Chapter XVI: Act III: SCENE I. A heath

_Storm still. Enter_ KENT _and a_ Gentleman, _meeting_.[3541]

_Kent._ Who's there, besides foul weather?[3542]

_Gent._ One minded like the weather, most unquietly.

_Kent._ I know you. Where's the king?

_Gent._ Contending with the fretful elements;[3543]
Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, 5
Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main,[3544]
That things might change or cease; tears his white hair,[3545]
Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage,[3545]
Catch in their fury, and make nothing of;[3545]
Strives in his little world of man to out-scorn[3545][3546][3547] 10
The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain.[3545][3546][3548]
This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,[3545][3549]
The lion and the belly-pinched wolf[3545][3550]
Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs,[3545]
And bids what will take all.[3545]

_Kent._ But who is with him? 15

_Gent._ None but the fool; who labours to out-jest
His heart-struck injuries.[3551]

_Kent._ Sir, I do know you;
And dare, upon the warrant of my note,[3552]
Commend a dear thing to you. There is division,[3553]
Although as yet the face of it be cover'd[3554] 20
With mutual cunning, 'twixt Albany and Cornwall;[3555]
Who have--as who have not, that their great stars[3556][3557]
Throned and set high?--servants, who seem no less,[3556][3558]
Which are to France the spies and speculations[3556][3559]
Intelligent of our state; what hath been seen,[3556][3560] 25
Either in snuffs and packings of the dukes,[3556]
Or the hard rein which both of them have borne[3556][3561]
Against the old kind king, or something deeper,[3556]
Whereof perchance these are but furnishings,--[3556][3562]
But true it is, from France there comes a power[3563][3564] 30
Into this scatter'd kingdom; who already,[3564][3565][3566]
Wise in our negligence, have secret feet[3564][3565][3567]
In some of our best ports, and are at point[3564][3565]
To show their open banner. Now to you:[3564][3565]
If on my credit you dare build so far[3564][3565] 35
To make your speed to Dover, you shall find[3564]
Some that will thank you, making just report[3564]
Of how unnatural and bemadding sorrow[3564][3568]
The king hath cause to plain.[3564][3569]
I am a gentleman of blood and breeding,[3564][3569] 40
And from some knowledge and assurance offer[3564][3569][3570]
This office to you.[3564][3569][3570]

_Gent._ I will talk further with you.[3571]

_Kent._ No, do not.
For confirmation that I am much more[3572]
Than my out-wall, open this purse and take 45
What it contains. If you shall see Cordelia,--
As fear not but you shall,--show her this ring,[3573]
And she will tell you who your fellow is[3574]
That yet you do not know. Fie on this storm!
I will go seek the king.

_Gent._ Give me your hand:[3575] 50
Have you no more to say?[3575]

_Kent._ Few words, but, to effect, more than all yet;
That when we have found the king,--in which your pain[3576]
That way, I'll this,--he that first lights on him[3576]
Holla the other. [_Exeunt severally._[3576][3577] 55

SCENE II. _Another part of the heath. Storm still._[3578]

_Enter_ LEAR _and_ Fool.

_Lear._ Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow![3579]
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout[3580][3581]
Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks![3580][3582]
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,[3580][3583]
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,[3580][3584] 5
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,[3580][3585]
Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world![3580][3586]
Crack nature's moulds, all germins spill at once[3580][3587]
That make ingrateful man![3580][3588]

_Fool._ O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry house is[3589] 10
better than this rain-water out o' door. Good nuncle, in,[3589][3590]
and ask thy daughters' blessing: here's a night pities[3589][3591]
neither wise man nor fool.[3589][3592]

_Lear._ Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain![3593]
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: 15
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;[3594]
I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,[3595]
You owe me no subscription: then let fall[3596][3597]
Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave,[3596][3598]
A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man:[3596] 20
But yet I call you servile ministers,[3596]
That have with two pernicious daughters join'd[3596][3599]
Your high-engender'd battles 'gainst a head[3596][3600]
So old and white as this. O! O! 'tis foul![3596][3601]

_Fool._ He that has a house to put's head in has a good[3602] 25
head-piece.

The cod-piece that will house[3603]
Before the head has any,[3603]
The head and he shall louse;[3603]
So beggars marry many.[3603] 30
The man that makes his toe[3603][3604]
What he his heart should make[3603][3605]
Shall of a corn cry woe,[3603][3606]
And turn his sleep to wake.[3603]

For there was never yet fair woman but she made mouths[3607] 35
in a glass.

_Lear._ No, I will be the pattern of all patience;[3608]
I will say nothing.

_Enter_ KENT.

_Kent._ Who's there?

_Fool._ Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a 40
wise man and a fool.

_Kent._ Alas, sir, are you here? things that love night[3609][3610]
Love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies[3609]
Gallow the very wanderers of the dark,[3609][3611]
And make them keep their caves: since I was man,[3609][3612] 45
Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,[3609]
Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never[3609][3613]
Remember to have heard: man's nature cannot carry[3609]
The affliction nor the fear.[3609]

_Lear._ Let the great gods,[3609][3614]
That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads,[3609][3615] 50
Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch,[3609]
That hast within thee undivulged crimes,[3609]
Unwhipp'd of justice: hide thee, thou bloody hand;[3609]
Thou perjured, and thou simular man of virtue[3609][3616]
That art incestuous: caitiff, to pieces shake,[3609][3617] 55
That under covert and convenient seeming[3609][3618]
Hast practised on man's life: close pent-up guilts,[3609][3619]
Rive your concealing continents and cry[3609][3620]
These dreadful summoners grace. I am a man[3609]
More sinn'd against than sinning.[3621]

_Kent._ Alack, bare-headed![3622] 60
Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel;[3622]
Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest:[3622]
Repose you there; while I to this hard house--[3622][3623]
More harder than the stones whereof 'tis raised;[3622][3624]
Which even but now, demanding after you,[3622][3625] 65
Denied me to come in--return, and force[3622]
Their scanted courtesy.[3622]

_Lear._ My wits begin to turn.[3626]
Come on, my boy: how dost, my boy? art cold?
I am cold myself. Where is this straw, my fellow?[3627]
The art of our necessities is strange,[3628] 70
That can make vile things precious. Come, your hovel.[3628][3629][3630]
Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart[3628][3630][3631]
That's sorry yet for thee.[3632]

_Fool._ [_Singing_] He that has and a little tiny wit,--[3633][3634][3635]
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,--[3634][3636] 75
Must make content with his fortunes fit,[3634]
For the rain it raineth every day.[3634][3637]

_Lear._ True, my good boy. Come, bring us to this
hovel. [_Exeunt Lear and Kent._[3638]

_Fool_. This is a brave night to cool a courtezan. I'll[3639][3640][3641]
speak a prophecy ere I go:[3639][3640][3642] 80
When priests are more in word than matter;[3639][3643]
When brewers mar their malt with water;[3639]
When nobles are their tailors' tutors;[3639]
No heretics burn'd, but wenches' suitors;[3639]
When every case in law is right;[3639] 85
No squire in debt, nor no poor knight;[3639][3644]
When slanders do not live in tongues,[3639][3645]
Nor cutpurses come not to throngs;[3639][3646]
When usurers tell their gold i' the field,[3639]
And bawds and whores do churches build;[3639] 90
Then shall the realm of Albion[3639][3647]
Come to great confusion:[3639][3647]
Then comes the time, who lives to see't,[3639][3648]
That going shall be used with feet.[3639][3648]
This prophecy Merlin shall make; for I live before his time. 95

