Speaker 1: The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare, Act one,
Speaker 1: seen one a room of state in King Lear's palace,
Speaker 1: Enter Kent, Gloucester and Edmund Kent.
Speaker 2: I thought the King had more affected the Duke of
Speaker 2: Albany than Cornwall Gloucester.
Speaker 3: It did always seem so to us. But now in
Speaker 3: the division of the kingdom it appears not which of
Speaker 3: the dukes he values most, For equalities are so weighed
Speaker 3: that curiosity in neither can make choice of either's moiety.
Speaker 2: Is not this your son, my lord?
Speaker 3: His breathing, Sir, hath been at my charge. I have
Speaker 3: so often blushed to acknowledge him, that now I am
Speaker 3: brazed to it.
Speaker 2: I cannot conceive.
Speaker 3: You, Sir, this young fellow's mother could. Whereupon she grew
Speaker 3: round wound, and had indeed, Sir a son for her cradle.
Speaker 3: Ere she had a husband for her bed. Do you
Speaker 3: smell a fault?
Speaker 2: I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it
Speaker 2: being so proper.
Speaker 3: But I have Sir a son by order of law,
Speaker 3: some year elder than this, who yet is no dearer
Speaker 3: in my account. Though this knave came something saucily into
Speaker 3: the world before he was sent for. Yet was his
Speaker 3: mother fair? There was good sport at his making, and
Speaker 3: the horse un must be acknowledged. Do you know this,
Speaker 3: noble gentleman Edmund? No, my Lord, my Lord of Kent,
Speaker 3: remember him hereafter as my honorable friend.
Speaker 4: My services to your lordship.
Speaker 2: I must love you, ensue to know you better.
Speaker 3: Sir, I shall study deserving he hath been out nine years,
Speaker 3: and away he shall again. The king is coming.
Speaker 1: Sound a senate enter, one bearing a coronet. Enter, King Lear, Cornwall, Albany,
Speaker 1: Goneril Reagan, Cordelia and attendants.
Speaker 5: Lear attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester.
Speaker 1: I shall, my Liege Exeant Gloucester and Edmund.
Speaker 5: Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the
Speaker 5: map there. Know that we have divided in three our kingdom,
Speaker 5: and tis our fast intent to shake all cares and
Speaker 5: business from our age, conferring them on younger strengths, while we, unburdened,
Speaker 5: crawl toward death. Our son of Cornwall, and you are
Speaker 5: no less loving son of Albany. We have this hour
Speaker 5: a constant will to publish our daughter's several hours that
Speaker 5: future strife may be prevented. Now the princes France and Burgundy,
Speaker 5: great rifles in our youngest daughter's love long in our court,
Speaker 5: have made their amorous sojourn, and here are to be answered.
Speaker 5: Tell me, my daughters, since now we will divest us
Speaker 5: both of rule, interest of territory, cares of state, Which
Speaker 5: of you shall we say doth love us most that
Speaker 5: we our largest bounty may extend where nature doth with
Speaker 5: merit challenge Goneril, our eldest born, speak first, Sir.
Speaker 6: I love you more than words can wield, the matter
Speaker 6: dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty beyond what can be valued,
Speaker 6: rich or rare, no less than life with grace, health, beauty, honor,
Speaker 6: as much as child heir loved or father found a
Speaker 6: love that makes breath poor and speech unable beyond all
Speaker 6: manner of so much I love you, Cordelia.
Speaker 7: What shall Cordelia speak love? And be silent.
Speaker 5: Of all these bounds? Even from this line to this,
Speaker 5: with shadowy forests and with champaigns riched with plenteous rivers
Speaker 5: and wide skirted meads, we make thee lady to thine
Speaker 5: in an Albany's issue, be this perpetual? What says our
Speaker 5: second daughter, Ah dearest Reagan wife to Cornwall, speak.
Speaker 8: Sir, I am made of the self same metal that
Speaker 8: my sister is, and bries me at her worth in
Speaker 8: my true art, I find she names me very deed
Speaker 8: of love. Only she comes to short that I profess
Speaker 8: myself an enemy to all other joys which the most
Speaker 8: precious square sense possesses, And find I am alone felicited
Speaker 8: in your dear Highness's.
Speaker 7: Love, then, poor Cordelia, And yet not so, since I
Speaker 7: am sure my love's more richer than my tongue.
Speaker 5: To thee and thine hereditary. Ever, remain this ample third
Speaker 5: of our fair kingdom no less in space, validity, and
Speaker 5: pleasure than that conferred on Goneril. Now our joy, although
Speaker 5: the last not least to whose young love the vines
Speaker 5: of France and milk of Burgundy strive to be interested.
Speaker 5: What can you say to draw a third more opulent
Speaker 5: than your sisters?
Speaker 7: Speak nothing, my Lord, nothing, nothing.
Speaker 5: Nothing can come of nothing.
Speaker 7: Speak again, unhappy that I am, I cannot heave my
Speaker 7: heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty according to
Speaker 7: my bond, no more, no less.
Speaker 5: How how Cordelia, mend your speech a little, lest you
Speaker 5: may mar your fortunes.
Speaker 7: Good, my Lord, you have begot me, bred me, loved me.
Speaker 7: I return those duties back as a right fit obey you,
Speaker 7: love you, and most honor you. Why have my sister's
Speaker 7: husbands if they say they love you all? Haply? When
Speaker 7: I shall wed, that lord whose hand must take my plight,
Speaker 7: shall carry half my love with him, half my care
Speaker 7: and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters
Speaker 7: to love my father.
Speaker 5: All but goes thy heart with this.
Speaker 7: Ay, good, my Lord.
Speaker 5: So young and so untender, So.
Speaker 7: Young, my lord and true, Let it be so.
Speaker 5: Thy truth, then be thy dow For by the sacred
Speaker 5: radiance of the Sun, the mysteries of Acret and the Knight,
Speaker 5: by all the operation of the orbs, from whom we
Speaker 5: do exist and cease to be here, I disclaim all
Speaker 5: my paternal care, probinquity, and property of blood, and as
Speaker 5: a stranger to my heart and me, hold thee for them.
Speaker 5: This for ever the Barbara's Scythian, or he that makes
Speaker 5: his generation messes to Gorge's appetite, shall to my bosom
Speaker 5: be as well neighbor, pitied and relieved as thou my
Speaker 5: sometime daughter. Good, my leeche, peace, kent, come not between
Speaker 5: the dragon and his wrath. I lov'd her most, and
Speaker 5: thought to set my rest on her kind nursery to Cordelia,
Speaker 5: hence and avoid my sight. So be my grave my peace.
Speaker 5: As here I give her father's heart from her call France,
Speaker 5: who stairs call Burgundy, Cornwall and Albany. With my two
Speaker 5: daughter's dowers, digest this third let pride, which she calls plainness,
Speaker 5: marry her. I do invest you joint thee in my power,
Speaker 5: pre eminence, and all the large effects that troop with
Speaker 5: Majesty ourself by monthly course, with reservation of an hundred
Speaker 5: knights by you to be sustained, shall our abode make
Speaker 5: with you by deutons only we still retain the name
Speaker 5: and all the additions to a king. The sway, revenue,
Speaker 5: execution of the rest beloved sons be yours, which to
Speaker 5: confirm this coronet part betwixt.
Speaker 2: You, Royal Leir, whom I have ever honored as my king,
Speaker 2: loved as my father, as my master, followed as my
Speaker 2: great patron, thought on in my prayers.
Speaker 5: The bow is bent and drawn, Make from the shaft.
Speaker 2: Let it fall, Rather though the fok convayed the region
Speaker 2: of my heart be kent un mannerly when leir is mad?
Speaker 2: What wouldst thou do? Old man? Think'st thou that duty
Speaker 2: shall have dread to speak when power to flattery bows
Speaker 2: to plainness, honors bound, when majesty falls to folly, reverse
Speaker 2: thy state, and in thy best consideration, check this hideous rashness.
Speaker 2: Answer my life, my judgment, Thy youngest daughter does not
Speaker 2: love the least. Nor are those empty hearted whose low
Speaker 2: sound reverbs no.
Speaker 5: Hollowness kent on thy life.
Speaker 2: No more my life I never held but as a
Speaker 2: pawn to wage against thine enemies, nor fear to lose it,
Speaker 2: Thy safety being the motive out of my sight. See better,
Speaker 2: lear and let me still remain the true blank of
Speaker 2: thine eye.
Speaker 5: Now by Apollo, Now.
Speaker 2: By Apollo, King, Thou sweartst thy god in vain.
Speaker 1: All vassal mescreant he makes to strike him.
Speaker 2: Dear sir, forbear, do kill thy physician and the fee
Speaker 2: bestow upon the foul disease, Revoke thy gift. Or whilst
Speaker 2: I can vent clamor from my throat, I'll tell thee
Speaker 2: thou dost evil.
Speaker 5: Hear me recreant on thine allegiance hear me, since thou
Speaker 5: hast sought to make us break our vow, which we
Speaker 5: dost never yet, and with trained pride to come between
Speaker 5: our sentence and our power, which nor our nature nor
Speaker 5: our place can bear. Our potency made good, take thy reward.
Speaker 5: Five days do we allot THEE for provision, to shield
Speaker 5: THEE from diseases of the world, And on the sixth
Speaker 5: to turn thy hated back upon our kingdom. If on
Speaker 5: the tenth day following thy banished trunk be found in
Speaker 5: our dominions, the moment is thy death. Hey, by Jupiter,
Speaker 5: this shall.
Speaker 2: Not be revoked fairly. Well, King sith, thus thou will appear.
Speaker 2: Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here to Cordelia. The
Speaker 2: gods to their dear shelter. Take thee maid that justly
Speaker 2: thinks and hast most rightly said.
Speaker 1: To Goneril and Reagan and.
Speaker 2: Your large speeches. May your deeds approve that good effects
Speaker 2: may spring from words of love. Thus kent Oh Princes,
Speaker 2: bid you all adieu. He'll shape his old course in
Speaker 2: a country.
Speaker 1: New exit flourish, enter Gloucester with France and Burgundy and attendants.
Speaker 3: Here's France and Burgundy.
Speaker 5: My noble lord, my Lord of Burgundy, we first addressed
Speaker 5: towards you, who, with this king hath rivaled for our daughter.
Speaker 5: What in the least will you require in present dower
Speaker 5: with her? Nor cease your quest of.
Speaker 9: Love, most Royal Majesty, I crave no more than hath
Speaker 9: your highness offered, Nor will you tender less.
Speaker 5: Rite Noble Burgundy. When she was dear to us, we
Speaker 5: did hold her so, But now her price is fallen, Sir,
Speaker 5: There she stands if aught within that little seeming substance,
Speaker 5: or all of it, with our displeasure pierced, and nothing
Speaker 5: more may fitly like your grace. She is there, and
Speaker 5: she is yours.
Speaker 9: I know no answer will you with.
Speaker 5: Those infirmities she owes, unfriended, new adopted to our hate,
Speaker 5: dowed with our curse, and strangered with our oath. Take
Speaker 5: her or leave her?
Speaker 9: Pardon me, Royal Sir, election makes not up on such conditions.
Speaker 5: Then leave her, Sir, for by the power that made me,
Speaker 5: I tell you all her wealth to France for you,
Speaker 5: great King, I would not, from your love make such
Speaker 5: a stray to match you where I hate. Therefore beseech
Speaker 5: you to a virt your liking I'm all worthy away
Speaker 5: than on a wretch whom nature is ashamed almost to
Speaker 5: acknowledge her.
Speaker 10: This is most strange that she, who even but now
Speaker 10: was your best object, the argument of your praise, balm
Speaker 10: of your age, most best, most dearest in this trice
Speaker 10: of time, commit to thing so monstrous to dismantle so
Speaker 10: many fools of favor. Sure her offense must be of
Speaker 10: such a natural degree that monsters it, or your forvouched
Speaker 10: affection falling into daint, which to believe of her must
Speaker 10: be a faith that reason without miracle should never plant
Speaker 10: in me.
Speaker 7: Yet I beseech your majesty, if for I want that
Speaker 7: glib and oily art to speak and purpose not since
Speaker 7: what I well intend, I'll do it before I speak,
Speaker 7: that you make known. It is no vicious blot, murder
Speaker 7: of foulness, no unchaste action, or dishonored step that hath
Speaker 7: deprived me of your grace and favor. But even for
Speaker 7: want of that which I am richer a still soliciting
Speaker 7: eye and such a tongue as I am glad I
Speaker 7: have not, though not to have it, hath lost me
Speaker 7: in your liking.
Speaker 5: Better thou hadst not been born not to have pleased
Speaker 5: me better?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 10: But this a tardiness in nature which often leaves the
Speaker 10: history and spoke that it intends to do. My Lord
Speaker 10: of Burgundy, what are you to the lady? Love's not
Speaker 10: love when it is mingled with regards that stands aloof
Speaker 10: from the entire point? Will you have her? She is
Speaker 10: herself a.
Speaker 9: Dowry royal king. Give but that portion which yourself proposed.
Speaker 9: And here I take Cordelia by the hand, Duchess of Burgundy.
Speaker 5: Nothing I have sworn. I am firm to Cordelia.
Speaker 9: I am sorry. Then you have so lost a father
Speaker 9: that you must lose a husband.
Speaker 7: Peace be with Burgundy, since that respects of fortune are
Speaker 7: his love, I shall not be his wife.
Speaker 10: FAIRI is Cordelia the ardmost rich, being poor, most choice, forsaken,
Speaker 10: and most love despised thee and thy virtues. Here I
Speaker 10: seize upon, be lawful. I take up what's cast away gods, gods.
Speaker 10: Tis strange that from their coldest neglect my love should
Speaker 10: kindle to inflamed respect, Thy dourless daughter, king thrown to
Speaker 10: my chance, is queen of us, of ours and our
Speaker 10: fair France, not all the dukes of Waterrish Burgundy can
Speaker 10: buy this unprized pressures made of me. Bid them farewell, Cordelia,
Speaker 10: doun kind, thou losest here a better where to find.
Speaker 5: Thou hast her France. Let her be thine, for we
Speaker 5: have no such daughter, nor shall ever see that face
Speaker 5: of hers again. Therefore be gone without our grace. I
Speaker 5: love our Benison, Come noble.
Speaker 1: Burgundy, Flourish, excellent, Lear Burgundy, Cornwall, Albany, Gloucester and attendants.
Speaker 6: B Farewell to your sisters.
Speaker 7: The Jews of our father with washed eyes, Cordelia leaves you.
Speaker 7: I know what you are, and like a sister a
Speaker 7: most loath to call your faults as they are named.
Speaker 7: Love well our father, to your professed bosoms, I commit him,
Speaker 7: but yet allah us stood I within his grace. I
Speaker 7: would prefer him to a better place. So farewell to you.
Speaker 8: Both prescribe not us thou do ities.
Speaker 6: Let your study be to content your Lord, who hath
Speaker 6: received you at fortune's alms. You have obedience scanted and
Speaker 6: well are worth the want that you have wanted.
Speaker 7: Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides, who covers faults
Speaker 7: at last shame them derides well. May you prosper come, my.
Speaker 1: Fair Cordelia, excellent Franz and Cordelia sister.
Speaker 6: It is not little I have to say of what
Speaker 6: most nearly appertains to us both. I think our father
Speaker 6: will hence to night.
Speaker 8: That's most certain, and with you next month, with us.
Speaker 6: You see how full of changes his age is. The
Speaker 6: observation we have made of it. Hath not been little.
Speaker 6: He always loved our sister most, And with what poor
Speaker 6: judgment he hath now cast her off appears too grossly.
Speaker 8: Tis the infirmity of his age. Yet he hath, ever
Speaker 8: but slenderly known himself.
Speaker 6: The best and soundest of his time. Hath been but
Speaker 6: rash than must we look to receive from his age,
Speaker 6: not alone the imperfections of long engraft condition, but therewithal,
Speaker 6: the unruly waywardness that infirm and choleric years bring with them.
Speaker 8: Set unconstant starts are we like to have from him?
Speaker 8: As this of Kent's banishment.
Speaker 6: There is further compliment of leave taking between France and him.
Speaker 6: Pray let us hit together. If our father carry authority
Speaker 6: with such dispositions as he bears, this last surrender of
Speaker 6: his will but offend.
Speaker 8: Us, we shall further think of it.
Speaker 6: We must do something. And in the heat.
Speaker 1: Exillant scene too a hall in the earl of Gloucester's castle, enter.
Speaker 4: With a letter, Thou Nature art, my Goddess, to thy law,
Speaker 4: my services are bound. Wherefore should I stand in the
Speaker 4: plague of custom and permit the curiosity of nations to
Speaker 4: deprive me? For that I am some twelve or fourteen
Speaker 4: Moonshine's lag of a brother? Why bastard? Wherefore Base, when
Speaker 4: my dimensions are as well compact, to my mind is generous,
Speaker 4: and my shape as true as honest madam's issue, Why
Speaker 4: brande us with base, with baseness, bastardly base, Base, who,
Speaker 4: in the lusty stealth of nature, take more composition and
Speaker 4: fierce quality than doth with a dull, stale tyrid bed
Speaker 4: go to the creating of a whole tribe of fops
Speaker 4: between a sleep and wake. Well, then, legitimate, Edgar, I
Speaker 4: must have your land. Our father's love is to the
Speaker 4: bastard Edmund, as to the legitimate, fine word legitimate, well,
Speaker 4: my legitimate. If this letter speed and my invention thrive, Edmund,
Speaker 4: the base shall top the legitimate I grow, I prosper.
Speaker 4: How God's stand up for.
Speaker 1: Bastards enter Gloucester.
Speaker 3: Kent banished, thus and France in collar parted, and the
Speaker 3: king gone to night subscribed, his power confined to exhibition.
Speaker 3: All this upon the gad Edmund. How now, what news
Speaker 3: so please your lordship?
Speaker 4: None?
Speaker 3: Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter?
Speaker 4: I know no news, my lord?
Speaker 3: What paper? Were you reading?
Speaker 4: Nothing? My lord?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 3: What needed then that terrible dispatch of it into your pocket?
Speaker 3: The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself.
Speaker 3: Let's see. Come. If it be nothing, I shall not
Speaker 3: need spectacles.
Speaker 4: I beseech you, sir, pardon me. It is a letter
Speaker 4: from my brother that I have not all over read,
Speaker 4: and for so much as I have perused, I find
Speaker 4: it not fit for your looking.
Speaker 3: Give me the letter, sir.
Speaker 4: I shall offend either to detain or give it. The contents,
Speaker 4: as in part I understand them, are to blame.
Speaker 3: Let's see. Let's see.
Speaker 4: I hope for my brother's justification he wrote this, but
Speaker 4: as an essay or taste of my virtue.
Speaker 3: This policy and reverence of age makes the world bitter
Speaker 3: to the best of our times, keeps our fortunes from
Speaker 3: us till our oldness cannot relish them. I begin to
Speaker 3: find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of
Speaker 3: aged tyranny, who sways not as it hath power, but
Speaker 3: as it is suffered. Come to me that of this
Speaker 3: I may speak more. If our father would sleep till
Speaker 3: I waked him, you should enjoy half his revenue forever,
Speaker 3: and live the beloved of your brother Edgar hum conspiracy,
Speaker 3: sleep till I waked him. You should enjoy half his revenue.
Speaker 3: My son, Edgar had he a hand to write this,
Speaker 3: a heart and brain to breed it in. When came
Speaker 3: this to you? Who brought it?
Speaker 4: It was not brought me, my lord? There's the cunning
Speaker 4: of it. I found it thrown in at the casement
Speaker 4: of my closet.
Speaker 3: You know the character to be your brother's.
Speaker 4: If the matter were good, my Lord, I durst swear
Speaker 4: it were his. But in respect of that, I would
Speaker 4: fain think it were not.
Speaker 3: It is his.
Speaker 4: It is his hand, my lord, But I hope his
Speaker 4: son heart is not in the contents.
Speaker 3: Hath he never before sounded you in this business.
Speaker 4: Never, my Lord? But I have heard him oft maintain
Speaker 4: it to be fit that sons at perfect age and
Speaker 4: father's decline. The father should be as ward to the son,
Speaker 4: and the son manage his revenue.
Speaker 3: Oh, villain, villain, his very opinion in the letter, abhorred villain, unnatural, detested,
Speaker 3: brutish villain, worse than brutish. Go, sirrah seek him. I'll
Speaker 3: apprehend him, abominable villain. Where is he?
Speaker 4: I do not well know, my lord. If it shall
Speaker 4: please you to suspend your indignation against my brother till
Speaker 4: you can derive from him better testimony of his intent,
Speaker 4: you should run a certain course where if you violently
Speaker 4: proceed against him, mistaking his purpose, it would make a
Speaker 4: great gap in your own honor, and shake in peaces
Speaker 4: the heart of his obedience. I dare pawn down my
Speaker 4: life for him that he hath writ this, to feel
Speaker 4: my affection to your honor, and to no other pretense
Speaker 4: of danger. Think you so, if your honor judged meat,
Speaker 4: I would place you where you shall hear us confer
Speaker 4: of this, and by auricular assurance have your satisfaction, and
Speaker 4: that without any further delay than this very evening.
Speaker 3: He cannot be such a monster. Nor it is not
Speaker 3: sure to his father that so tenderly and entirely loves
Speaker 3: him heaven and earth, Edmund, seek him out, wind me
Speaker 3: into him. I pray you frame the business after your
Speaker 3: own wisdom. I would unstate myself to be in a
Speaker 3: due resolution.
Speaker 4: I will seek him, sir, presently, convey the business as
Speaker 4: I shall find means, and acquaint you withal.
Speaker 3: These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no
Speaker 3: good to us, though the wisdom of nature can reason
Speaker 3: it thus, and thus yet nature finds itself scourged by
Speaker 3: the sequent effects. Love cools, friendship falls off. Brothers divide
Speaker 3: in cities, mutinies in countries, discord in palaces, treason, and
Speaker 3: the bond cracked TwixT son and father. This villain of
Speaker 3: mine comes under the prediction their's son against father. The
Speaker 3: king falls from bias of nature, theirs father against child.
