Q1_scene/23: n="23" _ty___________________________________p_______e="s_________c___________e______________n________________________________________________________e"> A____________________________________________ F1_scene/23: n="3_">Enter in conquest with Drum and Colours, Edmund, Lear, and Cordelia, as prisoners, Souldiers, Captaine. Some Officers take them away: good guard,_ Vntill their greater pleasures first be known Q1_scene/23: _____l_________a_r_u_____m. ______E___nt____e__r_ t_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: e That are to censure them. We are not the first, Who with best meaning have incurr'd the worst: For thee oppressed King I am cast down, Myself could else out-frowne false Fortunes frowne. Shall we no Q1_scene/23: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: t see these Daughters, and these Sisters? No, no, no, no: come let us away to prison, We two alone will sing like Birds in the Cage: When thou dost aske me blessing, I will kneele down And aske of the Q1_scene/23: _____________________________h___________________________________________________________________________________e_ p____________________________ow______________________________e_rs_ _________o_______ F1_scene/23: e forgiuenesse: So we will live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded Butterflies: and here (poore Rogues) Talk of Court newes, and we will talk with them too, Who looses, and w Q1_scene/23: _________________f_ ______F__r__________a____________________________n____c_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: ho wins; who is In, who is out; And take upon us the mystery of things, As if we were Gods spies: And we will weare out In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebbe and flow by the Moo Q1_scene/23: _________________e_ ____o_v___________________________________________________________________________________________e_____r_ t_________h______________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: ne. Take them away. upon such sacrifices my Cordelia, The Gods themselves throw Incense. Have I caught thee? He that parts us, shall bring a Brand from Heauen, And fire us hence, like Foxes: wipe thin Q1_scene/23: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________e___ __st__a_______________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: e eyes, The good yeares shall deuoure them, flesh and fell, Ere they shall make us weepe? We will see them staru'd first: come. Exit. Come hither Captaine, hearke. Take thou this note, go follow the Q1_scene/23: __________________________g______________e, __C________________________________________________________________________________________or_d_____________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: m to prison, One step I have aduanc'd thee, if thou dost As this instructs thee, thou dost make thy way To Noble Fortunes: know thou this, that men Are as the time is; to be tender minded Does not bec Q1_scene/23: _____e___________________________________l_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ia_ w_________________________________i__ F1_scene/23: ome a Sword, thy great imployment Will not beare question: either say thou wilt do it, Or thriue by other meanes. I will do it my Lord. About it, and write happy, when thou hast done, Marke I say inst Q1_scene/23: ____t______________________________________h_ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: antly, and carry it so As I have set it down. Exit Captaine. Flourish. Enter Albany, Gonerill, Regan, Soldiers. Sir, you have shew'd today your valiant straine And Fortune led you well: you have the Q1_scene/23: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: Captiues Who were the opposites of this dayes strife: I do require them of you so to vse them, As we shall find their merites, and our safety May equally determine. Sir, I thought it fit, To send the Q1_scene/23: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: old and miserable King to some retention, Whose age had Charmes in it, whose Title more, To plucke the common bosome on his side, And turne our imprest Launces in our eyes Which do command them. With Q1_scene/23: ______________________________________h__________________________e_______r_ _f____a__t________________________________________h_e___________r_ _________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: him I sent the Queen: My reason all the same, and they are ready Tomorrow, or at further space, to appeare Where you shall hold your Session. Sir, by your patience, I hold you but a subiect of this W Q1_scene/23: _____________________________________________________________i__n__ _____________________h________________________________________________e_________r_ _________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: arre, Not as a Brother. That is as we list to grace him. Methinks our pleasure might have been demanded Ere you had spoke so far. He led our Powers, Bore the Commission of my place and person, The w Q1_scene/23: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________h_______a_____n________________________d. _ F1_scene/23: hich immediacie may well stand up, And call itself your Brother. Not so hot: In his own grace he doth exalt himself, More than in your addition. In my rights, By me inuested, he compeeres the best._ T Q1_scene/23: ______________________________________________E________________________n_t________________________________e_____r_ ___E___d_g__a_____r_ _________a____n__d_ ____________________________________________ F1_scene/23: hat were the most, if he should husband you. Iesters do oft proue Prophets. Hola, hola, That eye that told you so, look'd but a-squint. Lady I am not well, else I should answere From a full flowing st Q1_scene/23: _____________________G__________________l__________________________ost________________________________________________________________________________________________e___r. __________________________ F1_scene/23: omack. Generall, Take thou my Souldiers, prisoners, patrimony, Dispos_e of them, of me, the walls is thine: Witnesse the world, that I create thee here My Lord, and Master._ Meane you to enioy him? Th Q1_scene/23: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: e let alone lies not in your good will. Nor in thine Lord. Halfe-blooded fellow, yes. Let the Drum strike, and proue my title thine. Stay yet, hear reason: Edmund, I arrest thee On capitall Treason; a Q1_scene/23: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: nd in thy arrest, This guilded Serpent: for your claime fair Sisters, I bare it in the interest of my wife, It is she is sub-contracted to this Lord, And I her husband contradict your Banes. If you wi Q1_scene/23: _______H______e____________r__e_ ________________________________________________________________fa__________th__________________e_______________________r, __________t_________________a_________ke_ t_ F1_scene/23: ll marry, make your loues to me, My Lady is bespoke. An enterlude. Thou art armed Gloster, Let the Trumpet sound: If none appeare to proue upon thy person, Thy heynous, manifest, and many Treasons, Th Q1_scene/23: ____________________________________________h_________________e_ ___s______________________________________________h__a_______________________dd_ow___ _______________o______________________________f_ F1_scene/23: ere is my pledge: I will make it on thy heart Ere I taste bread, thou art in nothing lesse Than I have here proclaim'd thee. Sicke, O sicke. If not, I will never trust medicine. There is my exchange, Q1_scene/23: t________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________h___________________________________________________________is_ _______________ F1_scene/23: what in the world he is That names me Traitor, villain-like he lies, Call by the Trumpet: he that dares approach; On him, on you, who not, I will maintaine My truth and honour firmely. Enter a Herald. Q1_scene/23: ______________b__u__________s___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: A Herald, ho. Trust to thy single vertue, for thy Souldiers All leuied in my name, have in my name Tooke their discharge. My sicknesse growes upon me. She is not well, conuey her to my Tent. Come hit Q1_scene/23: ________________________________h ________F______or_____ y________ou__r_ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: her Herald, let the Trumpet sound, And read out this. A Trumpet sounds. Herald reads. If any man of qualitie or degree, within the lists of the Army, will maintaine upon Edmund, supposed Earle of Gl Q1_scene/23: _______________________________________________________________________________g_____oo__________________________d_____ h_____o____ast,____ _____pr_____ay_____ ___________________________t____________ F1_scene/23: oster, that he is a manifold Traitor, let him appeare by the third sound of the Trumpet: he is bold in his defence. 1 Trumpet. Again. 2 Trumpet. Again. 3 Trumpet. Trumpet answers within. Enter E Q1_scene/23: _______________________ha_______t_ __t_________________________________________________________________he_ ______righ_t_ ______________________________________________________________________________m F1_scene/23: dgar armed. Aske him his purposes, why he appeares upon this Call of the Trumpet. What are you? Your name, your quality, and why you answer This present Summons? Know my name is lost By Treasons tooth Q1_scene/23: ___________________________ay_ __t___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________h_________r______________i_ F1_scene/23: : bare-gnawne, and Canker-bit, Yet am I Noble as the Aduersary I come to cope. Which is that Aduersary? What is he that speakes for Edmund Earle of Gloster? Himself, what saist thou to him? Draw thy S Q1_scene/23: __ue ____________I________________________f_ _____________________e__v______________________________________________________________________e_____r_ _________________________I___ ______r________e_tu_ F1_scene/23: word, That if my speech offend a Noble heart, Thy arme may do thee Iustice, here is mine: Behold it is my priuiledge, The priuiledge of mine Honours, My