[_Exit._[3649]

SCENE III. _Gloucester's castle._

_Enter_ GLOUCESTER _and_ EDMUND.[3650]

_Glou._ Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural[3651]
dealing. When I desired their leave that I might pity him,[3651]
they took from me the use of mine own house; charged[3651][3652]
me, on pain of their perpetual displeasure, neither to speak[3651][3653]
of him, entreat for him, nor any way sustain him.[3651][3654] 5

_Edm._ Most savage and unnatural![3651][3655]

_Glou._ Go to; say you nothing. There's a division betwixt[3651][3656]
the dukes, and a worse matter than that: I have received[3651]
a letter this night; 'tis dangerous to be spoken; I[3651]
have locked the letter in my closet: these injuries the king[3651] 10
now bears will be revenged home; there is part of a power[3651][3657]
already footed: we must incline to the king. I will seek[3651][3658]
him and privily relieve him: go you, and maintain talk[3651]
with the duke, that my charity be not of him perceived: if[3651]
he ask for me, I am ill and gone to bed. Though I die[3651][3659] 15
for it, as no less is threatened me, the king my old master[3651][3660]
must be relieved. There is some strange thing toward,[3651][3661]
Edmund; pray you, be careful. [_Exit._[3651]

_Edm._ This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the duke[3662][3663]
Instantly know, and of that letter too:[3662] 20
This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me[3662][3664]
That which my father loses; no less than all:[3662][3665]
The younger rises when the old doth fall. [_Exit._[3662][3666]

SCENE IV. _The heath. Before a hovel._[3667]

_Enter_ LEAR, KENT, _and_ FOOL.

_Kent_. Here is the place, my lord; good my lord, enter:[3668]
The tyranny of the open night's too rough[3668][3669]
For nature to endure. [_Storm still._[3668][3670]

_Lear._ Let me alone.[3671]

_Kent._ Good my lord, enter here.[3671]

_Lear._ Wilt break my heart?[3672]

_Kent._ I had rather break mine own. Good my lord, enter.[3673] 5

_Lear._ Thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm[3674]
Invades us to the skin: so 'tis to thee;[3675]
But where the greater malady is fix'd
The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'ldst shun a bear,[3676]
But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea[3677] 10
Thou'ldst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free[3678]
The body's delicate: the tempest in my mind[3679]
Doth from my senses take all feeling else
Save what beats there. Filial ingratitude![3680]
Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand[3681] 15
For lifting food to't? But I will punish home.[3682]
No, I will weep no more. In such a night[3683]
To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure.[3683]
In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril!
Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave you all,--[3684] 20
O, that way madness lies; let me shun that;
No more of that.

_Kent._ Good my lord, enter here.[3685]

_Lear._ Prithee, go in thyself; seek thine own ease:[3686]
This tempest will not give me leave to ponder
On things would hurt me more. But I'll go in. 25
[_To the Fool_] In, boy; go first. You houseless
poverty,--[3687][3688][3689]
Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.

[_Fool goes in._[3688][3690]

Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,[3691]
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, 30
Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you[3692]
From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en
Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,
That thou mayst shake the superflux to them 35
And show the heavens more just.[3693]

_Edg._ [_Within_] Fathom and half, fathom and half![3694][3695]
Poor Tom! [_The Fool runs out from the hovel._[3695][3696]

_Fool._ Come not in here, nuncle, here's a spirit. Help[3697]
me, help me![3697] 40

_Kent._ Give me thy hand. Who's there?[3698]

_Fool._ A spirit, a spirit: he says his name's poor Tom.[3699]

_Kent._ What art thou that dost grumble there i' the straw?[3700][3701]
Come forth.[3700]

_Enter_ EDGAR _disguised as a madman_.[3702]

_Edg._ Away! the foul fiend follows me! 'Through
the[3703][3704][3705][3706] 45
sharp hawthorn blows the cold wind.' Hum! go to thy[3704][3706][3707]
cold bed and warm thee.[3704][3708]

_Lear._ Hast thou given all to thy two daughters? and[3709][3710]
art thou come to this?[3709]

_Edg._ Who gives any thing to poor Tom? whom the 50
foul fiend hath led through fire and through flame, through[3711]
ford and whirlpool, o'er bog and quagmire; that hath laid[3712]
knives under his pillow and halters in his pew; set ratsbane[3713]
by his porridge; made him proud of heart, to ride on[3714]
a bay trotting-horse over four-inched bridges, to course his[3715] 55
own shadow for a traitor. Bless thy five wits! Tom's[3716]
a-cold. O, do de, do de, do de. Bless thee from whirlwinds,[3716][3717]
star-blasting, and taking! Do poor Tom some[3718]
charity, whom the foul fiend vexes. There could I have him
now, and there, and there again, and there. [_Storm still._[3719] 60

_Lear._ What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?[3720]
Couldst thou save nothing? Didst thou give them all?[3721]

_Fool._ Nay, he reserved a blanket, else we had been all
shamed.[3722]

_Lear._ Now, all the plagues that in the pendulous air 65
Hang fated o'er men's faults light on thy daughters![3723]

_Kent._ He hath no daughters, sir.

_Lear._ Death, traitor! nothing could have subdued nature
To such a lowness but his unkind daughters.
Is it the fashion that discarded fathers 70
Should have thus little mercy on their flesh?
Judicious punishment! 'twas this flesh begot[3724]
Those pelican daughters.[3724][3725]

_Edg._ Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hill:[3726][3727]
Halloo, halloo, loo, loo![3726][3728] 75

_Fool._ This cold night will turn us all to fools and
madmen.

_Edg._ Take heed o' the foul fiend: obey thy parents;[3729]
keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's[3730]
sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array.[3731] 80
Tom's a-cold.

_Lear._ What hast thou been?

_Edg._ A serving-man, proud in heart and mind; that
curled my hair; wore gloves in my cap; served the lust of[3732]
my mistress' heart and did the act of darkness with her;[3733] 85
swore as many oaths as I spake words and broke them in
the sweet face of heaven: one that slept in the contriving of[3734]
lust and waked to do it: wine loved I deeply, dice dearly,[3735]
and in woman out-paramoured the Turk: false of heart,
light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth,[3736] 90
wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey. Let not
the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray thy[3737]
poor heart to woman: keep thy foot out of brothels, thy[3738]
hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy[3739]
the foul fiend. 95

'Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind.'[3740]
Says suum, mun, ha, no, nonny.[3741]
Dolphin my boy, my boy, sessa! let him trot by.

