Chapter XV: Act II: SCENE I. The Earl of Gloucester's castle

_Enter_ EDMUND _and_ CURAN, _meeting_.[3061]

_Edm._ Save thee, Curan.[3062]

_Cur._ And you, sir. I have been with your father, and[3063][3064]
given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his[3063][3065]
duchess will be here with him this night.[3063][3066]

_Edm._ How comes that?[3062] 5

_Cur._ Nay, I know not. You have heard of the news
abroad, I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but[3067]
ear-kissing arguments?[3068]

_Edm._ Not I: pray you, what are they?[3069]

_Cur._ Have you heard of no likely wars toward, 'twixt[3070][3071][3072] 10
the Dukes of Cornwall and Albany?[3070][3071][3073]

_Edm._ Not a word.[3070]

_Cur._ You may do then in time. Fare you well, sir. [_Exit._[3074]

_Edm._ The duke be here to-night? The better! best![3075][3076][3077]
This weaves itself perforce into my business.[3076] 15
My father hath set guard to take my brother;[3076]
And I have one thing, of a queasy question,[3076][3078]
Which I must act: briefness and fortune, work![3076][3079]
Brother, a word; descend: brother, I say![3076]

_Enter_ EDGAR.[3080]

My father watches: O sir, fly this place;[3076][3081] 20
Intelligence is given where you are hid;[3076]
You have now the good advantage of the night:[3076][3082]
Have you not spoken 'gainst the Duke of Cornwall?[3076][3083]
He's coming hither, now, i' the night, i' the haste,[3076][3084]
And Regan with him: have you nothing said[3076] 25
Upon his party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?[3076][3085]
Advise yourself.[3076][3086]

_Edg._ I am sure on't, not a word.[3076]

_Edm._ I hear my father coming: pardon me:[3076][3087]
In cunning I must draw my sword upon you:[3076][3087]
Draw: seem to defend yourself: now quit you well.[3076][3088] 30
Yield: come before my father. Light, ho, here![3076][3089]
Fly, brother. Torches, torches! So farewell.

[_Exit Edgar._[3076][3090]

Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion

[_Wounds his arm._[3076][3091]

Of my more fierce endeavour: I have seen drunkards[3076][3092]
Do more than this in sport. Father, father![3076][3093] 35
Stop, stop! No help?[3076]

_Enter_ GLOUCESTER, _and_ Servants _with torches_.[3094]

_Glou._ Now, Edmund, where's the villain?[3076][3095]

_Edm._ Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out,[3076]
Mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon[3076][3096]
To stand 's auspicious mistress.[3076]

_Glou._ But where is he?[3076] 40

_Edm._ Look, sir, I bleed.[3076]

_Glou._ Where is the villain, Edmund?[3076][3097]

_Edm._ Fled this way, sir. When by no means he could--[3076][3098]

_Glou._ Pursue him, ho!--Go after. [_Exeunt some
Servants._] 'By no means' what?[3076][3099]

_Edm._ Persuade me to the murder of your lordship;[3076]
But that I told him the revenging gods[3076][3100] 45
'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend,[3076][3101]
Spoke with how manifold and strong a bond[3076]
The child was bound to the father; sir, in fine,[3076][3102]
Seeing how loathly opposite I stood[3076]
To his unnatural purpose, in fell motion[3076][3103] 50
With his prepared sword he charges home[3076]
My unprovided body, lanced mine arm:[3076][3104]
But when he saw my best alarum'd spirits[3076][3105]
Bold in the quarrel's right, roused to the encounter,[3076][3106]
Or whether gasted by the noise I made,[3076][3107] 55
Full suddenly he fled.[3076][3108]

_Glou._ Let him fly far:[3076]
Not in this land shall he remain uncaught;[3076]
And found--dispatch. The noble duke my master,[3076][3109]
My worthy arch and patron, comes to-night:[3076][3110]
By his authority I will proclaim it,[3076] 60
That he which finds him shall deserve our thanks,[3076][3111]
Bringing the murderous caitiff to the stake;[3076][3112]
He that conceals him, death.[3076][3113]

_Edm._ When I dissuaded him from his intent[3076]
And found him pight to do it, with curst speech[3076] 65
I threaten'd to discover him: he replied,[3076]
'Thou unpossessing bastard! dost thou think,[3076]
If I would stand against thee, could the reposure[3076][3114][3115]
Of any trust, virtue, or worth, in thee[3076][3114]
Make thy words faith'd? No: what I should deny--[3076][3114][3116] 70
As this I would; ay, though thou didst produce[3076][3117]
My very character--I'ld turn it all[3076][3118]
To thy suggestion, plot, and damned practice:[3076][3119]
And thou must make a dullard of the world,[3076][3120]
If they not thought the profits of my death[3076] 75
Were very pregnant and potential spurs[3076][3121]
To make thee seek it.'[3076]

_Glou._ Strong and fasten'd villain![3076][3122]
Would he deny his letter? I never got him.[3076][3123]

[_Tucket within._

Hark, the duke's trumpets! I know not why he comes.[3076][3124]
All ports I'll bar; the villain shall not 'scape;[3076] 80
The duke must grant me that: besides, his picture[3076]
I will send far and near, that all the kingdom[3076]
May have due note of him; and of my land,[3076][3125]
Loyal and natural boy, I'll work the means[3076]
To make thee capable.[3076] 85

_Enter_ CORNWALL, REGAN, _and_ Attendants.[3126]

_Corn._ How now, my noble friend! since I came hither,[3076][3127]
Which I can call but now, I have heard strange news.[3076][3128]

_Reg._ If it be true, all vengeance comes too short[3076]
Which can pursue the offender. How dost, my lord?[3076][3129]

_Glou._ O, madam, my old heart is crack'd, is crack'd![3076][3130] 90

_Reg._ What, did my father's godson seek your life?[3076]
He whom my father named? your Edgar?[3076][3131]

_Glou._ O, lady, lady, shame would have it hid![3076][3132]

_Reg._ Was he not companion with the riotous knights[3076][3133]
That tend upon my father?[3076][3134] 95

_Glou._ I know not, madam: 'tis too bad, too bad.[3076][3135]

_Edm._ Yes, madam, he was of that consort.[3076][3136]

_Reg._ No marvel then, though he were ill affected:
'Tis they have put him on the old man's death,
To have the waste and spoil of his revenues.[3137] 100
I have this present evening from my sister
Been well inform'd of them, and with such cautions
That if they come to sojourn at my house,[3138]
I'll not be there.[3138]

_Corn._ Nor I, assure thee, Regan.[3139][3140]
Edmund, I hear that you have shown your father[3139][3141] 105
A child-like office.[3139]

_Edm._ 'Twas my duty, sir.[3142]

_Glou._ He did bewray his practice, and received[3143]
This hurt you see, striving to apprehend him.

_Corn._ Is he pursued?

_Glou._ Ay, my good lord.[3144]

_Corn._ If he be taken, he shall never more[3145] 110
Be fear'd of doing harm: make your own purpose,[3145]
How in my strength you please. For you, Edmund,[3145][3146]
Whose virtue and obedience doth this instant[3145][3147]
So much commend itself, you shall be ours:[3145][3148]
Natures of such deep trust we shall much need:[3145][3149] 115
You we first seize on.[3145][3149]

_Edm._ I shall serve you, sir,[3150][3151]
Truly, however else.[3150]

_Glou._ For him I thank your grace.[3152]

_Corn._ You know not why we came to visit you,--[3153]

_Reg._ Thus out of season, threading dark-eyed night:[3154]
Occasions, noble Gloucester, of some poise,[3155] 120
Wherein we must have use of your advice:[3156]
Our father he hath writ, so hath our sister,
Of differences, which I least thought it fit[3157]
To answer from our home; the several messengers[3158]
From hence attend dispatch. Our good old friend, 125
Lay comforts to your bosom and bestow[3159]
Your needful counsel to our business,[3159][3160]
Which craves the instant use.[3159][3161]

_Glou._ I serve you, madam:[3162]
Your graces are right welcome. [_Flourish. Exeunt._[3162][3163]

SCENE II. _Before Gloucester's castle._

_Enter_ KENT _and_ OSWALD, _severally_.[3164]

_Osw._ Good dawning to thee, friend: art of this house?[3165][3166]

_Kent._ Ay.

_Osw._ Where may we set our horses?

_Kent._ I' the mire.[3167]

_Osw._ Prithee, if thou lovest me, tell me.[3168] 5

_Kent._ I love thee not.

_Osw._ Why then I care not for thee.

_Kent._ If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make[3169]
thee care for me.

_Osw._ Why dost thou use me thus? I know thee not. 10

_Kent._ Fellow, I know thee.

_Osw._ What dost thou know me for?

_Kent._ A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a
base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound,[3170]
filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking[3171] 15
knave; a whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical[3172]
rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a[3173]
bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition
of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son
and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into[3174] 20
clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy[3175]
addition.

_Osw._ Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to[3176]
rail on one that is neither known of thee nor knows thee![3177]

_Kent._ What a brazen-faced varlet art thou, to deny 25
thou knowest me! Is it two days ago since I tripped up[3178][3179]
thy heels and beat thee before the king? Draw, you rogue:[3179]
for, though it be night, yet the moon shines; I'll make a[3180]
sop o' the moonshine of you: draw, you whoreson cullionly[3181]
barber-monger, draw. [_Drawing his sword._[3182] 30

_Osw._ Away! I have nothing to do with thee.

_Kent._ Draw, you rascal: you come with letters against[3183]
the king, and take vanity the puppet's part against the
royalty of her father: draw, you rogue, or I'll so carbonado[3184]
your shanks: draw, you rascal; come your ways.[3185] 35

_Osw._ Help, ho! murder! help!

_Kent._ Strike, you slave; stand, rogue; stand, you neat[3186]
slave, strike. [_Beating him._[3187]

_Osw._ Help, ho! murder! murder!

_Enter_ EDMUND, _with his rapier drawn_, CORNWALL, REGAN,
GLOUCESTER, _and_ Servants.[3188]

_Edm._ How now! What's the matter? [_Parting them._[3189][3190][3191] 40

_Kent._ With you, goodman boy, an you please: come,[3192]
I'll flesh you; come on, young master.[3193]

_Glou._ Weapons! arms! What's the matter here?[3194]

_Corn._ Keep peace, upon your lives;[3195]
He dies that strikes again. What is the matter?[3195][3196] 45

_Reg._ The messengers from our sister and the king.[3197]

_Corn._ What is your difference? speak.[3198]

_Osw._ I am scarce in breath, my lord.

_Kent._ No marvel, you have so bestirred your valour.[3199]
You cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee: a tailor made[3199][3200] 50
thee.[3199]

_Corn._ Thou art a strange fellow: a tailor make a man?[3199][3201]

_Kent._ Ay, a tailor, sir: a stone-cutter or a painter[3202]
could not have made him so ill, though he had been but[3203]
two hours at the trade.[3204] 55

_Corn._ Speak yet, how grew your quarrel?[3205]

_Osw._ This ancient ruffian, sir, whose life I have spared[3206]
at suit of his gray beard,--[3207]

_Kent._ Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter![3208]
My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this[3209] 60
unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the walls of a jakes[3210]
with him. Spare my gray beard, you wagtail?[3211]

_Corn._ Peace, sirrah![3212][3213]
You beastly knave, know you no reverence?[3212][3214]

_Kent._ Yes, sir; but anger hath a privilege.[3215] 65

_Corn._ Why art thou angry?

