28122615No sir, you must not kneele.

28132616Lear. Pray do not mocke me:

28142617I am a very foolish fond olde man,

28152618Fourescore and vpward, and to deale plainly,

28182619I feare I am not perfect in my minde.

28192620Me thinkes I should know you, and know this man,

28202621Yet I am doubtfull: for I am mainly ignorant

28212622What place this is, and all the skill I haue

28222623Remembers not these garments: nor I know not

28232624Where I did lodge last night. Do no laugh at me,

28242625For (as I am a man) I thinke this Lady

28252626To be my childe Cordelia.

28262627Cor. And so I am.

28272628Lear. Be your teares wet? Yes faith: I pray weepe not,

28292629If you haue poison for me I will drinke it:

28302630I know you do not loue me, for your sisters

28312631Haue (as I do remember) done me wrong.

28322632You haue some cause, they haue not.

28332633Cor. No cause, [u]o cause.

28342634Lear. Am I in France?

28352635Kent. In your owne kingdome sir.

28362636Lear. Do not abuse me.

28372637Doct. Be comforted good Madame, the great rage you see is

28382638cured in him, and yet it is danger to make him euen ore the time

28392639hee has lost; desire him to goe in, trouble him no more till fur-

2640ther setling.

28402641Cor. Wilt please your Highnesse walke?

28412642Lear. You must beare with me:

28422643Pray now forget and forgiue,

28432644I am olde and foolish. Exeunt.

2843.22646Gen. Holds it true sir that the Duke of Cornwall was so slaine?

2843.32647Kent. Most certaine sir.

2843.42648Gent. Who is conductor of his people?

2843.52649Kent. As tis said, the bastard sonne of Gloster.

2843.62650Gent. They say Edgar his banisht sonne, is with the Earle of