[_Storm still._[3742]

_Lear._ Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer[3743][3744]
with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.[3744] 100
Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest[3744][3745]
the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the[3744]
cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated.[3744][3746]
Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more[3744]
but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off,[3744] 105
you lendings! come, unbutton here.[3744]

[_Tearing off his clothes._[3747]

_Fool._ Prithee, nuncle, be contented; 'tis a naughty night[3748]
to swim in. Now a little fire in a wild field were like an[3749]
old lecher's heart, a small spark, all the rest on's body cold.[3750]
Look, here comes a walking fire. 110

_Enter_ GLOUCESTER, _with a torch_.[3751]

_Edg._ This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins at[3752]
curfew and walks till the first cock; he gives the web and[3753][3754]
the pin, squints the eye and makes the hare-lip; mildews[3754][3755]
the white wheat and hurts the poor creature of earth.[3756]

Saint Withold footed thrice the 'old;[3757][3758] 115
He met the night-mare and her nine-fold;[3757][3759]
Bid her alight,[3757][3760]
And her troth plight,[3757][3761]
And aroint thee, witch, aroint thee![3757][3762]

_Kent._ How fares your grace? 120

_Lear._ What's he?[3763]

_Kent._ Who's there? What is't you seek?[3764]

_Glou._ What are you there? Your names?

_Edg._ Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad,
the tadpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury[3765] 125
of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for
sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the[3766]
green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipped from
tithing to tithing, and stock-punished, and imprisoned;[3767]
who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body,[3768] 130
horse to ride and weapon to wear;[3769]

But mice and rats and such small deer[3770]
Have been Tom's food for seven long year.[3771]

Beware my follower. Peace, Smulkin; peace, thou fiend![3772]

_Glou._ What, hath your grace no better company? 135

_Edg._ The prince of darkness is a gentleman: Modo[3773][3774]
he's call'd, and Mahu.[3773][3775]

_Glou._ Our flesh and blood is grown so vile, my lord,[3776][3777]
That it doth hate what gets it.[3776][3778]

_Edg._ Poor Tom's a-cold.[3779][3780] 140

_Glou._ Go in with me: my duty cannot suffer[3781]
To obey in all your daughters' hard commands:[3781]
Though their injunction be to bar my doors[3781][3782]
And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you,[3781]
Yet have I ventured to come seek you out[3781][3783] 145
And bring you where both fire and food is ready.[3781][3784]

_Lear._ First let me talk with this philosopher.
What is the cause of thunder?

_Kent._ Good my lord, take his offer; go into the house.[3785]

_Lear._ I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.[3786][3787] 150
What is your study?[3786]

_Edg._ How to prevent the fiend and to kill vermin.

_Lear._ Let me ask you one word in private.[3788]

_Kent._ Importune him once more to go, my lord;[3789][3790]
His wits begin to unsettle.[3789]

_Glou._ Canst thou blame him? [_Storm still._[3791] 155
His daughters seek his death: ah, that good Kent![3792]
He said it would be thus, poor banish'd man!
Thou say'st the king grows mad; I'll tell thee, friend,[3793]
I am almost mad myself: I had a son,[3794]
Now outlaw'd from my blood; he sought my life,[3795] 160
But lately, very late: I loved him, friend,
No father his son dearer: truth to tell thee,[3796]
The grief hath crazed my wits. What a night's this![3797]
I do beseech your grace,--[3798]

_Lear._ O, cry you mercy, sir.[3799]
Noble philosopher, your company.[3799] 165

_Edg._ Tom's a-cold.[3780]

_Glou._ In, fellow, there, into the hovel: keep thee warm.[3800]

_Lear._ Come, let's in all.

_Kent._ This way, my lord.

_Lear._ With him;[3801]
I will keep still with my philosopher.[3801]

_Kent._ Good my lord, soothe him; let him take the fellow.[3802] 170

_Glou._ Take him you on.

_Kent._ Sirrah, come on; go along with us.[3803]

_Lear._ Come, good Athenian.[3804]

_Glou._ No words, no words: hush.[3804]

_Edg._ Child Rowland to the dark tower came:[3805] 175
His word was still 'Fie, foh, and fum,
I smell the blood of a British man.' [_Exeunt._[3806]

SCENE V. _Gloucester's castle._

_Enter_ CORNWALL _and_ EDMUND.[3807]

_Corn._ I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.[3808]

_Edm._ How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature
thus gives way to loyalty, something fears me to think of.

_Corn._ I now perceive, it was not altogether your brother's
evil disposition made him seek his death, but a provoking[3809] 5
merit, set a-work by a reproveable badness in himself.[3809][3810]

_Edm._ How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent
to be just! This is the letter he spoke of, which approves[3811]
him an intelligent party to the advantages of France. O[3812]
heavens! that this treason were not, or not I the detector![3813] 10

_Corn._ Go with me to the duchess.

_Edm._ If the matter of this paper be certain, you have
mighty business in hand.

_Corn._ True or false, it hath made thee earl of Gloucester.
Seek out where thy father is, that he may be ready for our 15
apprehension.

_Edm._ [_Aside_] If I find him comforting the king, it will[3814]
stuff his suspicion more fully.--I will persever in my course[3815]
of loyalty, though the conflict be sore between that and my
blood. 20

_Corn._ I will lay trust upon thee, and thou shalt find a
dearer father in my love. [_Exeunt._[3816]

SCENE VI. _A chamber in a farmhouse adjoining the castle._

_Enter_ GLOUCESTER, LEAR, KENT, Fool, _and_ EDGAR.[3817]

_Glou._ Here is better than the open air; take it thankfully.
I will piece out the comfort with what addition I
can: I will not be long from you.

_Kent._ All the power of his wits have given way to his[3818]
impatience: the gods reward your kindness! 5

[_Exit Gloucester._[3819]

_Edg._ Frateretto calls me, and tells me Nero is an[3820]
angler in the lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware[3821]
the foul fiend.

_Fool._ Prithee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a[3822]
gentleman or a yeoman.[3823] 10

_Lear._ A king, a king!

_Fool._ No, he's a yeoman that has a gentleman to his[3824]
son, for he's a mad yeoman that sees his son a gentleman[3824][3825]
before him.[3824]

_Lear._ To have a thousand with red burning spits[3824][3826] 15
Come hissing in upon 'em,--[3826][3827]

_Edg._ The foul fiend bites my back.[3828]

_Fool._ He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf,[3828][3829]
a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.[3828][3830]

_Lear._ It shall be done; I will arraign them straight.[3828][3831] 20
[_To Edgar_] Come, sit thou here, most learned justicer;[3828][3832]
[_To the Fool_] Thou, sapient sir, sit here. Now, you she foxes![3828][3833]

_Edg._ Look, where he stands and glares!
Wantest[3828][3834][3835][3836][3837]
thou eyes at trial, madam?[3828][3834][3835][3837][3838]
Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me.[3828][3834][3835][3839] 25

_Fool._ Her boat hath a leak,[3828][3834][3840][3841]
And she must not speak[3828][3834][3841]
Why she dares not come over to thee.[3828][3834]

_Edg._ The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of[3828]
a nightingale. Hopdance cries in Tom's belly for two white[3828] 30
herring. Croak not, black angel; I have no food for thee.[3828][3842]

_Kent._ How do you, sir? Stand you not so amazed:[3828][3843]
Will you lie down and rest upon the cushions?[3828][3843][3844]

_Lear._ I'll see their trial first. Bring in the evidence.[3828][3845][3846]
[_To Edgar_] Thou robed man of justice take thy place;[3828][3845][3847] 35
[_To the Fool_] And thou, his yoke-fellow of equity,[3828][3845][3848]
Bench by his side. [_To Kent_] You are o' the commission;[3828][3845][3849]
Sit you too.[3828][3845]

