27452551Cor. O thou good Kent,

27462552How shall I liue and worke to match thy goodnesse,

27482553My life will be too short, and euery measure faile me.

27502554Kent. To be acknowledg'd Madam is ore-paid,

27512555All my reports go with the modest truth,

27522556Nor more, nor clipt, but so.

27542557Cor. Be better suited,

2558These weeds are memories of those worser houres,

27552559I prethee put them off.

27562560Kent. Pardon me deere Madam,

27572561Yet to be knowne shortens my made intent,

27582562My boone I make it that you know me not,

27592563Till time and I thinke meet.

27602564Cor. Then be it so: my Lord how does the king.

27622565Doct. Madam sleepes still.

27632566Cor. O you kinde Gods,

27642567Cure this great breach in his abused nature,

27652568The vntun'd and hurrying senses, O winde vp,

27662569Of this childe-changed Father.

27672570Doct. So please your Maiesty, we may wake the King

27682571He hath slept long.

27692572Cor. Be gouern'd by your knowledge, and proceede

27702573Ith sway of your owne will: is he array'd?

27722574Doct. I Madam, in the heauinesse of his sleepe,

27732575We put fresh garments on him.

27742576Kent. Good Madam be by when we do awake him,

27752577I doubt not of his temperance.

2775.12578Cor. Very well.

2775.22579Doct. Please you draw neere: louder the musicke there.

27762580Cor. O my deere father,

2581Restoration hang thy medicine on my lippes,

27772582And let this kisse repaire those violent harmes

27782583That my two sisters haue in thy reuerence made.

27802584Kent. Kinde and deere Princesse.

27812585Cor. Had you not bin their father, these white flakes

27822586Had challeng'd pitty of them. Was this a face

27832587To be exposd against the warring windes,

2783.12588To stand against the deepe dread bolted thunder,

2783.22589In the most terrible and nimble stroke

2784.32590Of quicke crosse lightning, to watch poore Per du,

2783.42591With this thin helme? 2784Mine iniurious dogge,

27852592Though he had bit me, should haue stood that night

27862593Against my fire, and wast thou faine (poore father)

27872594To houill thee with swine and rogues forlorne,

27882595In short and musty straw? Alack, alacke,

27892596Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once,

27902597Had not concluded all. He wakes, speake to him.

27912598Doct, Madam do you, tis fittest.

27922599C. How does my royal lord? how fares your maiesty

27942600Lear. You do me wrong to take me out a'th graue,

27952601Thou art a soule in blisse, but I am bound

27962602Vpon a wheele of fire, that mine owne teares

27972603Do scald like molten Lead.

27982604Cor. Sir, know ye me?

27992605Lear. Y'are a spirit I know, when did you dye?

28002606Cor. Still, still, farre wide.

28012607Doct. He's scarse awake, let hlm alone awhile.

28032608Lea. Where haue I bin? where am I? faire day light!

28052609I am mightily abusd; I should ene dye with pity

28062610To see another thus. I know not what to say:

28072611I will not sweare these are my hands, let's see,

28082612I feele this pin pricke, would I were assur'd of my con-(dition.

28102613Cor. O looke vpon me sir,

28112614And hold your hands in benediction ore me,

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

2843.72651Kent in Germany.

2843.82652Kent. Report is changeable, tis time to looke about,

2843.92653The powers of the kingdome approch apace.

2843.102654Gent. The arbitrement is like to be bloody, fare you well sir.

2843.112655Kent. My point and period will be throughly wrought,

2843.122656Or well, or ill, as this dayes battels fought.