Speaker 3: We have seen the best of our time. Machinations, hollowness, treachery,
Speaker 3: and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves.
Speaker 3: Find out this villain, Edmund, it shall lose thee nothing.
Speaker 3: Do it carefully, and the noble and true hearted kent
Speaker 3: banished his offense. Honesty tis strange exit.
Speaker 4: This is the excellent foppery of the world that when
Speaker 4: we are sick in fortune, often to the surfeit of
Speaker 4: our own behavior, we make guilty our own disasters the sun,
Speaker 4: the moon, and the stars, as if we were villains
Speaker 4: on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves and treatures
Speaker 4: by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars and adulters by an enforced
Speaker 4: obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil
Speaker 4: in by a divine thrusting on an admirable evasion of horror,
Speaker 4: master man to lay us goatish disposition to the charge
Speaker 4: of a star. My father compounded with my mother under
Speaker 4: the dragon's tale, and my nativity was under ursa major,
Speaker 4: so that it follows I am rough and lecherous art,
Speaker 4: I should have been that I am had the maidenly
Speaker 4: at star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing enter
Speaker 4: Edgar pat He comes like the catastrophe of the old comedy.
Speaker 4: My cue is villainous, melancholy, with a sigh like tom
Speaker 4: or Bedlam. Oh, these eclipses do portend, these divisions fasola me.
Speaker 11: How now, brother Edmund, what serious contemplation are you in?
Speaker 4: I am thinking rather of a prediction I read this
Speaker 4: other day? What should follow these eclipses?
Speaker 11: Do you busy yourself with that?
Speaker 4: I promise you the effects, he writes of succeed unhappily,
Speaker 4: as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent. Death, dearth,
Speaker 4: dissolusions of ancient amities, divisions in state, menaces and maledictions
Speaker 4: against king and nobles, needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipitation
Speaker 4: of cohorts, nuptial breaches.
Speaker 11: And I know not what how long have you been
Speaker 11: a secretary astronomical?
Speaker 4: Come? Come? Whence saw you? My father last the night
Speaker 4: gone by? Spoke you with him.
Speaker 11: I two hours together parted.
Speaker 4: You in good terms, founding no displeasure in him by word.
Speaker 11: Or countenance, none at all.
Speaker 4: Bethink yourself wherein you may have offended him, And at
Speaker 4: my entreaty forbear his presence until some little time hath
Speaker 4: qualified the heat of a displeasure, which at this instance
Speaker 4: so rageth in him, that with the mischief of your
Speaker 4: person it would scarcely.
Speaker 11: Allay some villain hath done me wrong.
Speaker 4: That's my fear. I pray you have a continent forbearance
Speaker 4: till the speed of his rage goes slower, and as
Speaker 4: I say, retire with me to my lodging. From whence
Speaker 4: I will fitly bring you to hear my lord speak.
Speaker 4: Pray you go, there's my key. If you do stir abroad,
Speaker 4: go armed, armed brother, brother, I advise you to the best.
Speaker 4: I am no honest man. If there be any good
Speaker 4: meaning towards you, I have told you what I have
Speaker 4: seen and heard, but faintly nothing like the image and
Speaker 4: horror of it.
Speaker 11: Pray you away, shall I hear from you? And one I.
Speaker 4: Do serve you in this business?
Speaker 1: Exit Edgar.
Speaker 4: Credulous father and a brother noble whose nature is so
Speaker 4: far from doing harms that he suspects none. On whose
Speaker 4: foolish honesty my practice is right easy, I see the business.
Speaker 4: Let me, if not by birth have lands by wit
Speaker 4: all with me? Is meet that I confession fit.
Speaker 1: Exit Scene three A room in the Duke of Albany's palace.
Speaker 1: Enter Goneril and Oswald her Steward.
Speaker 6: Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his
Speaker 6: fool I am madam by day and night. He wrongs me.
Speaker 6: Every hour he flashes into one gross crime or another
Speaker 6: that sets us all at odds. I'll not endure it,
Speaker 6: his knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us on every trifle.
Speaker 6: When he returns from hunting, I will not speak with him,
Speaker 6: say I am sick. If you come slack of former services,
Speaker 6: you shall do well. The fault of it, I'll answer.
Speaker 12: He's coming, Madam. I hear him put.
Speaker 6: On what weary negligence you please? You and your fellows.
Speaker 6: I'd have it come to question. If he distaste it,
Speaker 6: let him to our sister, whose mind and mine I know,
Speaker 6: and that are one not to be overruled. A old
Speaker 6: man that still would manage those authorities that he hath
Speaker 6: given away now by my life. Old fools are babes
Speaker 6: again and must be used with checks as flatteries when
Speaker 6: they are seen abused. Remember what I have.
Speaker 12: Said, very well, Madam, And.
Speaker 6: Let his knights have colder looks among you. What grows
Speaker 6: of it? No matter? Advise your fellows. So I would
Speaker 6: breed from hence occasions, and I shall that I may speak.
Speaker 6: I'll write straight to my sister to hold my very course,
Speaker 6: prepare for.
Speaker 1: Dinner, exiant seene for a hall in Albany's Palace, enter
Speaker 1: Kent in disguise.
Speaker 2: If but as well I other accent spirow that can
Speaker 2: my speech diffuse? My good intent may carry through itself
Speaker 2: to that full issue for which I raised My likeness
Speaker 2: now banished. Cant if thou canst serve where thou dost
Speaker 2: stand condemned, so may it come thy master, whom thou
Speaker 2: lufst shall find thee full of labors.
Speaker 1: Horns within and to lear a knights. Let me not
Speaker 1: stay a jot for dinner, Go get it ready, exit
Speaker 1: first night?
Speaker 8: Ah.
Speaker 5: Now what art.
Speaker 2: Thou a man?
Speaker 12: Sir?
Speaker 5: What dost thou profess? What wouldst thou with us?
Speaker 2: I do profess to be no less than I seem.
Speaker 2: To serve him truly? That will put me in trust
Speaker 2: to love him that is honest, to converse with him
Speaker 2: that is wise and says little, to fear judgment, to
Speaker 2: fight when I cannot choose, and to eat no fish?
Speaker 2: What art thou a very honest hearted fellow and as
Speaker 2: poor as the king?
Speaker 5: If thou beast as poor for a subject as he
Speaker 5: for a king? Oh, poor enough? What wouldst thou service?
Speaker 5: Who wouldst thou serve?
Speaker 13: You?
Speaker 5: Dost thou know me, fellow?
Speaker 2: No, sir? But you have that and your countenance, which
Speaker 2: I would fain, call master, what's that authority?
Speaker 5: What services canst thou do?
Speaker 2: I can keep honest, counsel, ride, run mar a curious
Speaker 2: tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message bluntly,
Speaker 2: that which ordinary men are fit for. I am qualified in,
Speaker 2: and the best of me is diligence. How old art
Speaker 2: thou not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing,
Speaker 2: nor so old to dote unhear for anything? I have
Speaker 2: of yours on my back? Forty eight?
Speaker 5: Follow me? Thou shalt serve me? If I like thee,
Speaker 5: no worse after dinner, I will not part from thee yet. Dinner, Oh, dinner,
Speaker 5: where's my knave? My fool? Go you and call my
Speaker 5: fool hither exit?
Speaker 1: Second night? Enter oswald you you Sarah?
Speaker 5: Where's my daughter?
Speaker 1: So please you exit?
Speaker 5: What says the fellow there? Call the clock pole? Back?
Speaker 1: Exit? Third night?
Speaker 5: Where's my fool? Oh? I think the world's asleep?
Speaker 1: Enter third night?
Speaker 5: How now? Where's that mongrel?
Speaker 14: He says, My lord, your daughter is not well?
Speaker 5: Why came not the slave back to me? When I
Speaker 5: called him, sir?
Speaker 14: He answered me in the roundest manner, he would not,
Speaker 14: He would not, My lord, I know not what the
Speaker 14: matter is. But to my judgment, your Highness is not
Speaker 14: entertained with that ceremonious affection you were wont There's a
Speaker 14: great abatement of kindness appears as well in the general dependence,
Speaker 14: as in the Duke himself also and your daughter.
Speaker 5: Huh sayest thou?
Speaker 14: So I beseech you pardon me, my lord, if I
Speaker 14: be mistaken for my duty. Cannot be silent when I
Speaker 14: think your Highness wronged.
Speaker 5: Thou, but rememberest me of mine own conception. I have
Speaker 5: perceived a most faint neglect of late, which I have
Speaker 5: rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity than as a
Speaker 5: very pretense and purpose of unkindness. I will look further
Speaker 5: into it. But where's my fool? I have not seen
Speaker 5: him these two days since my.
Speaker 14: Young lady's going into France. Or the fool hath much
Speaker 14: pind away?
Speaker 5: No more of that I have noted it. Well, go
Speaker 5: you and tell my daughter I would speak with her.
Speaker 1: Exit third night, go you call hither my fool. Exit
Speaker 1: another night? Enter oswald o you sir?
Speaker 5: You come hither? Sir? Who am I, sir? My lady's father,
Speaker 5: My lady's father, My lord's knave, you horse and dog,
Speaker 5: you slave, you cur I.
Speaker 12: Am none of these, my Lord. I beseech your pardon.
Speaker 5: Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal?
Speaker 1: He strikes him.
Speaker 2: I'll not be struck, my lord, nor tripped neither you
Speaker 2: base football player.
Speaker 1: He trips him.
Speaker 5: I thank thee, fellow, Thou servest me, and I love thee.
Speaker 2: To Oswald, come, sir, arise away, I'll teach you differences.
Speaker 2: Away away, if you will measure your lubber's length again, terry,
Speaker 2: but away, go to have you wisdom.
Speaker 1: He pushes Oswald out.
Speaker 5: So now, my friendly knave, I thank thee. There's ernest
Speaker 5: of thy service.
Speaker 1: He gives him money, And to the fool.
Speaker 15: Let me hire him too. Here's my coxcomb.
Speaker 5: How now, my pretty knave, how dost.
Speaker 15: Thou Sarah, you were best? Take my coxcomb?
Speaker 2: Why fool?
Speaker 15: Why for taking one's part? That's out of favor? Nay,
Speaker 15: and thou canst not smile as the wind sits dealt
Speaker 15: catch cold shortly? There?
Speaker 1: Take my coxcomb?
Speaker 15: Why this fellow has banished two one's daughters and did
Speaker 15: the third of blessing against his will? If thou follow him,
Speaker 15: thou must needs wear my cocks comb. How now, nunco,
Speaker 15: would I had two coxcombs and two daughters. Why, my boy,
Speaker 15: if I gave them all my living, I'd keep my
Speaker 15: coxcombs myself. There's mine. Beg another of thy daughters.
Speaker 5: Take heed, Sarah, the whip truths.
Speaker 15: The dog musta kennel. He must be whipped out when
Speaker 15: the lady Brock may stand by the fire and stink.
Speaker 5: A pestilent gold.
Speaker 15: To me, Sarah, I'll teach thee a speech. Do market, nuncle,
Speaker 15: have more than thou ShoWest, Speak less than thou knowest,
Speaker 15: lend less than thou owest, ride more than thou goest,
Speaker 15: learn more than thou throwest, set less than thou throwest,
Speaker 15: leave thy drink in thy horror, and keep in a door,
Speaker 15: and thou shalt have more than two tens.
Speaker 1: To a score.
Speaker 2: Hmm, this is nothing, fool, then.
Speaker 15: Tis like the breath of an unfeed lawyer. You gave
Speaker 15: me nothing for it. Can you make no use of nothing?
Speaker 2: Nuncle?
Speaker 5: Why no, boy, nothing can be made out of nothing.
Speaker 15: To kent prithee, tell him so much the rent of
Speaker 15: his land comes to he will not believe a.
Speaker 5: Fool, a bit a fool.
Speaker 15: Dost thou know the difference, my between a bitter fool
Speaker 15: and a sweet one?
Speaker 5: No, lad, teach me.
Speaker 15: That lord that counseled thee to give away thy land.
Speaker 15: Come place him here by me, do thou for him stand?
Speaker 15: The sweet and bitter fool will presently appear, the one
Speaker 15: in Motley here, the other found out there.
Speaker 5: Dost thou call me fool boy?
Speaker 15: All thy other titles thou hast given away that thou
Speaker 15: wast born with, this.
Speaker 2: Is not altogether fool, my lord.
Speaker 15: No faith lords and great men will not let me.
Speaker 15: If I had a monopoly out, they would have part
Speaker 15: aunt and loads too. They will not let me have
Speaker 15: all the fool to myself. They'll be snatching. N Uncle,
Speaker 15: give me an egg, and I'll give thee two crowns.
Speaker 5: What two crowns shall they be?
Speaker 15: Why? After I've cut the egg in the middle and
Speaker 15: eat up to meat the two crowns of the egg.
Speaker 15: When thou clovest thy crown in the middle and gavest
Speaker 15: the way both parts, thou boreest thine ass on thy
Speaker 15: back er the dirt thou hadst little wit in thy
Speaker 15: bald crowned. When thou gavest thy golden one away. If
Speaker 15: I speak like myself in this, let him be whipped
Speaker 15: that first finds it so fools head ne'er let's greece
Speaker 15: sin a year, for wise men are grown foppish and
Speaker 15: know not how their wits to wear. Their manners are
Speaker 15: so apish.
Speaker 5: When will you want to be so full of songs?
Speaker 15: Sarah, I have used it, nuncle ere, since thou madest
Speaker 15: thy daughters, thy mothers. For when thou gavest them the
Speaker 15: rod and putest down thine own breeches, then they first said,
Speaker 15: enjoyed it weep, And I for sorrow sung that such
Speaker 15: a king should play bo peep and go the fools
Speaker 15: among prythee nuncle, keep a school master that can teach
Speaker 15: thy fool to lie. I would fain learn to lie.
Speaker 5: And you lie, Sarah, we'll have you whipped.
Speaker 15: I marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are. They'll
Speaker 15: have me whip for speaking true. They'll have me whipped
Speaker 15: for lying, And sometimes I am whipped for holding my peace.
Speaker 15: I had rather be any kind of thing than a fool,
Speaker 15: And yet I would not be thee uncle. Thou hast
Speaker 15: pared thy widow both sides and left nothing in the middle,
Speaker 15: here comes one of the pairings.
Speaker 5: And to Goneril, how now, daughter, what makes that frontal?
Speaker 16: Don me?
Speaker 5: Thinks thou art too much of late of the frown.
Speaker 15: Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need
Speaker 15: to care for her frowning. Now thou art to know
Speaker 15: without a figure. I am better than thou art. I
Speaker 15: am a fool. Thou art nothing to Goneril, Yes, forsooth,
Speaker 15: I will hold my tongue so to your face bids me,
Speaker 15: though you say nothing. Mam mam. He that keeps nor
Speaker 15: crust nor crumb, weary of all shall want some.
Speaker 1: He points to Leah.
Speaker 15: That's a shield.
Speaker 6: Peace cod Not only sir this you're all licensed fool,
Speaker 6: but other of your insolent retinue do hourly carp and quarrel,
Speaker 6: breaking forth in rank, and not to be endured riots. Sir,
Speaker 6: I had thought, by making this well known unto you,
Speaker 6: to have found a safe redress, but now grow fearful
Speaker 6: by what yourself, too late have spoken done. That you
Speaker 6: protect this course and put it on by your allowance,
Speaker 6: which if you should, the fault would not scape censure
Speaker 6: nor the redress's sleep, which in the tender of a
Speaker 6: wholesome wheel, might in their working do you that offense
Speaker 6: which else were shame that then necessity will call discreet proceeding.
Speaker 15: For you know, nunko the hedge sparrow fed the cuckoo
Speaker 15: so long that it had its head bit off by
Speaker 15: it young. So out went the candle and we were
Speaker 15: left darkling.
Speaker 6: Oh you d come, sir, I would you would make
Speaker 6: use of that good wisdom whereof I know you are fraught,
Speaker 6: and put away these dispositions that have late transform you
Speaker 6: from what you rightly are.
Speaker 15: May not in ask know when the cart draws the horse,
Speaker 15: whoop jug I love thee.
Speaker 5: Doth any here know me? This is not leir? Doth
Speaker 5: leir walk? Thus speak Thus where are his eyes either
Speaker 5: his notion weakens, his discernings are lethargyd ah waking tis not?
Speaker 5: So who is it that can tell me who I am?
Speaker 5: Dear saddle, I would learn that, for by the marks
Speaker 5: of sovereignty, knowledge and reason I should be false persuaded.
Speaker 5: I had daughters.
Speaker 15: Which they will make an obedient father.
Speaker 5: Your name a fair gentlewoman.
Speaker 6: This admiration, sir, is much of the favor of your
Speaker 6: other new pranks. I do beseech you to understand my
Speaker 6: purposes aright as you are all reverend, you should be wise.
Speaker 6: Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires, men
Speaker 6: so disordered, so debased and bold, that this our court,
Speaker 6: infected with their manners, shows like a riotous in epicurism
Speaker 6: and lust make it more like a tavern or a
Speaker 6: brothel than a graced place. The shame itself doth speak
Speaker 6: for instant remedy be then desired by her, that else
Speaker 6: will take the thing she begs a little to disquantity
Speaker 6: your train and the remainder that shall still depend to
Speaker 6: be such men as may besoort your age, which know themselves, and.
Speaker 5: You darkness and devils saddle my horses call my train together,
Speaker 5: degenerate bastard, I'll not trouble thee yet have I left
Speaker 5: a daughter?
Speaker 6: You strike my people, and your disordered rabble makes servants
Speaker 6: of their betters enter.
Speaker 5: Albany woe that too late repents, Oh sir, are you come?
Speaker 5: Is it your will? Speak? Sir? Prepare my horses ingratitude,
Speaker 5: Thou marble hearted fiend, more hideous when thou show'st thee
Speaker 5: in a child than the sea monster.
Speaker 13: Pray, sir, be patient.
Speaker 5: To goneril detested kite. Thou liest my train are men
Speaker 5: of choice and rarest parts at all particulars of duty,
Speaker 5: know and in the most exact regards, support the worships
Speaker 5: of their name. Oh most small fault, How ugly didst
Speaker 5: thou Incordelia show, which, like an engine wrench'd by frame
Speaker 5: of nature from the fixed place, drew from my heart
Speaker 5: all love and added to the gall. Oh lear lear,
Speaker 5: lear beat at this gait that let thy folly in.
Speaker 1: He strikes his head.
Speaker 5: And thy dear judgment out go go my people, exeant
Speaker 5: kent and knights.
Speaker 13: My Lord, I am guiltless as I am ignorant of
Speaker 13: what hath moved you.
Speaker 5: It may be so, my Lord.
Speaker 1: He kneels here.
Speaker 5: Nature here, dear Goddess, here suspend thy purpose. If thou
Speaker 5: didst intend to make this creature fruitful into her womb,
Speaker 5: convey sterility, dry up in her, the organs of increase,
Speaker 5: and from her derogate body never spring a babe to
Speaker 5: honor her. If she must team create her child of spleen,
Speaker 5: that it may live and be a thwart this natured
Speaker 5: torment to her, let it stamp wrinkles in her brow
Speaker 5: of youth, with cadent tears, fret channels in her cheeks,
Speaker 5: turn all her mother's pains and benefits to laughter and contempt,
Speaker 5: that she may feel how sharper than a serpent's tooth
Speaker 5: it is to have a thankless child away away exit.
Speaker 13: Now, Gods that we adore, whereof comes.
Speaker 6: This, never afflict yourself to know more of it. But
Speaker 6: let his disposition have that scope that dotage gives it.
Speaker 1: And to Leah, what.
Speaker 5: Fifty of my followers at a clap within a fortnight?
Speaker 13: What's the matter, sir?
Speaker 5: To Goneril, I'll tell THEE life and death. I am
Speaker 5: ashamed that thou hast power to shake my manhood. Thus
Speaker 5: that these hot tears which break from me before should
Speaker 5: make THEE worth them. Blasts and fogs upon thee than
Speaker 5: tempted woundings of her father's curse pierce every sense about THEE.
Speaker 5: Old fond eyes beweat this cause again, I'll pluck you
Speaker 5: out and cast you with the waters that you lose
Speaker 5: to temper clay. Ha. Let it be so. I have
Speaker 5: another daughter, who I am sure is kind and comfortable,
Speaker 5: when she shall hear of this with her nails. She'll
Speaker 5: flay thy wolfish visage. Thou shalt find that I'll resume
Speaker 5: the shape. If thou dost think I have cast off
Speaker 5: for ever.
Speaker 1: Exit?
Speaker 13: Do you mark that I cannot be so partial? Goneriil
Speaker 13: to the great love I bear.
Speaker 6: You, pray you content? What Oswald ho to the fool, you, sir,
Speaker 6: more knave than fool after your master.
Speaker 15: No gomere, no collier terry take the fool with thee
Speaker 15: a fox when one has caught her, and such a
Speaker 15: daughter should sure to the slaughter if my cap would
Speaker 15: buy a halter, So the fool follows after exit.
Speaker 6: This man hath had good counsel a hundred knights. 'tis
Speaker 6: politic and safe to let him keep at point a
Speaker 6: hundred knights? Yes, that on every dream, each buzz, each fancy,
Speaker 6: each complaint dislike, he maynnguard his dotage with their powers
Speaker 6: and hold our lives in mercy.
Speaker 13: Oswald, I say, well, you may fear too far.
Speaker 6: Safer than trust too far. Let me still take away
Speaker 6: the harms. I fear not fear still to be taken.
Speaker 6: I know his heart what he hath uttered. I have
Speaker 6: writ to my sister if she sustain him in his
Speaker 6: hundred knights. When I have showed then fitness.
Speaker 1: And to Oswald?
Speaker 6: How now, Oswald, what have you written that letter to
Speaker 6: my sister?
Speaker 16: I met him?