_Edg._ Let us deal justly.[3828][3845][3850]
Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly
shepherd?[3828][3845][3850][3851][3852] 40
Thy sheep be in the corn;[3828][3845][3850][3852]
And for one blast of thy minikin mouth,[3828][3845][3850][3852]
Thy sheep shall take no harm.[3828][3845][3850][3852]
Pur! the cat is gray.[3828][3845][3850]

_Lear._ Arraign her first; 'tis Goneril. I here take
my[3828][3845][3850][3853] 45
oath before this honourable assembly, she kicked the
poor[3828][3845][3853][3854]
king her father.[3828][3845][3853]

_Fool._ Come hither, mistress. Is your name Goneril?[3828]

_Lear._ She cannot deny it.[3828][3855]

_Fool._ Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool.[3828][3856] 50

_Lear._ And here's another, whose warp'd looks proclaim[3828][3857]
What store her heart is made on. Stop her there![3828][3857][3858]
Arms, arms, sword, fire! Corruption in the place![3828][3859]
False justicer, why hast thou let her 'scape?[3828]

_Edg._ Bless thy five wits! 55

_Kent._ O pity! Sir, where is the patience now,
That you so oft have boasted to retain?[3860]

_Edg._ [_Aside_] My tears begin to take his part so much,[3861]
They'll mar my counterfeiting.[3862]

_Lear._ The little dogs and all, 60
Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.

_Edg._ Tom will throw his head at them. Avaunt, you[3863]
curs![3863]

Be thy mouth or black or white,[3863]
Tooth that poisons if it bite;[3863] 65
Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim,[3863][3864]
Hound or spaniel, brach or lym,[3863][3864][3865]
Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail,[3863][3866]
Tom will make them weep and wail:[3863][3867]
For, with throwing thus my head,[3863] 70
Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled.[3863][3868]

Do de, de, de. Sessa! Come, march to wakes and fairs[3869][3870]
and market-towns. Poor Tom, thy horn is dry.[3869][3871]

_Lear._ Then let them anatomize Regan; see what[3872][3873]
breeds about her heart. Is there any cause in nature that[3872][3874] 75
makes these hard hearts? [_To Edgar_] You, sir, I entertain[3872][3875]
for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion[3872][3876]
of your garments. You will say they are Persian attire;[3872][3877]
but let them be changed.[3872]

_Kent._ Now, good my lord, lie here and rest awhile.[3878] 80

_Lear._ Make no noise, make no noise; draw the curtains:[3879]
so, so, so. We'll go to supper i' the morning. So,[3879][3880]
so, so.

_Fool._ And I'll go to bed at noon.

_Re-enter_ GLOUCESTER.[3881]

_Glou._ Come hither, friend: where is the king my master?[3882] 85

_Kent._ Here, sir; but trouble him not: his wits are gone.

_Glou._ Good friend, I prithee, take him in thy arms;
I have o'erheard a plot of death upon him:
There is a litter ready; lay him in't,[3883][3884]
And drive toward Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet[3883][3885] 90
Both welcome and protection. Take up thy master:[3883]
If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life,[3883][3886]
With thine and all that offer to defend him,[3883]
Stand in assured loss. Take up, take up,[3883][3887]
And follow me, that will to some provision[3883] 95
Give thee quick conduct.

_Kent._ Oppressed nature sleeps.[3888][3889]
This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken sinews,[3888][3890]
Which, if convenience will not allow,[3888][3891][3892]
Stand in hard cure. [_To the Fool_] Come, help to bear thy
master;[3888][3891][3893]
Thou must not stay behind.[3888][3891]

_Glou._ Come, come, away. 100

[_Exeunt all but Edgar._[3894]

_Edg._ When we our betters see bearing our woes,[3895][3896]
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.[3895][3896]
Who alone suffers suffers most i' the mind,[3895][3897]
Leaving free things and happy shows behind:[3895]
But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip,[3895][3898] 105
When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.[3895]
How light and portable my pain seems now,[3895]
When that which makes me bend makes the king bow,[3895]
He childed as I father'd! Tom, away![3895][3899]
Mark the high noises, and thyself bewray[3895][3900] 110
When false opinion, whose wrong thought defiles thee,[3895][3901]
In thy just proof repeals and reconciles thee.[3895]
What will hap more to-night, safe 'scape the king![3895][3902]
Lurk, lurk. [_Exit._[3895][3903]

SCENE VII. _Gloucester's castle._

_Enter_ CORNWALL, REGAN, GONERIL, EDMUND, _and_ Servants.[3904]

_Corn._ Post speedily to my lord your husband; show[3905]
him this letter: the army of France is landed. Seek out the[3905]
traitor Gloucester. [_Exeunt some of the Servants._[3905][3906]

_Reg._ Hang him instantly.

_Gon._ Pluck out his eyes. 5

_Corn._ Leave him to my displeasure. Edmund, keep[3907][3908]
you our sister company: the revenges we are bound to take[3907][3909]
upon your traitorous father are not fit for your beholding.[3907]
Advise the duke, where you are going, to a most festinate[3907][3910]
preparation: we are bound to the like. Our posts shall
be[3907][3911][3912] 10
swift and intelligent betwixt us. Farewell, dear sister:[3911][3913]
farewell, my lord of Gloucester.[3911]

_Enter_ OSWALD.[3914]

How now! where's the king?

_Osw._ My lord of Gloucester hath convey'd him hence:
Some five or six and thirty of his knights,[3915] 15
Hot questrists after him, met him at gate;[3915][3916]
Who, with some other of the lords dependants,[3915][3917]
Are gone with him toward Dover; where they boast[3915][3918]
To have well-armed friends.[3915]

_Corn._ Get horses for your mistress.

_Gon._ Farewell, sweet lord, and sister. 20

_Corn._ Edmund, farewell.

[_Exeunt Goneril, Edmund, and Oswald._[3919]

Go seek the traitor Gloucester.
Pinion him like a thief, bring him before us.

[_Exeunt other Servants._[3920]

Though well we may not pass upon his life[3921]
Without the form of justice, yet our power
Shall do a courtesy to our wrath, which men[3922][3923] 25
May blame but not control. Who's there? the traitor?[3922]

_Enter_ GLOUCESTER, _brought in by two or three_.[3924]

_Reg._ Ingrateful fox! 'tis he.

_Corn._ Bind fast his corky arms.

_Glou._ What mean your graces? Good my friends, consider[3925][3926]
You are my guests: do me no foul play, friends.[3925] 30

_Corn._ Bind him, I say. [_Servants bind him._[3927]

_Reg._ Hard, hard. O filthy traitor!

_Glou._ Unmerciful lady as you are, I'm none.[3928]

_Corn._ To this chair bind him. Villain, thou shalt find--

[_Regan plucks his beard._[3929]

_Glou._ By the kind gods, 'tis most ignobly done[3930]
To pluck me by the beard.[3930] 35

_Reg._ So white, and such a traitor!

