That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Glo. Set me where you stand. Edg. Give me your hand: You are now with in a foot of the extreme verge: for all beneath the moon Would I not leap upright. Glo. Let go my hand. Here, friend, is another purse; in it a jewel Well worth a poor man's taking; Fairies, and gods, Prosper it with thee! Go thou further off; Glo. With all my heart. [Seems to go. Big. Why I do trifle thus with his despair, Is done to cure it. Glo. O you mighty gods! This world I do renounce; and, in your sights, If I could bear it longer, and not fall To quarrel with your great opposeless wills, [He leaps and falls along. By this, had thought been past.-Alive, or dead? Ho, you Sir! friend!-Hear you, Sir ?-speak! Glo. Away, and let me die. Edg. Hadst thou been aught but gossomer, So many fathom down precipitating, Hast heavy substance: bleed'st not; speak'st; art sound. Ten masts at each make not the altitude, Look up a-height;-the shrill-gorg'd⚫ lark so far Cannot be seen or beard: do but look up. Is wretchedness depriv'd that benefit, To end itself by death? "Twas yet some comfort, Edg. Give me your arm: Up-So;-How is't? Feel you your legs? You Glo. Too well, too well. Edg. This is above all strangeness. Glo. A poor unfortunate beggar. Edg. As I stood here below, methought, his eyes Were two full moons; he had a thousand noses, sea; It was some fiend: Therefore, thou happy fa- Think that the clearest gods, who make them Glo. I do remember now: henceforth I'll Affliction, till it do cry out itself, speak of, That thing you I took it for a man; often 'twould say, Enter LEAB, fantastically dressed up with The safer sense will ne'er accommodate Lear. No, they cannot touch me for coining; Edg. O thou side-piercing sight! Lear. Nature's above art in that respect.-There's your press-money. That fellow banIdles his bow like a crow-keeper: draw me a clothier's yard. -Look, look, a mouse! Peace, peace-this piece of toasted cheese will do't. -There's my gauntlet; I'll prove it on a giant. -Bring up the brown bills. -O, well flown, bird -i'the clout, i'the clout: ¶ hewgb!-Give the word. * Edg. Sweet marjoram. Glo. I know that voice. Lear. Ha! Goneril!-with a white beard fThey flatter'd me like a dog; and told me I had white hairs in my beard, ere the black ones were there. To say aye and no to every that I said aye and no to, was no good divinity. When the rain came to wet me once, and the wind to make me chatter; when the thunder would not peace at my bidding; there I found them, there I smelt them out. Go to, they are not men o'their words: they told me I was every thing; 'tis a lie: I am not ague-proof. Glo. The trick tt of that voice I do well re- Lear. Ay, every inch a king: Thou shalt not die: Die for adultery! No: Let copulation thrive, for Gloster's bastard son Eg. From the dread summit of this chalky Got 'tween the lawful sheets. To't, luxury, pell-mell, for I lack soldiers.- Whose face between her forks presageth snow; The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to't Down from the waist they are centaurs, But to the girdle do the gods inherit, + There is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption;-Fie, fie, fie! pah; pah! Give ine an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination: there's money for thee. Glo. O, let me kiss that hand! Lear. Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality. Glo. O ruin'd piece of nature! This great world Lear. I will die bravely, like a bridegroom: [me? I will be jovial; come, come; I am a king, Shall so wear out to nought.-Dost thou know Lear. I remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou squiny at me? No, do thy worst, blind Cupid; I'll not love.-Read thou this challenge; mark but the penning of it. Glo. Were all the letters suns, I could not see Gent. You are a royal one, and we obey yon. Lear. Then there's life in it. Nay, an you get it, you shall get it by running. Sa, sa, sa, [Exit, running; Attendants follow. Gent. A sight most pitiful in the ineanest wretch; sa. Edg. Ch'ill not let go, Zir, without vurther | To match thy goodness? My life will be too 'casion. Stew. Let go, slave, or thou diest. Edg. Good gentleman, go your galt, and let poor volk pass. And ch'ud ha' been zwag. ger'd out of my life, 'twould not ha' been zo Nay, come not long as 'tis by a vortnight, near the old man; keep out, che vor'ye, or ise try whether your costard or my bath be the harder: Ch'ill be plain with you. Stew. Out, dunghill ! Edg. Ch'ill pick your teeth, Zir: Come; no matter vor your foins. § [They fight; and EDGAR knocks him down. Stew. Slave, thou hast slain me :-Villain, take my purse; If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body; me, To Edmund earl of Gloster; seek him out [Dies. short, And every measure fall me. Kent. To be acknowledg'd, madam, is o'er- All my reports go with the modest truth; These weeds are memories of those worser I pr'ythee, put them off. Kent. Pardon me, dear madam ; Cor. Then be it so, my good lord.-How Cure this great breach in his abused nature! Phys. So please your majesty, Edg. I know thee well: A serviceable vil-That we may wake the king? he hath siept long. lain; As duteous to the vices of thy mistress, As badness would desire. Glo. What, is he dead? Edg. Sit you down, father; rest you.