_Kent._ That such a slave as this should wear a sword,
Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,[3216]
Like rats, oft bite the holy cords a-twain[3217]
Which are too intrinse to unloose; smooth every passion[3218] 70
That in the natures of their lords rebel;[3219]
Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods;[3220]
Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks[3221]
With every gale and vary of their masters,[3222]
Knowing nought, like dogs, but following.[3223][3224] 75
A plague upon your epileptic visage![3223]
Smile you my speeches, as I were a fool?[3223][3225]
Goose, if I had you upon Sarum plain,[3226]
I'ld drive ye cackling home to Camelot.[3227]

_Corn._ What, art thou mad, old fellow?[3228] 80

_Glou._ How fell you out? say that.[3228][3229]

_Kent._ No contraries hold more antipathy
Than I and such a knave.

_Corn._ Why dost thou call him knave? What is his fault?[3230]

_Kent._ His countenance likes me not. 85

_Corn._ No more perchance does mine, nor his, nor hers.[3231]

_Kent._ Sir, 'tis my occupation to be plain:
I have seen better faces in my time
Than stands on any shoulders that I see[3232]
Before me at this instant.

_Corn._ This is some fellow,[3233][3234] 90
Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect[3233]
A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb[3233][3235]
Quite from his nature: he cannot flatter, he,--[3233][3236]
An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth![3233][3237]
An they will take it, so; if not, he's plain.[3233][3238] 95
These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness[3233][3239]
Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends[3233][3240]
Than twenty silly ducking observants[3233][3241]
That stretch their duties nicely.[3233]

_Kent._ Sir, in good faith, in sincere verity,[3242] 100
Under the allowance of your great aspect,[3243]
Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire
On flickering Phœbus' front,--

_Corn._ What mean'st by this?[3244]

_Kent._ To go out of my dialect, which you discommend[3245]
so much. I know, sir, I am no flatterer: he that beguiled[3246] 105
you in a plain accent was a plain knave; which, for my
part, I will not be, though I should win your displeasure to[3247]
entreat me to't.[3247][3248]

_Corn._ What was the offence you gave him?[3249]

_Osw._ I never gave him any:[3250][3251] 110
It pleased the king his master very late[3251][3252]
To strike at me, upon his misconstruction;[3251][3253]
When he, conjunct, and flattering his displeasure,[3254]
Tripp'd me behind; being down, insulted, rail'd,
And put upon him such a deal of man,[3255] 115
That worthied him, got praises of the king[3255]
For him attempting who was self-subdued;
And in the fleshment of this dread exploit[3256]
Drew on me here again.[3257]

_Kent._ None of these rogues and cowards[3258]
But Ajax is their fool.[3258][3259]

_Corn._ Fetch forth the stocks! 120
You stubborn ancient knave, you reverend braggart,[3260]
We'll teach you--[3261]

_Kent._ Sir, I am too old to learn:[3262]
Call not your stocks for me: I serve the king,[3262]
On whose employment I was sent to you:[3262][3263]
You shall do small respect, show too bold malice[3264] 125
Against the grace and person of my master,
Stocking his messenger.[3265]

_Corn._ Fetch forth the stocks! As I have life and honour,[3266][3267]
There shall he sit till noon.[3266]

_Reg._ Till noon! till night, my lord, and all night too.[3268] 130

_Kent._ Why, madam, if I were your father's dog,[3269]
You should not use me so.[3269][3270]

_Reg._ Sir, being his knave, I will.

_Corn._ This is a fellow of the self-same colour[3271]
Our sister speaks of. Come, bring away the stocks!

[_Stocks brought out._[3272]

_Glou._ Let me beseech your grace not to do so: 135
His fault is much, and the good king his master[3273]
Will check him for't: your purposed low correction[3273]
Is such as basest and contemned'st wretches[3273][3274]
For pilferings and most common trespasses[3273]
Are punish'd with: the king must take it ill,[3273] 140
That he, so slightly valued in his messenger,[3273][3275]
Should have him thus restrain'd.[3273][3275]

_Corn._ I'll answer that.

_Reg._ My sister may receive it much more worse,[3276]
To have her gentleman abused, assaulted,[3277]
For following her affairs. Put in his legs.[3278] 145

[_Kent is put in the stocks._[3279]

Come, my good lord, away. [_Exeunt all but Gloucester
and Kent._[3280]

_Glou._ I am sorry for thee, friend; 'tis the duke's pleasure,[3281]
Whose disposition, all the world well knows,
Will not be rubb'd nor stopp'd: I'll entreat for thee.[3282]

_Kent._ Pray, do not, sir: I have watch'd and travell'd
hard;[3283] 150
Some time I shall sleep out, the rest I'll whistle.[3284]
A good man's fortune may grow out at heels:
Give you good morrow!

_Glou._ The duke's to blame in this; 'twill be ill taken.

[_Exit._[3285]

_Kent._ Good king, that must approve the common saw, 155
Thou out of heaven's benediction comest[3286]
To the warm sun!
Approach, thou beacon to this under globe,[3287][3288]
That by thy comfortable beams I may[3287]
Peruse this letter! Nothing almost sees miracles[3287][3289] 160
But misery: I know 'tis from Cordelia,[3287][3290]
Who hath most fortunately been inform'd[3287][3291]
Of my obscured course; and shall find time[3287][3292][3293]
From this enormous state, seeking to give[3287][3293][3294]
Losses their remedies. All weary and o'er-watch'd,[3287][3295] 165
Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold[3296]
This shameful lodging.[3297]
Fortune, good night: smile once more; turn thy wheel![3297]

[_Sleeps._[3298]

SCENE III. _A wood._

_Enter_ EDGAR.[3299]

_Edg._ I heard myself proclaim'd;[3300]
And by the happy hollow of a tree
Escaped the hunt. No port is free; no place,
That guard and most unusual vigilance[3301]
Does not attend my taking. Whiles I may 'scape[3302] 5
I will preserve myself: and am bethought
To take the basest and most poorest shape[3303]
That ever penury in contempt of man
Brought near to beast: my face I'll grime with filth,
Blanket my loins, elf all my hair in knots,[3304] 10
And with presented nakedness out-face
The winds and persecutions of the sky.[3305]
The country gives me proof and precedent[3306]
Of Bedlam beggars, who with roaring voices
Strike in their numb'd and mortified bare arms[3307] 15
Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary;[3308]
And with this horrible object, from low farms,[3309]
Poor pelting villages, sheep-cotes and mills,[3310]
Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers,[3311]
Enforce their charity. Poor Turlygod! poor Tom![3312] 20
That's something yet: Edgar I nothing am. [_Exit._

SCENE IV. _Before Gloucester's castle. Kent in the stocks._

_Enter_ LEAR, Fool, _and_ Gentleman.[3313]

_Lear._ 'Tis strange that they should so depart from home,[3314]
And not send back my messenger.[3315]

_Gent._ As I learn'd,[3316]
The night before there was no purpose in them[3316][3317]
Of this remove.[3316][3318]

_Kent._ Hail to thee, noble master!

_Lear._ Ha![3319][3320] 5
Makest thou this shame thy pastime?[3320]

_Kent._ No, my lord.[3321]

_Fool._ Ha, ha! he wears cruel garters. Horses are tied[3322][3323]
by the heads, dogs and bears by the neck, monkeys by the[3322][3324]
loins, and men by the legs: when a man's over-lusty at[3322][3325]
legs, then he wears wooden nether-stocks.[3322][3326] 10

_Lear._ What's he that hath so much thy place mistook[3327]
To set thee here?[3327]

_Kent._ It is both he and she;[3328]
Your son and daughter.[3328]

_Lear._ No.

_Kent._ Yes. 15

_Lear._ No, I say.

_Kent._ I say, yea.[3329]

_Lear._ No, no, they would not.[3330]

_Kent._ Yes, they have.[3330]

_Lear._ By Jupiter, I swear, no. 20

_Kent._ By Juno, I swear, ay.[3331]

_Lear._ They durst not do't;[3332]
They could not, would not do't; 'tis worse than murder,[3332][3333]
To do upon respect such violent outrage:
Resolve me with all modest haste which way
Thou mightst deserve, or they impose, this usage,[3334] 25
Coming from us.

_Kent._ My lord, when at their home
I did commend your highness' letters to them,
Ere I was risen from the place that show'd[3335]
My duty kneeling, came there a reeking post,[3336]
Stew'd in his haste, half breathless, panting forth[3337] 30
From Goneril his mistress salutations;[3338]
Deliver'd letters, spite of intermission,[3339]
Which presently they read: on whose contents[3340]
They summon'd up their meiny, straight took horse;[3341]
Commanded me to follow and attend 35
The leisure of their answer; gave me cold looks:
And meeting here the other messenger,[3342]
Whose welcome, I perceived, had poison'd mine--
Being the very fellow that of late[3343]
Display'd so saucily against your highness-- 40
Having more man than wit about me, drew:[3344]
He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
Your son and daughter found this trespass worth
The shame which here it suffers.[3345]

_Fool._ Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that
way.[3346][3347] 45
Fathers that wear rags[3346][3348]
Do make their children blind;[3346][3348]
But fathers that bear bags[3346][3348]
Shall see their children kind.[3346][3348]
Fortune, that arrant whore,[3346][3348] 50
Ne'er turns the key to the poor.[3346][3348]
But, for all this, thou shalt have as many dolours for thy[3346][3349][3350]
daughters as thou canst tell in a year.[3346][3349]

_Lear._ O, how this mother swells up toward my heart!
Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow,[3351] 55
Thy element's below! Where is this daughter?

_Kent._ With the earl, sir, here within.[3352][3353]

_Lear._ Follow me not; stay here. [_Exit._[3352][3354]

_Gent._ Made you no more offence but what you speak of?[3355]

_Kent._ None.[3356][3357] 60
How chance the king comes with so small a train?[3357][3358]

_Fool._ An thou hadst been set i' the stocks for that[3359][3360]
question, thou hadst well deserved it.[3361]

_Kent._ Why, fool?

_Fool._ We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee 65
there's no labouring i' the winter. All that follow their[3360][3362]
noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and there's not[3362]
a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking. Let[3363]
go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it
break thy neck with following it; but the great one that[3364] 70
goes up the hill, let him draw thee after. When a wise man[3365]
gives thee better counsel, give me mine again: I would have
none but knaves follow it, since a fool gives it.
That sir which serves and seeks for gain,[3366][3367]
And follows but for form,[3367] 75
Will pack when it begins to rain,[3367][3368]
And leave thee in the storm.[3367][3369]
But I will tarry; the fool will stay,[3367][3370]
And let the wise man fly:[3367][3371]
The knave turns fool that runs away;[3367][3372] 80
The fool no knave, perdy.[3367][3372]

_Kent._ Where learned you this, fool?

_Fool._ Not i' the stocks, fool.[3360][3373]

_Re-enter_ LEAR, _with_ GLOUCESTER.[3374]

_Lear._ Deny to speak with me? They are sick? they are weary?[3375]
They have travell'd all the night? Mere fetches;[3376][3377] 85
The images of revolt and flying off.[3377][3378]
Fetch me a better answer.[3379]

_Glou._ My dear lord,[3380]
You know the fiery quality of the duke;[3380]
How unremoveable and fix'd he is[3380]
In his own course.[3380] 90

_Lear._ Vengeance! plague! death! confusion![3380][3381]
Fiery? what quality? Why, Gloucester, Gloucester,[3380][3382]
I'ld speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife.[3380]

_Glou._ Well, my good lord, I have inform'd them so.[3383]

_Lear._ Inform'd them! Dost thou understand me, man?[3383] 95

_Glou._ Ay, my good lord.