_Glou._ Naughty lady,[3931]
These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin[3931]
Will quicken and accuse thee: I am your host:[3932]
With robbers' hands my hospitable favours[3933]
You should not ruffle thus. What will you do?[3934] 40

_Corn._ Come, sir, what letters had you late from France?[3935]

_Reg._ Be simple answerer, for we know the truth.[3936]

_Corn._ And what confederacy have you with the traitors[3937]
Late footed in the kingdom?[3937][3938]

_Reg._ To whose hands have you sent the lunatic king?[3939][3940] 45
Speak.[3939]

_Glou._ I have a letter guessingly set down,[3941]
Which came from one that's of a neutral heart
And not from one opposed.

_Corn._ Cunning.

_Reg._ And false.

_Corn._ Where hast thou sent the king?

_Glou._ To Dover.[3942] 50

_Reg._ Wherefore to Dover? Wast thou not charged at peril--[3943]

_Corn._ Wherefore to Dover? Let him first answer that.[3944]

_Glou._ I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.[3945]

_Reg._ Wherefore to Dover, sir?[3946]

_Glou._ Because I would not see thy cruel nails 55
Pluck out his poor old eyes, nor thy fierce sister
In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs.[3947]
The sea, with such a storm as his bare head[3948]
In hell-black night endured, would have buoy'd up,[3949]
And quench'd the stelled fires:[3950][3951] 60
Yet, poor old heart, he holp the heavens to rain.[3950][3952]
If wolves had at thy gate howl'd that stern time,[3953]
Thou shouldst have said, 'Good porter, turn the key,'[3954]
All cruels else subscribed: but I shall see[3955]
The winged vengeance overtake such children. 65

_Corn._ See't shalt thou never. Fellows, hold the chair.
Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot.[3956]

_Glou._ He that will think to live till he be old,[3957]
Give me some help! O cruel! O you gods![3958]

_Reg._ One side will mock another; the other too.[3959] 70

_Corn._ If you see vengeance--[3960]

_First Serv._ Hold your hand, my lord:
I have served you ever since I was a child;[3961]
But better service have I never done you[3962]
Than now to bid you hold.[3962]

_Reg._ How now, you dog!

_First Serv._ If you did wear a beard upon your chin,[3963] 75
I'ld shake it on this quarrel. What do you mean?[3963][3964]

_Corn._ My villain! [_They draw and fight._[3965]

_First Serv._ Nay, then, come on, and take the chance of anger.[3966]

_Reg._ Give me thy sword. A peasant stand up thus!

[_Takes a sword and runs at him behind._[3967]

_First Serv._ O, I am slain! My lord, you have one
eye left[3968][3969] 80
To see some mischief on him. O! [_Dies._[3968][3970]

_Corn._ Lest it see more, prevent it. Out, vile jelly![3971]
Where is thy lustre now?[3972]

_Glou._ All dark and comfortless. Where's my son Edmund?[3973]
Edmund, enkindle all the sparks of nature,[3974][3975] 85
To quit this horrid act.[3974]

_Reg._ Out, treacherous villain![3976][3977]
Thou call'st on him that hates thee: it was he[3976]
That made the overture of thy treasons to us;[3976][3978]
Who is too good to pity thee.[3976]

_Glou._ O my follies! Then Edgar was abused.[3979][3980] 90
Kind gods, forgive me that, and prosper him![3979]

_Reg._ Go thrust him out at gates, and let him smell[3979][3981][3982]
His way to Dover. [_Exit one with Gloucester._] How is't,
my lord? how look you?[3979][3981][3983]

_Corn._ I have received a hurt: follow me, lady.
Turn out that eyeless villain: throw this slave[3984] 95
Upon the dunghill. Regan, I bleed apace:[3984][3985]
Untimely comes this hurt: give me your arm.

[_Exit Cornwall, led by Regan._[3984][3986]

_Sec. Serv._ I'll never care what wickedness I do,[3987][3988]
If this man come to good.[3987]

_Third Serv._ If she live long,[3987][3989][3990]
And in the end meet the old course of death,[3987][3990] 100
Women will all turn monsters.[3987][3990]

_Sec. Serv._ Let's follow the old earl, and get the Bedlam[3987][3991]
To lead him where he would: his roguish madness[3987][3992]
Allows itself to any thing.[3987]

_Third Serv._ Go thou: I'll fetch some flax and whites
of eggs[3987][3993][3994] 105
To apply to his bleeding face. Now, heaven help him!

[_Exeunt severally._[3987][3994][3995]

FOOTNOTES:

[3541] A heath.] Rowe.

Storm still.] Ff. om. Qq. A Storm is heard, with Thunder and Lightning. Rowe.

meeting.] Capell. at severall doores. Qq. severally. Ff.

[3542] _Who's there_] Ff. _What's heere_ Q₁. _Whats here_ Q₂. _What's heare_ Q₃.

_besides_] _beside_ Qq.

[3543] _elements_] _element_ Qq.

[3544] _main_] _moon_ Jennens.

[3545] _tears ... all._] Qq. Omitted in Ff.

[3546] _Strives ... rain._] Omitted by Pope.

[3547] _out-scorn_] _out-storm_ Steevens conj.

[3548] _to-and-fro-conflicting_] Hyphenated by Capell.

[3549] _wherein_] _in which_ Pope.

[3550] _belly-pinched_] Hyphened by Pope.

[3551] _heart-struck_] Rowe. _heart strooke_ Qq. _heart-strooke_ F₁ F₂. _heart-strook_ F₃ F₄.

[3552] _note_] _arte_ Q₁ Q₂. _art_ Q₃.

[3553] _Commend_] _Commended_ Q₃.

_There is_] _There's_ Pope.

[3554] _be_] Qq. _is_ Ff.

[3555] _cunning_] _craft_ Pope.

[3556] _Who have ... furnishings,--_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. Put in the margin by Pope.

[3557] _that_] _whom_ Rowe (ed. 2).

_stars_] _Stars have_ Keightley.

[3558] _Throned_] _Thron'd_ Ff. _Throne_ Theobald (ed. 2).

_high?--_] _high.)_ Rowe (ed. 2). _high;_ Ff. _high,_ Rowe (ed. 1).

[3559] _speculations_] _speculators_ Singer, ed. 2 (Johnson conj.) _spectators_ Collier (Collier MS.)

[3560] _state;_] _state._ Lloyd conj.

_hath_] _have_ Pope (ed. 2), in margin.

[3561] _have_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _hath_ F₁.

[3562] _furnishings,--_] _furnishings--_ Rowe. _furnishings._ Ff. _flourishings._ Collier MS.

[3563] _But_] _And_ Hanmer.

[3564] _But ... you._] Qq. Omitted in Ff.

[3565] _Into ... far_] Divided as in Pope. Four lines, ending _negligence ... ports, ... banner ... farre,_ in Qq.

[3566] _scatter'd_] _scatterd_ Q₁ Q₃. _scattered_ Q₂. _shatter'd_ Hanmer. _scathed_ Warburton. _satured_ Becket conj.

[3567] _feet_] Q₂. _fee_ Q₁. _see_ Q₃. _sea_ Pope. _seize_ Warburton. _foot_ Capell.

[3568] _bemadding_] _madding_ Pope.

[3569] _The ... you._] Three lines, ending _gentleman, ... knowledge and ... you,_ in Capell.