Speaker 6: Take you some company and away to horse, inform her
Speaker 6: full of my particular fear and thereto add so what
Speaker 6: reasons of your own as may compact it more? Get
Speaker 6: you gone, and hasten your return?
Speaker 1: Exit Oswald.
Speaker 6: No, no, my lord, this milky gentleness and course of yours,
Speaker 6: though I condemn it, not yet under pardon. You are
Speaker 6: much more a tasked for want of wisdom than praised
Speaker 6: for harmful mildness.
Speaker 13: How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell. Striving
Speaker 13: to better oft we mar what's well?
Speaker 6: Nay?
Speaker 13: Then well? Well the event.
Speaker 1: Exit Scene five caught before the Duke of Albany's palace.
Speaker 1: Enter lear Kent, the fool and a gentleman to Kent.
Speaker 5: Go you before to Gloucester with these letters. Acquaint my
Speaker 5: daughter no further with anything you know that comes from
Speaker 5: her demand out of the letter. If your diligence be
Speaker 5: not speedy, I shall be there for you.
Speaker 2: I will not sleep, my lord, until I have delivered
Speaker 2: your letter.
Speaker 1: Exit.
Speaker 15: If a man's brains were in his heels, Were it
Speaker 15: not in danger of kipes, Aye, boy, then I prithee
Speaker 15: be merry. Thy wit shall not go slipshod ha ha,
Speaker 15: shalt see thy other daughter will use thee kindly for those.
Speaker 15: She's as like this as a crab's like an apple.
Speaker 15: Yet I can tell what I can tell?
Speaker 5: What canst tell?
Speaker 13: Boy?
Speaker 15: Shall taste is like this as a crab does to
Speaker 15: a crab. Thou can'st tell why one's nose stands in
Speaker 15: the middle of one's face. No, Why to keep one's
Speaker 15: eyes of either side's nose? That what a man cannot
Speaker 15: smell out he may spy into?
Speaker 5: I did her wrong?
Speaker 15: Can'st tell how an oyster makes his shell?
Speaker 5: No, nor I neither.
Speaker 15: But I can tell why a snail has a house?
Speaker 15: Why why to put his head in? Not to give
Speaker 15: it away to his daughter's and leave his horns without
Speaker 15: a case.
Speaker 5: I will forget my nature, so kind a father, be
Speaker 5: my horses ready.
Speaker 15: Thy asses are gone about them. The reason why the
Speaker 15: seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty.
Speaker 5: Reason, because they are not eight.
Speaker 15: Yes, indeed, thou wouldst make a good fool.
Speaker 5: To take it again perforce monstering gratitude.
Speaker 15: If thou wert my fool and uncle, I'd have thee
Speaker 15: beaten for being old before thy time? How's that thou
Speaker 15: shouldst not have been old till thou haddest been wise.
Speaker 5: Oh, let me not be mad, not mad, Sweet Heaven,
Speaker 5: keep me in temper. I would not be mad. How
Speaker 5: now are the horses ready?
Speaker 17: Ready? My lord?
Speaker 5: Come boy?
Speaker 1: Excellent? All except the fool.
Speaker 15: She that's a maid now and laughs at my departure,
Speaker 15: shall not be a maid long unless things be cut shorter.
Speaker 1: Exit end of Act one, King Lear, Act two seene one.
Speaker 1: A court within the castle of the Earl of Gloucester.
Speaker 1: Enter Edmund and Corran meeting.
Speaker 4: Save the e Cirin.
Speaker 18: And you, sir, I have been with your father and
Speaker 18: given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Reagan
Speaker 18: his duchess, will be here with him this night.
Speaker 4: How comes that?
Speaker 19: Nay?
Speaker 18: I know not you have heard of the news abroad?
Speaker 18: I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but
Speaker 18: ear kissing arguments.
Speaker 4: Not, I pray you, what are they?
Speaker 20: Have you heard of?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 18: Likely wars toward TwixT the two Dukes of Cornwall in Albany.
Speaker 18: Not a word you may do then in time, fare
Speaker 18: you well, sir, exit.
Speaker 4: The Duke be here tonight the better best this weaves itself.
Speaker 4: Perform to my business. My father hath set guard to
Speaker 4: take my brother, and I have one thing of a
Speaker 4: queasy question which I must act. Briefness and fortune work brother,
Speaker 4: a word, descend, brother, I.
Speaker 1: Say, enter Edgar.
Speaker 4: My father watches, Sir, fly this place. Intelligence is given
Speaker 4: where you are hid. You have now the good advantage
Speaker 4: of the night. Have you not spoken against the Duke
Speaker 4: of Cornwall. He's coming hither now with a knight in
Speaker 4: haste and Reagan with him. Have you said nothing upon
Speaker 4: his party against the Duke of Albany. Advise yourself.
Speaker 11: I am sure, aunt not a word.
Speaker 4: I hear my father coming. Pardon me in cunning, I
Speaker 4: must draw my sword upon you. Draw seem to defend yourself.
Speaker 4: Now quit you well yield, come before my father. Light
Speaker 4: ho here fly, brother torches torches.
Speaker 1: So farewell, exit Edgar.
Speaker 4: Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion of my
Speaker 4: more fierce endeavor. I have seen drunkards do more than
Speaker 4: this in sport.
Speaker 1: He wounds himself in the arm.
Speaker 4: Father, father, stop, stop, no help.
Speaker 1: Enter Gloucester and servants with torches.
Speaker 3: Now, Edmund, where's the villain? Here?
Speaker 4: Stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out, mumbling
Speaker 4: of wicked charms, conjuring the moon to stand auspicious mistress.
Speaker 3: But where is he? Look, Sir, I bleed, where is
Speaker 3: the villain? Edmund?
Speaker 4: To fly this way? So when by no means he
Speaker 4: could pursue him.
Speaker 1: Ho go after exit?
Speaker 21: Some servants, by no means, what persuade me to the
Speaker 21: murder of your lordship? But that I told him the
Speaker 21: revenging gods against Patricides, did all their thunders bend, spoke
Speaker 21: with how manifold and strong upon the child was bound
Speaker 21: to the father, Sir in fine, Seeing how loathly opposite,
Speaker 21: I stood to his unnatural purpose in fell motion with
Speaker 21: his prepared sword. He charges home when my unprovided body
Speaker 21: landst mine arm. But when he saw my best alarmed
Speaker 21: spirits bold in the quarrel's right, roused to the encounter,
Speaker 21: or whether gasted by the noise I made full, suddenly
Speaker 21: he fled.
Speaker 3: Let him fly far. Not in this land shall he
Speaker 3: remain uncaught and found despatched. The noble Duke, my master,
Speaker 3: my worthy arch and patron, comes to night by his authority,
Speaker 3: I will proclaim it that he which finds him shall
Speaker 3: deserve our thanks. Bringing the murderous coward to the stake
Speaker 3: he that conceals him death.
Speaker 4: When I dissuaded him from his intent and found him
Speaker 4: pite to do it with cursed speech, I threatened to
Speaker 4: discover him. He replied, Thou, unpossessing bastard, dost thou think
Speaker 4: if I would stand against thee? Would the reposal of
Speaker 4: any trust virtue are worth in THEE? Make thy words faith?
Speaker 4: No what I should deny as this I would I,
Speaker 4: though thou didst produce my very character, I'd turn it
Speaker 4: all to thy suggestion, plot and damned practice. And thou
Speaker 4: must make a dullard of the world if they not
Speaker 4: thought the prophets of my death were very pregnant and
Speaker 4: potential spurs to make.
Speaker 3: THEE seek it strong and fastened. Villain? Would he deny
Speaker 3: his letter? I never got him hark the Duke's trumpets.
Speaker 3: I know not why he comes all ports, all bar
Speaker 3: the villain, and shall not escape. The Duke must grant
Speaker 3: me that, besides his picture, I will send far and near,
Speaker 3: that all the kingdom may have due note of him
Speaker 3: and of my land. Loyal and natural boy. I'll work
Speaker 3: the means to make THEE capable.
Speaker 1: Into cornwall Reagan and attendants.
Speaker 20: How now, my noble friend, since I came hither, which
Speaker 20: I can call? But now I have heard strange news.
Speaker 8: If it be true, all vengeance comes too short, which
Speaker 8: can pursue the offender? How dost my lord?
Speaker 3: Oh madam? My old heart is cracked? It's cracked.
Speaker 8: What did my father's god son seek your life? He
Speaker 8: whom my father named your edgar.
Speaker 3: O lady, lady shame would have it?
Speaker 4: Hid?
Speaker 8: Was he not companion with the riot as knights that
Speaker 8: tend upon my father?
Speaker 3: I know not, madam. It is too bad, too bad.
Speaker 4: Yes, madam, he was of that consort.
Speaker 8: No marvel then, though he were ill affected till they
Speaker 8: have put him on the old man's death to have
Speaker 8: the expense and waste of his revenues. I have this
Speaker 8: present evening from my sister, been well informed of them,
Speaker 8: and with such cautions that if they come to so
Speaker 8: Joan at my house, I'll not be there.
Speaker 20: Nor I assure THEE. Reagan Edmund, I hear that you
Speaker 20: have shown your father a childlike office.
Speaker 4: Twas my duty, sir.
Speaker 3: He did beray his practice and received this hurt you
Speaker 3: see striving to apprehend him? Is he pursued? I, my
Speaker 3: good Lord?
Speaker 20: If he be taken, he shall never more be feared
Speaker 20: of doing harm. Make your own purpose, how in my
Speaker 20: drinks you please? For you, Edmund, whose virtue and obedience
Speaker 20: doth this instant so much commend itself. You shall be
Speaker 20: ours natures of such deep trust we shall much need you.
Speaker 20: We first seize on.
Speaker 4: I shall serve you, sir, truly.
Speaker 3: However else for him, I thank your grace.
Speaker 8: You know not why we came to visit you thus
Speaker 8: out of season, threading dark eyed night occasions, noble cluster
Speaker 8: of some boys, wherein we must have use of your advice.
Speaker 8: Our father ye hath writ so hath our sister, of
Speaker 8: differences which I best thought yet fit to answer from
Speaker 8: ome the several messengers from hence attend despatch our good
Speaker 8: old friend, Lay comforts to your bosom, and bestow your
Speaker 8: needful counsel to our business which graves the instant.
Speaker 3: Use I serve you, madam, Your graces are right welcome.
Speaker 1: Excitant flourish scene too before Gloucester's castle, enter Kent, and
Speaker 1: Oswald severally.
Speaker 12: Good dawning to THEE friend aught of this house? Ay,
Speaker 12: where may we set our horses?
Speaker 2: Ha ha and the mire prithee.
Speaker 12: If thou lovest me tell.
Speaker 2: Me I love THEE not?
Speaker 12: Why then I care not for THEE?
Speaker 2: If I had THEE in Lipsbury penfuled, I would make
Speaker 2: THEE care for me.
Speaker 12: Why dost thou use me thus? I know THEE?
Speaker 2: Not, fellow, I know THEE?
Speaker 12: What dost thou know me?
Speaker 2: For a knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats,
Speaker 2: a base proud, shallow beggarly three suited, one hundred pound, filthy,
Speaker 2: wor stood stocking knave, a lily livered action taking horsen
Speaker 2: glass gazing, super serviceable, finnacal rogue, one trunk inheriting slave,
Speaker 2: one that wouldst be a bad in a way of
Speaker 2: good service and art, nothing but the composition of a
Speaker 2: nave beggar, coward pander, and the sun and air of
Speaker 2: a mongrel bitch, a one whom I will beat into
Speaker 2: clamorous whining. If thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.
Speaker 12: Why what a monstrous fellow art thou thus to reil
Speaker 12: on one that's neither known of THEE nor knows thee.
Speaker 2: Oh what a brazen faced varlet art thou to deny?
Speaker 2: Thou knowest me? Is it two days ago since I
Speaker 2: beat thee and tripped up thy heels before the king?
Speaker 2: Draw you rogue, For though it be night yet the
Speaker 2: moon shines. I'll make a sop of the moonshine of you.
Speaker 2: Draw you horse and culon ye barbermonger.
Speaker 22: Draw.
Speaker 2: Away.
Speaker 12: I have nothing to do with thee.
Speaker 2: Draw you rascal. You come with letters against the king
Speaker 2: and take vanity the puppet's part against the royalty of
Speaker 2: her father. Draw you rogue, or also carbonado your shanks,
Speaker 2: Draw your rascal, come your ways? Help o murder, Help
Speaker 2: strike you slave?
Speaker 1: Oswald tries to escape.
Speaker 2: Stand rogue, Stand you need slaves.
Speaker 1: Strike He beats him.
Speaker 2: Help, Oh murder, murder?
Speaker 1: Enter Edmund Cornwall, Reagan, Gloucester and servants.
Speaker 4: How now, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 2: Goodman boy? Can you please come? I'll flesh you. Come on,
Speaker 2: young master?
Speaker 3: Weapons arms? What's the matter here?
Speaker 20: Keep peace upon your lives? He dies, that strikes again?
Speaker 20: What is the matter?
Speaker 8: The messengers from our sister and the king.
Speaker 20: What is your difference? Speak?
Speaker 12: I am scarce in breath, my lord.
Speaker 2: Ah, no marvel, you have so bestirred your valor, you
Speaker 2: cowardly rascal. Nature disclaims in thee A tailor made thee.
Speaker 20: Thou art a strange fellow, A tailor make a man I.
Speaker 2: A tailor, sir, A stone cutter or a painter, could
Speaker 2: not have made him so ill, though he had been
Speaker 2: but two hours at the trade.
Speaker 20: To Oswald speak, Yet how grew your quarrel?
Speaker 12: This ancient ruffian sir, whose life I have spared at
Speaker 12: suit of his grave?
Speaker 2: Thou horsen z thou unnecessary letter, my lord? If you'll
Speaker 2: give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into
Speaker 2: mortar and daub the walls of a jake's with him.
Speaker 2: Spare my gray beard, you wagtail.
Speaker 20: Peace Arrah, you beastly knave. Know you no reverence?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, but anger hath a privilege?
Speaker 20: Why art thou angry that such.
Speaker 2: A knave as this should wear a sword who wears
Speaker 2: no honesty? Such smiling rogues as these like rats off
Speaker 2: bite the holy cords a twain, which are two intrnse
Speaker 2: to and loose smooth every passion that, in the natures
Speaker 2: of their lord's rebel bring oil to the fire, snow
Speaker 2: to their colder moods, reneg a firm, and turn their
Speaker 2: halcyon beaks with every gale and very of their masters,
Speaker 2: knowing not like dogs, but following a plague upon your
Speaker 2: epileptic visage. Smile you my speeches, as if I were
Speaker 2: a fool goose. An I had you upon sarrem plain,
Speaker 2: I'd drive ye cackling home to Camelot.
Speaker 20: What art thou, mad old fellow?
Speaker 3: How fell you out say that no contraries hold more
Speaker 3: antipathy than I?
Speaker 2: And such a knave?
Speaker 20: Why dost thou call him knave? What is his fault?
Speaker 2: His countenance likes me not.
Speaker 20: No more perchance does mine or his or hers?
Speaker 2: Sir, tis my preoccupation to be plain. I have seen
Speaker 2: better faces in my time than stands on any show
Speaker 2: that I see before me at this instant.
Speaker 20: This is some fellow who, having been praised for bluntness,
Speaker 20: doth affect a saucy roughness and constrains the garb quite
Speaker 20: from his nature. He cannot flatter, he an honest mind
Speaker 20: and plain. He must speak truth, and they will take it.
Speaker 20: So if not he's plain. These kinds of knaves I
Speaker 20: know which in this plainness harbor more craft and more
Speaker 20: corrupt ends than twenty silly, ducking observants that stretch their
Speaker 20: duties nicely.
Speaker 2: Sir, in good faith, in sincere verity, under the allowance
Speaker 2: of your great aspect, whose influence like the wreath of
Speaker 2: radiant fire on flickering Phoebus's front.
Speaker 20: What means by this.
Speaker 2: To go out of my dialect which you discommend, or
Speaker 2: much I know, Sir, I am no flatterer. He that
Speaker 2: beguile you in a plain accent was a plain knave,
Speaker 2: which for my part I will not be, though I
Speaker 2: should win your displeasure to entreat me to it.
Speaker 20: What was the offense you gave him?
Speaker 12: I never gave him any. It pleased the King his master,
Speaker 12: very late to strike at me upon his misconstruction, when
Speaker 12: he compact and flattering his displeasure tripped me behind, being down, insulted, railed,
Speaker 12: and put upon him such a deal of man that
Speaker 12: worthied him got praises of the King for him attempting,
Speaker 12: who was self subdued, And in the fleshment of this
Speaker 12: dread exploit drew on me here again.
Speaker 2: None of these rogues and cowards, but Ajax is there fool.
Speaker 20: Fetch forth the stocks, you stub an ancient knave, you
Speaker 20: reverent braggot, will teach you.
Speaker 2: Sir, I am too old to learn. Call not your
Speaker 2: stocks for me. I serve the King on whose employment
Speaker 2: I was sent to you. You shall do small respect,
Speaker 2: show too bold malice against the grace and person of
Speaker 2: my master stocking his messenger.
Speaker 20: Fetch forth the stocks, as I have life and honor.
Speaker 20: There shall he sit till noon, till noon till night,
Speaker 20: my lord, and all night to.
Speaker 2: Why, Madam, if I were your father's dog, you should
Speaker 2: not use me.
Speaker 8: So, sir, Being his knave, I will this.
Speaker 20: Is a fellow of the self same color our sister
Speaker 20: speaks of. Come bring away the stocks, stocks brought out.
Speaker 3: Let me beseech your grace not to do so. His
Speaker 3: fault is much, and the good King his master will
Speaker 3: check him for it. Your purposed low correction is such
Speaker 3: as basest and contemptedness. Wretches for pilferings and most common
Speaker 3: trespasses are punished with. The King must take it ill
Speaker 3: that he so slightly valued in his messenger should have
Speaker 3: him thus restrained.
Speaker 8: I'll answer that my sister may receive it much more
Speaker 8: worse to have a gentleman abused, assaulted for following her
Speaker 8: affairs put in his legs.
Speaker 1: Kent is put in the stalks, exellent all but Gloucester
Speaker 1: and Kent.
Speaker 3: I am sorry for thee friend tis the Duke's pleasure,
Speaker 3: whose disposition all the world well knows will not be
Speaker 3: rubbed nor stopped. I'll entreat for thee.
Speaker 2: Pray do not, sir, I have watched and traveled hard.
Speaker 2: Some time I shall sleep out the rest. I'll whistle.
Speaker 2: A good man's fortune may grow out at heels, give
Speaker 2: you good morrow.
Speaker 3: The dukes to blame in this twill be ill taken.
Speaker 2: Exit, good king, that must approve the common saw. Thou,
Speaker 2: out of Heaven's benediction, comest to the warm sun. Approach
Speaker 2: thou beacon to this under globe, that by thy comfortable
Speaker 2: beings I may peruse this letter. Nothing almost sees miracles
Speaker 2: but misery I notis from Cordelia, who hath most fortunately
Speaker 2: been informed of my obscured course, and shall find time
Speaker 2: from this enormous state seeking to give losses their remedy.
Speaker 2: All weary and overwatched, take advantage. Heavy eyes not to
Speaker 2: behold this shameful lodging fortune. Good night, smile once more, Ah,
Speaker 2: turn thy wheel.
Speaker 1: Hmm, he sleeps. Scene three, The open country Enter Edgar.
Speaker 11: I heard myself proclaimed, and by the happy hollow of
Speaker 11: a tree, escaped the hunt. No port is free, no
Speaker 11: place that God and most unusual vigilance does not attend
Speaker 11: my taking. While I may escape, I will preserve myself
Speaker 11: and am bethought to take the basest and most poorest
Speaker 11: shape that ever penury in contempt of man brought near
Speaker 11: to beast my face. I'll grime with filth, blanket my
Speaker 11: loins elf, all my hair in knots, and with present
Speaker 11: nakedness outface the winds and persecutions of the sky. The
Speaker 11: country gives me proof and precedent of bedlam beggars who
Speaker 11: with roaring voices strike in their numbed and mortified bare arms, pins,
Speaker 11: wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary, and with this horrible
Speaker 11: object from low farms, poor pelting villages, sheep cuts and mills,
Speaker 11: sometime with lunatic bands, sometime with prayers enforce their charity.
Speaker 11: Poor turly God, poor arm. That's something yet, Edgar, I
Speaker 11: nothing am exit.
Speaker 1: Scene four, before Gloucester's Castle Kent is still in the stocks,
Speaker 1: and to Leah the fool and a gentleman.
Speaker 5: Tis strange that they should so depart from home and
Speaker 5: not send back my messenger.
Speaker 17: As I learned the night before, there was no purpose
Speaker 17: in them of this.
Speaker 2: Remove hail to thee noble master.
Speaker 5: Huh makes thou to shame thy pastime?
Speaker 15: No, my lord, haha, he wears cruel garters. Horses are
Speaker 15: tied by the head, dogs and bears by the neck,
Speaker 15: monkeys by the loins, and men by the legs. When
Speaker 15: a man is over lusty at legs, then he wears
Speaker 15: wooden nether stocks.
Speaker 5: What's he that hath so much thy place misstoked to
Speaker 5: set thee here?
Speaker 2: It is both he and she your son and daughter. No, yes, no,
Speaker 2: I say, I say.
Speaker 5: Yeay, no, No, they would not.
Speaker 2: Yes they have.
Speaker 5: By Jupiter, I swear no.
Speaker 2: By Juno, I swear I.
Speaker 5: They dares not do it. They would not, could not
Speaker 5: do it. Tis worse the murder to do upon respect.
Speaker 5: Such violent outrage resolved me with all modest haste, which
Speaker 5: way thou mightst deserve, or they impose this usage coming from.