_Lear._ The king would speak with Cornwall; the dear father[3384]
Would with his daughter speak, commands her service:[3385]
Are they inform'd of this? My breath and blood![3386]
'Fiery'? 'the fiery duke'? Tell the hot duke that--[3387] 100
No, but not yet: may be he is not well:[3388]
Infirmity doth still neglect all office[3389]
Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves[3389][3390]
When nature being oppress'd commands the mind[3389][3391]
To suffer with the body: I'll forbear;[3389] 105
And am fall'n out with my more headier will,[3392]
To take the indisposed and sickly fit[3393]
For the sound man. [_Looking on Kent_] Death on my
state! wherefore[3393][3394]
Should he sit here? This act persuades me[3393][3395]
That this remotion of the duke and her[3393] 110
Is practice only. Give me my servant forth.[3396]
Go tell the duke and's wife I'ld speak with them,[3397]
Now, presently: bid them come forth and hear me,
Or at their chamber-door I'll beat the drum
Till it cry sleep to death.[3398] 115

_Glou._ I would have all well betwixt you. [_Exit._[3399]

_Lear._ O me, my heart, my rising heart! But down![3400]

_Fool._ Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels[3401]
when she put 'em i' the paste alive; she knapped 'em o' the[3402]
coxcombs with a stick, and cried 'Down, wantons, down!' 120
'Twas her brother that, in pure kindness to his horse, buttered[3403]
his hay.

_Re-enter_ GLOUCESTER, _with_ CORNWALL, REGAN, _and_ Servants.[3404]

_Lear._ Good morrow to you both.

_Corn._ Hail to your grace!

[_Kent is set at liberty._[3405]

_Reg._ I am glad to see your highness.

_Lear._ Regan, I think you are; I know what reason[3406] 125
I have to think so: if thou shouldst not be glad,[3407]
I would divorce me from thy mother's tomb,[3408]
Sepulchring an adultress. [_To Kent_] O, are you free?[3409]
Some other time for that. Beloved Regan,
Thy sister's naught: O Regan, she hath tied[3410][3411] 130
Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture, here:[3410]

[_Points to his heart._[3412]

I can scarce speak to thee; thou'lt not believe[3413]
With how depraved a quality--O Regan![3414]

_Reg._ I pray you, sir, take patience: I have hope[3415]
You less know how to value her desert 135
Than she to scant her duty.[3416]

_Lear._ Say, how is that?[3417][3418]

_Reg._ I cannot think my sister in the least[3417]
Would fail her obligation: if, sir, perchance[3417][3419]
She have restrain'd the riots of your followers,[3417]
'Tis on such ground and to such wholesome end[3417] 140
As clears her from all blame.[3417]

_Lear._ My curses on her!

_Reg._ O, sir, you are old;
Nature in you stands on the very verge[3420][3421]
Of her confine: you should be ruled and led[3420][3422]
By some discretion that discerns your state[3420] 145
Better than you yourself. Therefore I pray you[3420][3423]
That to our sister you do make return;[3420]
Say you have wrong'd her, sir.

_Lear._ Ask her forgiveness?[3424]
Do you but mark how this becomes the house:[3425]
[Kneeling] 'Dear daughter, I confess that I am old;[3426] 150
Age is unnecessary: on my knees I beg
That you'll vouchsafe me raiment, bed and food.'

_Reg._ Good sir, no more; these are unsightly tricks:
Return you to my sister.

_Lear._ [_Rising_] Never, Regan:[3427]
She hath abated me of half my train; 155
Look'd black upon me; struck me with her tongue,[3428]
Most serpent-like, upon the very heart:
All the stored vengeances of heaven fall[3429]
On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones,[3429][3430]
You taking airs, with lameness.[3429]

_Corn._ Fie, sir, fie![3431] 160

_Lear._ You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames[3432]
Into her scornful eyes. Infect her beauty,
You fen-suck'd fogs, drawn by the powerful sun[3433]
To fall and blast her pride.[3433][3434]

_Reg._ O the blest gods! so will you wish on me,[3435] 165
When the rash mood is on.[3435][3436]

_Lear._ No, Regan, thou shalt never have my curse:
Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give[3437][3438]
Thee o'er to harshness: her eyes are fierce, but thine[3438][3439]
Do comfort and not burn. 'Tis not in thee[3438] 170
To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train,[3438]
To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes,
And in conclusion to oppose the bolt
Against my coming in: thou better know'st[3440]
The offices of nature, bond of childhood, 175
Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude;[3441]
Thy half o' the kingdom hast thou not forgot,[3442]
Wherein I thee endow'd.

_Reg._ Good sir, to the purpose.[3443]

_Lear._ Who put my man i' the stocks? [_Tucket within._[3444]

_Corn._ What trumpet's that?

_Reg._ I know't; my sister's: this approves her letter,[3445] 180
That she would soon be here.

_Enter_ OSWALD.[3446]

Is your lady come?

_Lear._ This is a slave whose easy-borrow'd pride[3447]
Dwells in the fickle grace of her he follows.[3448]
Out, varlet, from my sight!

_Corn._ What means your grace?

_Lear._ Who stock'd my servant? Regan, I have good hope[3449] 185
Thou didst not know on't. Who comes here?

_Enter_ GONERIL.[3450]

O heavens,
If you do love old men, if your sweet sway[3451][3452]
Allow obedience, if yourselves are old,[3451][3453]
Make it your cause; send down, and take my part![3451]
[_To Gon._] Art not ashamed to look upon this beard?[3454] 190
O Regan, wilt thou take her by the hand?[3455]

_Gon._ Why not by the hand, sir? How have I offended?
All's not offence that indiscretion finds[3456]
And dotage terms so.

_Lear._ O sides, you are too tough;
Will you yet hold? How came my man i' the stocks?[3457] 195

_Corn._ I set him there, sir: but his own disorders[3458]
Deserved much less advancement.[3459]

_Lear._ You! did you?

_Reg._ I pray you, father, being weak, seem so.[3460]
If, till the expiration of your month,[3461]
You will return and sojourn with my sister, 200
Dismissing half your train, come then to me:
I am now from home and out of that provision[3462]
Which shall be needful for your entertainment.

_Lear._ Return to her, and fifty men dismiss'd?
No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose 205
To wage against the enmity o' the air,[3463][3464]
To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,--[3463][3465]
Necessity's sharp pinch! Return with her?
Why, the hot-blooded France, that dowerless took[3466][3467]
Our youngest born, I could as well be brought[3467] 210
To knee his throne, and, squire-like, pension beg[3468]
To keep base life afoot. Return with her?
Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter
To this detested groom. [_Pointing at Oswald._[3469]

_Gon._ At your choice, sir.

_Lear._ I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad:[3470] 215
I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell:
We'll no more meet, no more see one another:
But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter;
Or rather a disease that's in my flesh,[3471]
Which I must needs call mine: thou art a boil,[3472] 220
A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle,[3473][3474]
In my corrupted blood. But I'll not chide thee;[3473]
Let shame come when it will, I do not call it:[3475]
I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot,[3476]
Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove:[3477] 225
Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure:
I can be patient; I can stay with Regan,
I and my hundred knights.

_Reg._ Not altogether so:[3478][3479]
I look'd not for you yet, nor am provided[3478][3480]
For your fit welcome. Give ear, sir, to my sister;[3478][3481] 230
For those that mingle reason with your passion[3478][3482]
Must be content to think you old, and so--[3483]
But she knows what she does.

_Lear._ Is this well spoken?[3484]

_Reg._ I dare avouch it, sir: what, fifty followers?[3485]
Is it not well? What should you need of more? 235
Yea, or so many, sith that both charge and danger[3486]
Speak 'gainst so great a number? How in one house[3487]
Should many people under two commands
Hold amity? 'Tis hard, almost impossible.[3488]

_Gon._ Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance 240
From those that she calls servants or from mine?

_Reg._ Why not, my lord? If then they chanced to slack you,[3489]
We could control them. If you will come to me,[3490]
For now I spy a danger, I entreat you[3491]
To bring but five and twenty: to no more[3492] 245
Will I give place or notice.

_Lear._ I gave you all--[3493]

_Reg._ And in good time you gave it.

_Lear._ Made you my guardians, my depositaries,
But kept a reservation to be follow'd[3494]
With such a number. What, must I come to you[3495] 250
With five and twenty, Regan? said you so?[3496]

_Reg._ And speak't again, my lord; no more with me.[3497]

_Lear._ Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd,[3498][3499]
When others are more wicked; not being the worst[3498][3500]
Stands in some rank of praise. [_To Gon._] I'll go with
thee:[3501] 255
Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty,
And thou art twice her love.[3502]

_Gon._ Hear me, my lord:
What need you five and twenty, ten, or five,
To follow in a house where twice so many
Have a command to tend you?

_Reg._ What need one?[3503] 260

_Lear._ O, reason not the need: our basest beggars[3504]
Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life's as cheap as beast's: thou art a lady;[3505]
If only to go warm were gorgeous, 265
Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,[3506]
Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But for true need,--[3507]
You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need![3508]
You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,[3509]
As full of grief as age; wretched in both: 270
If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts[3510]
Against their father, fool me not so much[3511]
To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,[3512]
And let not women's weapons, water-drops,[3513]
Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, 275
I will have such revenges on you both[3514]
That all the world shall--I will do such things,--[3515]
What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be
The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep;[3516]
No, I'll not weep:[3517] 280
I have full cause of weeping; but this heart[3517][3518]
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,[3517][3519]
Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!

[_Exeunt Lear, Gloucester, Kent, and Fool._[3520]

_Corn._ Let us withdraw; 'twill be a storm.

[_Storm and tempest._[3521][3522]

_Reg._ This house is little: the old man and his people[3522][3523] 285
Cannot be well bestow'd.[3522][3524]

_Gon._ 'Tis his own blame; hath put himself from rest,[3522][3525]
And must needs taste his folly.[3522][3526]

_Reg._ For his particular, I'll receive him gladly,
But not one follower.

_Gon._ So am I purposed.[3527][3528] 290
Where is my lord of Gloucester?[3528]

_Corn._ Follow'd the old man forth: he is return'd.[3529]

_Re-enter_ GLOUCESTER.

_Glou._ The king is in high rage.

_Corn._ Whither is he going?[3530][3531]

_Glou._ He calls to horse; but will I know not whither.[3530][3532]

_Corn._ 'Tis best to give him way; he leads himself.[3533] 295

_Gon._ My lord, entreat him by no means to stay.

_Glou._ Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds[3534]
Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about[3535][3536]
There's scarce a bush.[3535][3537]

_Reg._ O, sir, to wilful men
The injuries that they themselves procure 300
Must be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors:
He is attended with a desperate train;
And what they may incense him to, being apt[3538]
To have his ear abused, wisdom bids fear.

_Corn._ Shut up your doors, my lord; 'tis a wild night:[3539] 305
My Regan counsels well: come out o' the storm. [_Exeunt._[3540]

FOOTNOTES:

[3061] ACT II. SCENE I.] ACT II. SCENE II. Eccles.

The ... castle.] A Castle belonging to the Earl of Gloster. Rowe. A Room in Gloster's Castle. Capell. A court within the castle of the earl of Gloster. Malone.

Enter ... meeting.] Enter Bastard, and Curan meetes him. Q₁ Q₃. Enter Bast. and Curan meeting. Q₂. Enter Bastard, and Curan, severally. Ff.