[3570] _And ... you._] Divided as in Steevens. The first line ends _assurance,_ in Qq.

_assurance, ... you._] _assurance of you, Offer this office._ Pope. _Assurance of you, offer this office to you._ Capell.

[3571] _I will_] _Ill_ Pope.

_further_] Ff Q₃. _farther_ Q₁ Q₂.

[3572] _I am_] _I_ Qq.

[3573] _fear_] F₃ F₄. _feare_ Q₂ F₁ F₂. _doubt_ Q₁ Q₃.

_this_] _that_ Rowe.

[3574] _your_] Qq. _that_ Ff. _this_ Rowe.

[3575] _Give ... say?_] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[3576] _That ... other._] See note (XIII).

[3577] _Holla_] F₁ F₂ F₃. _hollow_ Qq. _Hollow_ F₄. _Halloo_ Warburton.

[Exeunt severally.] Theobald. Exeunt. Qq Ff.

[3578] SCENE II.] Scena secunda. Ff. Rowe and Theobald continue the Scene.

Another part....] Capell.

Storm still.] Ff. Omitted in Qq. Storm continues. Steevens (1793).

[3579] _winds_] F₃ F₄. _windes_ F₁ F₂. _winde_ Qq.

_crack_] _crake_ Q₃.

_rage! blow!_] _blow; rage, and blow!_ Capell conj. _storm! bellow! rage!_ Seymour conj.

[3580] _You ... man!_] Divided as in Ff. Eight lines, ending _drencht ... and ... to ... head, ... flat ... natures ... make ... man,_ in Qq.

[3581] _You_] See note (XIV).

_cataracts_] Ff. _carterickes_ Q₁. _caterickes_ Q₂. cartericks Q₃.

_hurricanoes_] _Hurricano's_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _Hyrricano's_ F₁. _Hircanios_ Q₁ Q₂. _Hercantos_ Q₃.

[3582] _our_] Ff. _The_ Qq.

_drown'd_] Q₂. _drownd_ Q₁ Q₃. _drown_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _drowne_ F₂.

[3583] _thought-executing_] Ff. _thought executing_ Qq.

[3584] _Vaunt-couriers_] Pope. _vaunt-currers_ Qq. _Vaunt-curriors_ Ff. _Vant-couriers_ Capell.

_to_] Qq. _of_ Ff.

[3585] _Singe_] Q₂. _sing_ Q₁ Q₃. _sindge_ Ff.

[3586] _Smite_] _smite_ Qq. _Strike_ Ff.

_o' the_] _o' th'_ Ff. _of the_ Qq.

[3587] _Crack_] _Crake_ Q₃.

_moulds_] Ff. _Mold_ Qq.

_germins_] Theobald. _Germains_ Qq. _germaines_ F₁ F₂. _germanes_ F₃ F₄.

[3588] _make_] Qq. _makes_ Ff.

_ingrateful_] _Ingrate full_ Q₃.

[3589] _O nuncle ... fool._] Prose in Ff. Four lines in Qq.

[3590] _this rain-water_] _the rain-water_ F₃ F₄. _the rain-waters_ Pope (ed. 2).

_o'door_] F₃ F₄. _o'doore_ F₁ F₂. _a doore_ Qq.

[3591] _and_] Qq. om. Ff.

_pities_] _that pities_ Pope.

[3592] _wise man nor fool_] _wise man nor foole_ Qq. _wisemen, nor fooles_ F₁ F₂. _wise-men, nor fools_ F₃ F₄.

[3593] _bellyful_] _bellyfull_ Malone. _belly full_ Qq Ff.

_Spit, fire! spout, rain!_] Capell. _spit fire, spout raine,_ Qq Ff (_spowt_ F₁ F₂. _rain_ F₃ F₄).

[3594] _tax_] F₃ F₄. _taxe_ F₁ F₂. _taske_ Qq.

[3595] _kingdom_] _kingdoms_ Johnson.

[3596] _You owe ... foul!_] As in Ff. Six lines, ending _horrible ... and ... servile ... joyn'd ... white ... foule,_ in Qq.

[3597] _subscription_] _submission_ Pope.

_then_] Ff. _why then_ Qq.

[3598] _stand, your slave_] _stand your brave_ Warburton.

[3599] _have ... join'd_] _have ... joyn'd_ Qq. _will ... joyne_ Ff (_join_ F₃ F₄).

[3600] _high-engender'd_] Hyphened in Ff. _high engendered_ Q₁.

_battles_] F₄. _battailes_ F₁ F₂. _battels_ F₃. _battell_ Q₁ Q₃. _battel_ Q₂.

[3601] _O! O!_] _Oh! Oh!_ Theobald. _O, ho!_ Ff. _O_ Qq.

[3602] _put's_] _put his_ Qq. _puts_ F₂.

[3603] _The ... wake._] As in Johnson. Four lines in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3604] _The man_] _That man_ F₃ F₄.

[3605] _heart_] _head_ Eccles conj.

[3606] _Shall of_] Ff. _shall have_ Qq.

[3607] _but_] _hut_ Q₂ (Dev.)

[3608] SCENE III. Pope.

[Sitting down. Jennens.

Enter Kent.] As in Q₁ Q₂. After _patience,_ line 37, in Qq. After _glass,_ line 36, in Ff.

[3609] _Alas ... sinning._] As in Ff. Twenty lines, ending _heere?... these; ... of the ... caves, ... fire, ... grones of ... remember ... carry ... force ... dreadfull ... now, ... thee ... justice, ... perjur'd, and ... incestious, ... covert ... life, ... centers, ... grace, ... sinning,_ in Qq.

[3610] _are you_] Ff. _sit you_ Qq.

[3611] _Gallow the_] _gallow, the_ Q₁ Q₂. _Gally the_ Jennens.

_wanderers_] Ff. _wanderer_ Qq.

[3612] _make_] Ff. _makes_ Qq.

[3613] _never_] Ff. _nere_ Q₁ Q₃. _ne're_ Q₂.

[3614] _fear_] F₃ F₄. _feare_ F₁ F₂. _force_ Qq.

[3615] _pother_] Johnson. _Powther_ Q₂. _Thundring_ Q₁ Q₃. _pudder_ Ff.

[3616] _perjured_] _perjure_ Theobald.

_simular_] _simulier_ Q₃. _simuler_ Collier conj.

_man_] Qq om. Ff.

[3617] _incestuous_] Ff. _incestious_ Qq.

_to pieces shake_] F₃ F₄. _to peeces shake_ F₁ F₂. _in peeces shake_ Qq. _shake to pieces_ Pope.

[3618] _covert and convenient_] _cover of convivial_ Warburton.

[3619] _Hast_] Qq. _Ha's_ F₁. _Has_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3620] _concealing continents_] Ff. _concealed centers_ Qq.

_cry_] _ask_ Pope.

[3621] _than_] F₄. _then_ F₁ F₂ F₃ _their_ Qq.

[3622] _Alack ... courtesy._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3623] _while_] Ff. _whilst_ Qq.

[3624] _harder ... stones_] Ff. _hard then is the stone_ Qq.

[3625] _you_] Ff. _me_ Qq.

