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| <H3>SCENE VI. A chamber in a farmhouse adjoining the castle.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter GLOUCESTER, KING LEAR, KENT, Fool, and EDGAR</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Here is better than the open air; take it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>thankfully. I will piece out the comfort with what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>addition I can: I will not be long from you.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>KENT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=4>All the power of his wits have given way to his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>impatience: the gods reward your kindness!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit GLOUCESTER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>EDGAR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=6>Frateretto calls me; and tells me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>Fool</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=9>Prithee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>gentleman or a yeoman?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING LEAR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=11>A king, a king!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>Fool</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=12>No, he's a yeoman that has a gentleman to his son;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>for he's a mad yeoman that sees his son a gentleman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>before him.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING LEAR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=15>To have a thousand with red burning spits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Come hissing in upon 'em,--</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>EDGAR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=17>The foul fiend bites my back.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Fool</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=18>He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING LEAR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=20>It shall be done; I will arraign them straight.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To EDGAR</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=21>Come, sit thou here, most learned justicer;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To the Fool</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=22>Thou, sapient sir, sit here. Now, you she foxes!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>EDGAR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=23> Look, where he stands and glares!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Wantest thou eyes at trial, madam?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me,--</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>Fool</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=26> Her boat hath a leak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>And she must not speak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>Why she dares not come over to thee.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>EDGAR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=29>The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>nightingale. Hopdance cries in Tom's belly for two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>white herring. Croak not, black angel; I have no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>food for thee.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>KENT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=33>How do you, sir? Stand you not so amazed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>Will you lie down and rest upon the cushions?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>KING LEAR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=35>I'll see their trial first. Bring in the evidence.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To EDGAR</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=36>Thou robed man of justice, take thy place;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To the Fool</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=37>And thou, his yoke-fellow of equity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>Bench by his side:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To KENT</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=39>you are o' the commission,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>Sit you too.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>EDGAR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=41>Let us deal justly.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>Thy sheep be in the corn;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>And for one blast of thy minikin mouth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>Thy sheep shall take no harm.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>Pur! the cat is gray.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>KING LEAR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=47>Arraign her first; 'tis Goneril. I here take my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>oath before this honourable assembly, she kicked the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>poor king her father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Fool</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=50>Come hither, mistress. Is your name Goneril?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech19><b>KING LEAR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=51>She cannot deny it.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech20><b>Fool</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=52>Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech21><b>KING LEAR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=53>And here's another, whose warp'd looks proclaim</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>What store her heart is made on. Stop her there!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>Arms, arms, sword, fire! Corruption in the place!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>False justicer, why hast thou let her 'scape?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech22><b>EDGAR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=57>Bless thy five wits!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech23><b>KENT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=58>O pity! Sir, where is the patience now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>That thou so oft have boasted to retain?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech24><b>EDGAR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=60>[Aside] My tears begin to take his part so much,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>They'll mar my counterfeiting.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech25><b>KING LEAR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=62>The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech26><b>EDGAR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=64>Tom will throw his head at them. Avaunt, you curs!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>Be thy mouth or black or white,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=66>Tooth that poisons if it bite;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>Mastiff, grey-hound, mongrel grim,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>Hound or spaniel, brach or lym,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=69>Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=70>Tom will make them weep and wail:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>For, with throwing thus my head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>Do de, de, de. Sessa! Come, march to wakes and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=74>fairs and market-towns. Poor Tom, thy horn is dry.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech27><b>KING LEAR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=75>Then let them anatomize Regan; see what breeds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=76>about her heart. Is there any cause in nature that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=77>makes these hard hearts?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To EDGAR</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=78>You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=79>do not like the fashion of your garments: you will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=80>say they are Persian attire: but let them be changed.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech28><b>KENT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=81>Now, good my lord, lie here and rest awhile.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech29><b>KING LEAR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=82>Make no noise, make no noise; draw the curtains:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>so, so, so. We'll go to supper i' he morning. So, so, so.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech30><b>Fool</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=84>And I'll go to bed at noon.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter GLOUCESTER</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech31><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=85>Come hither, friend: where is the king my master?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech32><b>KENT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=86>Here, sir; but trouble him not, his wits are gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=87>Good friend, I prithee, take him in thy arms;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=88>I have o'erheard a plot of death upon him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=89>There is a litter ready; lay him in 't,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=90>And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=91>Both welcome and protection. Take up thy master:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=92>If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=93>With thine, and all that offer to defend him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=94>Stand in assured loss: take up, take up;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=95>And follow me, that will to some provision</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=96>Give thee quick conduct.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>KENT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=97>Oppressed nature sleeps:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=98>This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=99>Which, if convenience will not allow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=100>Stand in hard cure.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To the Fool</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=101>Come, help to bear thy master;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=102>Thou must not stay behind.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech35><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=103>Come, come, away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but EDGAR</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>EDGAR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=104>When we our betters see bearing our woes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=105>We scarcely think our miseries our foes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=106>Who alone suffers suffers most i' the mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=107>Leaving free things and happy shows behind:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=108>But then the mind much sufferance doth o'er skip,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=109>When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=110>How light and portable my pain seems now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=111>When that which makes me bend makes the king bow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=112>He childed as I father'd! Tom, away!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=113>Mark the high noises; and thyself bewray,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=114>When false opinion, whose wrong thought defiles thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=115>In thy just proof, repeals and reconciles thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=116>What will hap more to-night, safe 'scape the king!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=117>Lurk, lurk.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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