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King Lear
King Lear
King Lear
BY
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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CONTENTS
Dramatis Personae
ACT 1
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
ACT 2
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
ACT 3
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
Scene 7
ACT 4
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
Scene 7
ACT 5
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
1
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
King of France.
Duke of Burgundy.
Duke of Cornwall.
Duke of Albany.
Earl of Kent.
Earl of Gloucester.
Curan, a Courtier.
Physician.
Fool.
A Herald.
Servants to Cornwall.
Scene: Britain.
3
ACT 1
4
SCENE 1
KENT
GLOUCESTER
KENT
GLOUCESTER
KENT
GLOUCESTER
KENT
5
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
No, my lord.
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
KENT
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
KING LEAR
6
GLOUCESTER
I shall, my liege.
KING LEAR
GONERIL
Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter;
Dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty;
Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare;
No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour;
As much as child e'er loved, or father found;
A love that makes breath poor, and speech unable;
Beyond all manner of so much I love you.
7
CORDELIA
LEAR
REGAN
Sir, I am made
Of the self-same metal that my sister is,
And prize me at her worth. In my true heart
I find she names my very deed of love;
Only she comes too short: that I profess
Myself an enemy to all other joys,
Which the most precious square of sense possesses;
And find I am alone felicitate
In your dear highness' love.
CORDELIA
KING LEAR
CORDELIA
Nothing, my lord.
KING LEAR
Nothing!
CORDELIA
Nothing.
KING LEAR
CORDELIA
KING LEAR
CORDELIA
Good my lord,
You have begot me, bred me, loved me: I
Return those duties back as are right fit,
Obey you, love you, and most honour you.
Why have my sisters husbands, if they say
They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed,
That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
Half my love with him, half my care and duty:
Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters,
To love my father all.
9
KING LEAR
CORDELIA
KING LEAR
CORDELIA
KING LEAR
KENT
Good my liege,--
KING LEAR
Peace, Kent!
Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
I loved her most, and thought to set my rest
On her kind nursery. Hence, and avoid my sight!
10
KENT
Royal Lear,
Whom I have ever honour'd as my king,
Loved as my father, as my master follow'd,
As my great patron thought on in my prayers,--
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
Out of my sight!
KENT
KING LEAR
Now, by Apollo,--
KENT
KING LEAR
O, vassal! miscreant!
ALBANY CORNWALL
KENT
12
Do:
Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow
Upon thy foul disease. Revoke thy doom;
Or, whilst I can vent clamour from my throat,
I'll tell thee thou dost evil.
KING LEAR
KENT
To CORDELIA
Exit
GLOUCESTER
KING LEAR
My lord of Burgundy.
We first address towards you, who with this king
Hath rivall'd for our daughter: what, in the least,
Will you require in present dower with her,
Or cease your quest of love?
BURGUNDY
KING LEAR
BURGUNDY
I know no answer.
KING LEAR
BURGUNDY
KING LEAR
Then leave her, sir; for, by the power that made me,
I tell you all her wealth.
To KING OF FRANCE
KING OF FRANCE
CORDELIA
KING LEAR
Better thou
Hadst not been born than not to have pleased me better.
KING OF FRANCE
BURGUNDY
Royal Lear,
Give but that portion which yourself proposed,
And here I take Cordelia by the hand,
Duchess of Burgundy.
KING LEAR
BURGUNDY
CORDELIA
KING OF FRANCE
KING LEAR
Flourish. Exeunt all but KING OF FRANCE, GONERIL, REGAN, and CORDELIA
KING OF FRANCE
CORDELIA
REGAN
GONERIL
CORDELIA
KING OF FRANCE
GONERIL
REGAN
That's most certain, and with you; next month with us.
GONERIL
REGAN
GONERIL
REGAN
GONERIL
REGAN
GONERIL
Exeunt
19
SCENE 2
EDMUND
Enter GLOUCESTER
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
Nothing, my lord.
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
21
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
22
GLOUCESTER
It is his.
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
Exit
EDMUND
Enter EDGAR
EDGAR
EDMUND
EDGAR
EDMUND
EDGAR
EDMUND
EDGAR
EDMUND
EDGAR
EDMUND
EDGAR
None at all.
EDMUND
EDGAR
EDMUND
EDGAR
Armed, brother!
27
EDMUND
EDGAR
EDMUND
Exit EDGAR
Exit
28
SCENE 3
GONERIL
OSWALD
Yes, madam.