Speaker 2: Us, my lord? When at their home I did commend
Speaker 2: your Highness's letters to them. Ere I was risen from
Speaker 2: the place that showed my duty kneeling, came there a
Speaker 2: reeking post, stewed in his haste, half breathless, panting forth
Speaker 2: from Goneril his mistress salutations, delivered letters spite of intermission,
Speaker 2: which presently they read, on whose contents they summoned up
Speaker 2: their many straight took course, commanded me to follow and attend.
Speaker 2: The leisure of their answer gave me cold looks, and
Speaker 2: meeting here the other messenger, whose welcome I perceived had
Speaker 2: poisoned mine, being the very fellow which of late displayed
Speaker 2: so saucily against Your Highness, having more man than wit
Speaker 2: about me, drew He raised the house with loud and
Speaker 2: coward cries. Your son and daughter found this trespass worth
Speaker 2: the shame which here it suffers.
Speaker 15: Winter's not gone yet if the wild beast fly that way.
Speaker 15: Fathers that wear rags do make their children blind, But
Speaker 15: fathers that their bags shall see their children kind fortune.
Speaker 15: That errant whore ne'er turns the key to the poor.
Speaker 15: But for all this thou shalt have as many dollars
Speaker 15: for their daughters as thou canst tell in a year.
Speaker 5: Oh, how this mother swells up toward my heart hysterica.
Speaker 5: Pass it down, thy climbing sorrow, thy elements below? Where
Speaker 5: is this.
Speaker 2: Daughter with the earl?
Speaker 4: Sir?
Speaker 5: Here within, follow me not stay here?
Speaker 17: Exit made you no more offense, But what you speak
Speaker 17: of none?
Speaker 2: How chance the king comes with so small a number.
Speaker 15: And thou hadst been set in the stocks for that question,
Speaker 15: thou hadst well deserved it.
Speaker 2: A wifle will.
Speaker 15: Set thee to school, to ant to teach thee. There's
Speaker 15: no laboring in the winter. All that follow their noses
Speaker 15: are led by their eyes, but blind men. And there's
Speaker 15: not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking.
Speaker 15: Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down
Speaker 15: a hill, lest it break thy neck with following it.
Speaker 15: But the great one that goes up the hill, let
Speaker 15: him draw thee after. When a wise man gives thee
Speaker 15: better counsel, give me mine again, I would have none,
Speaker 15: but knaves follow it. Since a fool gives it. That sir,
Speaker 15: which serves and seeks for gain, and follows but for form,
Speaker 15: will pack when it begins to rain and leave thee
Speaker 15: in the storm. But I will tarry the fool will
Speaker 15: stay and let the wise man fly. The knave turns,
Speaker 15: fool that runs away, the fool no knave, perdee.
Speaker 2: Where learn't you?
Speaker 4: This fool?
Speaker 15: Not in the stalks?
Speaker 1: Fool and to Lear and Gloucester.
Speaker 5: Deny to speak with me. They are sick, they are weary,
Speaker 5: they have traveled all the night. Mere fetches the images
Speaker 5: of revolt and flying off. Petch me a better.
Speaker 3: Answer, my dear lord. You know the fiery quality of
Speaker 3: the duke, how unremovable and fixed he is in his
Speaker 3: own course.
Speaker 5: Vengeance, plague, death, confusion? Fiery? What quality? Why Goster gosta
Speaker 5: Art speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife?
Speaker 3: Well, my good Lord, I have informed them, so informed them.
Speaker 5: Dost thou understand me.
Speaker 3: Ma'am I, my good lord?
Speaker 5: The king would speak with Cornwall, the dear father would
Speaker 5: with his daughter speak commands her service? Are they inform'd
Speaker 5: of this? My breath and blood? Fiery? The fiery Duke
Speaker 5: tell the hot Duke that no, but not yet. Maybe
Speaker 5: he is not well. Infirmity doth to neglect all office
Speaker 5: where to our health is bound. We are not ourselves
Speaker 5: when nature, being oppressed, commands the mind to suffer with
Speaker 5: the body. I'll forbear, and I'm fallen out with my
Speaker 5: more headier will to take the indisposed and sickly fit
Speaker 5: for the sound man death on my state? Wherefore should
Speaker 5: he sit here? This act persuades me that this remotion
Speaker 5: of the Duke and her is practice. Only give me
Speaker 5: my servant forth, go tell the Duke and wife. I'd
Speaker 5: speak with them now. Presently, bid them come forth and
Speaker 5: hear me. Or at their chamber door, I'll beat the
Speaker 5: drum till it cries sleep to death.
Speaker 3: I would have all well betwixt you exit.
Speaker 5: Oh me, my heart, my rising heart, But down.
Speaker 15: Cry to it, nuncle, as the Cockney did to the
Speaker 15: eels when she put him in a paste alive, She
Speaker 15: napped them. Oh the cocks combs with a stick and
Speaker 15: cried down Wanton's down. Twas her brother that, in pure
Speaker 15: kindness to his horse, buttered his hay.
Speaker 1: And to Cornwall. Reagan, Gloucester and servants.
Speaker 20: Good morrow, do you both pail to your grace?
Speaker 1: Kent is here set at liberty.
Speaker 8: I am glad to see your Highness, Reagan.
Speaker 5: I think you are. I know what reason I have
Speaker 5: to think so if thou shouldst not be glad I
Speaker 5: would divorce me from thy mother's tomb, sepulchering an adulteress
Speaker 5: to Kent. Oh, are you free some other time for
Speaker 5: that beloved Reagan? Thy sisters not, Oh Reagan, she hath
Speaker 5: tied sharp toothstone kindness like a vulture.
Speaker 1: Here laying his hand on his heart.
Speaker 5: I can scarce speak to thee thou not believe with
Speaker 5: how depraved a quality, Oh Reagan.
Speaker 8: I pray you, sir, take patience. I have hope you
Speaker 8: must know how to value her desert than she discant
Speaker 8: her duty.
Speaker 5: Say how is that?
Speaker 8: I cannot think my sister in the least would fail
Speaker 8: her obligation. If Sir, perchance she have restrained the riots
Speaker 8: of your followers, tis on such crowned and to such wholesome,
Speaker 8: and as clear asir, from all blame.
Speaker 5: My curse is on her, Oh sir, you are.
Speaker 8: Old nature in you stands on the very verge of
Speaker 8: her confine. You should be ruled and led by some discretion.
Speaker 8: Let discerner state better than you yourself. Therefore, I pray
Speaker 8: you that to our sister you do make return. So
Speaker 8: you have wronged her, sir.
Speaker 5: Ask her forgiveness? Do you but mark how this becomes
Speaker 5: the house.
Speaker 1: He kneels.
Speaker 5: Dear daughter, I confess that I am old. Age is
Speaker 5: unnecessary on my knees. I beg that you'll vouchsafe me
Speaker 5: raiment bed and food.
Speaker 8: Good Sir, No more, these are slightly tricks. Return you
Speaker 8: to my sister rising.
Speaker 5: Never Reagan, she hath abated me of half my train.
Speaker 5: Look black upon me, struck me with her tongue most
Speaker 5: serpent like upon the very heart. All the stored vengeances
Speaker 5: of heaven fall on her, ingrateful top strike her young bones.
Speaker 5: You taking airs with lameness.
Speaker 20: Fie, sir, fi.
Speaker 5: You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames into her scornful eyes,
Speaker 5: infect her beauty. You fend such fogs drawn by the
Speaker 5: powerful sun to fall and blast her pride.
Speaker 8: Oh the blessed gods, so will you wish on me
Speaker 8: when the rash mood is on.
Speaker 5: No, Reagan, thou shalt never have my curse. Thy tender
Speaker 5: hefted nature shall not give thee awe to harshness. Her
Speaker 5: eyes are fierce, But thine do comfort and not burn.
Speaker 5: Tis not in thee to grudge my pleasures, to cut
Speaker 5: off my train, to bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes,
Speaker 5: and in conclusion to oppose the bolt against my coming in.
Speaker 5: Thou better knowest the offices of nature, bond of childhood,
Speaker 5: effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude, Thy half of the kingdom.
Speaker 5: Hast thou not forgot wherein I thee endowed, good sir,
Speaker 5: to the berbose who put my man in the stocks?
Speaker 20: Ah, what trumpet's that?
Speaker 8: I know it? My sisters, this approves her letter that
Speaker 8: she would soon be here.
Speaker 1: Enter Oswald, is your lady?
Speaker 8: Come?
Speaker 5: This is a slave whose easy borrowed pride dwells in
Speaker 5: the fickle grace of her He follows out Violet from
Speaker 5: my sight?
Speaker 20: What means your grace?
Speaker 5: Who stocked my servant? Reagan? I have good hope thou
Speaker 5: didst not know? Aunt?
Speaker 1: Enter Goneril, who comes here?
Speaker 5: Oh heavens, if you do love old men, if your
Speaker 5: sweet sway, allow obedience, if yourselves are old, make it
Speaker 5: your cause sent down? And take my part to Goneril.
Speaker 5: H not a shame to look upon this beard, Oh Reagan.
Speaker 5: Wilt thou take her by the hand?
Speaker 6: Why not by the hand, sir? How have I offended?
Speaker 6: All's not offense? That indiscretion finds in dotage terms.
Speaker 5: So oh sides, you are too tough? Will you yet help?
Speaker 5: How came my man in the stocks?
Speaker 20: I set him there, sir, But his own disorders deserved
Speaker 20: much less advancement.
Speaker 5: You you did.
Speaker 8: I brave you, father, being weak, seems though, if till
Speaker 8: the expiration of your month you will return, and Sir Johanne,
Speaker 8: with my sister, dismissing half your train, come then to me.
Speaker 8: I am now from home, and out of that provision
Speaker 8: which shall be needful for your entertainment.
Speaker 5: Return to her and fifty men dismissed. No, Rather, I
Speaker 5: abjure all ruse and choose to wage against the end
Speaker 5: of the air, to be a comrade with the wolf
Speaker 5: and owl necessity's sharp pinch. Return with her. Why the
Speaker 5: hot blooded France that dowerless took our youngest born, I
Speaker 5: could as well be brought to knee his throne and
Speaker 5: squire like pension Beck to keep base life afoot. Return
Speaker 5: with her. Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter
Speaker 5: to this detested groom.
Speaker 1: He points to Oswald.
Speaker 5: At your choice, sir, I prithee daughter, do not make
Speaker 5: me mad. I will not trouble thee my child. Farewell,
Speaker 5: we'll no more meat, no more see one another. But
Speaker 5: yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter, or
Speaker 5: rather a disease that in my flesh, which I must
Speaker 5: needs call mine. Thou art a boil, a plague, sore,
Speaker 5: an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood. But I'll not
Speaker 5: chide thee. Let shame come when it will, I do
Speaker 5: not call it. I do not bid the thunderbearer shoot,
Speaker 5: nor tell tales of thee to high judging jove men win.
Speaker 5: Thou canst be better at thy leisure? I can be patient,
Speaker 5: I can stay with the Reagan, I and my hundred knights.
Speaker 8: Not altogether. So I look not for you yet, nor
Speaker 8: am provided for your fit. Welcome, Give ea, sir, to
Speaker 8: my sister. For those that mingle reason with your passion
Speaker 8: must be content to think you old and so. But
Speaker 8: she knows what she does?
Speaker 5: Is this well spoken?
Speaker 8: I'd aer a vouch it, sir? What fifty followers?
Speaker 6: Is it not?
Speaker 8: Well? What should you need of more? Yeah? Here were
Speaker 8: so many sith that both charge and danger speak, and
Speaker 8: so great a number. How in one house should many
Speaker 8: people underdue commands?
Speaker 23: Old?
Speaker 8: Amity tis odd almost impossible?
Speaker 6: Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance from those
Speaker 6: that she calls servants or from mine?
Speaker 8: Why not, my lord? If that answer to splack you,
Speaker 8: we would control them. If you will come to me
Speaker 8: for now I spy a danger. I entreat you to bring,
Speaker 8: but five and twenty to no more will I give
Speaker 8: place or notice.
Speaker 5: I gave you all, and in good time you gave it,
Speaker 5: made you my guardians, my depositories, but kept a reservation
Speaker 5: to be followed with such a number. What must I
Speaker 5: come to you with five and twenty? Reagan said you so.
Speaker 8: And speak it again, my lord, No more with me.
Speaker 5: Those wicked creatures? Yet do look well favored when others
Speaker 5: are more wicked? Not being the worst, stands in some
Speaker 5: rank of praise to Goneril, I'll go with thee thy fifty,
Speaker 5: Yet doth double five and twenty and thou art twice
Speaker 5: her love?
Speaker 6: Hear me, my lord? What needs you five and twenty
Speaker 6: ten or five to follow? When a house where twice
Speaker 6: so many have a command to tend you white need one?
Speaker 5: Oh reason? Not the need? Our basest beggars are in
Speaker 5: the poorest thing superfluous, Allow not nature more than nature needs.
Speaker 5: Man's life is cheap as beasts. Thou art a lady,
Speaker 5: if only to go warm were gorgeous white nature needs
Speaker 5: not what thou gorgeous wearst which scarcely keeps thee warm.
Speaker 5: But for true need, you, Heavens, give me that patience, patience,
Speaker 5: I need you, see me, hear you. God's a poor
Speaker 5: old man, as full of grief as age, wretched in both.
Speaker 5: If it be you that stirs these daughter's hearts against
Speaker 5: their father, fool me not so much to bear it.
Speaker 5: Tamely touch me with noble anger, and let not woman's
Speaker 5: weapons water drops tain my man's cheeks. No, Hugh, unnatural hags.
Speaker 5: I will have such revenges on you both that all
Speaker 5: the world share. I will do such things. Mohi't they
Speaker 5: are yet? I know not, But they shall be the
Speaker 5: terrors of the earth. You'll think I'll no, I'll not weep.
Speaker 5: I have full course of weeping. But this heart shall
Speaker 5: break into a hundred thousand floors where I'll weep. Oh, fool,
Speaker 5: I shall go mad.
Speaker 1: Excellent lear Gloucester kent the fall, and gentleman, let.
Speaker 20: Us withdraw twill be a storm.
Speaker 8: This house is little. The old man and his people
Speaker 8: cannot be well.
Speaker 6: Bestowed tis his own blame. Hath put himself from rest,
Speaker 6: and must needs taste his folly.
Speaker 8: For his particular I'll receive him gladly, but not one follower.
Speaker 6: So I am purposed. Where is my Lord of Gloucester?
Speaker 20: Followed the old man? Forth? He is returned, enter Gloucester.
Speaker 3: The king is in high rage.
Speaker 20: Whither is he going?
Speaker 3: He calls to horse? But will I know not?
Speaker 20: Whither tis best to give him away?
Speaker 6: He leads himself, my Lord, entreat him by no means
Speaker 6: to stay alack.
Speaker 3: The night comes on, and the high winds sorely ruffle
Speaker 3: for many miles about. There's scarce, a.
Speaker 8: Bush oser, a wilful men. The injuries that they themselves
Speaker 8: brokeure must be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors. He
Speaker 8: is attended with a desperate train, and what they may
Speaker 8: in sense him to being apt to have his ear
Speaker 8: abused wisdom bids fear.
Speaker 20: Shut up your doors, my lord, tis a wild night,
Speaker 20: My Reagan Council's well, come out of the storm.
Speaker 1: Excellent end of Act two, Act three, seene one A
Speaker 1: heath a storm with thunder and lightning, enter Kent, and
Speaker 1: a gentleman meeting.
Speaker 17: Who's there besides foul weather, one minded like the weather
Speaker 17: most unquietly.
Speaker 2: Bye, know you? Where's the king?
Speaker 17: Contending with the fretful elements, bids the wind blow the
Speaker 17: earth into the sea, or swell the curled waters above
Speaker 17: the main, that things might change or cease, tears his
Speaker 17: white hair, which the impetuous blasts with eyeless rage catch
Speaker 17: in their fury and make nothing of strives in his
Speaker 17: little world of man to outscorn the to and fro
Speaker 17: conflicting wind and rain this night, wherein the cub drawn
Speaker 17: there would crouch the lion and the belly pinched wolf
Speaker 17: keep their fur dry unbonneted. He runs and bids what
Speaker 17: will take all?
Speaker 2: But who is with him?
Speaker 17: None but the fool who labors to outjest his heart
Speaker 17: struck injuries.
Speaker 2: Sir, I do know you, and dare, upon the warrant
Speaker 2: of my note, commend a dear thing to you. There
Speaker 2: is division, although has yet the face of it be
Speaker 2: covered with mutual cunning, TwixT Albany and Cornwall, who have
Speaker 2: not that their great stars thrown and set high servants
Speaker 2: who seem no less, which are to france the spies
Speaker 2: and speculations intelligent of our state? What hath been seen,
Speaker 2: either in snuffs and packings of the dukes, or the
Speaker 2: hard rain which both of them have borne against the
Speaker 2: old kind king, or something deeper, whereof perchance these are
Speaker 2: but furnishings. But true it is from France there comes
Speaker 2: a power into this scattered kingdom, who already wise in
Speaker 2: our negligence, have secret feet in some of our best ports,
Speaker 2: and are at point to show their open banner now
Speaker 2: to you. If on my credit you dare build so
Speaker 2: far to make your speed to Dover, you shall find
Speaker 2: some that will thank you, making just report of how unnatural,
Speaker 2: and be madding sorrow the king hath caused to plane.
Speaker 2: I am a gentleman of blood and breeding, and from
Speaker 2: some knowledge an assurance, offer this office to you.
Speaker 17: I will talk further with you.
Speaker 2: No, do not, for confirmation that I am much more
Speaker 2: than my outlaw. Open this purse and take what it contains.
Speaker 2: If you shall see Cordelia as fear not, but you
Speaker 2: shall show her this ring, and she will tell you
Speaker 2: who your fellow is, that yet you do not know.
Speaker 2: Fie on this storm. I will go seek the king.
Speaker 17: Give me your hand. Have you no more to say.
Speaker 2: Few words, but to effect more than all yet that
Speaker 2: when we have found the king in which you're pain
Speaker 2: that way, I'll this he that first lights on him,
Speaker 2: Pollah the other.
Speaker 1: Exent severally. Scene two, another part of the heath. The
Speaker 1: storm continues, Enter Leah and the fall.
Speaker 5: Blow winds and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow you cataracts
Speaker 5: and hurricanoes, spout till you have drenched our steeples, drowned
Speaker 5: the cocks you offer us, and thought executing fires, want
Speaker 5: couriers to oak, cleaving thunderbolts singe my white heads, and
Speaker 5: thou all shaking thunder strike flat the thick rotundity of
Speaker 5: the world, crack nature's molds. All Germans spill at once
Speaker 5: that making grateful man.
Speaker 15: Oh Nuncle court, Holy water in a dry house is
Speaker 15: better than this rain water out of the door. Good
Speaker 15: nuncle in and ask thy daughter's blessing. Here's a knight
Speaker 15: pities neither wise men nor fools.
Speaker 5: Rumble thy bellyful spit, fire, spout, rain, nor rain, wind,
Speaker 5: thunder fire of my daughters. I tax you, not you
Speaker 5: elements with unkindness. I never gave you kingdom, called you children.
Speaker 5: You owe me no subscription. Then let for your horrible
Speaker 5: pleasure here I stand your slave, a poor, infirm, weak
Speaker 5: and despised old man. But yet I call you servile ministers,
Speaker 5: that will, with two pernicious daughters join your high engendered
Speaker 5: battle against their heads so old and white as this, Oh,
Speaker 5: oh tis foul.
Speaker 15: He that has a house to put his head in
Speaker 15: has a good head piece. The cord piece that will
Speaker 15: house before the head has any the head, and he
Speaker 15: shall louse so beggars marry many. The man that makes
Speaker 15: his toe what he his heart should make, shall have
Speaker 15: a corn cry wool, and turn his sleep to wake.
Speaker 15: For there was never yet fair woman, but she made
Speaker 15: mouths in a glass, And to kent.
Speaker 5: No, I will be the pattern of all patients. I
Speaker 5: will say nothing.
Speaker 15: Who's there, Mary, Here's grace and a cord piece. That's
Speaker 15: a wise man and a fool.
Speaker 2: A lester? Are you here? Things that night love nuts,
Speaker 2: Such nights as these, the wrathful skies gallow the very
Speaker 2: wanderers of the dark, and make them keep their caves.
Speaker 2: Since I was man, such sheets of fire, such bursts
Speaker 2: of horrid thunder, such groans of roaring wind and rain,
Speaker 2: I never remember to have heard. Man's nature cannot carry
Speaker 2: the affliction, nor the fear.
Speaker 5: Let the great gods that keep this dreadful pother our
Speaker 5: heads find out their enemies. Now tremble, thou wretch that
Speaker 5: hast within the undivulged crimes, unwhipped of justice, Hide thee
Speaker 5: thou bloody hand, thou perjured, and thou similar man of
Speaker 5: virtue that art incestuous kate if to peace's shake, that
Speaker 5: under covert and convenient seeming, has practiced on man's life,
Speaker 5: close pent up guilts, rive your concealing continence, and cry
Speaker 5: these dreadful summoner's grace. I am a man more sinned
Speaker 5: against than sinning.
Speaker 2: A lack bare headed gracious my lord, hard by here
Speaker 2: is a hobble some friendship? Will it lend you against
Speaker 2: the tempest Freepose you there? Whilst I to this hard house,
Speaker 2: more harder than the stones whereof tis raised, which even
Speaker 2: now demanding, after you denied me to come in return
Speaker 2: and force their scanted courtesy.
Speaker 5: My wits begin to turn. Come on, my boy, how
Speaker 5: does my boy hot cold? I am cold myself? Where
Speaker 5: is this straw?
Speaker 16: My fellow?
Speaker 5: They aught of our necessities? Is strange that can make
Speaker 5: vile things precious?
Speaker 4: Your hovel, poor fool.
Speaker 5: And knave. I have one part in my heart that's sorry.
Speaker 15: Yet for thee he that hasn't a little tiny wit
Speaker 15: with hey ho the wind and the rain must make
Speaker 15: content with his fortunes fit for the rain it raineth every.
