M. William Shake-speare
HIS
History, of King Lear.
21Enter Kent, Glocester, and Bastard.
43I Thought the King had more a
ffe
cted the Duke of
54Albeney then
Cornewall.
65Glost. It did alwaies
seeme
so to vs, but now in
76the diui
sion of the Kingdomes, it appeares not
87which of the Dukes he values mo
st, for equalities
98are
so weighed, that curio
sity in neither, can make choi
se of ei
- 1110Kent. Is not this your
sonne, my Lord?
1211Glost. His breeding
sir hath beene at my charge. I haue
so of
- 1412ten blu
sht to acknowledge him, that now I am braz'd to it.
1513Kent. I cannot conceiue you.
1614Glost. Sir, this young fellowes mother could, whereupon
she
1815grew round wombed, and had indeed Sir a
sonne for her Cra
- 16dle, ere
she had a husband for her bed, do you
smell a fault?
2017Kent. I cannot wi
sh the fault vndone, the i
ssue of it being
so
2219Glo. But I haue
sir a
sonne by order of Law,
some yeare elder
2320then this, who yet is no deerer in my account, thogh this knaue
2421came
something
sawcely into the world before he was
sent for,
2522yet was his mother faire, there was good
sport at his making, &
2623the whore
son mu
st be acknowledged, do you know this noble
Bast.
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