GONERIL
OSWALD
Horns within
GONERIL
OSWALD
Well, madam.
GONERIL
Exeunt
30
SCENE 4
KENT
KING LEAR
Exit an Attendant
KENT
A man, sir.
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
KENT
Service.
KING LEAR
KENT
You.
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
What's that?
KENT
Authority.
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
Exit an Attendant
Enter OSWALD
OSWALD
So please you,--
Exit
KING LEAR
Exit a Knight
Re-enter Knight
Knight
KING LEAR
Knight
KING LEAR
He would not!
Knight
KING LEAR
Knight
KING LEAR
34
Knight
KING LEAR
Exit an Attendant
Exit an Attendant
Re-enter OSWALD
OSWALD
My lady's father.
KING LEAR
OSWALD
KING LEAR
35
Striking him
OSWALD
KENT
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
Enter Fool
Fool
KING LEAR
36
Fool
KENT
Why, fool?
Fool
KING LEAR
Why, my boy?
Fool
KING LEAR
Fool
KING LEAR
Fool
37
KING LEAR
Do.
Fool
KENT
Fool
KING LEAR
Fool
KING LEAR
A bitter fool!
38
Fool
KING LEAR
Fool
KING LEAR
Fool
KENT
Fool
No, faith, lords and great men will not let me; if
I had a monopoly out, they would have part on't:
and ladies too, they will not let me have all fool
to myself; they'll be snatching. Give me an egg,
nuncle, and I'll give thee two crowns.
KING LEAR
39
Fool
Why, after I have cut the egg i' the middle, and eat
up the meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou
clovest thy crown i' the middle, and gavest away
both parts, thou borest thy ass on thy back o'er
the dirt: thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown,
when thou gavest thy golden one away. If I speak
like myself in this, let him be whipped that first
finds it so.
Singing
KING LEAR
Fool
Singing
KING LEAR
40
Fool
Enter GONERIL
KING LEAR
Fool
To GONERIL
GONERIL
Fool
KING LEAR
GONERIL
Come, sir,
I would you would make use of that good wisdom,
Whereof I know you are fraught; and put away
These dispositions, that of late transform you
From what you rightly are.
Fool
KING LEAR
42
Fool
Lear's shadow.
KING LEAR
Fool
KING LEAR
GONERIL
KING LEAR
GONERIL
Enter ALBANY
KING LEAR
To ALBANY
ALBANY
KING LEAR
ALBANY
KING LEAR
Exit
ALBANY
GONERIL
45
KING LEAR
ALBANY
KING LEAR
To GONERIL
GONERIL
46
ALBANY
GONERIL
To the Fool
Fool
Exit
GONERIL
ALBANY
GONERIL
47
Re-enter OSWALD
OSWALD
Yes, madam.
GONERIL
Exit OSWALD
ALBANY
GONERIL
Nay, then--
ALBANY
48
Exeunt
49
SCENE 5
KING LEAR
KENT
Exit
Fool
KING LEAR
Ay, boy.
Fool
KING LEAR
Fool
50
KING LEAR
Fool
KING LEAR
No.
Fool
KING LEAR
Fool
KING LEAR
No.
Fool
KING LEAR
Why?
Fool
51
KING LEAR
Fool
Thy asses are gone about 'em. The reason why the
seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason.
KING LEAR
Fool
KING LEAR
Fool
KING LEAR
How's that?
Fool
KING LEAR
Enter Gentleman
Gentleman
Ready, my lord.
KING LEAR
Come, boy.
Fool
Exeunt
53
ACT 2
54
SCENE 1
GLOUCESTER's castle.
EDMUND
CURAN
EDMUND
CURAN
EDMUND
CURAN
EDMUND
Not a word.
CURAN
Exit
EDMUND
Enter EDGAR
EDGAR
EDMUND
Exit EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
By no means what?
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
Tucket within
CORNWALL
REGAN
GLOUCESTER
REGAN
GLOUCESTER
REGAN
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
REGAN
CORNWALL
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
CORNWALL
Is he pursued?
GLOUCESTER
60
CORNWALL
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
CORNWALL
REGAN
GLOUCESTER
61
Exeunt
62
SCENE 2
OSWALD
KENT
Ay.