[3062] Edm.] Bast. Qq Ff.

[3063] _And ... night._] Prose in Qq. Four lines, ending _bin ... notice ... Duchesse ... night,_ in Ff.

[3064] _you_] _your_ F₁.

[3065] _Regan_] Omitted in Qq.

[3066] _this night_] Ff. _to night_ Qq.

[3067] _they_] Ff. _there_ Qq.

[3068] _ear-kissing_] Ff. _eare-bussing_ Qq.

[3069] _Not I: pray_] Ff. _Not, I pray_ Qq.

[3070] Cur. _Have ... word._] Omitted in Q₁ Q₃.

[3071] _Have ... Albany?_] Prose in Qq. Two lines, the first ending _toward,_ in Ff.

[3072] _toward_] Ff. _towards_ Q₂.

[3073] _the_] Ff. _the two_ Q₂.

[3074] _You ... sir._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_do_] om. Qq.

[Exit.] om. Q₂.

[3075] SCENE II. Pope.

[3076] _The duke ... consort._] Verse in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3077] _better! best!_] Pope. _better best,_ Qq Ff. _better, best,_ Rowe.

[3078] _queasy_] _quesie_ Qq. _queazie_ F₁ F₃. _queazy_ F₂ F₄.

[3079] _Which ... work_] _Which must aske breefenesse and fortune helpe_ Qq (_breefnes_ Q₂). _Which must aske breefnes and fortune's helpe._ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V).

[3080] Enter Edgar.] To him, enter Edgar. Theobald. Enter Edgar. After _which_, line 18, in Q₁ Q₃; opposite line 15 in Q₂; after _worke_, line 18, in Ff.

[3081] _sir_] om. Qq.

[3082] _You have_] _You've_ Pope.

[3083] _'gainst_] Ff. _gainst_ Q₂. _against_ Q₁ Q₃.

_Cornwall?_] _Cornwall ought,_ Qq.

[3084] _hither_] _hether_ Qq.

_i' the night_] _i' th' night_ Ff (_ith'_ F₂). _in the night_ Qq.

_i' the haste_] _haste_ Pope. _in haste_ Hanmer.

[3085] _Upon ... 'gainst_] _Against his party, for_ Johnson conj.

_'gainst_] _against_ Qq.

[3086] _yourself._] _your--_ Qq.

_I am_] _I'm_ Pope.

[3087] _me: In cunning_] Ff. _me in crauing_ Qq.

[3088] _Draw:_] Omitted in Qq.

_Draw ... well._] One line in Capell. Two, the first ending _your selfe_, in Ff.

[3089] _ho,_] _hoa,_ Ff. _heere,_ Q₁ Q₃. _here,_ Q₂.

[3090] _brother_] _brother flie_ Qq.

_Torches, torches_] Qq F₁. _Torches_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[Exit Edgar.] Ff. Omitted in Qq.

[3091] [Wounds his arm.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff.

[3092] _I have_] _I've_ Pope.

[3093] _Father, father_] _Why, father, father_ Capell. _Father, father, father_ Keightley.

[3094] and ... torches.] Ff. Omitted in Qq.

[3095] SCENE III. Pope.

_where's_] _where is_ Q₂.

[3096] _Mumbling_] Ff. _warbling_ Qq.

_stand's_] Q₂. _stand his_ Q₁ Q₃. _stand_ Ff.

_mistress_.] _mistress_:--Capell. _mistress_,--Dyce (reading _stand_ with Ff).

[3097] _villain, Edmund_] _villaine Edmund_ Q₂.

[3098] _sir. When_] Capell. _sir, when_ Qq Ff.

_could_--] Qq F₃ F₄. _could_. F₁. _could_ F₂.

[3099] _ho_] om. Qq.

_after.... By_] _after. By_ Ff. _after, by_ Q₁ Q₂. _after him, by_ Q₃.

[Exeunt some Servants.] Dyce. Exit Servant. Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[3100] _revenging_] Ff. _revengive_ Qq.

[3101] _their thunders_] Qq. _the thunder_ Ff. _their thunder_ Heath conj.

[3102] _in fine_] Ff. _in a fine_ Qq.

[3103] _in_] Ff. _with_ Qq.

[3104] _lanced_] _lanc'd_ Theobald. _launcht_ Q₁ Q₃. _lancht_ Q₂. _latch'd_ Ff.

_mine_] _my_ Theobald.

[3105] _But when_] Qq. _And when_ Ff. _But whether_ Collier (Collier MS.)

_alarum'd_] F₁ F₂ F₃. _alarumd_ Qq. _alarm'd_ F₄. _alarmed_ Rowe.

[3106] _quarrel's right_] _quarrels, rights_ Q₂.

[3107] _gasted_] '_gasted_ Capell. '_ghasted_ Jennens.

[3108] _Full_] Ff. _but_ Qq.

[3109] _And found--dispatch._] Steevens. _and found; dispatch,_ Q₁ Ff Q₃. _and found, dispatch,_ Q₂. _and found; dispatch_-- Pope. _for dispatch_ Hanmer. _and found, dispatch'd._--Warburton. _Unfound; dispatch._--Singer conj. (withdrawn). _And found,--! Dispatch_-- Brae conj.

[3110] _worthy_] _worth_ F₄.

_arch and patron_] and _arch-patron_ Theobald. _arch-patron_ Anon. MS. See note (V).

[3111] _which_] _who_ Theobald (ed. 2).

[3112] _caitiff_] _caytiffe_ Q₁ Q₃. _caytife_ Q₂. _coward_ Ff.

[3113] _death._] _shall abide the death._ Seymour conj.

[3114] _could the reposure_.... _Make_] _the reposal.... Would make_ Hanmer.

[3115] _could the reposure_] Qq. _would the reposall_ Ff (_reposal_ F₃ F₄).

[3116] _what I should_] Qq. _what should I_ Ff. _by what I should_ Rowe. _what I'd_ Hanmer. _when I should_ Warburton.

[3117] _ay_, _though_] _I though_ Qq. _though_ Ff. _although_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[3118] _I'ld_] _I'll_ F₄. _would_ Hanmer.

[3119] _damned practice_] _damn'd pretense_ Collier conj.

_practice_] F₃ F₄. _practise_ F₁ F₂. _pretence_ Qq.

[3120] _must_] _maist_ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V).

[3121] _very_] om. Steevens's reprint of Q₁. See note (IX).

_spurs_] _spurres_ Qq. _spirits_ Ff.

[3122] _Strong and fasten'd_] _Strong and fastened_ Q₁. _Strong and fastned_ Q₂ Q₃. _O strange and fastned_ Ff. _O strange, fasten'd_ Pope. _Strange, and fasten'd_ Capell MS.

[3123] _I never got him._] Qq. _said he?_ Ff. _said he? hark!_ Hanmer.

[Tucket within.] Ff (after _seek it_, line 77). Omitted in Qq. Trumpets within. Rowe.

[3124] _why_] Qq. _wher_ F₁. _where_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _wher'_ Knight.

[3125] _due_] Ff. om. Qq.

[3126] Enter ...] Ff. Enter the Duke of Cornwall. Qq.

[3127] SCENE IV. Pope.

[3128] _strange news_] _strange newes_ Qq. _strangenesse_ F₁ F₂. _strangeness_ F₃ F₄.

[3129] _dost_] Qq F₁. _does_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3130] _O, madam,_] Omitted in Qq.

_is ... is_] Qq. _is ... it's_ Ff.

[3131] _named? your Edgar?_] _nam'd, your Edgar?_ Ff. _named your Edgar?_ Q₁ Q₂. _named your Edgar._ Q₃. _nam'd, your Edgar? He?_ Hanmer. _nam'd? your heir, your Edgar?_ Collier (Collier MS.) _nam'd? your Edgar, Gloster?_ Lettsom conj.

[3132] _O_] Ff. _I_ Qq. _Ay_ Anon. conj.

_it_] om. Q₃.

[3133] _not_] om. Collier MS.

[3134] _tend upon_] Theobald. _tends upon_ Qq. _tended upon_ Ff. _tended on_ Hanmer.

[3135] _'tis_] _it is_ Capell, ending lines 95, 96 _at madam ... was_.

[3136] _madam_] _madam, yes_ Collier (Collier MS.)

_of that consort_] Ff. Omitted in Qq and Capell. _one of that consort_ Dyce conj.

[3137] _the waste and spoil of his_] _the wast and spoyle of his_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1, 2. Mus. per. and imp.) _these--and waste of this his_ Q₁ Q₃. _these--and wast of this his_ Q₂ (Cap. and Dev.) _th' expence and wast of his_ F₁. _th' expence and wast of_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3138] _That ... there._] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[3139] _Nor ... office._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3140] _assure_] _I assure_ Theobald (ed. 2).

[3141] _hear_] F₃ F₄. _heare_ F₁ F₂. _heard_ Qq.

[3142] _'Twas_] _Twas_ Qq. _It was_ F₁ F₂. _It is_ F₃ F₄. _It's_ Pope.

[3143] _bewray_] Ff. _betray_ Qq.

[3144] _lord_] _lord, he is_ Hanmer.

[3145] _If he ... seize on._] Verse in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3146] _For_] Qq F₁. _as for_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

_Edmund_] _good Edmund_ Keightley.

[3147] _doth this instant_] _in this instance_ Warburton. _doth, in this instance_ Jennens (Heath conj.) _doth, at this instant_ Capell conj.

[3148] _commend_] _commends_ Warburton.

[3149] _need: You we_] Ff. _need, you we_ Q₁ Q₃. _need you, we_ Q₂.

[3150] _I shall ... else._] Arranged as by Pope. One line in Qq Ff.

[3151] _sir_] Ff. om. Qq and Jennens, who ends the line at _truly_.

[3152] _For him_] om. Pope.

[3153] _came_] _come_ Capell conj.

_you,--_] _you--_ Rowe (ed. 1). _you?_ Qq F₁ F₂. _you._ F₃ F₄. _you_ Rowe (ed. 2), continuing the next line to 'Corn.'

[3154] _threading_] _thredding_ Ff. _threatning_ Qq. _treading_ Theobald conj.

[3155] _poise_] _poyse_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1, 2. Mus. per. and imp.) _prize_ Q₁ Ff Q₃. _prise_ Q₂ (Cap. and Dev.) _price_ Capell (Johnson conj.)

[3156] _advice_:] _advices_: Capell. After this Keightley marks a line omitted.

[3157] _differences_] Ff. _diferences_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1, 2. Mus. per. and imp.) _defences_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. and Dev.) Q₃.

_least_] Edd. _lest_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1, 2. Mus. per. and imp.) _best_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. and Dev.) Ff Q₃. See note (VIII).

[3158] _home_] Q₂ (Bodl. 1, 2. Mus. per. and imp.) Ff. _hand_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. and Dev.) Q₃.

[3159] _Lay ... use._] As in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _counsell_, in Qq.

[3160] _business_] _businesse_ Q₁ Q₃. _busines_ Q₂. _businesses_ Ff.

[3161] _craves_] Qq Ff. _crave_ Rowe.

[Exit. Q₁ Q₃. Exeunt. Q₂.

[3162] _I serve ... welcome._] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[3163] [Flourish. Exeunt.] Exeunt. Flourish. F₁. Exeunt. F₂ F₃ F₄. om. Qq.

[3164] SCENE II.] SCENE V. Pope. Rowe and Theobald continue the Scene. SCENE III. Eccles.

