11599Lear. Well let it be so, thy truth then be thy dower,

116100For by the sacred radience of the Sunne,

117101The mistresse of Heccat, and the might,

118102By all the operation of the Orbes,

119103From whom we do exsist and cease to be,

120104Heere I dissclaime all my paternall care,

121105Propinquity and property of bloud,

122106And as a stranger to my heart and me,

123107Hold thee from this foreuer, the barbarous Scythian,

124108Or he that makes his generation

125109Messes to gorge his appetite,

126110Shall be as well neighbour'd, pittied and releeued,

127111As thou my some-time daughter.

128112Kent. Good my Liege.

129113Lear. Peace Kent, come not betweene the Dragon and his (wrath

131114I lou'd her most, and thought to set my rest

132115On her kinde nursery, hence and auoid my sight:

133116So be my graue my peace as heere I guie,

134117Her fathers heart from her; call France, who stirres?

135118Call Burgundy, Cornwall, and Albany,

136119With my two daughters dower digest this third,

137120Let pride, which she cals plainnesse, marry her:

138121I do inuest you ioyntly in my power,

139122Preheminence, and all the large effects

140123That troope with Maiesty, our selfe by monthly course

141124With reseruation of an hundred Knights,

142125By you to be sustain'd, shall our abode

143126Make with you by due turnes, onely we still retaine

144127The name and all the additions to a King,

145128The sway, reuenue, execution of the rest,

146129Beloued sonnes be yours, which to confirme,

147130This Coronet part betwixt you.

148131Kent. Royall Lear,

149132Whom I haue euer honor'd as my King,

150133Loued as my Father, as my Master followed,

151134As my great Patron thought on in my praiers.

152135Lear. The bow is bent and drawne, make from the shaft.