OSWALD
KENT
OSWALD
KENT
OSWALD
KENT
OSWALD
KENT
63
OSWALD
KENT
OSWALD
KENT
OSWALD
KENT
64
OSWALD
KENT
Beating him
OSWALD
Enter EDMUND, with his rapier drawn, CORNWALL, REGAN, GLOUCESTER, and
Servants
EDMUND
KENT
GLOUCESTER
CORNWALL
REGAN
CORNWALL
OSWALD
KENT
CORNWALL
KENT
CORNWALL
OSWALD
KENT
CORNWALL
66
Peace, sirrah!
You beastly knave, know you no reverence?
KENT
CORNWALL
KENT
CORNWALL
GLOUCESTER
KENT
CORNWALL
67
KENT
CORNWALL
KENT
CORNWALL
KENT
CORNWALL
KENT
68
CORNWALL
OSWALD
KENT
CORNWALL
KENT
CORNWALL
REGAN
KENT
REGAN
CORNWALL
GLOUCESTER
CORNWALL
REGAN
GLOUCESTER
KENT
GLOUCESTER
Exit
KENT
Sleeps
72
SCENE 3
A wood.
Enter EDGAR
EDGAR
Exit
73
SCENE 4
KING LEAR
Gentleman
As I learn'd,
The night before there was no purpose in them
Of this remove.
KENT
KING LEAR
Ha!
Makest thou this shame thy pastime?
KENT
No, my lord.
Fool
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
No.
KENT
Yes.
KING LEAR
No, I say.
KENT
I say, yea.
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
KENT
Fool
KING LEAR
76
KENT
KING LEAR
Follow me not;
Stay here.
Exit
Gentleman
KENT
None.
How chance the king comes with so small a train?
Fool
And thou hadst been set i' the stocks for that
question, thou hadst well deserved it.
KENT
Why, fool?
Fool
KENT
Fool
KING LEAR
Deny to speak with me? They are sick? they are weary?
They have travell'd all the night? Mere fetches;
The images of revolt and flying off.
Fetch me a better answer.
GLOUCESTER
My dear lord,
You know the fiery quality of the duke;
How unremoveable and fix'd he is
In his own course.
KING LEAR
GLOUCESTER
KING LEAR
GLOUCESTER
KING LEAR
Looking on KENT
GLOUCESTER
Exit
KING LEAR
Fool
KING LEAR
CORNWALL
REGAN
KING LEAR
To KENT
REGAN
KING LEAR
REGAN
KING LEAR
My curses on her!
REGAN
KING LEAR
Kneeling
REGAN
KING LEAR
CORNWALL
KING LEAR
REGAN
KING LEAR
REGAN
KING LEAR
Tucket within
CORNWALL
REGAN
Enter OSWALD
KING LEAR
CORNWALL
KING LEAR
83
Enter GONERIL
To GONERIL
GONERIL
KING LEAR
CORNWALL
KING LEAR
REGAN
KING LEAR
Pointing at OSWALD
GONERIL
KING LEAR
REGAN
85
KING LEAR
REGAN
GONERIL
REGAN
KING LEAR
REGAN
KING LEAR
86
REGAN
KING LEAR
To GONERIL
GONERIL
REGAN
KING LEAR
CORNWALL
REGAN
GONERIL
REGAN
GONERIL
88
So am I purposed.
Where is my lord of Gloucester?
CORNWALL
Re-enter GLOUCESTER
GLOUCESTER
CORNWALL
Whither is he going?
GLOUCESTER
CORNWALL
GONERIL
GLOUCESTER
REGAN
CORNWALL
Exeunt
90
ACT 3
91
SCENE 1
A heath.
KENT
Gentleman
KENT
Gentleman
KENT
Gentleman
92
KENT
Gentleman
KENT
93
No, do not.
For confirmation that I am much more
Than my out-wall, open this purse, and take
What it contains. If you shall see Cordelia,--
As fear not but you shall,--show her this ring;
And she will tell you who your fellow is
That yet you do not know. Fie on this storm!
I will go seek the king.
Gentleman
KENT
Exeunt severally
94
SCENE 2
KING LEAR
Fool
KING LEAR
Fool
KING LEAR
Enter KENT
KENT
Who's there?
Fool
KENT
KING LEAR
KENT
Alack, bare-headed!
Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel;
Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest:
Repose you there; while I to this hard house--
More harder than the stones whereof 'tis raised;
Which even but now, demanding after you,
Denied me to come in--return, and force
Their scanted courtesy.