[3626] _wits begin_] Ff. _wit begins_ Qq.

[3627] _I am_] _I'm Pope._

_this_] _the_ Theobald.

[3628] _The art ... heart._] Arranged as in Ff. Three lines, ending _can ... poore, ... heart_, in Qq.

[3629] _That_] Qq. _And_ Ff.

_vile_] Pope. _vilde_ Q₁ F₁ F₂ Q₃. _vild_ Q₂ F₃ F₄.

[3630] _your hovel. Poor fool_] _your hovel; Poore foole,_ Ff. _you hovell poore, Foole_ Qq.

[3631] _I have one part in_] Ff. _I have one part of_ Qq. _I've one thing in_ Pope. _I've one string in_ Hanmer. _I've one part in_ Johnson.

[3632] _That's sorry_] Ff (_Thats_ F₂). _That sorrowes_ Qq.

[3633] [Singing] Sings. Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[3634] _He ... day._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3635] _and_] Ff. om. Qq. _an_ Theobald.

_little tiny_] _little tynie_ Pope. _little tine_ Qq. _little-tyne_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _little tyne_ F₄.

[3636] _hey, ho,_] _hey ho_ Qq. _heigh-ho._ F₁. _height-ho_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _a heigh, ho,_ Capell conj. MS.

_rain_] _rain in his way_ Johnson conj.

[3637] _For_] Qq. _Though_ Ff.

[3638] my good] Qq. om. Ff.

_hovel._] _hovell?_ Q₂.

[Exeunt....] Capell. Exit. Ff. om. Qq.

[3639] Fool. _This ... time._ [Exit.] Ff. Omitted in Qq.

[3640] _This ... go:_] Prose in Malone. Two lines in Ff.

[3641] _This is_] _'Tis_ Pope.

_courtezan_] _curtizan_ Ff.

[3642] _ere_] _or ere_ Pope, reading as verse. _or two ere_ Warburton.

[3643] _word_] _words_ F₃ F₄.

[3644] _nor no_] _and no_ Warburton.

[3645] _not live_] _nor live_ F₂.

[3646] _Nor_] _And_ Pope.

[3647] _Then ... confusion:_] As in Pope. One line in Ff.

[3648] _Then ... feet._] Transferred by Hanmer (Warburton) to follow line 84.

[3649] _I live_] _I do live_ F₃ F₄, reading line 95 as two lines.

[3650] SCENE III.] SCENE II. Rowe. SCENE IV. Pope.

Gloucester's castle.] An Apartment in Gloster's Castle. Rowe.

Enter....] Enter Gloster, and Edmund. Ff. Enter Glocester, and the Bastard with lights. Qq (Gloster Q₂).

[3651] _Alack ... careful._] Prose in Ff. Twenty lines in Qq.

[3652] _took_] _took me_ Q₂.

[3653] _their perpetual_] Jennens. _their_ Qq. _perpetuall_ Ff.

[3654] _nor_] Qq. _or_ Ff.

[3655] _and_] om. Rowe (ed. 2).

[3656] _There's a_] Qq. _There is_ Ff.

_betwixt_] Qq. _betweene_ Ff.

[3657] _there is_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _ther is_ F₁. _There's_ Q₁ Q₃. _Ther's_ Q₂.

[3658] _footed_] Ff. _landed_ Qq.

_seek_] _seeke_ Qq. _looke_ Ff. _look for_ Pope.

[3659] _bed. Though_] Edd. (Globe ed.) _bed, though_ Qq. _bed, if_ Ff. _bed; if_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[3660] _for it_] _for 't_ Q₂.

[3661] _is some strange thing_] Qq. _is strange things_ Ff. _are strange things_ Pope.

[3662] _This ... fall._] As in Ff. Four lines, ending _know, ... deserving, ... lesse ... fall,_ in Qq.

[3663] _courtesy, forbid thee,_] _courtesie, forbid thee_, Theobald, _courtesie forbid thee_, Q₁ F₄. _curtesie forbid thee,_ Q₂ F₁ F₂ F₃. _curtisie forbid thee,_ Q₃. _courtesie forbid thee_ Pope.

[3664] _draw me_] Q₂ Ff. _draw to me_ Q₁ Q₃.

[3665] _loses_] Q₁ Q₃ F₄. _looses_ The rest.

[3666] _The_] Ff. _then_ Qq.

_doth_] Ff. _do_ Q₁ Q₃. _doe_ Q₂.

[3667] SCENE IV.] SCENE III. Rowe. SCENE V. Pope.

The heath....] Part of the Heath with a Hovel. Rowe.

[3668] _Here ... endure._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3669] _of the_] _of_ Pope.

_night's_] _nights_ Q₂.

[3670] [Storm still.] Ff. om. Qq. Transferred by Capell to the beginning of the Scene.

[3671] Lear. _Let ... here._] Repeated in Johnson, and Steevens (1773).

[3672] _here_] Ff. om. Qq.

_Wilt_] _Will't_ Theobald (ed. 2).

_break my_] _break, my_ Steevens conj.

[3673] _I had ... enter._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_I had_] _I'd_ Pope.

[3674] _think'st 'tis_] _think'st_ So quoted in Johnson's Dictionary (ed. 1).

_contentious_] Ff. _crulentious_ Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. _tempestious_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _truculent_ Anon. MS. See note (V). _cruel, lentous_ Jackson conj.

[3675] _skin: so 'tis_] _skin, so tis_ Qq. _skin, so: 'tis_ Ff. Corrected by Rowe (ed. 2).

[3676] _Thou'ldst_] _Thou'dst_ Ff. _thoud'st_ Q₂. _thou wouldst_ Q₁ Q₃.

[3677] _thy_] _they_ F₁.

_lay_] _light_ F₄.

_raging_] Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. _roring_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _roaring_ Ff.

[3678] _Thou'ldst_] _Thou'dst_ Ff. _Thoud'st_ Qq.

_mind's_] _minds_ F₃ F₄.

[3679] _body's_] Rowe. _bodies_ Qq Ff.

_the_] Q₁ Ff. _this_ Q₂. om. Q₃.

_in my mind_] _here_ Seymour conj.

[3680] _beats_] F₃ F₄. _beates_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2) F₁ F₂. _beares_ Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃.

_there. Filial ingratitude!_] Rowe. _there. Filial ingratitude,_ F₃ F₄. _their filiall ingratitude,_ Qq. _there, Filiall ingratitude,_ F₁ F₂.

[3681] _this hand_] _his hand_ F₃ F₄.

[3682] _to't_] _to it_ Q₁ Q₃.

_home_] _sure_ Qq.

[3683] _In such ... endure:_] Omitted in Qq, ending the lines _sure; ... this!... father, ... lies, ... that._

[3684] _gave you_] Qq. _gave_ Ff.

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

[3685] _enter here._] _enter._ Qq.

[3686] _thine own_] _thy owne_ Q₁. _thy one_ Q₂.

[3687] [To the Fool] Johnson.

[3688] _In, boy; ... sleep._] Omitted in Qq.

[3689] _poverty,--_] _poverty--_ Rowe. _povertie,_ F₁. _proverty,_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3690] [Fool goes in.] Johnson. Exit. Ff (after line 26). om. Qq. Exit Fool. Rowe, after line 26. Exit Fool. Capell, after _in,_ line 27.