Speaker 5: Day, True boy, Come bring us to this hovel, excellent
Speaker 5: Leah and kent.
Speaker 15: This is a brave knight to cool a cortisan. I'll
Speaker 15: speak a prophecy.
Speaker 16: Ere I go.
Speaker 15: When priests are more in words than matter, when brewers
Speaker 15: mar their malt with water, when nobles are their tailor's tutors,
Speaker 15: no heretics burnt, but wenches suitors. When every case in
Speaker 15: law is right, no squire in debt, nor no poor knight.
Speaker 15: When slanders do not live in tongues, nor cut purses
Speaker 15: come not to throngs. When usurers tell their gold in
Speaker 15: the field, and bods and horrors do churches build. Then
Speaker 15: shall the realm of Albion come to great confusion? Then
Speaker 15: comes the time who lives to see it that going
Speaker 15: shall be used with feet. This prophecy Merlin shall make
Speaker 15: for I live before his time.
Speaker 1: Exit Scene three. A room in Gloucester's castle. Enter Gloucester and.
Speaker 3: Edmund a lack a lack, Edmund, I like not this
Speaker 3: unnatural dealing. When I desired their leave that I might
Speaker 3: pity him, they took from me the use of mine
Speaker 3: own house, charged me on pain of perpetual displeasure. Neither
Speaker 3: to speak of him, entreat for him, nor any ways
Speaker 3: sustain him.
Speaker 4: Most savage and unnatural.
Speaker 3: Go to say you nothing. There is division betwixt the dukes,
Speaker 3: and a worse matter than that I have received a
Speaker 3: letter this night tis dangerous to be spoken. I have
Speaker 3: locked the letter in my closet. These injuries the King
Speaker 3: now bears will be revenged home. There is part of
Speaker 3: a power already footed. We must incline to the King.
Speaker 3: I will seek him and privily relieve him. Go you
Speaker 3: and maintain talk with the Duke, that my charity be
Speaker 3: not of him perceived. If he ask for me, I
Speaker 3: am ill and gone to bed. If I die for it,
Speaker 3: as no less is threatened me. The King, my old master,
Speaker 3: must be relieved. There is some strange thing toward Edmund.
Speaker 3: Pray you be careful.
Speaker 4: Exit this courtesy forbid thee. Shall the Duke instantly know,
Speaker 4: and of that letter too. This seems a fair deserving,
Speaker 4: and must draw me that which my father loses no
Speaker 4: less than all the younger rises when the old doth fall.
Speaker 1: Exit Scene four, A part of the heath with a
Speaker 1: hovel storm continues. Enter lear Kent and the fall.
Speaker 2: Here is the place, my lord, good, my lord, enter
Speaker 2: the tyranny of the open nights, too rough for nature
Speaker 2: to endure.
Speaker 5: Let me alone, good, my lord enter here, wilt break
Speaker 5: my heart?
Speaker 2: I had rather break mine own? Could my lord enter?
Speaker 5: Thou think'stis much that this contentious storm invades us to
Speaker 5: the skin, so tis to thee. But where the greater
Speaker 5: malady is fixed, the letter is scarce. Else thou'lt shun
Speaker 5: a bear. But if thy flight lay towards the raging sea,
Speaker 5: thou'dst meet the bear in the mouth. When the mind's free,
Speaker 5: the body is delicate. The tempest in my mind does
Speaker 5: from my senses take all feeling else save what beats
Speaker 5: there filial ingratitude. Is it not as this mouth should
Speaker 5: tear this hand for lifting food to it? But I
Speaker 5: will punish ho no, I will weep no more. It's
Speaker 5: such a night to shut me out. Poor, I will
Speaker 5: endure in such a night as this ole vegan goneril
Speaker 5: your kind old father, whose frank heart gave all.
Speaker 1: Oh that way.
Speaker 5: Madness lies, make me shun that. No more of that.
Speaker 2: Good my lord, enter here.
Speaker 5: Pretty, go in thyself, seek thine own knees. This tempest
Speaker 5: will not give me leave to ponder on things would
Speaker 5: hurt me more. But I'll go in in, boy, go first,
Speaker 5: you houseless poverty, Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and
Speaker 5: then I'll sleep. Exit the fall, poor naked wretches, wheresoeer
Speaker 5: you are by the pelting of this pitiless storm? How
Speaker 5: shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, your loops and
Speaker 5: windows raggedness defend you from seasons such as these? Oh,
Speaker 5: I attain too little care of this, Take pomp, expose
Speaker 5: thyself to feel what wretches feeled, that thou mayst shake
Speaker 5: the super flux to them and show the heavens more.
Speaker 11: Just Adam and arf, Adam and arf, poor harm.
Speaker 1: Enter the fall from the hovel.
Speaker 15: Come not in here, nuicole, Here's a spirit, help me, help.
Speaker 2: Me give me thy hand. Who's there a spirit?
Speaker 5: A spirit?
Speaker 15: He says, his name's poor Tom.
Speaker 2: What art thou that dust grumble there at the straw?
Speaker 1: Come forth, enter Edgar, disguised as poor Tom Away.
Speaker 11: The foul fiend follows me through the sharp orthorn, blows
Speaker 11: the cold wind. Hum, go to thy cold bed and
Speaker 11: warm thee.
Speaker 5: Didst thou give all to thy two daughters? And art
Speaker 5: thou come to this?
Speaker 11: Who gives anything to poor Tom whom the foul fiend
Speaker 11: hath led through fire and through flame, through forward and whirlpool,
Speaker 11: our barg and quagmire that hath laid knives under his
Speaker 11: pillow and halters in his pew set rat's pain by
Speaker 11: his porridge made him proud of heart to ride on
Speaker 11: a bay trotting horse over four inched bridges to course
Speaker 11: his own shadow for a traitor. Bless thy five wets
Speaker 11: Tom's cold doo doo doody doody. Bless thee from whirlwind
Speaker 11: star blasting and taking do poor tomson charity Hume. The
Speaker 11: foul fiend vexes there Could I have him?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 11: And there? And there again and there?
Speaker 5: What have his daughters brought him to this pass? Couldst
Speaker 5: thou say nothing? Didst thou give them all?
Speaker 4: Nay?
Speaker 15: He reserved a blanket? Else we had been all samed.
Speaker 5: Now, all the plagues that in the pendulous air hang
Speaker 5: fated all men's faults light on thy daughters.
Speaker 2: Gee hath no daughter, Sir.
Speaker 5: Death traitor. Nothing could have subdued nature to such loneness
Speaker 5: but his unkind daughters. Is it the fashion that discarded
Speaker 5: fathers should have thus little mercy on their flesh, judicious
Speaker 5: punishment twas this flesh begot those Pelican daughters.
Speaker 11: Pillcock sat on pillycock Hill. Halloo ooh, halloo, Lou Lou.
Speaker 15: This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
Speaker 11: Take heed of the foul fiend. Obey thy parents, Keep
Speaker 11: thy word justly, swear not commit not with man's sworn spouse.
Speaker 11: Set not thy sweetheart on proud array. Tom's a cold
Speaker 11: What hast thou been? A serving man? Proud in heart
Speaker 11: and mind that curled my hair, wore gloves in my cap,
Speaker 11: served the lust of my mistress's heart, and did the
Speaker 11: act of darkness with her. Swore as many oaths as
Speaker 11: I spake words, and broke them in the sweet face
Speaker 11: of heaven. One that slept in a contriving of lust
Speaker 11: and waked to do it wine love died deeply, dice dearly,
Speaker 11: and in woman out paramour, the turk false of heart,
Speaker 11: light of air, bloody of hand, hogin's sloth, fox in dealth,
Speaker 11: wolf ingredients, dog in madness, lying in prey. Let not
Speaker 11: the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray
Speaker 11: thy poor heart to woman. Keep thy foot out of brothel,
Speaker 11: thy hand out of placket, thy pen from lender's book,
Speaker 11: and defy the foul fiend. Still through the hawthorn blows,
Speaker 11: the cold wind says some money, noney delphin, my boy
Speaker 11: boy set let him trop by.
Speaker 5: Why thou wert better in thy grave than to answer
Speaker 5: with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies is
Speaker 5: man no more than this, Consider him well, thou ow'st
Speaker 5: the worm, no silk, the beast, no hide, the sheet,
Speaker 5: no wool, the cat, no perfume. Huh, Here's three ones
Speaker 5: are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself unaccommodated. Man is
Speaker 5: no more but such a poor bear forked animal as
Speaker 5: thou art off off you lending, come unbutton.
Speaker 1: Here he tears off his clothes.
Speaker 15: Prythee uncle be contented. Tis anoddy night to swim in.
Speaker 15: Now a little fire in a wild field were like
Speaker 15: an old letcher's heart, a small spark all the rest
Speaker 15: one's body called. Look, here comes a walking fire enter
Speaker 15: Gloucester with a torch.
Speaker 11: This is the foul fiend, Flippity Gibbit. He begins at
Speaker 11: curfew and walks till the first cock. He gives the
Speaker 11: web and the pen, squints the eye and makes the
Speaker 11: hair lip, mildews the white weight, and hurts the poor
Speaker 11: creature of earth. So with old footed thrice the old
Speaker 11: he met the nightmare and her ninefold, bid her a
Speaker 11: light and her troth plight. And I write the witch,
Speaker 11: I write thee.
Speaker 2: How far's your grace?
Speaker 1: What's he to Gloucester?
Speaker 2: Who's there? What ist you seek?
Speaker 3: What are you there?
Speaker 11: Names poor tom that eats the swimming frog, the toad,
Speaker 11: the todpole, the walnut, and the water, that, in the
Speaker 11: fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats
Speaker 11: cow dung for salads, swallows the old rat, and the
Speaker 11: ditch dog drinks the green mantle of the standing pool.
Speaker 11: Who is whipped from tithing to tithing and stuck to
Speaker 11: punished and imprisoned. Who hath had three suits to his back,
Speaker 11: six shirts to his body, harsh to royd, and weapons
Speaker 11: to wear? But mice and rats and such small deer
Speaker 11: have been Tom's food for seven long year. Beware my follower, peace,
Speaker 11: smokin' peace, thou fiend.
Speaker 3: What hath your grace no better company?
Speaker 11: The Prince of darkness is a gentleman modo he's called
Speaker 11: and mahoo.
Speaker 3: Our flesh and blood, my lord, is grown so vile
Speaker 3: that it doth hate what gets it?
Speaker 11: Poor Tom's a cold Go.
Speaker 3: In with me. My duty cannot suffer to obey in
Speaker 3: all your daughter's hard commands, though their injunction be to
Speaker 3: bar my doors and let this tyrannous knight take hold
Speaker 3: upon you. Yet have I ventured to come seek you
Speaker 3: out and bring you where both fire and food is ready?
Speaker 5: First, let me talk with this philosopher. To Edgar, what
Speaker 5: is the cause of thunder?
Speaker 2: Good? My lord, take this offer, go into the house.
Speaker 5: I'll talk a word with this same learned theban To Edgar,
Speaker 5: what is your study?
Speaker 11: How to prevent the fiend and to kill vermin?
Speaker 5: Let me ask you one word in private?
Speaker 1: Lear and Edgar talk apart.
Speaker 2: Importune him once more to go, my lord, his wits
Speaker 2: begin to unsettle.
Speaker 3: Canst thou blame him? His daughters seek his death?
Speaker 8: Ah?
Speaker 3: That good? Can he said it would be thus, poor
Speaker 3: banished man, Thou sayest the king grows mad. I'll tell THEE, friend,
Speaker 3: I am almost mad myself. I had a son now
Speaker 3: outlawed from my blood. He sought my life. But lately,
Speaker 3: very late I loved him, friend, no father, his son
Speaker 3: dearer true to tell THEE the grief hath crazed my wits.
Speaker 3: What a knight's this? I do beseech your grace, Oh.
Speaker 5: Cry you mercy, sir, noble philosophy, your company.
Speaker 3: Tom's a cold in fellow. There into the hovel. Keep
Speaker 3: thee warm.
Speaker 5: Come let in all this this way, my lord with him,
Speaker 5: I will keep still with my philosopher.
Speaker 2: Good, my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow.
Speaker 2: Take him you on, Sarah, come on, go along with us.
Speaker 5: Come good Athenian.
Speaker 3: No words, no words, Hush.
Speaker 11: Child Roland to the dark tower came His word was
Speaker 11: still fie foe and FuMB I smell the blood of
Speaker 11: a British man.
Speaker 1: Exiant. Scene five. A room in Gloucester's castle, Enter Cornwall,
Speaker 1: and Edmund.
Speaker 20: I will have my revenge. Ere I depart his house.
Speaker 4: How my Lord I may be censured. That nature thus
Speaker 4: gives way to loyalty. Something fears me to think of.
Speaker 20: I now perceive it was not altogether your brother's evil
Speaker 20: disposition made him seek his death, but a provoking merit
Speaker 20: set a work by a reprovable badness in himself.
Speaker 4: How malicious is my fortune that I must repent to
Speaker 4: be just? This is the letter he spoke of, which
Speaker 4: approves him an intelligent party to the advantages of France.
Speaker 4: Oh heavens that this treason were not or not I
Speaker 4: the detector.
Speaker 20: Go with me to the Duchess.
Speaker 4: If the matter of this paper be certain, you have
Speaker 4: mighty business in hand.
Speaker 20: True or false. It hath made thee Earl of Gloucester
Speaker 20: seek out where thy father is, that he may be
Speaker 20: ready for our apprehension.
Speaker 4: If I find him comforting the king, it will stuff
Speaker 4: his suspicion more fully. I will persevere in my course
Speaker 4: of loyalty, though the conflict be sore between that and
Speaker 4: my blood.
Speaker 20: I will lay trust upon THEE and thou shalt find
Speaker 20: a dearer father in my love.
Speaker 1: Exellent Scene six. A chamber in a farmhouse adjoining the castle,
Speaker 1: enter Gloucester, lear Kent. The fool and.
Speaker 3: Edgar here is better than the open air. Take it thankfully.
Speaker 3: I will peace out the comfort with what addition I can.
Speaker 3: I will not be long from you.
Speaker 2: All the power of his wits have given way to
Speaker 2: his impatience. The gods reward your kindness.
Speaker 1: Exit Gloucester.
Speaker 11: Farrato calls me and tells me Nero is an angler
Speaker 11: in the lake of darkness. Pray innocent and beware of
Speaker 11: the foul faend prithe Nunko.
Speaker 15: Tell me whether a madman be a gentleman or a yeoman,
Speaker 15: a king, a king. No, he's a yeoman that has
Speaker 15: a gentleman to his son. For he's a mad yeoman
Speaker 15: that sees his son a gentleman before him to have.
Speaker 5: A thousand with red burning spits come hissing in upon him.
Speaker 11: The foul fain bites my back.
Speaker 15: He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf,
Speaker 15: a horse's health, a boy's love, or a hoarse oath.
Speaker 5: It shall be done. I will arraign them straight to Edgar.
Speaker 5: Come sit thou here, most learned justiceir to the fool
Speaker 5: Thou safeien, sir, sit here? Now shall she foxes.
Speaker 11: Look where he's downs and glares onst thou eyes a trial, Madam,
Speaker 11: Come o.
Speaker 15: The barn Bessie to me her boat hath a leak,
Speaker 15: and she must not speak. Why she darest not come
Speaker 15: over to thee.
Speaker 11: The foul fiend aunt's poor Tom, in the voice of
Speaker 11: a nightingale, happy dance cries in Tom's belly for two
Speaker 11: white herring croak, not black angel. I have no food
Speaker 11: for thee.
Speaker 2: How do you, sir? Stand you not so amazed? Will
Speaker 2: you lie down and rest upon the cushions.
Speaker 5: I'll see their trial first. Bring in their evidence to Edgar,
Speaker 5: thou robed man of justice, Take thy place to the fool,
Speaker 5: and thou his yoke fellow of equity, bench by his side,
Speaker 5: to Kent. You are of the commission, Sit you too.
Speaker 11: Let us deal justly. Sleepiest or wakest thou jolly shepherd,
Speaker 11: thy sheep be in the corn, and for one blast
Speaker 11: of nouminikan mouth, thy sheep shall take no arm. Po Ah,
Speaker 11: the cat is gray.
Speaker 5: The rein her first tis Goneril. I here take my
Speaker 5: oath before this honorable assembly. She kicked the poor king
Speaker 5: her father.
Speaker 15: Come hither, mistress. Is your name Goneril?
Speaker 5: She cannot deny it?
Speaker 15: Cry you mercy. I took you for a joint stool.
Speaker 5: And here's another who's warped and looks proclaim what store
Speaker 5: her heart is made on? Stop her?
Speaker 7: There?
Speaker 5: Arms, armed, sword fire, corruption in the place, false justice, sir?
Speaker 5: Why hast thou let her escape?
Speaker 11: Bless thy five wets?
Speaker 2: Oh pity, sir? Where is the patience now that you
Speaker 2: so oft have boasted to.
Speaker 11: Retain my tears? Begin to take his part so much
Speaker 11: they'll mar my counterfeiting.
Speaker 5: The little dogs and all tray Blanche and sweet heart,
Speaker 5: see they bark at me.
Speaker 11: Tom will throw his head at them avauntchie curs, be
Speaker 11: thy mouth or black or white tooth that poisons. If
Speaker 11: it bite mastiff, greyhound, mongrel, grim hound, or spaniel brack
Speaker 11: or a lemb or bop tail tight or trundle tail,
Speaker 11: Tom will make them weep and whale for with throwing
Speaker 11: Thus my head, dogs leap the atch, and all are fled.
Speaker 11: Do d D D cessa, come march to wakes and
Speaker 11: fairs and market towns. Poor Tom thy arn is dry.
Speaker 5: Then let them anatomize reagans. See what breeds about her heart?
Speaker 5: Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts? You, sir,
Speaker 5: I entertain you for one of my hundred only I
Speaker 5: do not like the fashion of your garments. You will
Speaker 5: say they are Persian, but let them be changed.
Speaker 2: Now, good my lord, lie here and rest.
Speaker 5: Awhile, make no noise, Make no noise, draw the curtains.
Speaker 5: So so we'll go to supply the morning.
Speaker 15: And I'll go to bed at noon.
Speaker 1: Enter Gloucester.
Speaker 3: Come hither, friend, where is the king? My master?
Speaker 2: Here, sir, but trouble him that his wits are gone.
Speaker 3: Good friend, I prithee take him in thy arms. I
Speaker 3: have or heard a plot of death upon him. There
Speaker 3: is a litter. Ready, lay him in it, and drive
Speaker 3: towards dover, Friend, where thou shalt meet both welcome and protection.
Speaker 3: Take up thy master. If thou shouldst half an hour
Speaker 3: his life with thine and all that offer to defend him,
Speaker 3: stand in assured loss, take up, take up and follow me.
Speaker 3: That will to some provision give thee quick conduct.
Speaker 2: O pressed nature sleeps. This rest might yet have bound
Speaker 2: thy broken sinews, which, if convenience will not allow, stand.
Speaker 1: In hard cure to the fool.
Speaker 2: Come help to bear thy master.
Speaker 1: Come Come away exeant kent Gloucester in the full bearing
Speaker 1: off the king.
Speaker 11: When we our betters see bearing our woes. We scarcely
Speaker 11: think our miseries are foes. Who alone suffers suffers most
Speaker 11: of the mind, leaving free things and happy shows behind.
Speaker 11: But then the man find much sufferance. Doth o'er skip
Speaker 11: when grief hath mates in bearing fellowship. How light and
Speaker 11: portable my pain seems now, When that which makes me
Speaker 11: bend makes the king bow He childed as I fathered
Speaker 11: talm away mark, the eye noises, and thyself berat. When
Speaker 11: false opinion, whose wrong thought defils thee in thy just
Speaker 11: proof repeals and reconciles thee. What will app more tonight? Safe?
Speaker 11: Escape the king lurk Lerk.
Speaker 1: Exit Scene seven. A room in Gloucester's castle, Enter Cornwall, Reagan, Goneril,
Speaker 1: Edmund and servants.
Speaker 20: To Goneril host speedily to my lord your husband, show
Speaker 20: him this letter. The army of France is landed. Seek
Speaker 20: out the traitor Gloucester excellence.
Speaker 24: Some servants hang him instantly, pluck out his eyes, leave
Speaker 24: him to my displeasure, Edmund, keep you our sister company.
Speaker 20: The revenges we are bound to take upon your traitorous
Speaker 20: father are not fit for your beholding. Advise the Duke
Speaker 20: where you are going to a most festinate preparation. We
Speaker 20: are bound to the like. Our posts shall be swift
Speaker 20: and intelligent. Betwixt us. Farewell, dear sister, farewell my Lord
Speaker 20: of Gloucester.
Speaker 1: Enter Oswald.
Speaker 20: How now, where's the king?
Speaker 12: My Lord of Gloucester hath conveyed him. Hence some five
Speaker 12: or six and thirty of his knights hot questrests after him,
Speaker 12: met him at gate, who with some other of the
Speaker 12: Lord's dependants are gone with him towards Dover, where they
Speaker 12: boast to have well armed friends.
Speaker 20: Get all for your mistress.
Speaker 1: Exit Oswald.
Speaker 6: Farewell, sweet Lord and sister Edmund.
Speaker 1: Farewell, Exiant Goneril and Edmund.
Speaker 20: Go seek the traitor Gloucester. Pinion him like a thief.
Speaker 20: Bring him before.
Speaker 1: Us exillent servants.
Speaker 20: Though well, we may not pass upon his life without
Speaker 20: the form of justice. Yet our power shall do a
Speaker 20: courtesy to our wrath, which men may blame but not control.
Speaker 1: Enter Gloucester, brought in by two or three servants.
Speaker 20: Who's there?
Speaker 8: The traitor ingradful fox t is here?
Speaker 20: Bind fast his corky arms.
Speaker 3: What men, your graces good? My friends? Consider you are
Speaker 3: my guests, do mean no foul play friends.
Speaker 20: Bind him, I say, servants, tie.
Speaker 8: His hands, hard art, old, filthy trader.