KING LEAR
Fool
[Singing]
He that has and a little tiny wit--
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,--
Must make content with his fortunes fit,
For the rain it raineth every day.
KING LEAR
Fool
Exit
98
SCENE 3
Gloucester's castle.
GLOUCESTER
EDMUND
GLOUCESTER
Exit
EDMUND
99
Exit
100
SCENE 4
KENT
Storm still
KING LEAR
Let me alone.
KENT
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
To the Fool
Fool goes in
EDGAR
Fool
KENT
Fool
KENT
What art thou that dost grumble there i' the straw?
Come forth.
EDGAR
KING LEAR
EDGAR
Storm still
KING LEAR
Fool
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
EDGAR
Fool
EDGAR
KING LEAR
EDGAR
Storm still
KING LEAR
Fool
EDGAR
KENT
KING LEAR
What's he?
KENT
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
EDGAR
KING LEAR
KENT
GLOUCESTER
Storm still
KING LEAR
EDGAR
Tom's a-cold.
GLOUCESTER
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
With him;
I will keep still with my philosopher.
KENT
GLOUCESTER
KENT
KING LEAR
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
Exeunt
110
SCENE 5
Gloucester's castle.
CORNWALL
EDMUND
CORNWALL
EDMUND
CORNWALL
EDMUND
CORNWALL
111
EDMUND
CORNWALL
Exeunt
112
SCENE 6
GLOUCESTER
KENT
Exit GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
Fool
KING LEAR
A king, a king!
Fool
KING LEAR
113
EDGAR
Fool
KING LEAR
To EDGAR
To the Fool
EDGAR
Fool
EDGAR
KENT
KING LEAR
To EDGAR
To the Fool
To KENT
EDGAR
KING LEAR
Fool
KING LEAR
115
Fool
KING LEAR
EDGAR
KENT
EDGAR
KING LEAR
EDGAR
KING LEAR
To EDGAR
KENT
KING LEAR
Fool
Re-enter GLOUCESTER
GLOUCESTER
KENT
Here, sir; but trouble him not, his wits are gone.
GLOUCESTER
KENT
To the Fool
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
Exit
119
SCENE 7
Gloucester's castle.
CORNWALL
REGAN
GONERIL
CORNWALL
Enter OSWALD
OSWALD
CORNWALL
GONERIL
CORNWALL
Edmund, farewell.
REGAN
CORNWALL
GLOUCESTER
CORNWALL
REGAN
GLOUCESTER
CORNWALL
GLOUCESTER
REGAN
GLOUCESTER
Naughty lady,
These hairs, which thou dost ravish from my chin,
Will quicken, and accuse thee: I am your host:
With robbers' hands my hospitable favours
You should not ruffle thus. What will you do?
CORNWALL
REGAN
CORNWALL
REGAN
GLOUCESTER
CORNWALL
Cunning.
REGAN
And false.
CORNWALL
GLOUCESTER
To Dover.
REGAN
CORNWALL
GLOUCESTER
REGAN
123
GLOUCESTER
CORNWALL
GLOUCESTER
REGAN
CORNWALL
First Servant
REGAN
124
First Servant
CORNWALL
My villain!
First Servant
REGAN
First Servant
Dies
CORNWALL
GLOUCESTER
REGAN
125
GLOUCESTER
REGAN
CORNWALL
Second Servant
Third Servant
Second Servant
126
Third Servant
Exeunt severally
127
ACT 4
128
SCENE 1
The heath.
Enter EDGAR
EDGAR
Old Man
GLOUCESTER
Old Man
GLOUCESTER
129
Old Man
EDGAR
Old Man
EDGAR
Old Man
GLOUCESTER
Is it a beggar-man?
Old Man
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
Old Man
Ay, my lord.
GLOUCESTER
Old Man
GLOUCESTER
Old Man
131
Exit
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
Aside
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
132
EDGAR
Ay, master.
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
Exeunt
133
SCENE 2
GONERIL
Enter OSWALD
OSWALD
GONERIL
Giving a favour
EDMUND
GONERIL
Exit EDMUND
OSWALD
Exit
Enter ALBANY
GONERIL
ALBANY
O Goneril!
You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
Blows in your face. I fear your disposition:
That nature, which contemns its origin,
Cannot be border'd certain in itself;
She that herself will sliver and disbranch
135
GONERIL
ALBANY
GONERIL
Milk-liver'd man!
That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;
Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning
Thine honour from thy suffering; that not know'st
Fools do those villains pity who are punish'd
Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?