Before....] Before the Castle. Capell.

Enter....] Collier. Enter Kent, and Steward severally. Ff. Enter Kent, and Steward. Qq.

[3165] Osw.] Collier. Steward. or Stew. Qq Ff.

[3166] _dawning_] Ff. _euen_ Qq (_deuen_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1)). _evening_ Pope. _downing_ Warburton. _awning_ Jackson conj.

_this_] Ff. _the_ Qq.

[3167] _I' the_] _I' th'_ F₁. _It'h_ Q₂. _I th'_ F₂ F₃ F₄. In the Q₁ Q₃.

[3168] _Prithee_] _Prythee_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _Prethee_ Qq F₂.

_lovest_] _lov'st_ Ff. _love_ Qq.

[3169] _Lipsbury_] _Ledbury_ Jennens conj. _Finsbury_ Collier (Collier MS.)

_I would_] _I'd_ Capell MS.

[3170] _three suited_] _third-suited_ Farmer conj. _tree-suited_ Jackson conj. _thread-suited_ Anon. conj.

_three-suited, hundred-pound_] _three shewted hundred pound_ Qq (_snyted_ Q₂ Bodl. 1). _three-suited-hundred pound_ F₁. _three-suited, hundred pound_ F₂ F₃ F₄ (_thre_ F₃).

[3171] _worsted-stocking_] _worsted-stocken_ Qq (_wosted stocken_ Q₂ Bodl. 1). _woosted-stocking_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _woosted stocking_ F₄.

[3172] _knave; a_] om. Ff.

_superservicable, finical_] _super-finicall_ Qq.

[3173] _one-trunk-inheriting_] F₃ F₄. _one trunke-inheriting_ F₁ F₂. No hyphen in Qq.

[3174] _one_] Ff. om. Qq.

[3175] _clamorous_] Qq F₃ F₄. _clamours_ F₁ F₂.

_deniest_] _deny'st_ Ff. _deny_ Q₁ Q₃. _denie_ Q₂.

_thy_] Ff. _the_ Qq.

[3176] _Why_] Ff. om. Qq.

[3177] _on one_] _against one_ Capell MS.

_that is_] Ff. _that's_ Qq.

[3178] _ago_] om. Ff.

[3179] _tripped ... thee_] _tript ... thee_ Ff. _beate thee, and tript up thy heeles_ Qq (_beat_ Q₂).

[3180] _yet_] Ff. om. Qq.

[3181] _sop_] _fop_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn).

_o' the_] _o' th'_ F₃ F₄. _oth'_ F₁ F₂. _of the_ Qq.

_of you_] Ff. _a' you_ Qq.

_draw_] Qq. om. Ff.

_cullionly_] _cullyonly_ Q₁ Q₂. _cullyenly_ F₁ F₂. _cully only_ Q₃. _culleinly_ F₃ F₄.

[3182] [Drawing his sword.] Rowe.

[3183] _come with_] Ff. _bring_ Qq.

[3184] _royalty of her_] _royalty, her_ Capell.

[3185] _shanks:_] _shankes,_ Qq Ff. _shanks--_ Rowe.

[3186] _rogue; stand, you_] _rogue, stand you_ Qq Ff. _rogue, stand; you_ Steevens (1778).

[3187] [Beating him.] Rowe.

[3188] _murder! murder!_] _murther, murther._ Ff. _murther, helpe._ Qq.

Enter....] Edd. (Globe ed.) Enter Edmund with his Rapier drawne, Glocester, the Duke and Dutchesse. Qq (Gloster Q₂). Enter Bastard, Cornewall, Regan, Gloster, Servants. Ff (Servant. F₂ F₃ F₄). Enter Edmund. Stauton (Dyce).

[3189] SCENE VI. Pope.

[3190] Edm.] Bast. Qq Ff.

[3191] [Parting them.] Edd. _Part._ Ff. om. Qq. See note (X).

[3192] _an_] Staunton. _and_ Qq. _if_ Ff.

[3193] _flesh_] Ff. _fleash_ Qq. _you_] Qq. _ye_ Ff.

Enter Cornwall, Regan, Gloucester, and Servants. Staunton. Enter Gloster. Dyce (ed. 2).

[3194] _Weapons! arms!_] Capell. _Weapons? Armes?_ Ff. _Weapons, armes,_ Qq.

Enter Cornwall, Regan, and Servants. Dyce (ed. 2).

[3195] _Keep ... matter?_] As in Cappell. Prose in Qq Ff.

[3196] _What is_] Ff. _what's_ Qq.

[3197] _messengers_] _messenger_ Grant White.

_king._] Qq. _king?_ Ff.

[3198] _What is_] Ff. _What's_ Q₁ Q₃. _Whats_ Q₂.

_difference? speak._] Rowe. _difference, speake?_ Qq Ff.

[3199] _No ... man?_] Prose in Qq Ff. Four lines, ending _valour, ... thee; ... fellow: ... man?_ in Capell.

[3200] _in_] _all share in_ Rowe.

[3201] _man?_] Ff. _man._ Qq.

[3202] _Ay,_] _I,_ Qq. om. Ff.

_sir:_] _sir;_ Q₂ F₂ F₃ F₄. _sir,_ Q₁ F₁ Q₃.

[3203] _he_] Q₁ Q₃. _hee_ Q₂. _they_ Ff.

[3204] _hours_] Q₃. _houres_ Q₁ Q₂. _yeares_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _years_ F₄.

_at the_] Qq. _oth'_ F₁ F₂. _o' th'_ F₃ F₄.

[3205] _yet_] _you_ Pope.

[3206] _This ... spared_] Prose in Qq Ff. One line of verse in Capell.

_ruffian_] _ruffen_ Q₂.

[3207] _gray beard,--_] _gray beard-_ Rowe. _gray-beard._ Qq F₁ F₂. _gray beard._ F₃ F₄.

[3208] _zed!_] _C!_ Johnson conj.

[3209] _you will_] _you'l_ Q₂.

[3210] _walls_] _wals_ Q₁ Q₃. _walles_ Q₂. _wall_ Ff.

_of a jakes_] _of a Iaques_ Q₁. _of a iaques_ Q₂. _of a Iakes_ F₁ F₂. _of Iaques_ Q₃. _of a Jakes_ F₃ F₄.

[3211] _gray beard_] Q₂. _gray-beard_ Q₁ Ff Q₃.

[3212] _Peace ... reverence?_] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[3213] _sirrah_] Ff. _sir_ Qq.

[3214] _know you no reverence?_] Ff. _you have no reverence._ Qq.

[3215] _hath_] Ff. _has_ Qq.

[3216] _Who_] Ff. _That_ Qq.

_as these_] Put at the beginning of line 69 by Pope (reading _those_ as Qq). om. Hanmer.

[3217] _the holy_] Ff. _those_ Qq. _those holy_ Jennens. _the boly_ Grimes conj. MS.

_a-twain_ F₃ F₄. _a twaine_ F₁ F₂. _in twaine_ Qq. Malone would read with Qq, ending line 69, _which are_.

[3218] _Which are too intrinse_] Malone. _Which are t' intrince,_ F₁. _Which art t' intrince,_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _Which are to intrench,_ Qq. _Too intricate_ Pope. _Too 'intrinsecate_ Theobald. _Too intrinsick_ Hanmer. _Too intresse_ or _Too intrigue_ Singer conj.

_to unloose;_] _t' unloose:_ Ff. _to inloose_ Qq. _to enloose_ Seymour conj.

_smooth_] _sooth_ Pope. _smothe_ (i.e. _smother_) Becket conj.

[3219] _natures_] _nature_ Pope.

_rebel_] _rebels_ Pope.

[3220] _Bring_] Qq. _Being_ Ff.

_fire_] Ff. _stir_ Qq.

_their_] Qq. _the_ Ff.

[3221] _Renege_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _Reneag_ Qq. _Revenge_ F₁.

[3222] _gale_] _gall_ F₁.

_vary_] _varry_ F₁.

[3223] _Knowing ... fool?_] Two lines, the first ending _epeliptick,_ in Q₂.

[3224] _Knowing_] _As knowing_ Pope. _And knowing_ Collier (Collier MS.) _Knowing of_ Anon. conj.

_nought_] Qq. _naught_ Ff.

_dogs_] F₄. _dogges_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _daies_ Q₁ Q₂. _dayes_ Q₂.

[3225] _Smile you_] F₄. _Smoile you_ Q₁ F₁ F₂ Q₃ F₃. _smoyle you_ Q₂. _Smile at_ Collier MS. _Smile you at_ Keightley.

[3226] _if_] Q₁ Ff Q₃. _and_ Q₂.

[3227] _drive ye_] Ff. _send you_ Qq. _drive you_ Capell.

_Camelot_] Ff. _Camulot_ Qq.

[3228] _What, ... out?_] As one line in Steevens (1793).

[3229] _out? say that._] Pope. _out, say that?_ Qq Ff.

_say that._] om. Seymour conj.

[3230] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_What is his fault_] Ff. _What's his offence_ Qq.

[3231] _does_] Q₂. _do's_ Ff. _doth_ Q₁ Q₃.

_nor ... nor_] Ff. _or ... or_ Qq.

[3232] _Than_] Q₁. _Then_ Ff Q₃. _That_ Q₂.

_stands_] _stand_ Pope.

[3233] _This ... nicely._] As in Ff. Nine lines, ending _praised ... ruffines, ... nature, ... plaine, ... so, ... know, ... craft, ... ducking ... nicely,_ in Qq.

[3234] _some_] Ff. _a_ Qq.

[3235] _roughness_] _ruffines_ Qq.

[3236] _cannot_] _can't_ Pope.

[3237] _An ... plain_] _he must be plaine_ Qq.

[3238] _An_] Pope. _And_ Ff. _and_ Qq.

_take it, so_] Rowe. _take it so_ Q₁ Ff Q₃. _tak't so_ Q₂.

[3239] _plainness_] A full stop here in F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3240] _more_] _far_ Pope.

[3241] _silly_] _silky_ Hanmer (Warburton).

_silly ducking_] Qq. _silly-ducking_ Ff.

[3242] _faith, in_] Ff. _sooth, or in_ Qq.

[3243] _great_] Ff. _grand_ Q₁ Q₃. _graund_ Q₂.

[3244] _On_] Ff. _In_ Qq. _Or_ Rowe.

_flickering_] Pope. _flitkering_ Q₁ Q₂. _fletkering_ Q₃. _flicking_ Ff.

_front,--_] _front--_ Rowe. _front._ Qq Ff.

_by_] _thou by_ Qq.

[3245] _dialect_] Ff. _dialogue_ Qq.

[3246] _he_] _but he_ Hanmer.

_beguiled_] _beguil'd_ F₃ F₄. _beguild_ The rest.

[3247] _to entreat_] _that entreat_ Badham conj.

[3248] _to't_] F₃ F₄. _too't_ Q₂ F₁ F₂. _to it_ Q₁ Q₃.

[3249] _What was_] Ff. _What's_ Qq.

[3250] _I ... any_] _Never any_ Hanmer.

[3251] _I ... misconstruction;_] As in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _master,_ in Qq.

[3252] _late_] _lately_ Rowe.

[3253] _misconstruction_] _misinstruction_ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V).

[3254] _conjunct_] _coniunct_ Qq. _compact_ Ff.

[3255] _man, That_] Ff. _man, that That_ Q₁ Q₃. _man, that, That_ Q₂. _man That't_ Anon. conj.