Speaker 3: Unmerciful lady as you are, I'm none.
Speaker 20: To this chair. Bind him, villain, thou shalt find Reagan
Speaker 20: plucks his beard.
Speaker 3: By the kind gods, tis most ignobly done to pluck
Speaker 3: me by.
Speaker 8: The beard so white, and such a traitor.
Speaker 3: Naughty lady. These hares which thou dost ravish from my
Speaker 3: chin will quicken and accuse thee. I am your host,
Speaker 3: with robbers hands, my hospitable favors. You should not ruffle. Thus,
Speaker 3: what will you do?
Speaker 20: Come, sir? What letters had you late from France?
Speaker 8: Be simple? Answered?
Speaker 20: For we know the truth, and what confederacy have you
Speaker 20: with the traitors late footed in the kingdom?
Speaker 8: To Whose hands have you sent the lunatic king? Speak?
Speaker 3: I have a letter, guessingly set down, which came from
Speaker 3: one that's of a neutral heart, and not from one opposed.
Speaker 20: Cunning and false. Where hast thou sent the king to Dover?
Speaker 8: Wherefore de Dover? Wast thout not charged at Beryl?
Speaker 20: Wherefore to Dover? Let him first answer.
Speaker 3: That I am tied to the stake, and I must
Speaker 3: stand the.
Speaker 16: Course well boarded over sir, because.
Speaker 3: I would not see thy cruel nails pluck out his
Speaker 3: poor old eyes, nor thy fierce sister in his anointed
Speaker 3: flesh stick boorish fangs the sea with such a storm
Speaker 3: as his bare head in hell black night endur'd would
Speaker 3: have buoyed up and quench'd the stell'd fires. Yet, poor
Speaker 3: old heart, he hope the heavens to reign. If wolves
Speaker 3: had at thy gait howl'd that stern time, thou shouldst
Speaker 3: have said, good porter, turn the key, all cruels else subscrib'd.
Speaker 3: But I shall see the winged vengeance overtake such children
Speaker 3: see it.
Speaker 20: Thou shalt never fellows, hold the chair upon these eyes
Speaker 20: of thine. I'll set my foot.
Speaker 3: He that will think to live till he be old,
Speaker 3: give me some help, Oh cruel, Oh ye.
Speaker 8: Gods, one side will mark another the other.
Speaker 20: Do if you see vengeance?
Speaker 23: Hold your hand, my lord. I have served you ever
Speaker 23: since I was a child. But better service have I
Speaker 23: never done you than now to bid you hold.
Speaker 2: Oh, now, you dog.
Speaker 23: If you did wear a beard upon your chin, I'd
Speaker 23: shake it on this quarrel.
Speaker 1: Cornwall draws his sword.
Speaker 20: What do you mean, my villain?
Speaker 1: He lunges at him.
Speaker 23: Nay, then come on and take the chance of anger.
Speaker 1: He wounds cornwall.
Speaker 8: Give me thy sword, a peasant stand up.
Speaker 1: Thus she takes a sword and runs at him behind.
Speaker 23: Oh I am slain, my lord, you have one eye
Speaker 23: left to see some mischief on him?
Speaker 20: Oh he dies, lest it seem more? Prevent it out,
Speaker 20: vile jelly. Where is thy lusteron now?
Speaker 3: All dark and comfortless? Where's my son? Edmund? Edmund enkindle
Speaker 3: all the sparks of nature to quit this horrid act?
Speaker 8: Thou dreader's villain? Thou call'st on him that hates thee.
Speaker 8: It was he that made the overture of thy treasons
Speaker 8: to us? Who is too good to bity thee?
Speaker 3: O my follies? Then Edgar was abused. Kind gods, forgive
Speaker 3: me that and prosper him.
Speaker 8: Go thrust him out at gates and let him smell
Speaker 8: his waded.
Speaker 1: Over exit a servant with Gloucester.
Speaker 8: How is it, my lord? How look you I.
Speaker 20: Have received a Hurtllow me lady, turn out that eyeless villain.
Speaker 20: Throw this slave upon the dunghill. Reagan, I bleed apace
Speaker 20: untimely comes this hurt. Give me your.
Speaker 1: Arm exit Cornwall, supported by Reagan.
Speaker 19: I'll never care what wickedness I'd do if this man
Speaker 19: come to good.
Speaker 14: If she lived long and in the end meet the
Speaker 14: old course of death, women will altern monsters.
Speaker 19: Let's follow the old earl and get the bedlamb to
Speaker 19: lead him where he would. His roguish madness allows itself
Speaker 19: to anything.
Speaker 14: Go thou. I'll fetch some flax and whites of eggs
Speaker 14: to apply to his bleeding face.
Speaker 1: Now Heaven help it exit by opposite doors. End of
Speaker 1: Act three, Act four, Scene one. The heath enter.
Speaker 11: Edgar, yet better thus and known to be con ted,
Speaker 11: then still contemned and flattered to be worst, The lowest
Speaker 11: and most dejected thing of fortune stands still in experance,
Speaker 11: lives not in fear. The lamentable change is from the
Speaker 11: best the worst returns to laughter. Welcome, then, thou, unsubstantial air,
Speaker 11: that I embrace the wretch that thou hast blown unto
Speaker 11: the worst, owes nothing to thy blasts.
Speaker 1: Enter Gloucester, led by an old man.
Speaker 11: But who comes here my father poorly lad world, World,
Speaker 11: O world, But that thy strange mutations make us hate
Speaker 11: thee life would not yield to age.
Speaker 25: Oh, my good Lord, I have been your tenant and
Speaker 25: your father's tenant these four score years away.
Speaker 3: Get thee away, good friend, begone. Thy comforts can do
Speaker 3: me no good at all thee they may hurt.
Speaker 25: You cannot see your way.
Speaker 3: I have no way, and therefore want no eyes. I
Speaker 3: stumbled when I saw full oft tis seen our means
Speaker 3: secure us and our mere defects prove our commodities. Oh,
Speaker 3: dear son Edgar, the food of thy abused father's wrath.
Speaker 3: Might I but live to see thee in my touch?
Speaker 3: I'd say I had eyes again?
Speaker 25: Oh No, who's there?
Speaker 11: Oh God? Who est can say? I am at the worst?
Speaker 11: I am worse than heir I was?
Speaker 25: Tis poor, mad tom.
Speaker 11: And worse I may be. Yet the worst is not
Speaker 11: so long as we can say this is the worst fellow?
Speaker 3: Where goest is it a beggar man?
Speaker 25: Madman and beggar two?
Speaker 3: He has some reason else he could not beg In
Speaker 3: the last night's storm, I such a fellow saw, which
Speaker 3: made me think a man a worm. My son came
Speaker 3: then into my mind, and yet my mind was then scarce.
Speaker 3: Friends with him, I have heard more since. As flies
Speaker 3: to wanton boys, are we to the gods? They kill
Speaker 3: us for their sport.
Speaker 11: How should this be bad? Is the trade that must
Speaker 11: play fool to sorrow, angering itself and others. Bless thee master, is.
Speaker 3: That the naked fellow ay my lord, then prithee get
Speaker 3: thee gone. If for my sake thou wilt o'ertake us,
Speaker 3: hence a mile or twain in the way toward dover,
Speaker 3: do it for ancient love, and bring some covering for
Speaker 3: this naked soul, which I'll entreat to lead.
Speaker 25: Me alack, sir, he is mad.
Speaker 3: Tis the time's plague when mad men lead the blind.
Speaker 3: Do as I bid thee, or rather do thy pleasure
Speaker 3: above the rest be gone?
Speaker 25: I bring him the best peril that I have command?
Speaker 3: What will exit surrah, naked fellow?
Speaker 11: Poor Tom's a cold I cannot daub bit further.
Speaker 3: Come hither, fellow, And.
Speaker 11: Yet I must bless thy sweet eyes.
Speaker 3: They plead knowest thou the waited dover.
Speaker 11: Both stoyle and gait archway and footpath. Poor tarm hath
Speaker 11: been scared out of his good wit. Bless thee good
Speaker 11: Man's son from the foul fiend. Five fiends have been
Speaker 11: in poor Tom at once of lust, as obedicut obedidence,
Speaker 11: Prince of dumbness, Mahu of stealing, Modo of murder, flippity,
Speaker 11: Gibbet of mopping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and
Speaker 11: waiting women. So bless thee.
Speaker 3: Master here take this purse, Thou whom the heaven's plagues
Speaker 3: have humbled to all strokes, that I am wretched, makes
Speaker 3: thee the happier heavens deal so still. Let the superfluous
Speaker 3: and lust dieted man that slaves your ordinance, that will
Speaker 3: not see because he does not feel fuel your power quickly.
Speaker 3: So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.
Speaker 3: Dost thou know, dover, I master, there is a cliff
Speaker 3: whose high and bending head looks fearfully in the confined deep.
Speaker 3: Bring me but to the very brim of it, and
Speaker 3: I'll repair the misery. Thou dost bear with something rich
Speaker 3: about me? From that place, I shall no leading need.
Speaker 11: Give me thy arm. Poor Tom shall lead.
Speaker 1: Thee exiant scene too. Before the Duke of Alban's palace
Speaker 1: enter Goneril and Edmund Oswald, meeting.
Speaker 6: Them, Welcome, my lord, I marvel our mild husband not
Speaker 6: met us on the way. Now, where's your master.
Speaker 12: Madam within, but never man so changed. I told him
Speaker 12: of the army that was landed. He smiled at it.
Speaker 12: I told him you were coming. His answer was the
Speaker 12: worse of Gloucester's treachery and the loyal service of his son.
Speaker 12: When I informed him. Then he called me sot and
Speaker 12: told me I had turned the wrong side out. What
Speaker 12: most he should dislike seems pleasant to him?
Speaker 1: What like offensive to Edmund?
Speaker 6: Then shall you go no further. It is the cowish
Speaker 6: terror of his spirit that dares not undertake. He'll not
Speaker 6: feel wrongs which tie him to an answer. Our wishes
Speaker 6: on the way may prove effects back Edmund to my brother.
Speaker 6: Hasten his musters and conduct his powers. I must change
Speaker 6: arms at home and give the dis staff into my
Speaker 6: husband's hands. This trusty servant shall pass between us ere
Speaker 6: long you are like to hear. If you dare venture
Speaker 6: in your own, behalf a mistress's.
Speaker 1: Command giving a favor.
Speaker 6: Wear this spare speech, Decline your head this kiss. If
Speaker 6: it durst speak, would stretch thy spirits up into the air.
Speaker 6: Conceive and fare.
Speaker 4: Thee well yours in the ranks of death.
Speaker 6: My most dear Gloucester.
Speaker 1: Exit Edmund, oh.
Speaker 6: The difference of man and man to thee. A woman's
Speaker 6: services are due my fool usurps my body.
Speaker 12: Madam, Here comes my lord, Exit, enter albany.
Speaker 6: I have been worth the whistle.
Speaker 13: Oh goneril, you are not worth the dust which the
Speaker 13: rude wind blows in your face. I fear your disposition.
Speaker 13: That nature which contemns it origin cannot be bordered. Certain
Speaker 13: in its she that herself will sliver and disbranch from
Speaker 13: her material sap must perforce whither and come to deadly.
Speaker 6: Use no more. The text is foolish.
Speaker 13: Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile filths. Savor
Speaker 13: but themselves. What have you done? Tigers not daughters? What
Speaker 13: have you performed? A father and a gracious aged man
Speaker 13: whose reverence even the head lugged bear would lick, most barbarous,
Speaker 13: most degenerate? Have you madded? Could my good brothers suffer
Speaker 13: you to do it? A man a prince by him
Speaker 13: so benefited? If that the heavens do not their visible
Speaker 13: spirits send quickly down to tame these vile offenses, it
Speaker 13: will come. Humanity must perforce prey on itself like monsters
Speaker 13: of the deep.
Speaker 6: Milk livered man the bearest cheek for blows, I head
Speaker 6: for wrongs who hast not in thy brows, and I
Speaker 6: discerning thine honor from thy suffering that not knowest fools?
Speaker 6: Do those villains pity who are punished ere they have
Speaker 6: done their mischief? Where's thy drum? France spreads his banners
Speaker 6: in our noiseless land with plumed helm. Thy slayer begins threats,
Speaker 6: whilst thou, a mortal fool, sits still and criest alac.
Speaker 6: Why does he so.
Speaker 13: See thyself devil? Proper deformity seems not in the fiend
Speaker 13: so horrid as.
Speaker 6: In woman, Oh vain fool, Thou.
Speaker 13: Changed and self covered thing? For shame, de monster, not
Speaker 13: thy feature wit my fitness to let these hands obey
Speaker 13: my blood. They are apt enough to dislocate and tear
Speaker 13: thy flesh and bones. Howe'er thou art a fiend, a
Speaker 13: woman's shape doth shield.
Speaker 6: Thee marry your manhood?
Speaker 1: Now enter a messenger, What news.
Speaker 9: Oh my good lord? The Duke of Cornwall's dead, slain
Speaker 9: by his servant going to put out the other eye.
Speaker 13: Of Gloucester Glocester's eyes.
Speaker 9: A servant that he bred thrilled with remorse opposed against
Speaker 9: the act, bending his sword to his great master, who
Speaker 9: thereat and rage flew on him and amongst them felt
Speaker 9: him dead, but not without that harmful stroke, which, since
Speaker 9: hath plucked him.
Speaker 13: After this shows you are above you justicers, that these
Speaker 13: are nether crime. So speedily convenge, Oh poor Gloucester lost,
Speaker 13: he is other.
Speaker 9: I both both, my lord. This letter, Madam craves a
Speaker 9: speedy answer tis from your sister.
Speaker 6: One way I like this well, but being widow and
Speaker 6: my Gloucester with her, may all the building in my
Speaker 6: fancy pluck upon my hateful life. Another way, the news
Speaker 6: is not so tart. I'll read an answer.
Speaker 1: Exit.
Speaker 13: Where was his son when they did take his eyes?
Speaker 9: Come with my lady hither?
Speaker 13: He is not here.
Speaker 9: No, my good lord, I met him back again. Knows
Speaker 9: he the wickedness I, my good lord, twas he informed
Speaker 9: against him and quit the house on purpose that their
Speaker 9: punishment might have the freer course.
Speaker 13: Gloucester. I live to thank THEE for the love thou
Speaker 13: ShoWest the king, and to revenge thine eyes. Come hither, friend,
Speaker 13: tell me what more thou know'st exant.
Speaker 1: Scene three, the French camp near Dover, and to Kent
Speaker 1: and a gentleman.
Speaker 2: Why the King of France has so suddenly gone back?
Speaker 2: Know you the reason?
Speaker 17: Something he left imperfect in the state which, since his
Speaker 17: coming forth is thought of, which imports to the kingdom
Speaker 17: so much fear and danger, that his personal return was
Speaker 17: most required and necessary.
Speaker 2: Who hath he left behind him?
Speaker 17: General, the Mareschal of France, Monsieur lefarre?
Speaker 2: Did your letters pierce the queen to any demonstration of grief?
Speaker 17: Ay? Sir? She took them, read them in my presence,
Speaker 17: and now and then an ample tear trilled down her
Speaker 17: delicate cheek. It seemed she was a queen over her passion,
Speaker 17: who most rebel like sought to be king oer her.
Speaker 2: Oh, then it moved her not to.
Speaker 17: A rage, patience and sorrow strove who should express her
Speaker 17: goodliest you have seen sunshine and rain at once? Her
Speaker 17: smiles and tears were like a better day, those happy
Speaker 17: smilets that played on her ripe lip. Seemed not to
Speaker 17: know what guests were in her eyes, which parted thence
Speaker 17: as pearls from diamonds dropped in brief sorrow would be
Speaker 17: a rarity most beloved, if all could so become.
Speaker 2: It made she no verbal question.
Speaker 17: Faith. Once or twice she heaved the name of Father
Speaker 17: pantingly forth, as if it pressed her heart. Cried sisters, sisters,
Speaker 17: shame of ladies, sisters, kent father, sisters. What if the
Speaker 17: storm in the night let pity not be believed? There
Speaker 17: she shook the holy water from her heavenly eyes and
Speaker 17: clamor moistened. Then away she started to deal with grief alone.
Speaker 2: It is the stars, the stars above us, govern our conditions.
Speaker 2: Else oneself, mate and mate could not beget such different issues.
Speaker 2: You spoke not with her sense? No was this before
Speaker 2: the king returned? No, since, well, sir, the poor distressed
Speaker 2: liers in the town, who sometimes in his better tune,
Speaker 2: remembers what we are come about, and by no means
Speaker 2: will yield to see his daughter.
Speaker 17: Why, good sir, a sovereign.
Speaker 2: Shame so elbows him. His own unkindness that stripped her
Speaker 2: from his benediction, turned her to foreign casualties, gave her
Speaker 2: dear rights to his dog hearted daughters. These things sting
Speaker 2: his mind so venomously that burning shame detains him from Cordelia, A.
Speaker 17: Lack poor gentleman of.
Speaker 2: Albaniese and Cornwall's powers you heard.
Speaker 17: Not tis so they are afoot Well.
Speaker 2: Sir, I'll bring you to our master lear and leave
Speaker 2: you to attend him some dear cause will in concealment
Speaker 2: wrap me up a while. When I am known aright,
Speaker 2: you shall not grieve lending me this sequaintance, I pray
Speaker 2: you go along with.
Speaker 1: Me, exiant scene for the French camp a tent, and
Speaker 1: to Cordelia, physician and soldiers.
Speaker 7: A lack tis he why he was met even now
Speaker 7: as mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud, crowned with
Speaker 7: rank fumitu and furrow weeds, with har loocks, hemlock, nettles,
Speaker 7: cuckoo flowers, darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
Speaker 7: in our sustaining corn. To soldiers a century, send forth,
Speaker 7: search every acre in the high grown field, and bring
Speaker 7: him to our.
Speaker 1: Eye, Exiant soldiers, to physician.
Speaker 7: What can man's wisdom in the restoring his breathed sense
Speaker 7: he that helps him take all my outward worth?
Speaker 16: There is means, madam, our fast and nurse of nature
Speaker 16: is reposed which he lacks, that to provoke in him
Speaker 16: are many simple as operative whose power will close the
Speaker 16: eye of anguish.
Speaker 7: All blessed secrets, all you, unpublished virtues of the earth
Speaker 7: spring with my tears, be aident and remediate in the
Speaker 7: good man's distress. Seek seek for him, lest his ungoverned
Speaker 7: rage dissolve the life that wants the means to lead it.
Speaker 9: Enter a messenger, news, Madam, the British powers are marching hitherward.
Speaker 7: Tis known before our preparation stands in expectation of them. Oh,
Speaker 7: dear father, it is thy business that I go about. Therefore,
Speaker 7: great France, my mourning and important tears hath pitied. No
Speaker 7: blown ambition doth our arms in sight, But love, dear love,
Speaker 7: and our aged father's right. Soon may I hear and
Speaker 7: see him.
Speaker 1: Exent Scene five a room in Gloucester's castle, and to
Speaker 1: Reagan and Oswald.
Speaker 8: But are my brother's powers set forth? I madam himself
Speaker 8: in person.
Speaker 12: There, Madam, with much ado, Your sister is the better soldier.
Speaker 8: Lord Edmund spake not with your lord at home, No, Madam,
Speaker 8: what might im brought my sister's letter to him?
Speaker 12: I know not, Lady.
Speaker 8: Faith, he has posted ends on serious matter. It was
Speaker 8: great ignorance Gloucester's eyes being out to let him live
Speaker 8: where he arrives. He moves all hearts against us. Edmund
Speaker 8: I think is gone in pity of his misery, to
Speaker 8: despatch his knighted life. Moreover, to descry the strength of
Speaker 8: the enemy.
Speaker 12: I must needs after him, Madam. With my letter, our.
Speaker 8: Troops set forth tomorrow. Stay with us. The ways are dangerous.
Speaker 12: I may not, Madam, my lady charged my duty in
Speaker 12: this business?
Speaker 8: Why should she write to Edmund? Might not you transport
Speaker 8: her purposes by word? But like something I know not what,
Speaker 8: I'll love thee much.
Speaker 12: Let me unseal the letter, Madam, I had rather.
Speaker 8: I know your lady does not love her husband. I
Speaker 8: am sure of that, And at her late being here,
Speaker 8: she gave strange ayeliads and most speaking looks to noble Edmund.
Speaker 8: I know you are of her bosom, I madam, I
Speaker 8: speak an understanding you are. I know it. Therefore, I
Speaker 8: do advise you take this note. My lord is dead,
Speaker 8: Edmund and I have talked, and more convenient as he
Speaker 8: for my hand than for your ladies. You may add more.
Speaker 8: If you do find him, pray you give him this.
Speaker 8: And when your mistress is the much from you, I
Speaker 8: pray desire her call her wisdom doer, So fare you well?
Speaker 8: And if you do chance to hear of that blind rader,
Speaker 8: preferment falls on him that cuts him off.
Speaker 12: Would I could meet him?
Speaker 16: Madam?
Speaker 12: I should show what party I do follow fairly well.
Speaker 1: Exiant Scene six the country near Dover, enter Gloucester, and
Speaker 1: Edgar dressed as a peasant.
Speaker 3: When shall I come to the top of that same hell?
Speaker 1: You do?
Speaker 2: Climb up it?
Speaker 11: Now? Look how we labor?
Speaker 3: Methinks the ground is even.
Speaker 11: Horrible steep hark. Do you hear the sea?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: Truly?
Speaker 11: Why then your other senses grow imperfect by your eyes anguish?
Speaker 3: So may it be? Indeed, methinks thy voice is altered,
Speaker 3: and thou speakest in better phrase and matter than that
Speaker 3: dotst You.
Speaker 11: Are much deceived In nothing am I changed? But in my.
Speaker 3: Garments methinks you're better spoken.
