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e ar. I'll tell thee--Life and death! I am afham'd

That thou haft power to fhake my manhood thus; [To Gon. That these hot tears, which break from me perforce,

d Should make thee worth them.-Blasts and fogs upon thee! Th' untented woundings of a father's curfe

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Pierce every f fenfe about thee! Old fond eyes,

Beweep this caufe again, I'll pluckye out, And caft you, with the waters that

you make,

To temper clay.
Let it be fo: I have another daughter,

m Ha!" is it come to this?

Who, I am fure is kind and comfortable;

When she shall hear this of thee with her nails

She'll flay thyr wolfish vifage.

Thou shalt find,

That I'll refume the fhape, which thou dost think I have caft off for ever. s Thou fhalt I warrant thee. [Exeunt Lear and attendants.

The qu's read that for which.

d The qu's read Showld make the worst blafts and fogs upon the untented (ad q. untender, so P.) woundings, &c.

e The 2d q. read perufe for pierce.

f W. reads fence.

8 The qu's read the old fond eyes, &c.

h So the qu's, 1ft f. T. W. and J. the other fo's beweep thee once again;

R. P. and H. beweep her once again.

i The qu's read you for ye.

k The qu's read you caft for caft you.

So the qu's; the 1st and 2d fo's loofe for make; the rest lefe.

m The qu's read yea for ha!

n The 1ft q. reads is't for is it. The fo's and R. omit is it come this?

• The qu's omit let it be fo.

P The qu's read yet have I left a daughter.

4 The qu's read flay; all the rest flea.

So T. W. and J. the rest wolvish.

All but the qu's omit thou shalt I warrant thee.

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SCENE

'S CEN E XVI.

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Gon. Do you mark that, my lord? Alb. I cannot be fo partial, Gonerill, To the great love I bear you,

* What, Ofwald, ho!

Gon. "Pray you, w be content. X You, yfir, more knave than fool, after your mafter. [To the

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fool.

Fool. Nuncle Lear, nuncle Lear, tarry, and take the fool with a thee.

A fox, when one has caught her,

And fuch a daughter,

Should fure to the flaughter,

If my cap would buy a halter;

So the fool follows after.

[Exit.

b Gon. This man hath had good counfel.-A hundred knights! 'Tis politic, and fafe, to let him keep

At point a hundred knights; yes, that on ev'ry dream,
Each buz, each fancy, each complaint, diflike,

He may enguard his dotage with their powers,
And hold our lives at mercy. Ofwald, I say.
Alb. Well, you may fear too far.

All but the qu's omit my lord.

u The qu's read come, fir, no more, for pray you, be content.

w Be is not in the fo's; R. first puts it in.

* The qu's omit what, Ofwald, ho!

y The qu's omit fir.

Z All but the qu's omit and.

a The qu's omit thee.

b What is in italic is omitted in the qu's.

CH. reads is't for 'tis.

The fo's and R. read in for at.

Gon.

Gon. Safer than trust too far.

Let me ftill take away the harms I fear,
Not fear ftill to be taken. I know his heart!
What he hath utter'd, I have writ my fifter;
If f fhe fuftain him and his hundred knights,
When I have fhew'd th' unfitness-

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What, have you writ that letter to my fifter?

Stew. h Yes, madam.

Gon. Take you fome company, and away to horfe

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Inform her full of my particular fears,

And thereto add fuch reasons of your own,

As may compact it more.

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Go, get you gone,

[Exit Steward.

And m haften your return.

n No, no, my lord,

This milky, gentle, eafy courfe of yours,

e P. and all after but F. read harm'd for taken.

f So the 1st and 2d fo's: the rest he'll.

8 The qu's read

what Ofwald, ho!

Ofw. Here, madam.

Gon. What have you writ this letter, &c.

h So the qu's, the fo's, F. the rest ay.

i P. and H. omit and.

k The fo's, R. and F. read fear.

1 There is no word in the place of go in either qu's, fo's, or R.; P. puts

fo; followed by the rest.

m For haften the 2d q. reads after.

n The qu's read now, my lord, &c.

• All the editions read this milky (zd q. mildie) gentleness and courfe, &c.

So that the alteration in the text is conjectural.

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Though I condemn 9 not, yet under r your pardon, • You are much more at task for want of wisdom, Than w prais'd for harmless mildness.

Alb. How far your eyes may pierce, I cannot tell; y Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

Gon. Nay, then

Alb. Well, well, th' event.

[Exeunt.

SCEN E XVII.

A court-yard belonging to the Duke of Albany's palace.

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Enter, Lear, Kent, a Gentleman, and Fool.

Lear. [to a Gentleman.] Go you before to Glofter with thefe letters. You with this to my daughter Regan. [to Kent.] Acquaint my daughter no further with any thing you know, than comes from her demand out of the letter; if your diligence be not fpeedy, I fhall be there before you.

P The qu's read diflike for condemn.

9 After condemn, P. and all after read it.

Your is conjectural, being in none of the editions.

s The 1ft f. reads your are, &c.

b

For at task the ift q. reads attafkt; which perhaps Shakespear might have written, meaning thereby call'd to task. The ad q. reads alapt for at task.

w The qu's read praise.

x So R. P. and H. the reft read harmful.

The qu's read ftriving to better ought, we mar, &c.

2 This defeription of the feene first given by T. followed by W. and J.

a The qu's omit, the rest add Gentleman after Kent: and rightly: for it

is plain the letter to Regan was fent by Kent; thofe to Glofter by another: the order to Kent is left out; I have therefore fupplied it.

So the qu's; all the rest afore.

Kent.

Kent. I will not fleep, my lord, till I have delivered your letter.

[Exit.

Fool. If a man's brains were in his heels, wer't not in danger of kibes ?

Lear. Ay, boy.

Fool. Then I pr'ythee, be merry, thy wit fhall not go flipfhod.

Lear. Ha, ha, ha.

Fool. Shalt fee, thy other daughter will ufe thee kindly; for though fhe's as like this as a crab's like an apple, yet I can tell what I can tell.

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Lear. Why what can't thou tell, my boy?

Fool. She will tafte as like this, as a crab does to a crab. 1 Thou can'ft not tell why one's nose stands i'th' middle i of one's face?

Lear. No.

Fool. Why to k keep one's eyes of either fide one's nofe, that what a man cannot fmell out, he may spy into.

Lear. I did her wrong

Fool. Can't tell how an oyfter makes his fhell?

Lear. No.

Fool. Nor I neither; but I can tell why a fnail has a house. Lear. Why?

< P. alters this to brain; followed by all after.

The 1ft q. reads where.

e The qu's read nere for not.

f The qu's read I con what I can tell.

8 So the qu's; the rest what can'st tell, boy?

h So the qu's; the 1st and 2d fo's thou can't tell, &c. the 3d f. and all

after can't thou tell, &c.

i The qu's read of his face; the fo's and R. on's face.

* The qu's read keep his eyes on either fide his nofe, &c.

The fo's read fide's nofe, &c.

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