32153014Alb. The Gods defend her, beare him hence a while.

32173016Lear. Howle, howle, howle, howle: O you are men of stones,

32183017Had I your tongues and eyes, I would vse them so,

32193018That heauens vault should cracke: O, she is gone for euer.

32203019I know when one is dead, and when one liues,

32213020Shees dead as earth: Lend me a looking-glasse,

32223021If that her breath will mist and staine the stone, she then liues.

32243022Kent. Is this the promist end!

32253023Edg. Or image of that horror? Alb. Fall and cease.

32273024Lear. This feather stirs, she liues, if it be so, it is a chance that

32283025do's redeeme all sorrowes that euer I haue felt.

32303026Kent. A my good master.

32313027Lear. Prethee away.

32323028Edg. Tis Noble Kent your friend.

32333029Lear. A plague vpon you murdrous traitors all, I might haue

32343030saued her, now shees gone for euer: Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a li-

32353031tle. What ist thou sayst? her voice was euer soft, gentle & low,

32373032an excellent thing in woman. I kild the slaue that was a hanging

32383033thee. Cap. Tis true my Lords hee did.

32403034Lear. Did I not fellow? I ha seene the day, that with my bi-

32413035ting Fauchion I would haue made them skip: I am old now, and

32433036these same crosses spoile me. Who are you? Mine eyes are none

32443037o'th best, Ile tell you straight.

32453038Kent. If Fortune bragd of two she loued or hated,

32463039One of them we behold.

32473040Lear. Are not you Kent?

32483041Kent. The same your seruant Kent, wher is your seruãt Caius?

32503042Lear. Hees a good fellow, I can tell that,

32513043Heel strike and quickly too, hees dead and rotten.

32523044Kent. No my good Lord, I am the very man.

32533045Lear. Ile see that straight.

32543046Kent. That from your life of difference and decay,

32553047Haue followed your sad steps.

32563048Lear. You are welcome hether.

32573049Kent. Nor no man else: All's cheerelesse, darke, and deadly,

32593050Your eldest daughters haue fore-doom'd themselues,