Speaker 11: Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still. How fearful
Speaker 11: and dizzy tis to cast one's eyes so low? The
Speaker 11: crows and chuffs that wing the midway air show scarce
Speaker 11: so gross as beetles. Half way down hangs one that
Speaker 11: gathers samphire a dreadful trade. Methinks he seems no bigger
Speaker 11: than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the beach
Speaker 11: appear like mice, and yond tall anchoring bark diminished to
Speaker 11: her cock, her cock a boy almost too small for sight,
Speaker 11: the murmuring surge that on the unnumbered idle pebble chafs
Speaker 11: cannot be heard so high I'll look no more, lest
Speaker 11: my brain turn and the deficient sight topple down. Headlong.
Speaker 3: Set me where you stand, Give me your hand.
Speaker 11: You are now within a foot of the extreme verge
Speaker 11: for all beneath the moon. Would I not leap upright?
Speaker 3: Let go my hand? Hear friends another purse in it,
Speaker 3: a jewel well worth a poor man's taking. Fairies and
Speaker 3: gods prosper it with thee go thou further off, Bid
Speaker 3: me farewell, and let me hear thee.
Speaker 11: Going now, fare you well, good sir, with all my heart.
Speaker 11: Why I do trifle thus with his despair is done
Speaker 11: to cure it.
Speaker 3: Kneeling, O, you, mighty gods, this world I do renounce,
Speaker 3: and in your sights shake patiently my great affliction off.
Speaker 3: If I could bear it longer and not fall to
Speaker 3: quarrel with your great opposeless wills my snuff and loathed
Speaker 3: part of nature should burn itself out if edgar live,
Speaker 3: Oh bless him now, fellow fare thee.
Speaker 11: Well gone, sir, farewell.
Speaker 1: Gloucester throws himself forward.
Speaker 11: And yet I know not how conceit may rob the
Speaker 11: treasury of life when life itself yields to the theft.
Speaker 11: Had he been where he thought? By this? Had thought
Speaker 11: been passed alive or dead? O you, sir friend, here you, sir,
Speaker 11: speak thus mighty pass Indeed, yet he revives, sir, what
Speaker 11: are you? Sir?
Speaker 16: Away?
Speaker 3: And let me die?
Speaker 11: Hadst thou been aught? But gossamer feathers air so many
Speaker 11: fathom down precipitating, thou'dst shiver like an egg, But thou
Speaker 11: dost breathe hast heavy substance, bleedst not speaks art sound
Speaker 11: ten mass at each make not the altitude which thou
Speaker 11: hast perpendicularly fell Thy life is a miracle. Speak yet again?
Speaker 3: But have I fallen?
Speaker 2: Or no?
Speaker 11: From the dread summit of this chalky born look up
Speaker 11: a height The shrill gorged lark so far cannot be
Speaker 11: seen nor heard. But do but look up.
Speaker 3: A lack I have no eyes? Is wretchedness deprived that
Speaker 3: benefit to end itself by death? Twas yet some comfort
Speaker 3: when misery could beguile the tyrant's rage and frustrate his
Speaker 3: proud will.
Speaker 11: Give me your arm up. So howest will you your legs?
Speaker 3: You stand too well, too well, this is a.
Speaker 11: Pole strangeness upon the crown of the cliff. What thing
Speaker 11: was that which parted from you?
Speaker 3: A poor, unfortunate beggar.
Speaker 11: As I stood here below, he thought his eyes were
Speaker 11: two full moons. He had a thousand noses, horned, welked,
Speaker 11: and waved like the enriched sea. It was some fiend. Therefore,
Speaker 11: thou happy father, think that the clearest gods, who make
Speaker 11: them honors of men's impossibility, have preserved thee.
Speaker 3: I do remember now. Henceforth I'll bear affliction till it
Speaker 3: do cry out itself enough enough and die. That thing
Speaker 3: you speak of, I took it for a man, often
Speaker 3: twould say the fiend, the fiend he led me to
Speaker 3: that place.
Speaker 11: Bear free and patient thoughts. But who comes.
Speaker 1: Here into lear fantastically dressed with wild flowers?
Speaker 11: The safest sense will ne'er accommodate his master.
Speaker 5: Thus, no, they cannot touch me for coining. I am
Speaker 5: the king himself.
Speaker 11: Oh thou side, piercing sight.
Speaker 5: Nature's above art in that respect, there's your press money.
Speaker 5: That fellow handles his bow like a crow keeper. Draw
Speaker 5: me a clother's yard. Look, look a mouse, Peace, peace,
Speaker 5: This piece of toasted cheese will do it. There's my gauntlet.
Speaker 5: I'll prove it on a giant. Bring up the brown bills.
Speaker 5: Oh well, flown bird? Is the cloud? Did the cloud?
Speaker 5: Who give the word?
Speaker 11: Sweet marger pass?
Speaker 3: I know that voice.
Speaker 1: He falls to his knees.
Speaker 5: Huh, goneril with a white beard. They flattered me like
Speaker 5: a dog and told me I had white hairs in
Speaker 5: my beard. There the black ones were there to say
Speaker 5: aye and no to everything I said ay and no too?
Speaker 5: Was no good divinity? When the rain came to wet
Speaker 5: me once, and the wind to make me chatter, when
Speaker 5: the thunder would not piece at my bidding. There I
Speaker 5: found them there, I smelt em out, go to They
Speaker 5: are not men of their words. They told me I
Speaker 5: was everything tis a lie.
Speaker 3: I'm not egg you proof the trick of that voice?
Speaker 3: I do well. Remember it's not the king.
Speaker 5: Ay, every inch a king. When I do stare see
Speaker 5: how the subject quakes, I pardon that man's life. What
Speaker 5: was thy cause? Adultery thou shalt not die di for adultery. No,
Speaker 5: the wren goes to it, and the small gilded flight
Speaker 5: as a letter in my sight, let copulation thrive. For
Speaker 5: Gloucester's bastard son was kinder to his father than my daughter's.
Speaker 5: Got between the lawful sheets to it luxury pell mell
Speaker 5: for I lack soldiers. Behold yon simpering dame, whose face
Speaker 5: between her fork's prestiges snow that means his virtue, and
Speaker 5: has shake the head to ear of pleasure's name. The
Speaker 5: fitune nor the soiled horse, goes to it with a
Speaker 5: more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are centaurs,
Speaker 5: their women all above. But to the girdle do the
Speaker 5: gods inherit? Beneath is all the fiends as hell. There's darkness.
Speaker 5: There is the sulfurous pit, burning, scolding, stench, consumption of
Speaker 5: hi fi pie pah wah. Give me an ounce of
Speaker 5: sifet good apothecary to sweeten my imagination.
Speaker 1: There's money for thee he gives flowers.
Speaker 3: Oh, let me kiss that hand.
Speaker 5: Let me wipe it first. It smells of mortality.
Speaker 3: A ruined piece of nature. This great world shall so
Speaker 3: wear out to nought. Dost thou know me?
Speaker 5: I remember thine eyes well enough? Dost thou squiny at me?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: Did I've worst blind? Cupid? While not love? Read thou
Speaker 5: this challenge mark, But the penning of it.
Speaker 3: Were all the letters sons. I could not see one.
Speaker 11: I would not take this from report it is, and
Speaker 11: my heart breaks, said.
Speaker 3: It read what with the case of eyes?
Speaker 5: Oh oh, are you there with me? No eyes in
Speaker 5: your head, nor no money in your purse. Your eyes
Speaker 5: are in a heavy case, your purse in the light.
Speaker 5: Yet you see how this world goes?
Speaker 3: I see it feelingly?
Speaker 5: What ard mad a man may see how the world
Speaker 5: goes with no eyes? Look with thine ears, see how
Speaker 5: yon justice rails upon yon simple thief hark in thine ear,
Speaker 5: change places and handy andy, Which is the justice? Which
Speaker 5: is the thief? Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark
Speaker 5: at a beggar, Hi, sir, and the creature runs from
Speaker 5: the cur There Thou might'st behold the great image of authority.
Speaker 5: A dog's obeyed in office, Thou rascal beadle, hold thy
Speaker 5: bloody hand. Why dost thou lash that haar strike the
Speaker 5: own back? Thou hotly lustedt to use her in that
Speaker 5: kind for which thou whipped her. The usurer hangs a
Speaker 5: cousiner through tattered clothes. Small vices do appear. Robes and
Speaker 5: furred gowns hide all plaits sin with gold, and the
Speaker 5: strong lance of justice hurtless breaks arm it in rags.
Speaker 5: A pigmy straw does pierce it. None doth offend none,
Speaker 5: I say none. I label them giving flowers. Take that
Speaker 5: of me, my friend, who have the power to seal
Speaker 5: the accuser's lips, get thee glass eyes, and like a
Speaker 5: scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not
Speaker 5: now now now now, pull off my boots harder, harder.
Speaker 11: So oh, matter and impersonency mixed reason in madness.
Speaker 5: If thou wilt weep my fortunes my eyes, I know
Speaker 5: THEE well enough. Thy name is Gloucester. Thou must be patient.
Speaker 5: We came crying hither Thou know'st the first time we
Speaker 5: smelt the air, we wall and cry. I will preach
Speaker 5: to THEE.
Speaker 1: Mark he takes off his coronet of flowers.
Speaker 3: Alack, alack.
Speaker 5: The day when we are born, we cry that we
Speaker 5: are come to this great stage of fools. This a
Speaker 5: good block, it were a delicate stratagem to sure a
Speaker 5: troop of horse with feldt I'll put in proof. And
Speaker 5: when I have stolen upon these sons in law, then kill, kill, kill,
Speaker 5: kill kill.
Speaker 1: He throws down his flowers and stamps on them. Enter
Speaker 1: a gentleman and two attendants, Gloucester and Edgar. Draw back.
Speaker 17: Oh here he is. Lay hand upon him, Sir, your
Speaker 17: most dear daughter.
Speaker 5: No rescue. What a prisoner I am, even the natural
Speaker 5: fool of fortune. Use me well, you shall have ransom,
Speaker 5: Let me have surgeons. I am cut to the brains.
Speaker 5: You shall have anything, No seconds or myself. Why this
Speaker 5: would make a man of salt to use his eyes
Speaker 5: for garden water pots aye, and for laying autumn's dust.
Speaker 5: I will die bravely like a smug bridegroom. What I
Speaker 5: will be jovial? Come come, I am a king. My
Speaker 5: masters know.
Speaker 17: You that you are a royal one. And we obey you.
Speaker 5: Then there's life in't nay and you get it. You
Speaker 5: shall get it by running sartha Arthur.
Speaker 1: Exit, running, followed by attendants.
Speaker 17: A sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch past speaking
Speaker 17: of in a king, thou hast one daughter her who
Speaker 17: redeems nature from the general curse which twain have brought
Speaker 17: her to hail. Gentle sir, sir, speed you. What's your will?
Speaker 11: Do you hear aught serve a battle toward.
Speaker 17: Most sure and vulgar? Every one hears that which can
Speaker 17: distinguish sound.
Speaker 11: But by your favor? How near is the other army near?
Speaker 17: And on speedy foot? The main descry stands on the
Speaker 17: hourly thought.
Speaker 11: I thank you, sir.
Speaker 17: That's all though, that the Queen, on special cause is here,
Speaker 17: her army is moved on.
Speaker 11: I thank you, sir.
Speaker 3: Exit, gentlemen, you ever, gentle gods, take my breath from me,
Speaker 3: Let not my worser spirit tempt me again to die
Speaker 3: before you.
Speaker 11: Please well pray you father.
Speaker 3: Now, good sir, what are you?
Speaker 11: A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows, who,
Speaker 11: by the art of known and feeling sorrows, and pregnant
Speaker 11: to good pity, give me your hand. I'll lead you
Speaker 11: to some biding.
Speaker 3: Heart, the bounty and the benison of heaven, to boot
Speaker 3: and boot and to.
Speaker 1: Oswald a proclaimed prize.
Speaker 12: Most happy that eyeless head of thine was first framed
Speaker 12: flesh to raise my fortunes, thou old, unhappy traitor, briefly thyself.
Speaker 12: Remember the sword is out that must destroy thee.
Speaker 3: Now let thy friendly hand put strength enough to it.
Speaker 1: Edgar intervenes.
Speaker 12: Wherefore, bold peasant, dost thou support a published traitor, Hence,
Speaker 12: lest that the infection of his fortune take like hold
Speaker 12: on thee, let go his arm.
Speaker 11: Shall not lack go, sir without fur occasion.
Speaker 12: Let go slave, or thou diest.
Speaker 11: Good gentlemen, go your gait and let poor vote pass,
Speaker 11: and Chadapin swaggered out of my life. Two not been
Speaker 11: so long as tis way of wortnight. Nay, I'm not
Speaker 11: near the old man. Keep out to wurry your eyes.
Speaker 11: Try whether you're cast out of my shall be playing
Speaker 11: with you out.
Speaker 12: Dunghill, you'll pit your teeth.
Speaker 11: Ser come no matter for your voins they fight.
Speaker 12: Slay Thou hast slain me, villain, Take my purse, if
Speaker 12: ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body, and give the
Speaker 12: letters which thou findest about me to Edmund, Earl of Gloucester.
Speaker 12: Seek him out upon the British party. Oh, untimely death.
Speaker 11: Ugh, I know thee well, A serviceable villain as duty
Speaker 11: as to the vices of my mistress's badness would desire.
Speaker 3: What is he dead?
Speaker 11: Sit you down, father, rest you. Let's see these pockets,
Speaker 11: the letters that he speaks of. May be my friend,
Speaker 11: he's dead. I'm only sorry he had no other death's man.
Speaker 11: Let us see leave gentle wax and manners. Blame us
Speaker 11: not to know our enemy's minds. We'd rip their hearts
Speaker 11: their papers. Is more lawful he reads the letter. Let
Speaker 11: our reciprocal vows be remembered. You have many opportunities to
Speaker 11: cut him off. If your will want not, time and
Speaker 11: place will be fruitfully offered. There is nothing done. If
Speaker 11: he return the conqueror, then am i the prisoner and
Speaker 11: his bed my jail from the loathed warmth? Whereof deliver
Speaker 11: me and supply the place for your labor, your wife,
Speaker 11: so I would say, affectionate servant goneril oh, in distinguished
Speaker 11: space of woman's will a plot upon her virtuous husband's life,
Speaker 11: in the exchange my brother here in the sands, thee
Speaker 11: a'll rake up the post, unsanctified of murderous letchures, and
Speaker 11: in the mature time, with this ungracious paper strike the
Speaker 11: sight of the death practiced duke for him tis well
Speaker 11: that of thy death and business. I can tell.
Speaker 3: The king is mad. How stiff is my vile sense?
Speaker 3: That I stand up and have ingenious feeling of my
Speaker 3: huge sorrows? Better I were distract So should my thoughts
Speaker 3: be severed from my griefs and woes by wrong imaginations
Speaker 3: lose the knowledge of themselves.
Speaker 11: Give me your hand far off, methinks I hear the
Speaker 11: beaten drum. Come father, I'll bestow you with a friend.
Speaker 1: Exiant scene seven, a tent in the French camp, lear
Speaker 1: on a bed asleep, soft music playing, Enter Cordelia and Kent, physician,
Speaker 1: gentlemen and others attending, O thou good Kent.
Speaker 7: How shall I live and work to match thy goodness?
Speaker 7: My life will be too short, and every measure will fail.
Speaker 2: Me to be acknowledged, Madam is or paid. All my
Speaker 2: reports go with the modest truth, nor more nor clipped.
Speaker 7: But so be better suited. These weeds are memories of
Speaker 7: those worser hours. I prithee put them off.
Speaker 2: Pardon dear madam, yet to be known shortens my made intent,
Speaker 2: my boon. I make it that you know me not
Speaker 2: till time, and I think.
Speaker 7: Meet then be it so, my good Lord, to the physician,
Speaker 7: how does.
Speaker 16: The king madam sleep still.
Speaker 7: Cure this great breach in his abused nature, the untuned
Speaker 7: and jarring senses? Oh, wind up of this child changed father.
Speaker 16: So please your majesty, that we may wake the king
Speaker 16: he hath slept long.
Speaker 7: Be governed by your knowledge, and proceed in the sway
Speaker 7: of your own will? Is he arrayed?
Speaker 17: Ay, Madam, in the heaviness of sleep, we put fresh
Speaker 17: garments on him.
Speaker 16: Be by, good Madam, when we do awake him. I
Speaker 16: doubt not of his temperance very.
Speaker 1: Well, music, sounds of stage.
Speaker 16: Please you door near louder the music there.
Speaker 1: Kneeling by the chair and kissing his hand.
Speaker 7: Oh, my dear father, restoration, Hang thy medicine on my lips,
Speaker 7: and let this kiss repair those violent harms that my
Speaker 7: two sisters have in thy reverence.
Speaker 2: Made kind and dear princess.
Speaker 7: Had you not been their father, these white flakes had
Speaker 7: challenged pity of them? Was this a face to be
Speaker 7: opposed against the warring winds, To stand against the deep
Speaker 7: dread bolted thunder, in the most terrible and nimble stroke
Speaker 7: of quick cross lightning, To watch poor perdue with this
Speaker 7: thin helm, mine enemy's dog, though he had bit me,
Speaker 7: should have stood that night against my fire and wst
Speaker 7: Thou fain, poor father, to hovel thee with swine and rogues,
Speaker 7: forlorn in short and musty straw, A lack a lack
Speaker 7: tis wonder that thy life in wits at once had
Speaker 7: not concluded all he wakes.
Speaker 16: Speak to him, madam, do you tis fittest?
Speaker 7: How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty?
Speaker 5: You do me wrong to take me out the grave?
Speaker 5: Thou art a soul in bliss, But I am bound
Speaker 5: upon a wheel of fire that mine own tears do
Speaker 5: scald like molten lead.
Speaker 7: Sir, do know me?
Speaker 5: You are a spirit?
Speaker 2: I know?
Speaker 5: When did you die?
Speaker 4: Still?
Speaker 7: Still far wide?
Speaker 16: He's scarce awake, let him alone, Awhile where have I been?
Speaker 5: Where am i?
Speaker 4: Fair?
Speaker 5: Daylight? I am mightily abused. I should even die with
Speaker 5: pity to see another. Thus, I know not what to say.
Speaker 5: I will not swear. These are my hands that sea,
Speaker 5: I feel this pin prick. Would I were assured of
Speaker 5: my condition?
Speaker 7: Oh look upon me, sir, and hold your hands in benediction, or.
Speaker 1: Me lear falls to his knees.
Speaker 7: No Sir, you must not kneel.
Speaker 5: Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish,
Speaker 5: fond old man for score and upward, not an hour
Speaker 5: more nor less, and to deal plainly, I fear I
Speaker 5: am not in my perfect mine. The methinks I should
Speaker 5: know you and know this man. Yet I am doubtful,
Speaker 5: for I am mainly ignorant what place this is, and
Speaker 5: all the skill I have remembers not these garments, nor
Speaker 5: I know not where I did lodge last night. Do
Speaker 5: not laugh at me, for as I am a man,
Speaker 5: I think this lady to be my child Cordelia.
Speaker 7: And so I am I am.
Speaker 5: Be your tears wet, yes, faith, I pray, weep not.
Speaker 5: If you have poison for me, I will drink it.
Speaker 5: I know you do not love me, for your sisters
Speaker 5: have as I do, remember, done me wrong. You have
Speaker 5: some cause, they have not no cause.
Speaker 11: No cause?
Speaker 5: Am I in France, in your own kingdom, Sir, do
Speaker 5: not abuse me.
Speaker 16: Be comforted, good madam. The great rage you see is
Speaker 16: killed in him, And yet it is danger to make
Speaker 16: him even or the time he has lost, desire him
Speaker 16: to go in trouble him no more till further settling.
Speaker 12: Will it please your highness walk you must bear with me.
Speaker 5: Bray you now forget and forgive. I am old and foolish.
Speaker 1: Exit all but Kent and gentleman.
Speaker 17: Holds it true, sir that the Duke of Cornwall was
Speaker 17: so slain?
Speaker 2: Most certain, Sir.
Speaker 17: Who is conductor of his people?
Speaker 2: As tis said the bastard son of.
Speaker 17: Gloucester, They say, Edgar, his banished son, is with the
Speaker 17: Earl of Kent in Germany.
Speaker 2: Report is changeable. Tis time to look about the powers
Speaker 2: of the kingdom. Approach apace.
Speaker 17: The arbitrament is like to be bloody. Fare you well, sir.
Speaker 1: Exit.
Speaker 2: My point and period will be thoroughly wrought or well
Speaker 2: or ill as this day's battle's fought.
Speaker 1: Exit. End of Act four, Act five, Scene one. The
Speaker 1: camp of the British forces near Dover enter with drum
Speaker 1: and colors, Edmund Reagan, officers, soldiers and others.
Speaker 4: To an officer know of the Duke, if his last
Speaker 4: purpose hold or whether since he is advised by Aught
Speaker 4: to change the.
Speaker 1: Course to Reagan.
Speaker 4: He's full of alteration and self reproving to an officer,
Speaker 4: bring his constant pleasure.
Speaker 1: Exit Officer.
Speaker 8: Our sister's man is certainly misgarried.
Speaker 4: Tis to be doubted. Madam.
Speaker 8: Now as we Lord, you know the goodness I intend
Speaker 8: upon you, tell me but truly, but then speak the truth.
Speaker 8: Do you not love my sister in honored love? But
Speaker 8: have you never found my brother's way to be the fourfended.
Speaker 4: Place that thought abuses you?
Speaker 8: I am doubtful that you have been conjunct and bosomed
Speaker 8: with her. As far as we.
Speaker 4: Call us, no bind mine, honor, Madam.
Speaker 8: I never shall endure dear my Lord, be not familiar
Speaker 8: with her.
Speaker 4: Fear me not She and the Duke her.
Speaker 1: Husband enter with drum and colors, Albany, goneril and soldiers.
Speaker 6: I had rather lose the battle than that sister should
Speaker 6: loosen him and me.
