16561434Lear. Blow wind & cracke your cheekes,
rage,
blow
16571435You caterickes,
& Hircanios
spout
1658til you haue drencht,
1436The
steeples drown'd the cockes,
1659you
sulpherous and
1437Thought executing
fires,
1660vaunt-currers to
1438Oke-cleauing thunderboults,
1661singe my white head,
1439And thou all
shaking thunder,
1662smite
flat
1440The thicke Rotunditie of the world,
1663cracke natures
1441Mold,
all Germains
spill at once
1664that make
16651443Foole. O Nunckle, Court holy water in a drie hou
se
16661444Is better then this raine water out a doore,
1445Good Nunckle
1667in,
and aske thy daughters ble
ssing,
1446Heers a night pities
1668nether wi
se man nor foole.
16691447Lear. Rumble thy belly full,
spit
fire,
spout raine,
16701448Nor raine,
wind,
thunder,
fire,
are my daughters,
16711449I taske not you you elements with vnkindnes,
16721450I neuer gaue you kingdome, cald you children,
16731451You owe me no
sub
scription,
why then
let fall
1674your horrible (ple
sure
1452Here I
stãd your
slaue,
1675a poore in
firme weak &
1453De
spis'd ould man,
1676but yet I call you
seruile
1454Mini
sters,
1677that haue with 2.
pernitious daughters ioin'd
16781455Your high engẽdred battel gain
st a head
1679so old & white
1456As this, O tis foule.
16801457Foole. Hee that has a hou
se to put his head in, has a good
16811458headpeece,
1682the Codpeece that will hou
se before the head, has
1459any
1683the head and hee
shall low
se,
so beggers mary many,
1684the
1460man that makes his toe, what hee his heart
should make,
1685shall
1461haue a corne cry woe, and turne his
sleepe to wake, for
16861462there was neuer yet faire woman but
shee made
1687mouthes in a
16891464Lear. No I will be the patterne of all patience
En.ter Kent. 16921467Foole. Marry heers Grace, & a codpis, that's a
1693wi
seman and
1468a foole.
1470Things that loue night,
1695loue not
such nights as the
se,
1471The wrathfull Skies
1696gallow,
the very wanderer of the
1472Darke, and
1697makes them keepe their caues,
1473Since I was man,
1698such
sheets of
fire,
1474Such bur
sts of horred thunder,
1699such grones of
1475Roaring winde,
and rayne, I ne're
1700remember
1476To haue heard, mans nature cannot cary
17021478Lear. Let the great Gods
1703that keepe this dreadful
1479Powther ore our heades,
1704find out their enemies now,
1480Tremble thou wretch
1705that ha
st within thee
1481Vndivulged crimes,
1706vnwhipt of Iu
stice,
1482Hide thee thou bloudyhand,
1707thou periur'd,
and
1483Thou
simular man of vertue
1708that art ince
stious,
1484Caytife in peeces
shake,
1709that vnder couert
1485And conuenient
seeming,
1710ha
st pra
cti
sed on mans life,
1486Clo
se pent vp guilts,
1711riue your concealed centers,
1487And cry
1712the
se dreadfull
summoners grace,
1488I am a man
1713more
sind again
st their
sinning.
17141489Kent. Alacke bare headed,
1715gracious my Lord, hard by here is
1490a houell,
1716some friend
ship will it lend you gain
st the tempe
st,
1717re
- 1491po
se you there, whil
st I to this hard hou
se,
1718more hard then is
1492the
stone whereof
tis rais'd,
1719which euen but now demaunding
1493after me,
1720denide me to come in, returne and force
1721their
scanted
1494curte
sie.
17231496Come on my boy, how do
st my boy,
art cold?
17241497I am cold my
selfe, where is this
straw my fellow,
1499Make vild things precious, come you houell
1727poore,
1500Foole and knaue, I haue one part of my heart
17291502Foole. Hee that has a little tine witte,
1730with hey ho the wind
1503and the raine,
1731mu
st make content with his fortunes
fit,
1732for the
1504raine, it raineth euery day.
17331505Lear. True my good boy, come bring vs to this houell?