which made me thinke a man a worme,
my
sonne
22181950Came then into my mind,
and yet my mind
22191951Was then
scarce friendes with him,
2220I haue heard more(
since,
22211952As
flies are
toth' wanton boyes,
are we toth' Gods,
22231954Edg. How
should this be,
2224bad is the trade that mu
st play the
1955foole to
sorrow
2225angring it
selfe and others, ble
sse thee mai
ster.
22261956Glost. Is that the naked fellow
? 22281958Glost. Then prethee get thee gon,
if for my
sake
22291959Thou wilt oretake vs here a mile or twaine
22301960Ith' way toward Douer, doe it for ancient loue
22311961And bring
some couering for this naked
soule
22341964Glost. Tis the times plague,
2235when madmen lead the(blind,
22361965Doe as I bid thee,
or rather doe thy plea
sure,
22381967Old man. Ile bring him the be
st parrell that I haue
22411970Edg. Poore
Toms a cold, I cannot dance it farther.
22441972Edg. Ble
sse thy
sweete eyes, they bleed.
22451973Glost. Know
st thou the way to Douer
? 22461974Edg. Both
stile and gate,
hor
se-way, and foot-path,
22471975Poore
Tom hath beene
scard out of his good wits,
1976Ble
sse
2248the good man from the foule
fiend,
2248.11977Fiue
fiends haue beene in poore
Tom at once,
2248.21978Of lu
st,
as
Obidicut,
Hobbididence Prince of dumbnes,
2248.31979Mahu of
stealing,
Modo of murder,
Stiberdigebit of
2248.41980Mobing, &
Mobing who
since po
sse
sses chambermaids
2248.51981And waiting women,
so, ble
sse thee mai
ster.
22491982Glost. Here take this pur
se, thou whome the heauens(plagues.
22501983Haue humbled to all
strokes,
that I am wretched,
2251makes(thee
1984The happier, heauens deale
so
still,
22521985Let the
super
fluous and lu
st-dieted man
22531986That
stands your ordinance, that will not
see
22541987Becau
se he does not feele,
feele your power quickly,
22551988So di
stribution
should vnder exce
sse,
22561989And each man haue enough, do
st thou know Douer
? 22581991Glost. There is a cli
ffe who
se high & bending head
22591992Lookes
firmely in the con
fined deepe,
22601993Bring me but to the very brimme of it
22611994And ile repaire the mi
sery thou do
st beare
1996From that place
2263I
shal no leading need.
22641997Edg. Giue me thy arme,
2265poore
Tom shall lead thee.