France spreads his banners in our noiseless land;
With plumed helm thy slayer begins threats;
Whiles thou, a moral fool, sit'st still, and criest
'Alack, why does he so?'
ALBANY
136
GONERIL
O vain fool!
ALBANY
GONERIL
Enter a Messenger
ALBANY
What news?
Messenger
ALBANY
Gloucester's eye!
Messenger
ALBANY
Messenger
GONERIL
Exit
ALBANY
Where was his son when they did take his eyes?
Messenger
ALBANY
He is not here.
Messenger
ALBANY
138
Messenger
ALBANY
Gloucester, I live
To thank thee for the love thou show'dst the king,
And to revenge thine eyes. Come hither, friend:
Tell me what more thou know'st.
Exeunt
139
SCENE 3
KENT
Gentleman
KENT
Gentleman
KENT
Gentleman
KENT
140
Gentleman
KENT
Gentleman
KENT
It is the stars,
The stars above us, govern our conditions;
Else one self mate and mate could not beget
Such different issues. You spoke not with her since?
Gentleman
No.
KENT
141
Gentleman
No, since.
KENT
Gentleman
KENT
Gentleman
KENT
Gentleman
KENT
Exeunt
143
SCENE 4
CORDELIA
Exit an Officer
Doctor
CORDELIA
Enter a Messenger
Messenger
News, madam;
The British powers are marching hitherward.
CORDELIA
Exeunt
145
SCENE 5
Gloucester's castle.
REGAN
OSWALD
Ay, madam.
REGAN
OSWALD
REGAN
OSWALD
No, madam.
REGAN
OSWALD
REGAN
OSWALD
REGAN
OSWALD
REGAN
OSWALD
REGAN
OSWALD
I, madam?
REGAN
147
OSWALD
REGAN
Exeunt
148
SCENE 6
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
Horrible steep.
Hark, do you hear the sea?
GLOUCESTER
No, truly.
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful
And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!
The crows and choughs that wing the midway air
Show scarce so gross as beetles: half way down
Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!
Methinks he seems no bigger than his head:
The fishermen, that walk upon the beach,
Appear like mice; and yond tall anchoring bark,
Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy
Almost too small for sight: the murmuring surge,
That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes,
Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more;
Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight
Topple down headlong.
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
Let go my hand.
Here, friend, 's another purse; in it a jewel
Well worth a poor man's taking: fairies and gods
Prosper it with thee! Go thou farther off;
Bid me farewell, and let me hear thee going.
EDGAR
150
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
He falls forward
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
151
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
152
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
KING LEAR
EDGAR
KING LEAR
EDGAR
Sweet marjoram.
KING LEAR
Pass.
GLOUCESTER
KING LEAR
GLOUCESTER
KING LEAR
GLOUCESTER
KING LEAR
GLOUCESTER
KING LEAR
155
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
KING LEAR
Read.
GLOUCESTER
KING LEAR
GLOUCESTER
I see it feelingly.
KING LEAR
What, art mad? A man may see how this world goes
with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond
justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in
thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which
is the justice, which is the thief? Thou hast seen
a farmer's dog bark at a beggar?
GLOUCESTER
156
Ay, sir.
KING LEAR
EDGAR
KING LEAR
GLOUCESTER
KING LEAR
157
Gentleman
KING LEAR
Gentleman
KING LEAR
Gentleman
Good sir,--
KING LEAR
Gentleman
KING LEAR
Gentleman
EDGAR
Gentleman
EDGAR
Gentleman
EDGAR
Gentleman
EDGAR
Gentleman
EDGAR
Exit Gentleman
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
Hearty thanks:
The bounty and the benison of heaven
To boot, and boot!
Enter OSWALD
160
OSWALD
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR interposes
OSWALD
EDGAR
OSWALD
EDGAR
OSWALD
Out, dunghill!
161
EDGAR
OSWALD
Dies
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
What, is he dead?
EDGAR
Reads
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
Exeunt
163
SCENE 7
CORDELIA
KENT
CORDELIA
Be better suited:
These weeds are memories of those worser hours:
I prithee, put them off.
KENT
CORDELIA
To the Doctor
Doctor
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CORDELIA
Doctor
CORDELIA
Gentleman
Doctor
CORDELIA
Very well.