oath, and my profession. I protest, Maugre thy Q1_scene/23: __r___ne_ t___o_ yo__u_ ___a_______g___a____________i________n_ ____________________________________________________________________________________i_ __w______________________________________________ F1_scene/23: strength, place, youth, and eminence, Despise thy victor-Sword, and fire new Fortune, Thy valor, and thy heart, thou art a Traitor: False to thy Gods, thy Brother, and thy Father, Conspirant against t Q1_scene/23: _________i_______________ll_ ____b_r______i_____________n_____________________________________________________g___ y___________________________________________o____u_ ___________________c_____________ F1_scene/23: his high illustrious Prince, And from the extremest upward of thy head, To the discent and dust below thy foote, A most Toad-spotted Traitor. Say thou no, This Sword, this arme, and my best spirits ar Q1_scene/23: _____________________o_m________________________f_______ort. __Ex____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________it F1_scene/23: e bent To proue upon thy heart, whereto I speak, Thou lyest._ In wisedome I should aske thy name, But since thy out-side lookes so fair and Warlike, And that thy tongue (some say) of breeding breathes Q1_scene/23: . ________________________________________________________________________________G____r____a_______c_______________________________e_ ________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: ,_ What safe, and nicely I might well delay, By rule of Knight-hood, I disdaine and spurne: Back do I tosse these Treasons to thy head, With the hell-hated Lye, ore-whelme thy heart, Which for they ye Q1_scene/23: __________________________g____o_ w___i___t____________________________________h_ y__________________________ou_ __________s_____________________ir._ __A___________l_aru______________________m_ _____ F1_scene/23: t glance by, and scarcely bruise, This Sword of mine shall give them instant way, Where they shall rest forever. Trumpets speak. Saue him, saue him. Alarums. Fights. T_his is practise Gloster, By th Q1_scene/23: _______________a_______________________________________________________________________n___________________________d_ _____________r_____________________________________________________et_______r_____ F1_scene/23: e law of Warre, thou wast not bound to answer An vnknowne opposite: thou art not vanquish'd, But cozend, and beguild. Shut your mouth Dame, Or with this paper shall I stop it: hold Sir, Thou worse tha Q1_scene/23: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________e_at._ Away_ ___________old____ ______________________m____ F1_scene/23: n any name, reade thine own euill: No tearing Lady, I perceiue you know it. Say if I do, the Lawes are mine not thine, Who can araigne me for it? Exit. Most monstrous! O, know'st thou this paper? As Q1_scene/23: _____a______________n, _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: ke me not what I know. Go after her, she is desperate, gouerne her. What you have charg'd me with, That have I done, And more, much more, the time will bring it out. It is past, and so am I: But what Q1_scene/23: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: art thou That hast this Fortune on me? If thou art Noble, I do forgiue thee. Let us exchange charity: I am no lesse in blood than thou art Edmond, If more, the more thou hast wrong'd me. My name is Ed Q1_scene/23: __________________________________________________g_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: gar and thy Fathers Son, The Gods are iust, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us: The darke and vitious place where thee he got, Cost him his eyes. Thou hast spoken right, it is tru Q1_scene/23: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________i__v____________e_ __________________m_____________________________________________e_ _______ F1_scene/23: e, The Wheele is come full circle, I am here. Methought thy very gate did prophesie A Royall Noblenesse: I must embrace thee, Let sorrow split my heart, if ever I Did hate thee, or thy Father. Worthy Q1_scene/23: _t____________hy_ ___________________________________________________________________________h____a__________________n_________________________________________d__, __________a______w__a___y, K___i___ F1_scene/23: Prince I know it. Where have you hid yourself? How have you knowne the miseries of your Father? By nursing them my Lord. List a breefe tale, And when it is told, O that my heart would burst._ The bloo Q1_scene/23: _________________n_______________________________g____ __________________L____________________________ea________________r_ _______________________________________________h_____________________a__t____ F1_scene/23: dy proclamation to escape That follow'd me so near, (O our liues sweetnesse, That we the paine of death would hourely dye, Rather than die at once) taught me to shift Into a mad-mans rags, to assume a Q1_scene/23: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: semblance That very Dogges disdain'd: and