[3256] _fleshment_] Ff. _flechuent_ Q₁ Q₂. _flechvent_ Q₃.

_dread_] Qq. _dead_ Ff. _dear_ Anon. conj.

[3257] _again_] om. Steevens (1793).

[3258] _None ... fool_] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[3259] _Ajax_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _A'Iax_ Qq. _Aiax_ F₁.

_their_] _there_ F₁.

_fool_] _foil_ Hanmer (Warburton).

_Fetch ... stocks!_] _Fetch ... stocks?_ Ff (_stockes?_ F₂). _Bring ... stockes ho?_ Qq. _Fetch ... stocks, ho!_ Steevens (1778).

[3260] _stubborn ancient_] _stubborn-ancient_ S. Walker conj.

_ancient_] Ff. _miscreant_ Qq (_ausrent_ Q₂ Bodl. 1).

_reverend_] _rev'rend_ Pope. _reverent_ Q₂ Ff. _unreverent_ Q₁. _unreverant_ Q₃.

[3261] _you--_] Theobald, _you._ Qq Ff.

_Sir,_] Ff. om. Qq.

[3262] _Sir, I am ... you_] As in Ff. _I am ... you_ As two lines, the first ending _me,_ in Qq.

[3263] _employment_] _imployment_ Ff. _imploiments_ Q₁. _imployments_ Q₂ Q₃.

[3264] _shall_] Ff. _should_ Qq.

_respect_] Qq. _respects_ Ff.

[3265] _Stocking_] Ff. _Stopping_ Qq.

[3266] _Fetch ... noon._] As in Qq. Two lines, the first ending _stocks;_ in Ff.

[3267] _stocks!_] _stockes?_ Q₂. _stockes;_ Q₁ F₂. _stocks;_ F₁ F₃ F₄.

_and honour_] om. Hanmer.

[3268] _noon!_] _noone?_ Ff. _noone._ Qq.

[3269] _Why, ... so._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3270] _should_] Ff. _could_ Q₁ Q₂. _cold_ Q₃.

[3271] _self-same colour_] _same nature_ Q₁ Q₃. _selfe same nature_ Q₂.

[3272] _speaks of_] _speakes off_ Q₁ Q₃. _speake of_ Q₂.

_Come_] om. Pope.

[Stocks brought out.] As in Dyce. After line 132 in Ff. Omitted in Qq.

[3273] _His ... restrain'd._] See note (XI).

[3274] _basest_] _belest_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1).

_contemned'st_] Capell. _temnest_ Qq (_contaned_ Q₂ Bodl. 1). _the meanest_ Pope.

[3275] _he, so ... Should_] _he so ... Should_ F₁ F₂. _hee's so ... should_ Qq. _he's so ... Should_ F₃ F₄. _he's so ... To_ Rowe.

[3276] _much more_] _yet much_ Hanmer.

[3277] _gentleman_] _gentlemen_ Q₂.

[3278] _For ... legs._] Omitted in Ff.

[3279] _Put in his legs_] A stage-direction. Seymour conj.

[Kent ...] As in Pope. After line 142 in Rowe. om. Qq Ff.

[3280] _Come_] Qq. Corn. _Come_ Ff.

_good lord_] Q₂. _lord_ Q₁ Ff Q₃. _lord, let's_ Capell conj. MS.

[Exeunt ...] Exeunt Cor. Reg. Edm. Ste. and Ser. Capell. Exit. Q₁ Ff Q₃. om. Q₂. Exeunt Regan and Cornwall. Pope.

[3281] SCENE VI. Pope and Hanmer (a misprint). SCENE VII. Warburton.

_I am_] _Im_ Pope.

_duke's_] _duke_ F₁.

[3282] _rubb'd_] _ruled_ Anon. conj.

[3283] _Pray_] Ff. _Pray you_ Qq.

_I have_] _I've_ Pope.

_travelld_] _traveld_ F₃ F₄. _travaild_ Qq. _travaild_ F₁ F₂.

[3284] _Some time_] _Sometime_ Q₂.

_out_] _out_ Q₂.

[3285] _The ... taken._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_to blame_] Q₂ F₃ F₄. _too blame_ Q₁ F₁ F₂ Q₃.

_'twill ... taken._] [to Edm.] _'twill be ill taken._ Capell conj. MS. (withdrawn).

_taken_] Ff. _tooke_ Qq.

[Exit.] om. Q₂. Exeunt Gloster, Edmund, and Servants. Capell conj. MS. (withdrawn).

[3286] _Thou_] _That_ Johnson.

[3287] _Approach ... remedies._] Put in the margin by Hanmer.

[3288] [Looking up to the moon. Pope. Addressing the absent sun, and wishing for its return. Rann (Malone conj.)

[3289] _miracles_] Ff. _my wracke_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. & imp. and Bodl. 2) Q₃. _my rackles_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1).

[3290] _misery: I know_] _miserie. I know_ Ff. _misery, I know_ Qq. _misery, I know._--Jennens.

[Reading the letter. Johnson. Opening the letter. Jennens.

[3291] _most_] _not_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1).

[3292] _course; and_] _course. And_ Ff. _course, and_ Qq. _course. I_ Rowe. See note (XII).

[3293] _shall ... From_] _she'll ... For_ Daniel conj. _shell ... From_ Staunton.

[3294] _state, seeking_] _state-seeking_ Johnson conj. _states sinking_ Jackson conj.

[3295] _o'er-watchd,_] _ore-watchd_ Ff. _ouer-watcht,_ Q₁ Q₃. _ouerwatch_ Q₂. _oer-watchd!_ S. Walker conj.

[3296] _Take_] _Late_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1).

[3297] _This ... wheel!_] As in Pope. In Qq Ff the first line ends _goodnight._

[3298] _smile ... turn_] _Smile once more, turn_ Ff. _Smile, once more turne_ Q₁ Q₂. _Smile once more turne_ Q₃.

[Sleeps.] sleepes. Q₂. He sleepes. Q₁ Q₃. om. Ff.

[3299] SCENE III.] Steevens. SCENE VII. Pope. SCENE VIII. Johnson. SCENE IV. Eccles. The Folios, Rowe, Warburton, and Capell continue the scene.

A wood.] Staunton. A part of a Heath. Theobald. A part of the heath. Steevens. A part of the neighbouring country. Eccles. The open country. Dyce.

Enter Edgar.] Qq Ff. Enter Edgar, at a Distance. Capell.

[3300] _I heard_] F₁ F₂ F₃. _I heare_ Qq. _I have heard_ F₄. _I've heard_ Pope.

[3301] _unusual_] _unusall_ Q₁ F₁ F₂ Q₃.

[3302] _Does_] _Do's_ Ff. _Dost_ Qq. _Doth_ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V).

_taking. Whiles_] Ff. _taking while_ Qq.

[3303] _most_] _the_ Pope.

[3304] _elf_] _elfe_ F₁. _else_ Qq F₂. _put_ F₃ F₄. _tye_ Anon. MS. See note (V).

_hair_] F₄. _haire_ Q₁ Q₂. _haires_ F₁ F₂. _heare_ Q₃. _hairs_ F₃.

_in_] Ff. _with_ Qq.

[3305] _winds_] F₃ F₄. _windes_ F₁ F₂. _winde_ Q₁. _wind_ Q₂ Q₃.

_persecutions_] Ff. _persecution_ Qq.

[3306] _precedent_] Johnson, _president_ Qq Ff.

[3307] _Strike_] _Stick_ S. Walker conj.

_and_] om. Q₂ (Bodl. 1).

_bare_] Qq. om. Ff.

[3308] _Pins_] _Pies_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1).

_wooden_] Q₁ Q₂ F₃ F₄ _wodden_ Q₂ F₁ F₂.

[3309] _from_] _frame_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1).

_farms_] F₄. _farmes_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _seruice_ Qq.

[3310] _sheep-cotes_] _sheep-coates_ Qq. _sheeps-coates_ F₁. _sheepes-coates_ F₂. _sheep's-coats_ F₃. _sheeps-coats_ F₄.

_mills_] _miles_ Q₃.

[3311] _Sometime_] Qq. _Sometimes_ Ff.

_sometime_] Qq F₁. _sometimes_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3312] _their_] _reer_ Warburton conj.

_Turlygod_] _Tuelygod_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1). _Turlygood_ Theobald. _Turlurù_ Hanmer. _Turlupin_ Warburton conj.

[3313] SCENE IV.] Steevens. SCENE VIII. Pope. SCENE IX. Warburton (an error). SCENE IX. Johnson. Ff, Rowe and Capell continue the Scene.

Before ... castle.] Changes again to the Earl of Glo'ster's Castle. Pope.

Kent ...] Dyce.

Enter ...] Ff. Enter King, and a Knight. Q₁ Q₃. Enter King. Q₂.

[3314] _home_] Ff. _hence_ Qq.

[3315] _messenger_] _messengers_ F₁ F₂.

[3316] _As I ... remove._] As in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _was_, in Qq.

[3317] _in them_] Ff. om. Qq.

[3318] _this_] Ff. _his_ Qq.

[3319] _Ha!_] _Ha?_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _Ha_, F₄. _How_, Qq.

[3320] _Ha!... pastime?_] Arranged as by Steevens (1793), who reads, _How!_ One line in Qq Ff.

_thy_] _ahy_ F₁.

[3321] _this_] om. Pope. _thy_ Theobald.

Kent. _No, my lord._] Omitted in Qq.

[3322] _Ha, ... nether-stocks._] Prose in Ff. Five lines in Qq.

[3323] _he_] Ff. _looke, he_ Qq.

_cruel_] _cruell_ F₁ F₂. _crewell_ Q₁ Q₂. _crewill_ Q₃. _crewel_ F₃ F₄.

_tied_] _tide tide_ F₂.

[3324] _heads_] Ff. _heeles_ Qq. _head_ Boswell.

[3325] _man's_] Q₁ Q₃. _mans_ Q₂. _man_ F₁. _man is_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3326] _then_] _hen_ Q₁. _When_ Q₃.

_wooden_] _wodden_ F₁ F₂.

_nether-stocks_] _neather-stockes_ Q₁. _neatherstockes_ Q₂. _neather-stocke_ Q₃. _nether socks_ Heath conj.

[3327] _What's ... here?_] As in Rowe. Prose in Qq. Three lines in Ff.

[3328] _It ... daughter._] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[3329] _I say, yea._] _But I say, yea._ Hanmer.

[3330] Lear. _No ... have._] Qq. Omitted in Ff.

[3331] Kent. _By ... ay._ Lear.] Omitted in Qq.

[3332] _do't ... do't_] _do it ... do it_ Q₁ Q₃.

[3333] _could ... would_] Ff. _would ... could_ Qq.

[3334] _mightst_] _maist_ Q₁ Q₃. _may'st_ Q₂.]

_impose_] Ff. _purpose_ Qq.

[3335] _show'd_] _shew'd_ Pope. _shewed_ Qq Ff.

[3336] _came there_] _came_ Pope. _there came_ Jennens (a misprint).

[3337] _panting_] _painting_ F₁.

[3338] _salutations_] Qq F₁. _salutation_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3339] _Deliver'd_] Ff. _Delivered_ Qq.

[3340] _whose_] Qq. _those_ Ff.

[3341] _meiny_] F₃ F₄. _meiney_ F₁ F₂. _men_ Qq.

[3342] _And_] _I,_ Jennens.

[3343] _that_] Qq. _which_ Ff.

[3344] _drew_] _I drew_ Rowe.

[3345] _The shame_] Ff. _This shame_ Qq.