Speaker 13: Our very loving sister, well be met, Sir. This I
Speaker 13: heard the King is come to his daughter with others
Speaker 13: whom the rigor of our state forced to cry out
Speaker 13: where I could not be honest. I never yet was
Speaker 13: valiant for this business. It toucheth us as France invades
Speaker 13: our land, not bolts the king with others whom I
Speaker 13: fear most just and heavy causes make a pose.
Speaker 4: Sir, you speak nobly?
Speaker 8: Why is this reasoned?
Speaker 6: Combine together against the enemy. For these domestic and particular
Speaker 6: broils are not the question here.
Speaker 13: Let's then determine with the ancient of war on our proceeding.
Speaker 4: I shall attend you presently at your text.
Speaker 8: Sister, you'll go with us, No to the most convenient
Speaker 8: pray you go with us?
Speaker 6: Oh, I know the riddle.
Speaker 1: I will go excellent both the armies as Albany is
Speaker 1: going out, Enter Edgar.
Speaker 11: If ere your grace had speech with man so poor,
Speaker 11: hear me one word to his captains.
Speaker 13: I'll overtake you to Edgar.
Speaker 11: Speak before you fight the battle. Ope this letter. If
Speaker 11: you have victory, let the trumpet sound for him that
Speaker 11: brought it wretched. Though I seem I can produce a
Speaker 11: champion that will prove what is avouched there. If you
Speaker 11: miscarry your business of the world, hath so an end
Speaker 11: and machination ceases fortune?
Speaker 13: Love you Stay till I have read the letter.
Speaker 11: I was forbid it. When time shall serve, Let but
Speaker 11: the herald cry, and I'll appear again.
Speaker 13: Exit Why fare thee well, I will o'erlook thy paper.
Speaker 1: Enter Edmund.
Speaker 4: The enemies in view, draw up your powers. Here is
Speaker 4: the guess of their true strength and forces by diligent discovery.
Speaker 4: But your haste has now urged on you.
Speaker 13: We will greet the time.
Speaker 4: Exit to both these sisters have I sworn my love,
Speaker 4: each jealous of the other as the stung are of
Speaker 4: the adder. Which of them shall I take? Both? Um
Speaker 4: one or neither neither can be enjoyed? Of both remain alive.
Speaker 4: To take the widow exasperates makes matter, sister goneril, and
Speaker 4: hardly shall I carry out my side. Her husband, being
Speaker 4: alive now, then will use his countenance for the battle
Speaker 4: which being done. Let her, who would be rid of him,
Speaker 4: devise his speedy taking off, as for the mercy which
Speaker 4: he intends to Leer and to Cordelia. The battle done,
Speaker 4: and they within our power shall never see his pardon,
Speaker 4: for my state stands on me to defend, not to debate.
Speaker 1: Exit Scene two, a field between the two camps, Alarum within,
Speaker 1: Enter with drum and colors, lear, Cordelia holding his hand,
Speaker 1: and soldiers over the stage and exitent Enter Edgar and Gloucester.
Speaker 11: Here, Father, take the shadow of this tree for your
Speaker 11: good host. Pray that the right may thrive. If ever
Speaker 11: I return to you again, I'll bring you comfort grace,
Speaker 11: go with you, sir.
Speaker 1: Exit Edgar Alarum and retreat within. Enter Edgar away, old man,
Speaker 1: give me thy hand. Away, King Lear hath lost he
Speaker 1: and his daughter ten give me thy hand.
Speaker 3: Come on no further, sir, A man may rot even
Speaker 3: here what.
Speaker 11: In ill thought? Again, men must endure their going. Hence,
Speaker 11: even as they're coming hither ripeness is all.
Speaker 3: Come on, and that's true too.
Speaker 1: Exeant Scene three. The British camp near Dover enter in
Speaker 1: Conquest with Drum and colors, Edmund, Lea and Cordelia as prisoners, officers, soldiers,
Speaker 1: et cetera.
Speaker 4: Some officers take them away good guard until their greater
Speaker 4: pleasures first be known, that are to censor them.
Speaker 7: We are not the first who, with best meaning, have
Speaker 7: incurred the worst for the oppressed king. I am cast
Speaker 7: down myself, could else out frown false fortunes frown to Edmund.
Speaker 7: Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, Come let's away to prison. We
Speaker 5: two alone will sing like birds of the cage. When
Speaker 5: thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down and ask
Speaker 5: of THEE forgiveness. So we'll live and pray and sing
Speaker 5: and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies, and
Speaker 5: hear poor rogues talk of court news, and we'll talk
Speaker 5: with them too, who loses, and who wins, who's in
Speaker 5: who's out, And take upon the mystery of things as
Speaker 5: if we were God's spies. And we'll wear out in
Speaker 5: a wall in prison. Packs and sects of great ones
Speaker 5: that ebb and flow by the moon, take them away
Speaker 5: upon such sacrifices, My Cordelia, the gods themselves throw incense.
Speaker 5: Have I caught thee?
Speaker 1: He embraces her.
Speaker 5: He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven
Speaker 5: and fire. As hence, like foxes wipe thine eyes. The
Speaker 5: good years shall devour them flesh and fell ere they
Speaker 5: shall make us weep. We'll see em starve.
Speaker 1: First come excellent Lear and Cordelia guarded.
Speaker 4: Come hither, captain Hark. Take thou this note, go follow
Speaker 4: them to prison. One step I advanced thee. If thou
Speaker 4: dost as this instructs thee, thou dost make thy way
Speaker 4: to noble fortunes. Know thou this that men are as
Speaker 4: the time is to be tender minded, does not become
Speaker 4: a sword. Thy great employment will not bear question either
Speaker 4: say thou doot or thrive by other means. I'll do it,
Speaker 4: my Lord, about it, and right happy when thou hast
Speaker 4: done mark, I say, instantly, and carry it so as
Speaker 4: I have set it down.
Speaker 9: I cannot draw a cart nor eat dry oats. If
Speaker 9: it be man's work, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: Exit, flourish, enter Albany, Goneril, Reagan and officers.
Speaker 13: Sir, you have showed to day your valiant strain and
Speaker 13: fortune led you well. You have the captives who are
Speaker 13: the opposites of this day's strife. We do require them
Speaker 13: of you, so to use them as we shall find
Speaker 13: their merits, and our safety may equally determine.
Speaker 4: Sir, I thought it fit to send the old and
Speaker 4: miserable king to some retention and appointed guard, whose age
Speaker 4: has charms in it, with title more to pluck the
Speaker 4: common bosom on his side, and turn our impressed lances
Speaker 4: in our eyes, which do command them with him. I
Speaker 4: sent the Queen my reason all the same, and they
Speaker 4: are ready to morrow, or at further space, to appear
Speaker 4: where you shall hold your session. At this time we
Speaker 4: sweat and bleed. The friend hath lost his friend, and
Speaker 4: the best quarrels in the heat are cursed by those
Speaker 4: that feel their sharpness. The question of Cordelia and her
Speaker 4: father requires a fitter place.
Speaker 13: Sir, by your patience, I hold you but a subject
Speaker 13: of this war, not as a brother.
Speaker 8: That's as we list to grace him. Methinks our pleasure
Speaker 8: might have been demanded ere you had spoke so a
Speaker 8: he led our powers for the commission of my place
Speaker 8: in person, the which immediacy he may well stand up
Speaker 8: and call itself your brother.
Speaker 6: Not so hot in his own grace, he doth exalt
Speaker 6: himself more than in your addition.
Speaker 8: In my rights. By me invested, he can bears the best.
Speaker 6: That were the most. If he should husband.
Speaker 8: You jestures, do oft prove profits.
Speaker 6: Halla, Halla, that I that told you so looked but
Speaker 6: a squint.
Speaker 8: Lady, I am not well. Else I should answer from
Speaker 8: a full.
Speaker 1: Flowing stomach to Edmund.
Speaker 8: General, take thou my soldiers, prisoners, patrimony, dispose of them
Speaker 8: of me. The walls are thine witness the world that
Speaker 8: I create there, my lord Avda mean.
Speaker 6: You to enjoy him.
Speaker 13: The let alone lies not in your good will nor
Speaker 13: in thine lord, half blooded fellow.
Speaker 8: Yes to Edmund, let the drums, drike and prove my idle.
Speaker 13: Thine stay yet here, reason edmund, I arrest thee on
Speaker 13: capital treason, and in thine arrest this gilded serpent.
Speaker 1: He points to Goneril.
Speaker 13: For your claim, fair sister, I bar it in the
Speaker 13: interest of my wife Tis. She is subcontracted to this lord,
Speaker 13: and I her husband, contradict your bands. If you will marry,
Speaker 13: make your loves to me. My lady is bespoke on interlude.
Speaker 13: Thou art armed Gloucester. Let the trumpets if none appear
Speaker 13: to prove upon thy person, thy heinous manifest and many treasons.
Speaker 13: There is my pledge.
Speaker 1: He throws down his glove.
Speaker 13: I'll prove it on thy heart. Ere I taste bread.
Speaker 13: Thou art in nothing less than I have here proclaimed thee.
Speaker 8: Sick, oh sick.
Speaker 6: If not, I'll ne'er trust medicine.
Speaker 1: There's my exchange, throwing down his glove.
Speaker 4: What in the world he is that names me traitor villain?
Speaker 4: Like he lies? Call by thy trumpet, he that dares
Speaker 4: approach on him on you who not, I will maintain
Speaker 4: my truth and honor firmly.
Speaker 13: A herald ho enter, a herald trust to thy single
Speaker 13: virtue for thy soldiers all levied in my name have
Speaker 13: in my name took their discharge.
Speaker 8: My sickness grows upon me.
Speaker 13: She is not well. Convey her to my tent.
Speaker 1: Exit. Reagan supported a herald, ho a herald. A trumpet sounds.
Speaker 26: If any man of quality or degree within the lists
Speaker 26: of the army will maintain upon Edmund supposed, Earl of Gloucester,
Speaker 26: that he is a manifold traitor, Let him appear by
Speaker 26: the third sound of the trumpet. He is bold in
Speaker 26: his defense.
Speaker 1: First trumpet again, Second trumpet again, third trumpet, trumpet answers
Speaker 1: within enter Edgar, armed a trumpet before him, Ask.
Speaker 13: Him his purposes? Why he appears upon this call the trumpet?
Speaker 12: What are you?
Speaker 4: You name?
Speaker 26: Your quality? And why you answer this present summons?
Speaker 11: No, my name is lost by treason's tooth, bare norn
Speaker 11: and canker bit. Yet, my noble the adversary, I come
Speaker 11: to cope.
Speaker 13: Which is that adversary?
Speaker 11: What's he that speaks for Edmund, Earl of Gloucester himself?
Speaker 4: What sayest thou to him?
Speaker 11: Draw thy sword? That if my speech offend a noble heart,
Speaker 11: thy arm may do thee justice here is mine? He
Speaker 11: draws his sword, behold, it is the privilege of mine, honors,
Speaker 11: my oath, and my profession. I protest Morga, thy strength, youth, place,
Speaker 11: and eminence, despite thy victor's sword and fire, new fortune,
Speaker 11: thy valor, and thy heart. Thou art a traitor, false
Speaker 11: to thy gods, thy brother and thy father, consporant gainst
Speaker 11: this high illustrious prince, and from the extremest upward of
Speaker 11: thy head to the descent and dust beneath thy foot,
Speaker 11: a most toad spotted traitor, Say thou no, this sword,
Speaker 11: this arm, and my best spirits are bent to prove
Speaker 11: upon thy heart. I speak thou liest in wisdom.
Speaker 4: I should ask thy name. But since thy outside looks
Speaker 4: so fair and warlike, and that thy tongue some say
Speaker 4: of breeding breathes what safe and nicely, I might well delay.
Speaker 4: By rule of knighthood I disdain and spurn back. Do
Speaker 4: I toss those treasons to thy head with the hell
Speaker 4: hated lie, or whelm thy heart, which for they yet
Speaker 4: glance by and scarcely bruise. This sword of mine shall
Speaker 4: give them instant way where they shall rest forever.
Speaker 1: Trumpets speak alarums fights. Edmond falls to Edgar about to
Speaker 1: kill Edmund, Save.
Speaker 13: Him, Save him.
Speaker 6: This is mere practice Gloucester. By the law of arms.
Speaker 6: Thou wast not bound to answer an unknown opposite. Thou
Speaker 6: art not vanquished, but cozened and beguile.
Speaker 13: Shut your mouth, Dame, or with this paper I shall
Speaker 13: stop it.
Speaker 1: Hold sir to Goneril.
Speaker 13: Thou worse than any name. Read thine own evil, no tearing, Lady.
Speaker 13: I perceive you know it.
Speaker 6: Say if I do, the laws are mine, not thine.
Speaker 6: Who can arraign me for it?
Speaker 13: Most monstrous? Knowst thou this paper?
Speaker 6: Ask me not what I know?
Speaker 1: Exit Goneril, Go after her.
Speaker 13: She's desperate.
Speaker 1: Govern her, Exit Officer.
Speaker 4: What you have charged me with?
Speaker 18: That?
Speaker 4: Have I done? And more? Much more? The time will
Speaker 4: bring it out tis past, and so am I. But
Speaker 4: what art thou that hast this fortune on me? If
Speaker 4: thou art noble, I do forgive.
Speaker 11: Thee let's exchange charity. I am no less in blood
Speaker 11: than thou Art Edmund. If more more thou hast wronged me.
Speaker 11: My name is Edgar and thy father's son. The gods
Speaker 11: are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to
Speaker 11: plague us the dark and vicious place where thee god
Speaker 11: cost him his eyes.
Speaker 4: Thou hast spoken right? Tis true? The wheel is come
Speaker 4: full circle.
Speaker 13: I am here, methought thy very gait did prophecy a
Speaker 13: royal nobleness. I must embrace thee. Let sorrow split my
Speaker 13: heart if ever I did hate thee or thy father
Speaker 13: worthy prince, I note, where have you hid yourself? How
Speaker 13: have you known the miseries of your father.
Speaker 11: By nursing them? My lord, list a brief tale, and
Speaker 11: when tis told, how my heart would burst. The bloody
Speaker 11: proclamation to escape that followed me so near, Oh, our
Speaker 11: live sweetness, that with the pain of death, we'd hourly
Speaker 11: die rather than die at once taught me to shift
Speaker 11: into a madman's rags, to assume a semblance that very
Speaker 11: dogs disdained. And in this habit that I my father,
Speaker 11: with his bleeding rings their precious stones new lost, became
Speaker 11: his guide, led him, begged for him, saved him from despair.
Speaker 11: Never o fault revealed myself unto him until some half
Speaker 11: hour passed. When I was armed, not sure, though hoping
Speaker 11: of this good success, I asked his blessing, and from
Speaker 11: first to last told him my pilgrimage. But his flawed
Speaker 11: heart a lacked too weak the conflict to support to
Speaker 11: two extremes of passion, joy and grief burst smilingly.
Speaker 4: The speech of yours hath moved me, and shall perchance
Speaker 4: too good. But speak you once you look as you
Speaker 4: had something more to say.
Speaker 13: If there be more more, woeful, hold it in, for
Speaker 13: I am almost ready to dissolve.
Speaker 11: Hearing of this, this would have seemed appear to such
Speaker 11: as love not sorrow, But another to amplify too much
Speaker 11: would make much more and top extremity. Whilst I was
Speaker 11: big in clamor, came there a man, who, having seen
Speaker 11: me in my worst estate, shunned my abhorred society. But
Speaker 11: then finding who twas that so endured with his strong arms.
Speaker 11: He fastened on my neck and bellowed out as he'd
Speaker 11: burst Heaven threw him on. My father told the most
Speaker 11: piteous tale of Leir and him that ever ear received, which,
Speaker 11: in recounting his grief, grew puissant, and the strings of
Speaker 11: life began to crack twice. Then the trumpet sounded, and
Speaker 11: there I left him tranced. But who was this Kent, Sir?
Speaker 11: The banished Kent, who in disguise followed his enemy king
Speaker 11: and did him service improper for a slave.
Speaker 1: Enter a gentleman with a bloody knife.
Speaker 17: Help help, Oh help.
Speaker 11: What kind of help?
Speaker 13: Speak man?
Speaker 11: What means that bloody knife tis hot?
Speaker 17: It smokes? It came even from the heart of Oh
Speaker 17: she's dead?
Speaker 22: Who dead?
Speaker 13: Speak man?
Speaker 17: Your lady, sir, your lady and her sister by her
Speaker 17: is poisoned. She hath confessed it.
Speaker 4: I was contracted to them both. All three now marry
Speaker 4: in an instant.
Speaker 11: Here comes Kent, and to Kent.
Speaker 13: Produce their bodies, be they alive or dead. This judgment
Speaker 13: of the heaven that makes us tremble, touches us not
Speaker 13: with pity.
Speaker 2: Exit, gentlemen, I am come to bid my king and master,
Speaker 2: I good night? Is he not here?
Speaker 13: Great thing of us? Forgot? Speak Edmund? Where's the king?
Speaker 13: And where's Cordelia?
Speaker 1: Goneril's and Reagan's bodies are brought out black?
Speaker 4: Why thus yet Edmund was beloved the one the other
Speaker 4: poisoned for my sake, and after slew.
Speaker 13: Herself even so cover their faith.
Speaker 4: I pant for life. Some good I mean to do
Speaker 4: despite of mine own nature quickly said, be brief in
Speaker 4: it to the castle, for my writ is on the
Speaker 4: life of Leir and on Cordelia. Nay, send in.
Speaker 11: Time, run run o, run to who, my lord, who
Speaker 11: has the office? Send thy token of reprieve well thought odd.
Speaker 4: To an officer, take my sword, give it to the
Speaker 4: captain Hastee for thy life.
Speaker 1: Exit officer.
Speaker 4: He hath commission from thy wife and me to hang
Speaker 4: Cordelia in the prison, and to lay the blame upon
Speaker 4: her own despair, that she forbid herself.
Speaker 13: The gods defend her bear him.
Speaker 1: Hence a while Edmund is borne off enter Lear with
Speaker 1: Cordelia in his arms, followed by the officer and others.
Speaker 27: How how, how, how oh you are men of stone,
Speaker 27: and I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so
Speaker 27: that Heaven's vultur'd crack.
Speaker 5: She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead
Speaker 5: and when one lives. She is dead as earth. Lend
Speaker 5: me a looking glass. If that her breath will mist
Speaker 5: or stain the stone? Why he then she lives?
Speaker 11: Is this the promised end or image of that horror?
Speaker 7: Fall?
Speaker 20: And cease?
Speaker 5: This feather stirs? She lives? If it be so, it
Speaker 5: is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever
Speaker 5: I have felt.
Speaker 2: Oh, my good master.
Speaker 11: Prithee away tis noble, kent your friend.
Speaker 5: The plague upon you, murderers, trait us all. I might
Speaker 5: have saved her. Now she's gone for ever. Cordelia, Cordelia,
Speaker 5: stay a little? Ah, what est thou sayest? Her voice
Speaker 5: was ever soft, gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman?
Speaker 5: I killed the slave that was a hanging thee did
Speaker 5: I not, fellow? I have seen the day with my
Speaker 5: good biting falshion that I would have made them skip.
Speaker 5: I am old now, and these same crosses spoil me.
Speaker 1: Who are you?
Speaker 5: Mine? Eyes are not the best. I'll tell you straight.
Speaker 2: If fortune brag of two she loved and hated one
Speaker 2: of them, we behold.
Speaker 5: This is a dull sight?
Speaker 2: Are you not kent the same? Your servant kent? Where
Speaker 2: is your servant chaos?
Speaker 5: He's a good fellow. I can tell you that he'll strike,
Speaker 5: and quickly too. He's dead and rotten.
Speaker 2: No, my good lord, I am the very men.
Speaker 5: I'll see that straight.
Speaker 2: That from your first of difference and decay have followed
Speaker 2: your sad step.
Speaker 5: You're welcome hither.
Speaker 2: Nor no man else. All's cheerless, dark and deadly. Your
Speaker 2: eldest daughters have fordone themselves and desperately are dead.
Speaker 5: Aye, So I think.
Speaker 13: He knows not what he says. And vain is it
Speaker 13: that we present us to him?
Speaker 11: Very bootless?
Speaker 1: Enter a messenger.
Speaker 23: Edmund is dead, my lord.
Speaker 13: That's but a trifle here. You lords and noble friends
Speaker 13: know our intent. What comfort to this great decay may
Speaker 13: come shall be applied for us. We will resign during
Speaker 13: the life of this old majesty to him our absolute
Speaker 13: power to Edgar and kent to you your rights with
Speaker 13: boot and such addition as your honors have more than merited.
Speaker 13: All friends shall taste the wages of their virtue and
Speaker 13: all the cup of their deservings. Oh see see.
Speaker 5: And my poor fool is hanged. No, no, no life.
Speaker 5: Why should a dog ohes a rat have life? And
Speaker 5: thou no breath at all? Thou come no more, never never, never,
Speaker 5: never pray you undo this button? Thank you, sir. Do
Speaker 5: you see this? Look on her? Look her lips? Look there,
Speaker 5: Look there he dies.
Speaker 22: He faints, My lord, my lord, break heart, I prithee,
Speaker 22: break look up, my lord, that's not his ghost.
Speaker 2: Oh let him pass. He hates him, that would upon
Speaker 2: the wreck of this rough world stretch him out longer.
Speaker 11: He is gone.
Speaker 2: Indeed, though wonder is he hath endured so long he
Speaker 2: but usurped his life.
Speaker 13: Bear them from Hence our present business is general woe
Speaker 13: to Kent and Edgar. Friends of my soul, You twain
Speaker 13: rule this realm, and the Gord state sustain.
Speaker 2: I have a journey, sir, shortly to go, My master
Speaker 2: calls me. I must not say no.
Speaker 13: The weight of this sad, sad time. We must obey,
Speaker 13: speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
Speaker 13: The oldest have borne. Most we that are young shall
Speaker 13: never see so much, nor live so long.
Speaker 1: Exen with a dead march. End of King Lear by
Speaker 1: William Shakespeare