Doctor
CORDELIA
KENT
CORDELIA
Doctor
CORDELIA
KING LEAR
CORDELIA
KING LEAR
CORDELIA
Doctor
KING LEAR
CORDELIA
KING LEAR
CORDELIA
KING LEAR
CORDELIA
No cause, no cause.
KING LEAR
Am I in France?
KENT
KING LEAR
Doctor
CORDELIA
KING LEAR
Gentleman
KENT
Gentleman
KENT
Gentleman
KENT
Gentleman
Exit
KENT
Exit
169
ACT 5
170
SCENE 1
Enter, with drum and colours, EDMUND, REGAN, Gentlemen, and Soldiers.
EDMUND
REGAN
EDMUND
REGAN
EDMUND
In honour'd love.
REGAN
EDMUND
REGAN
EDMUND
REGAN
EDMUND
Fear me not:
She and the duke her husband!
GONERIL
ALBANY
EDMUND
REGAN
172
GONERIL
ALBANY
EDMUND
REGAN
GONERIL
No.
REGAN
GONERIL
EDGAR
ALBANY
EDGAR
ALBANY
EDGAR
ALBANY
Exit EDGAR
Re-enter EDMUND
EDMUND
ALBANY
Exit
EDMUND
174
Exit
175
SCENE 2
Alarum within. Enter, with drum and colours, KING LEAR, CORDELIA, and
Soldiers, over the stage; and exeunt
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
Exit EDGAR
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
EDGAR
GLOUCESTER
176
Exeunt
177
SCENE 3
Enter, in conquest, with drum and colours, EDMUND, KING LEAR and CORDELIA,
prisoners; Captain, Soldiers, & c
EDMUND
CORDELIA
KING LEAR
EDMUND
KING LEAR
EDMUND
Giving a paper
Captain
EDMUND
Captain
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Exit
ALBANY
EDMUND
ALBANY
REGAN
GONERIL
Not so hot:
In his own grace he doth exalt himself,
More than in your addition.
REGAN
In my rights,
By me invested, he compeers the best.
GONERIL
REGAN
GONERIL
Holla, holla!
That eye that told you so look'd but a-squint.
REGAN
GONERIL
ALBANY
EDMUND
ALBANY
REGAN
[To EDMUND] Let the drum strike, and prove my title thine.
ALBANY
Pointing to Goneril
GONERIL
An interlude!
ALBANY
REGAN
Sick, O, sick!
GONERIL
EDMUND
There's my exchange:
ALBANY
A herald, ho!
EDMUND
ALBANY
REGAN
ALBANY
Enter a Herald
Captain
Sound, trumpet!
A trumpet sounds
Herald
EDMUND
Sound!
First trumpet
Herald
Again!
Second trumpet
Herald
Again!
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Third trumpet
Enter EDGAR, at the third sound, armed, with a trumpet before him
ALBANY
Herald
EDGAR
ALBANY
EDGAR
EDMUND
EDGAR
EDMUND
ALBANY
GONERIL
ALBANY
186
GONERIL
ALBANY
GONERIL
Exit
ALBANY
EDMUND
EDGAR
EDMUND
ALBANY
EDGAR
ALBANY
EDGAR
EDMUND
ALBANY
EDGAR
ALBANY
189
EDGAR
Gentleman
EDGAR
ALBANY
Speak, man.
EDGAR
Gentleman
ALBANY
Gentleman
EDMUND
EDGAR
ALBANY
Exit Gentleman
Enter KENT
O, is this he?
The time will not allow the compliment
Which very manners urges.
KENT
I am come
To bid my king and master aye good night:
Is he not here?
ALBANY
KENT
EDMUND
ALBANY
191
EDMUND
ALBANY
EDGAR
EDMUND
ALBANY
Exit EDGAR
EDMUND
ALBANY
Re-enter KING LEAR, with CORDELIA dead in his arms; EDGAR, Captain, and
others following
KING LEAR
KENT
EDGAR
ALBANY
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
Prithee, away.
EDGAR
KING LEAR
Captain
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
KENT
The same,
Your servant Kent: Where is your servant Caius?
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
KENT
KING LEAR
Ay, so I think.
ALBANY
EDGAR
Very bootless.
Enter a Captain
Captain
ALBANY
KING LEAR
Dies
EDGAR
KENT
EDGAR
KENT
Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him much
That would upon the rack of this tough world
Stretch him out longer.
EDGAR
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He is gone, indeed.
KENT
ALBANY
KENT
ALBANY