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| <H3>SCENE IV. The same. A tent.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter, with drum and colours, CORDELIA, Doctor, and Soldiers</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>CORDELIA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Alack, 'tis he: why, he was met even now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>In our sustaining corn. A century send forth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Search every acre in the high-grown field,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>And bring him to our eye.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit an Officer</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=9>What can man's wisdom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>In the restoring his bereaved sense?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>He that helps him take all my outward worth.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>Doctor</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=12>There is means, madam:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>Our foster-nurse of nature is repose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>The which he lacks; that to provoke in him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>Are many simples operative, whose power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Will close the eye of anguish.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>CORDELIA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=17>All blest secrets,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>All you unpublish'd virtues of the earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>Spring with my tears! be aidant and remediate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>In the good man's distress! Seek, seek for him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>Lest his ungovern'd rage dissolve the life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>That wants the means to lead it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=23>News, madam;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>The British powers are marching hitherward.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>CORDELIA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=25>'Tis known before; our preparation stands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>In expectation of them. O dear father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>It is thy business that I go about;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>Therefore great France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>My mourning and important tears hath pitied.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>No blown ambition doth our arms incite,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>But love, dear love, and our aged father's right:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>Soon may I hear and see him!</A><br> | |
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