[3346] Fool. _Winters ... year._] Omitted in Qq.

[3347] _Winter's_] F₃ F₄. _Winters_ F₁ F₂.

_wild_] _wil'd_ F₁.

[3348] _Fathers ... poor._] As in Pope. Three lines in Ff.

[3349] _this, ... daughters_] _this, it follows ... daughters dear_ Collier (Collier MS.), reading 52, 53 as four lines of rhyme.

[3350] _for thy_] F₁. _for thy deare_ F₂. _for thy dear_ F₃ F₄. _from thy dear_ Theobald.

[3351] _Hysterica_] F₄. _Historica_ Qq F₁ F₂. _Hystorica_ F₃.

[3352] _With ... not;_] As in Qq Ff. One line in Steevens (1793).

[3353] _here_] Ff. om. Qq.

[3354] _here._] Ff. _there._ Q₁ Q₃. _there?_ Q₂.

[Exit.] Ff. om. Qq.

[3355] _Made ... of?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_but_] Ff. _then_ Qq.

[3356] _None_] Ff. _No_ Qq.

[3357] _None ... train?_] _None: How ... number?_ Ff. _No, how ... traine?_ Qq.

[3358] _train_] _traine_ Qq. _number_ Ff.

[3359] _An_] Pope. _And_ Q₂ Ff. _If_ Q₁ Q₃.

[3360] _i' the_] _i' th'_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _ith'_ F₂. _in the_ Qq.

[3361] _thou hadst_] Qq. _thou'dst_ Ff.

_deserved_] _deserve_, Pope, reading _thou'dst_ with Ff.

[3362] _All ... men;_] _All men are led by their eyes, but blind men, and they follow their noses,_ Johnson conj.

[3363] _twenty_] Ff. _a hundred_ Q₁ Q₃. _a 100._ Q₂.

_stinking_] _sinking_ Mason conj.

[3364] _following it_] Qq. _following_ Ff.

[3365] _up the hill_] Qq. _upward_ Ff.

_him_] _it_ Hanmer.

[3366] [Sings. Anon. conj.

_That sir_] _That, sir,_ F₄.

_which_] Ff. _that_ Qq.

_and seeks_] om. Qq.

[3367] _That ... perdy._] Italics in Q₁ Q₃. Roman in Q₂ Ff.

[3368] _begins_] _begin_ Q₂.

_begins to rain_] _'gins rain_ Capell.

[3369] _the storm_] _a storm_ F₄.

[3370] _But_] _And_ F₃ F₄.

[3371] _wise man_] Qq F₄. _wiseman_ F₁ F₂ F₃.

[3372] _The knave ... knave,_] _The fool turns knave, that runs away, The knave no fool,_ Collier, ed. 2 (Johnson conj.) _The fool turns knave, that runs away; The fool's no knave,_ Heath conj. _The fool turns knave, that runs away; The fool no knave,_ Capell.

[3373] _fool_] om. Qq.

[3374] Re-enter ...] Capell. Enter Lear and Glocester. Qq (Gloster Q₂). Enter Lear, and Gloster: Ff (Glocester. Q₁ Q₃. Glower. F₂), after line 81.

[3375] SCENE IX. Pope. SCENE X. Warburton.

_Deny ... weary?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_They are ... they are_] _they're ... they're_ Pope.

_sick?... weary?_] Johnson. _sicke, ... weary,_ Qq Ff.

[3376] _have travell'd_] F₄. _have travail'd_ F₁ F₂. _have travel'd_ F₃. _traveld_ Q₁. _traveled_ Q₂ Q₃.

_all the_] Ff. _hard to_ Qq.

[3377] _fetches; The_] _fetches, The_ Ff. _Iustice, I the_ Qq. _fetches; ay, The_ Capell conj. _fetches all--The_ Steevens conj. _fetches these; The_ Keightley.

[3378] _images_] _image'_ S. Walker conj.

[3379] _Fetch_] _Bring_ Pope.

[3380] _My dear ... wife._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3381] _plague! death!_] _plague, death,_ Ff. _death, plague,_ Qq.

[3382] _Fiery? what quality?_] Ff. _what fiery quality;_ Qq. _Fiery? what fiery quality?_ Pope.

_Gloucester, Gloucester_] _Gloster, Gloster_ Qq Ff. _Glo'ster_ Pope.

_Fiery? what? quality?_ Taylor conj. MS.

[3383] Glo. _Well ... man?_] Ff. Omitted in Qq.

[3384] _The ... father_] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _Cornwall,_ in Ff.

_father_] _fate_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1).

[3385] _with his_] _with the_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1).

_commands her service_] Qq (_come and tends seruise_ Q₂ Bodl. 1). _commands, tends, service_ Ff. _commands tends service_ Rowe (ed. 1). _commands, tends service_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[3386] _Are ... blood!_] Omitted in Qq.

[3387] _'Fiery'?... that--_] Ff. _Fiery duke, tell the hot duke that Lear,_ Qq (_The fierie_ Q₂ Bodl. 1).

_that--_] _that--_ [Glocester offers to go. Johnson.

[3388] _No_] _Mo_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1).

[3389] _Infirmity ... forbear;_] Divided as in Ff. Three lines, the first two ending _health ... opprest,_ in Qq.

[3390] _Whereto_] Ff. _where to_ Qq.

_we are_] _we're_ Pope.

[3391] _commands_] _cōmand_ Q₂.

[3392] _fall'n_] F₃ F₄. _fallen_ Qq F₁ F₂.

_headier_] _heady_ Pope.

[3393] _To ... her_] Divided as in Ff. Three lines, the first two ending _man, ... here?_ in Qq.

[3394] [Looking on Kent] Johnson. om. Qq Ff.

_wherefore_] _but wherefore_ Pope.

[3395] _act_] _very act_ Keightley.

_persuades_] _persuadeth_ Hanmer. _almost persuades_ Steevens conj. _alone persuades_ Seymour conj.

[3396] _practice only. Give_] _practise only. Give_ F₁. _practise, onely give_ Qq. _practise onely, Give_ F₂. _practice onely, Give_ F₃. _practice only, give_ F₄.

[3397] _Go tell_] _Tell_ Qq.

_and's_] _and his_ Capell.

_I'ld_ F₄. _Il'd_ F₂ F₃. _Ile_ Qq.

[3398] _sleep to death_] Printed in italics by Johnson. _death to sleep_ Mason conj.

[3399] _I would_] _I'd_ Capell.

[Exit.] Ff. om. Qq.

[3400] _O ... down!_] _O my heart! my heart._ Qq.

[3401] _cockney_] _cokney_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. & imp. and Bodl. 2). _coknay_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1). _cook-maid_ Badham conj.

[3402] _she_] Qq F₁. _hee_ F₂. _he_ F₃ F₄.

_put 'em i' the_] _put vm it'h_ Q₂. _put 'em i' th'_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _put them up i' th_ Q₁ Q₃. _put them i' th'_ F₄.

_paste_] _pâst_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. & imp. and Bodl. 2). _past_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1). _pasty_ Pope.

_she_] Qq Ff. _he_ Rowe.

_knapped 'em o' the_] _knapt 'em o' th'_ Ff. _knapt vm ath_ Qq.

[3403] _her_] _his_ F₃ F₄.

[3404] Re-enter....] Capell. Enter Duke and Regan. Qq. Enter Cornewall Regan, Gloster, Servants. Ff.

[3405] SCENE X. POPE. SCENE XI. Warburton.

[Kent is set....] Rowe. Kent here set at liberty. Ff. Omitted in Qq.

[3406] _you_] _your_ F₁.

[3407] _shouldst not be_] _wert not_ Pope.

[3408] _divorce_] _deuose_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1).

_mother's_] _mother_ F₁.

_tomb_] _fruit_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1).

[3409] [To Kent] Rowe. om. Qq Ff.

_O_] Ff. _yea_ Qq.

[3410] _sister's_] F₃ F₄. _sisters_ F₁ F₂. _sister is_ Qq.

[3411] _tied Sharp-tooth'd unkindness,_] _tired Sharp-tooth'd unkindness,_ Sympson conj. _tired, (Sharp-tooth'd unkindness!)_ Roderick conj.

[3412] _here:_] _heere._ Q₁. _heere,_ F₁ Q₃. _heare,_ Q₂. _here,_ The rest.

[Points to his heart.] Pope. om. Qq Ff.

[3413] _thou'lt_] Ff. _thou't_ Q₁ Q₃. _thout_ Q₂.

[3414] _With how depraved_] _Of how deprived_ Q₁ Q₂ (_deptoued_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1)). _Of how depriyed_ Q₃. _Of how depravd_ Johnson and Anon. conj. MS. See note (V).

_quality_--] Rowe. _quality_, Qq. _quality_. Ff.

[3415] _you_] om. Qq.

[3416] _scant_] Ff. _slacke_ Q₁ Q₂. _slack_ Q₃. _scan_ Hanmer.

[3417] Lear. _Say_, ... _blame_.] Omitted in Qq.

[3418] _Say, how is_] _How is_ Pope. _Ha! how's_ Capell conj.

[3419] _sir_,] om. Pope.

[3420] _Nature_ ... _return_;] Divided as in Ff. Four lines, the first three ending _confine_, ... _discretion_ ... _your selfe_, in Qq.

[3421] _in you_] _on you_ Qq.

[3422] _her_] _his_ F₁.

[3423] _you_] om. Qq.

[3424] _her, sir_.] _her sir_. Q₁ Q₃. _her sir_? Q₂. _her._ Ff.

_Ask her_] _Ask of her_ Keightley, omitting _sir_ with Ff.

[3425] _but_] om. Qq.

_becomes the house:_] _becometh us:_ Hanmer. _becometh--thus._ Johnson conj.

_the house:_] _the house,_ Q₂. _the house?_ The rest. _the use?_ Theobald. _me now:_ Jennens. _the mouth?_ Collier MS.

[3426] [Kneeling] The King kneeling. Hanmer. Om. Qq Ff. Kneeling. Johnson, after line 151.

[3427] [Rising] Dyce (Collier MS.) om. Qq Ff.

_Never_] _No_ Qq.

[3428] _black_] _backe_ Q₁. _back_ Q₃. _blank_ Theobald.

_struck_] _stroke_ Q₁ Q₃. _strooke_ Q₂ Ff.

[3429] _All ... lameness._] Divided as in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _top_, in Qq.

[3430] _ingrateful_] _ungrateful_ Johnson (1771).

_top_] _head_ Pope.

[3431] _You taking_] _Infecting_ Pope.

_Fie, sir, fie_] _Fie, fie sir_ Q₁ Q₃. _Fie fie sir_ Q₂.

[3432] Lear.] om. Q₂.

[3433] _sun To_] Edd. _sunne, To_ or _sun, To_ Qq Ff.

[3434] _To fall_] _Do, fall_ Johnson conj. _O, fall_ Capell. _To-fall_ Porson conj. MS. _Fall ye_ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V).

_and blast her pride._] Qq. _and blister._ Ff.

[3435] _O the_ ...] Divided as in Qq. The first line ends _Gods!_ in Ff.

[3436] _mood is on._] F₃ F₄. _moode is on._ F₁ F₂. _mood--_ Qq. _mood's on._ Steevens (1793), dividing as in Ff.

[3437] _Thy_] _The_ Qq.