~~~ Let's see his pockets: these letters; that he speaks of, [sorry May be my friends.-He's dead; I am only He had no other death's-man.-Let us see:Leave, gentle wax; and, manners, blame us not: To know our enemies' minds, we'd rip their hearts; Their papers, is more lawful. || [Reads. Let our reciprocal vows be remembered. You have many opportunities to cut him off: if your will want not, time and place will be fruitfully offered. There is nothing done, if he return the conqueror: Then am I the prisoner, and his bed my jail; from the loathed warmth whereof deliver me, and supply the place for your labour. Your wife, (so I would say,) and your GONERIL. O undistinguish'd space of woman's will!- Thee I'll rake up, the post unsanctified [Exit EDGAR, dragging out the Body. Glo. The king is mad: How stiff is my vile sense, That I stand up, and have ingenious feeling We put fresh garments on him. Phys. Be by, good madam, when we do I doubt not of his temperance. Phys. Please you, draw near.-Louder the Cor. O my dear father! Restoration, hang Thy medicine on my lips; aud let this kiss Repair those violent harms, that my two sisters Have in thy reverence made! Kent. Kind and dear princess! Cor. Had you not been their father, these white flakes Had challeng'd pity of them. Was this a face In the most terrible and nimble stroke of quick, cross lightning? to watch, (poor perdu !) $ With this thin belin? Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire: And wast thou fain, poor To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn, Phys. Madam, do you: 'tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o'the Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Cor. Sir, do you know me ? Lear. You are a spirit, I know; When did you die 1 Cor. Still, still, far wide! Phys. He's scarce awake; let him alone SCENE VII-A Tent in the French Camp. I am mightily abus'd.-I should even die with t Intent formed. The allusion is to the forlorn-hope in an army, Thin covering of hair. • Go your To rip their papers is more lawful. called in French enfans perdue. Thrusts. i'll cover thee (the dead steward) in the sands 2 S Tell me,-but truly,-but then speak the truth, Edm. In bonour'd love. Reg. But have you never found my brother's Hear me one word. Alb. I'll overtake you.-Speak. [Exeunt EDMUND, REGAN, GONERIL, Of. cers, Soldiers, and Attendants. Edg. Before you fight the battle, ope this letter. If you have victory, let the trumpet sound [Exit. For him that brought it: wretched though I Kent. My point and period will be thoroughly wrought, Or well, or ill, as this day's battle's fought. ACT V. [Exit. scem, I can produce a champion, that will prove When time shall serve, let but the herald cry, Alb. Why, fare thee well; I will o'erlook Let her, who would be rid of him, devise [Exit. SCENE II.-A Field between the Two Camps. Alarum within.-Enter, with Drum and Colours, LEAR, CORDELIA, and their Forces; and Exeunt. Enter EDGAR and GLOSTER. Edg. Here, father, take the shadow of this tree For your good host; pray that the right may If ever I return to you again, Glo. Grace go with you, Sir! [Exit EDGAR. Alarums; afterwards a Retreat.-Re-enter Edg. Away, old man, give me thy hand, away; King Lear bath lost, he and his daughter ta'en: Glo. No further, Sir; a man may rot even here. endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither: Until their greater pleasures first be known That are to censure them. Cor. We are not the first, worst. good Edm. Take them away. caught thee? He that parts us shall bring a brand from And fire us hence, like foxes. Wipe thine eyes; fell, t Ere they shall make us weep: we'll see them Come. [Exeunt LEAR, and CORDELIA guarded. Take thou this note; [Giving a Paper.] go, One step I have advanc'd thee; if thou dost Will not bear question; either say, thou❜lt Off. I'll do't, my lord. Edm. About it; and write happy, when thou Mark, I say, instantly; and carry it so, Off. I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; [Exit OFFICER. Flourish. Enter ALBANY, GONERIL, REGAN, OFFICERS, and Attendants. Alb. Sir, you have shown to-day your val iant strain, And fortune led you well: You have the cap- Who were the opposites of this day's strife: Edm. Sir, I thought it fit My reason all the same; and they are ready time, At this Who, with best meaning, have incurr'd the We sweat, and bleed: the friend hath lost his For thee, oppressed king, am I cast down; frown. false fortune's Shall we not see these daughters, and these sisters ? Lear. No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i'the cage: down, And ask of thee forgiveness: So we'll live, At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon us the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: And we'll wear out, ones, That ebb and flow by the moon. 1. e. Make my party good. +1e. To be ready prepared, is all. 1 Pass judgment on them. friend; And the best quarrels, in the heat, are curs'd Alb. Sir, by your patience, I hold you but a subject of this war, Reg. That's as we list to grace him. Ere you had spoke so far. He led our powers; |