in this habit Met I my Father with his bleeding Rings, Their precious Stones new lost: became his guide, Led him, begg'd for him, sau'd him from dispaire. Ne Q1_scene/23: __________________________________________________________________________________h_ l__o__st, ____________________________h___________________________e_ ____a_____________________________________n___ F1_scene/23: ver (O fault) reueal'd myself unto him, Vntill some half hour past when I was arm'd, Not sure, though hoping of this good successe, I ask'd his blessing, and from first to last Told him our pilgrimage Q1_scene/23: _____________________d_ ____________________h_______i________________________________________s_ _____________d__a___ug_________________________h____t___________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: . But his flaw'd heart (Alack too weake the conflict to support) Twixt two extremes of passion, ioy and greefe, Burst smilingly. This speech of yours hath mou'd me, And shall perchance do good, but sp Q1_scene/23: ___e_____r_ __ta____________________________________________________________________________________________________________i____ne, __________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: eak you on, You look as you had something more to say. If there be more, more wofull, hold it in, For I am almost ready to dissolue,_ Hearing of this. Enter a Gentleman. Helpe, helpe: O helpe. What ki Q1_scene/23: ____________________________________G__________________________________________iv___________________________e______ m______________________________e_ ___t______________________________________________ F1_scene/23: nde of helpe? Speak man. What meanes this bloody Knife? It is hot, it smoakes, it came even from the heart of -- O she is dead. Who dead? Speak man. Your Lady Sir, your Lady; and her Sister By her is Q1_scene/23: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: poyson'd: she confesses it. I was contracted to them both, all three Now marry in an instant. Here comes Kent. Enter Kent. Produce the bodies, be they aliue or dead; Gonerill and Regans bodies brough Q1_scene/23: _________________________________________________________________________________h__y____ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: t out. This iudgement of the Heauens that makes us tremble. Touches us not with pitty: O, is this he? The time will not allow the complement Which very manners vrges. I am come To bid my King and Mast Q1_scene/23: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: er aye goodnight. Is he not here? Great thing of us forgot, Speak Edmund, where is the King? and where is Cordelia? Seest thou this obiect Kent? Alack, why thus? Yet Edmund was belou'd: The one the ot Q1_scene/23: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ha______________________nd,_ ________________________________c____ F1_scene/23: her poison'd for my sake, And after slew herself. Even so: couer their faces. I pant for life: some good I meane to do Despight of mine own Nature. Quickly send, (Be briefe in it) to the Castle, for m Q1_scene/23: _____o_______m____________________________________e_ o__________n. ___________N__o_ ______________________________________________________________________________f______a_____rt______________________ F1_scene/23: y Writ Is on the life of Lear, and on Cordelia: Nay, send in time._ Run, run, O run. To who my Lord? Who has the Office? Send thy token of repreeue. Well thought on, take my Sword, Give it the Captain Q1_scene/23: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________h________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: e. Haste thee for thy life. He hath Commission from thy Wife and me, To hang Cordelia in the prison, and To lay the blame upon her own dispaire, That she for-did herself. The Gods defend her, beare hi Q1_scene/23: ________________________________________________e___r_ __sir, ____a_ ___________m____a____________n_ _________________m_____a__y___ __r___________o_t_ ______________e_______u__________________________ F1_scene/23: m hence awhile. Enter Lear with Cordelia in his armes. Howle, howle, howle: O you are men of stones, Had I your tongues and eyes, I would vse them so, That Heauens vault should crack: she is gone fore Q1_scene/23: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________e____________________________n_ ____________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: ver. I know when one is dead, and when one liues, She is dead as earth: Lend me a Looking-glasse, If that her breath will mist or staine the stone, Why then she liues. Is this the promis'd end? Or ima Q1_scene/23: ________________h___________________________________________________________________________________________________e_________r_____________________________________e. _W____h___at_ _____________i____ F1_scene/23: ge of that horror. Fall and cease. This feather stirs, she liues: if it be so, It is a chance which does redeeme all sorrowes That ever I have felt. O my good Master._ Prithee away. It is Noble Kent y Q1_scene/23: _________n_ _#______i________________ll_ _______t_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: our Friend. A plague upon you Murderors, Traitors all, I might have sau'd her, now she is gone forever: Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little. Ha: What is it thou saist? Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, a Q1_scene/23: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: nd low, an excellent thing in woman. I kill'd the Slaue that was a-hanging thee. It is true (my Lords) he did. Did I not fellow? I have seene the day, with my good biting Faulchion I would have made h Q1_scene/23: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________h___o__u________________________gh_ts_ ____________________a____________________________ F1_scene/23: im skip: I am old now, And these same crosses spoile me. Who are you? Mine eyes are not of the best, I will tell you straight. If Fortune brag of two, she lou'd and hated, One of them we behold. This Q1_scene/23: _g___a______________________________________i________________n_ ____________________m______________________e___n___ ________m__u___st_ _________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: is a dull sight, are you not Kent? The same: your Seruant Kent, Where is your Seruant Caius? He is a good fellow, I can tell you that, He will strike and quickly too, he is dead and rotten. No my good Q1_scene/23: _________________________________________________________i_______________n_____________________________________d__u_______________r_____________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: Lord, I am the very man. I will see that straight. That from your first of difference and decay, Have follow'd your sad steps. You are welcome hither. Nor no man else: All is cheerlesse, darke, and d Q1_scene/23: ____e, ___T__________________________________________h______________________________e__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: eadly,_ Your eldest Daughters have fore-done themselves, And desperately are dead Aye so I think. He knowes not what he saies, and vaine is it That we present us to him. Enter a Messenger. Very bootle Q1_scene/23: _____________________________________________________________________________________i_____________r_ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ F1_scene/23: sse. Edmund is dead my Lord. That is but a trifle here: You Lords and Noble Friends, know our intent, What comfort to this great decay may come, Shall be appli'd. For us we will resigne, During the li Q1_scene/23: __________________g___________________________________________o_______________________________________i___________n_________________________________________________________________________g_ _________ F1_scene/23: fe of this old Maiesty To him our absolute power, you to your rights, With boote, and such addition as your Honours Have more than merited. All Friends shall Taste the wages of their vertue, and all F Q1_scene/23: ______________________________h____________________________________________________________e________n__________c____e__, _________________________________________e________u____________________________ F1_scene/23: oes The cup of their deseruings: O see, see. And my poore Foole is hang'd: no, no, no life? Why should a Dog, a Horse, a Rat have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou wilt come no more, Never, never, Q1_scene/23: _____________________e________________________n_ ______a______s_ _____t_h__e_____________________________________________________i_r___ _____________c__o________________m______________________________ F1_scene/23: never, never, never. Pray you vndo this Button. Thanke you Sir, Do you see this? Look on her? Look her lips, Look there, look there. He dis. He faints, my Lord, my Lord. Breake heart, I prithee bre Q1_scene/23: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________i______n_____________________________________________________________g F1_scene/23: ake. Look up my Lord. Vex not his ghost, O let him passe, he hates him, That would upon the wracke of this tough world Stretch him out longer. He is gone indeed. The wonder is, he hath endur'd so long Q1_scene/23: _ __hi________t_________________________________________________________________________________________h__e_________r, _R______________________________________i___p_______________e__________________ F1_scene/23: , He but vsurpt his life. Beare them from hence, our present business Is generall woe: Friends of my soule, you twaine,_ Rule in this Realme, and the gor'd state sustaine. I have a iourney Sir, shortl Q1_scene/23: _________________n____________e______________s_ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________i__s_ ___________a__ll_ _______________c_ F1_scene/23: y to go, My Master calls me, I must not say no. The waight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feele, not what we ought to say: The oldest hath borne most, we that are yong, Shall never see s Q1_scene/23: o__m_e_ __o____________n. F1_scene/23: o much, nor live so long. ____