_tender-hefted_] Ff. _tender hested_ Q₁. _tēder hested_ Q₂. _tender hasted_ Q₃. _tender-hearted_ Rowe (ed. 2) and Pope. _tender_ Seymour conj., ending lines 164--168 _gods!... mood ... have ... give._

[3438] _Thy ... train,_] Divided as in Ff. Three lines, the first two ending _ore ... burn,_ in Qq.

[3439] _Thee_] _the_ Q₂.

_o'er_] _are_ Q₃.

_harshness_] _rashness_ Johnson.

_her_] _no, her_ Seymour conj.

[3440] _know'st_] _knowest_ Qq.

[3441] _dues_] _and dues_ Rowe.

[3442] _hast thou_] _thou hast_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[3443] _endow'd_] Ff. _endowed_ Q₁ Q₃. _indow'd_ Q₂.

_to the_] _too'th_ Q₂.

[3444] [Tucket within.] Ff, after line 178. Transferred by Collier. Trumpets within. Rowe.

[3445] _know't; my_] _know't, my_ F₁ F₄. _know't my_ Qq F₂ F₃.

_sister's_] _sister_ Q₃.

_letter_] Ff. _letters_ Qq.

[3446] Enter Oswald.] Dyce. Enter Steward. Qq, after _that?_ line 179. Enter Steward. Ff, after _stocks?_ line 179. Enter Oswald. Collier, after line 179.

[3447] _easy-borrow'd_] Capell. _easie borrowed_ Qq Ff. _easy-borrowed_ Theobald.

[3448] _fickle_] Qq. _fickly_ F₁ F₂. _sickly_ F₃ F₄.

_he_] _a_ Q₂.

[3449] SCENE XI. Pope. SCENE XII. Warburton.

Lear.] Ff. Gon. Qq.

_stock'd_] _stockt_ Ff. _strucke_ Q₁ Q₃. _struck_ Q₂.

_I have_] _I've_ Pope.

[3450] _Thou ... heavens,_] As in Pope. Two lines, the first ending _ant_ or _on't_, in Qq Ff.

_on't_] Ff. _ant_ Q₁ Q₂. _ont_ Q₃.

_Who_] Ff. Lear. _Who_ Qq.

Enter Goneril.] As in Johnson. After _grace?_ (line 184) in Qq Ff.

_heavens_] _gods_ Anon. conj.

[3451] _If ... part!_] As in Ff. Three lines, the first two ending _alow_ (_allow_ Q₂ Cap.) ... _cause,_ in Qq.

[3452] _your_] Ff. _you_ Qq.

[3453] _Allow_] _Hallow_ Theobald (Warburton).

_if_] _if you_ Ff.

[3454] [To Gon.] Johnson.

[3455] _wilt thou_] Qq. _will you_ Ff.

[3456] _finds_] _fines_ Warburton conj.

[3457] _Will ... stocks?_] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff.

_yet hold?_] _hold yet?_ Capell conj.

[3458] _sir_] Q₂ Ff. om. Q₁ Q₃.

[3459] _much less_] _no less_ Hanmer. _much more_ Johnson conj.

[3460] _weak_] _'wake_ Hanmer.

_seem so_] _deem't so_ Warburton.

[3461] _month_] F₄. _moneth_ Qq F₁ F₂ F₃.

[3462] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope.

[3463] _To wage ... owl,--_] Theobald transposed these lines.

[3464] _wage_] _wage war_ Keightley.

_o' the_] _oth'_ F₁ F₂. _o' th'_ F₃ F₄. _of the_ Qq.

[3465] _owl,--_] _owle,_ or _owl,_ Qq Ff. _howl_ Collier (Collier MS.)

[3466] _hot-blooded_] Pope. _hot-bloodied_ Ff. _hot blood in_ Qq (_bloud_ Q₂).

[3467] _took ... brought_] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[3468] _knee_] _knee to_ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V).

_beg_] _bag_ Q₂.

[3469] [Pointing ...] Dyce. Looking on the Steward. Johnson.

[3470] _I_] Ff. _Now I_ Qq.

[3471] _that's in_] Ff. _that lies within_ Qq.

[3472] _boil_] Malone. _byle_ Q₁ F₁ F₂ Q₃. _bile_ Q₂ F₃ F₄.

[3473] _A ... In my_] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[3474] _plague-sore_] Hyphened in F₃ F₄.

_an_] Qq. _or_ Ff.

[3475] _call it_] _callit_ Q₂ (Dev.)

[3476] _thunder-bearer_] _thunder-beater_ Warburton.

[3477] _takes_] _tailes_ Q₂.

_high-judging_ Hyphened in Ff.

[3478] _Not ... passion_] Arranged as in Ff. Four lines, ending _yet, ... welcome, ... those ... passion,_ in Qq.

[3479] _altogether so_] Ff. _altogether so sir_ Qq. _all together_ Pope. _allto so_ Seymour conj.

[3480] _look'd_] Ff. _looke_ Qq.

[3481] _sir_] Q₂ Ff. om. Q₁ Q₃.

[3482] _your_] _you_ F₂.

[3483] _you old_] Ff. _you are old_ Qq.

_so--_] Rowe. _so,_ Qq Ff.

[3484] _spoken_] Ff. _spoken now_ Qq.

[3485] _what, fifty_] Rowe. _what fifty_ Qq Ff.

[3486] _sith that_] _since_ Pope.

[3487] _Speak_] F₃ F₄. _Speake_ F₁ F₂. _Speakes_ Qq.

_one house_] Ff. _a house_ Qq.

[3488] _almost_] om. Seymour conj.

[3489] _Why ... you,_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_chanced_] _chanc'd_ Ff. _chancst_ Q₁. _chanc'st_ Q₂. _chancest_ Q₃.

_you_] Qq. _ye_ Ff.

[3490] _you will_] _you'll_ Pope.

[3491] _For ... danger,_] Put in parenthesis in Q₁ Ff Q₃.

[3492] _but_] om. F₃ F₄.

[3493] _all--_] Rowe. _all._ Qq Ff.

[3494] _kept_] _keep_ F₃ F₄.

_follow'd_] Pope. _followed_ Qq Ff.

[3495] _What_] om. Pope.

[3496] _twenty, Regan?_] Capell. _twenty, Regan,_ Q₁ Q₃. _twentie, Regan_ Q₂. _twenty? Regan,_ Ff.

[3497] _speak't_] _speak it_ Capell.

[3498] _wicked ... wicked_] _wrinkled ... wrinkled_ Warburton.

[3499] _look_] _seeme_ Q₁ Q₃. _seem_ Q₂.

[3500] _the_] om. Pope.

[3501] [To Gon.] Hanmer.

[3502] _art_] _hast_ Pope.

[3503] _need_] _needs_ Q₁ Q₃. _needes_ Q₂.

[3504] _need_] _deed_ Qq.

[3505] _life's as_] Q₁ Q₃. _life as_ Q₂. _life is_ Ff.

_beast's_] Capell. _beasts_ Qq F₃ F₄. _beastes_ F₁ F₂. _beasts'_ Hanmer.

[3506] _wear'st_] Ff. _wearest_ Qq.

[3507] _warm. But ... need,--_] _warm; but ... need,--_ Warburton. _warme, but ... need,_ Qq Ff.

[3508] _that patience, patience_] _that patience which_ Pope. _that: patience, patience_ Jennens. _patience:--patience_ Mason conj. _patience!--that_ or _that patience that_ Ritson conj. _that patience_ Grant White (Malone conj.) _but patience! that_ Collier MS. _but patience that_ Collier conj. _your patience that_ Nicholson conj.

[3509] _man_] _fellow_ Qq.

[3510] _stirs_] F₄. _stirres_ Q₁ Q₂ F₁ F₂ F₃. _stirrs_ Q₃. _stir_ Rowe.

[3511] _so_] Ff. _too_ Q₁. _to_ Q₂ Q₃.

[3512] _tamely_] _lamely_ Qq.

[3513] _And let_] _O let_ Qq.

[3514] [Storm heard at a distance. Capell conj. MS.

[3515] _shall--_] Q₁ Ff Q₃. _shall,_ Q₂.

_things,--_] Capell. _things,_ Qq Ff.

[3516] _earth._] _earth;_ Q₁ Q₃ F₃. _earth,_ Q₂ F₄. _earth?_ F₁ F₂.

[3517] _No ... flaws,_] Arranged as by Steevens (1778). Two lines, the first ending _weeping,_ in Qq Ff.

[3518] _I have_] _Though I have_ Hanmer, dividing as Qq Ff, and reading with Pope.

_but this_] _This_ Pope.

[3519] _into a hundred thousand_] Ff. _in a 100. thousand_ Q₂. _in a thousand_ Q₁ Q₃. _into a thousand_ Pope.

_flaws_] _flowes_ Qq.

[3520] _Or ere_] Q₂ F₁ F₂. _Ere_ Q₁ Q₃. _Or e'er_ F₃ F₄.

_I'll_] _ile_ Qq. _Ile_ F₁. _I_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[Exeunt ... Fool.] Q₁ Q₃, substantially. Exeunt Lear, Leister, Kent.... Q₂. Exeunt. Ff. Exeunt ... Gentleman, and Fool. Capell.

[3521] Corn.] Ff. Duke. Qq.

_withdraw; 'twill_] _withdraw us; it will_ Keightley.

[Storm and tempest.] Ff, after _weeping_, line 281. Transferred by Pope. Omitted in Qq. Storm heard at a Distance. Capell, after 'Exeunt ... Fool.'

SCENE XII. Pope. _Scene xiii._ Warburton.

[3522] _Let ... folly._] As in Qq Ff. Four lines, ending _house ... cannot ... put ... folly,_ in Capell. Keightley ends them _storm ... people ... blame; ... folly._

[3523] _little_] _small_ Pope.

_and his_] Qq. _an'ds_ F₁. _and's_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3524] _bestow'd_] Ff. _bestowed_ Qq.

[3525] _blame; hath_] Boswell. _blame hath_ Qq Ff. _blame, he 'ath_ Hanmer. _blame; he hath_ Capell.

[3526] _And_] _He_ Collier MS.

[3527] Gon.] Ff. Duke. Qq.

_purposed_] _puspos'd_ Q₂.

[3528] _So ... Gloucester?_] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[3529] Corn.] Ff. Reg. Qq.

_Follow'd_] Pope. _Followed_ Qq Ff. _Follow_ Johnson (1771).

Re-enter....] As in Dyce. Enter.... Qq Ff, after line 291. Re-enter.... Capell, after line 291.

[3530] _rage._ Corn. _... whither._] As in Ff. _rage, and will I know not whether._ Qq.

[3531] _Whither_] F₃ F₄. _Whether_ F₁ F₂.

[3532] _whither_] F₃ F₄. _whether_ F₁ F₂.

[3533] Corn.] Ff. Reg. Q₁ Q₃. Re. Q₂.

_best_] _good_ Qq.

[3534] _bleak_] Q₂. _bleake_ Q₁ Q₃. high Ff.

[3535] _Do ... bush._] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[3536] _ruffle_] Ff. _russell_ Q₁ Q₃. _russel_ Q₂. _rustle_ Capell.

[3537] _There's_] _There is_ Q₃.

_scarce_] _not_ Qq.

[3538] _to_] _too_ Q₁ F₁ Q₃.

[3539] _wild_] _wil'd_ F₁ F₂.

[3540] _Regan_] _Reg_ Q₂.

_o' the_] _oth'_ F₁ F₂. _o' th'_ F₃ F₄. _ath_ Q₁ Q₃. _at'h_ Q₂.

[Exeunt.] Exeunt omnes. Q₁ Q₃.