[3691] _storm_] _night_ Qq.

[3692] _loop'd_] Pope. _loopt_ Qq. _lop'd_ Ff.

_window'd_] Ff. _windowed_ Qq.

[3693] [Enter Edgar, and Foole. Ff. Enter Edgar disguised like a Madman and Fool. Rowe.

[3694] SCENE VI. Pope.

Edg. [Within] Theobald. Edg. Ff. om. Qq.

[3695] _Fathom ... Tom!_] Omitted in Qq.

[3696] [The Fool ... hovel.] Theobald, after line 40. Transferred by Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[3697] _Come ... me!_] Prose in Qq Ff. Verse, the first line ending _spirit_, in Johnson.

[3698] _Who's there?_] _whose there_. Q₂.

[3699] _A spirit, a spirit,_] Once only in Qq.

_name's_] _name_ is Q₁ Q₃. _nam's_ Q₂.

[3700] _What ... forth._] Prose in Qq Ff. Verse in Johnson.

[3701] _i' the_] _in the_ Qq.

[3702] _forth._] _forth?_ Q₂.

Enter ... madman.] Theobald.

[3703] SCENE VI. Hanmer.

[3704] _Away!... thee._] Prose in Qq Ff. Verse in Johnson.

[3705] _Through_] _thorough_ Q₂.

[3706] _Through ... wind._] Printed in italics by Staunton.

[3707] _hawthorn_] F₄. _hathorne_ Qq. _hauthorne_ F₁ F₂. _hauthorn_ F₃.

_blows the cold wind_] _blowes the colde winde_ Q₁ Q₃. _blowes the cold wind_ Q₂. _blow the windes_ F₁. _blow the winds_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

_Hum!_] _Humh,_ Ff. _Humph,_ Rowe. om. Qq.

[3708] _cold_] Qq. om. Ff.

[3709] Prose in Qq Ff. Verse in Steevens (1778).

[3710] _Hast ... thy two_] Qq. _Did'st thou give all to thy_ Ff.

_thou_] _thou too_ Keightley, reading as verse.

[3711] _through flame,_] Omitted in Qq.

[3712] _ford_] _foord_ Qq. _sword_ Ff. _swamp_ Collier MS. _sward_ Anon. conj. _flood_ Anon. conj.

_whirlpool_] _whirl-pool_ Q₃. _whirli-poole_ Q₁ Q₂. _whirle-poole_ F₁. _whirle poole_ F₂ F₃. _whirlepool_ F₄. _through whirlpool_ Johnson.

_hath_] Ff. _has_ Qq.

[3713] _pew_] Pope (ed. 2). _pue_ Qq Ff.

_ratsbane_] _rate-bane_ F₂.

[3714] _porridge_] _porredge_ Ff. _pottage_ Qq.

[3715] _four-inched_] Hyphened by Capell _foure incht_ Qq F₁. _foure archt_ F₂. _four arch'd_ F₃ F₄.

[3716] _Bless_] _Blesse_ Qq. _Blisse_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _Bliss_ F₄.

[3717] _O do, de, ... de._] Omitted in Qq.

[3718] _star-blasting_] _starre-blusting_ Qq.

[3719] _there again_] _here again_ F₄.

_and there_] om. Qq.

[Storm still.] Ff. om. Qq.

[3720] _What, have his_] Theobald. _What, his_ Q₁ Q₂. _Ha's his_ F₁. _Has his_ F₂ F₃. _What his_ Q₃. _Have his_ F₃.

_pass_] _asse_ F₄.

[3721] _Didst ... them_] Qq. _Would'st ... 'em_ Ff. _Didst ... 'em_ Pope.

[3722] _shamed_] _ashamed_ Keightley.

[3723] _light_] _fall_ Qq.

[3724] _begot ... daughters._] Divided as in Ff. One line in Qq.

[3725] _daughters_] _daughter_ F₂.

[3726] _Pillicock ... loo!_] As in Johnson. One line in Qq Ff.

[3727] _on_] _one_ Q₃.

_Pillicock-hill_] Hyphened by Rowe. _pelicocks hill_ Q₁ Q₂. _pelicacks hill_ Q₃.

[3728] _Halloo, ... loo!_] Warburton. _alow: alow, loo, loo._ Ff. _a lo lo lo._ Qq. _Haloo, loo, loo._ Capell.

[3729] _o' the]_ _o' th'_ F₁. _oth'_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _of the_ Q₁ Q₃. _at'h_ Q₂.

[3730] _word justly_] Pope. _words justly_ Qq. _words Iustice_ F₁ _word, justice_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _word, do justice_ Rowe. _word's justice_ Knight.

[3731] _set not_] _set on_ F₃ F₄.

_sweet heart_] Qq. Hyphened in Ff.

[3732] _gloves_] _cloves_ Anon. apud Theobald conj.

[3733] _mistress'_] Dyce. _mistris_ Qq Ff. _mistress's_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[3734] _in ... of_] _in the contriving_ Pope. _on the contriving_ Hanmer. _on the contriving of_ Capell.

[3735] _deeply_] Q₂ Q₃. _deepely_ Q₁. _deerely_ F₁ F₂. _dearly_ F₃ F₄.

[3736] _of hand_] Qq F₁. _hand_ F₂. _handed_ F₃ F₄.

[3737] _rustling_] Ff. _ruslings_ Qq. _rufflings_ Anon. MS. See note (V).

_silks_] _sickles_ Q₃.

[3738] _woman_] _women_ Qq.

_brothels_] _brothell_ Qq.

[3739] _plackets_] _placket_ Qq.

_books_] _booke_ Qq.

[3740] _Still ... wind._] Printed in italics by Staunton.

_the hawthorn_] _thy hawthorn_ F₃ F₄.

_hawthorn_] _hathorne_ Qq. _hauthorne_ F₁ F₂.

[3741] says _suum, mun, ha, no, nonny_] Steevens. _sayes suum, mun, nonny_ Ff. _hay no on ny,_ Qq. _Ha! nenni;_ Capell. _Hey!--no--on--_ Johnson conj.

[3742] _my boy, my boy_] Qq. _my Boy, Boy_ Ff.

_sessa! let_] _sessa; let_ Malone. _Sesey: let_ F₁. _Sessy: let_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _cease let_ Q₁. _caese let_ Q₂. _ceas let_ Q₃. _sesse; let_ Capell.

_trot by_] _trot my_ F₃ F₄.

[Storm still.] Omitted in Qq.

[3743] _Why,_] _Why_ Qq. om. Ff.

_wert_] _were_ Staunton.

_thy grave_] Qq. _a grave_ Ff.

[3744] _Why ... here._] None lines of verse in Keightley, ending _answer ... skies ... well: ... hide, ... Ha!... art ... is, ... animal ... here._

[3745] _than_] _but_ Qq.

_this? Consider_] _this cōsider_ Q₂.

[3746] _Ha!_] _Ha?_ Ff. om. Qq.

_here's_] Ff. _he'rs_ Q₁ Q₃. _her's_ Q₂.

_on's_] F₁ F₃ F₄. _ons_ Q₂ F₂. _ones_ Q₁ Q₃. _of us_ Pope.

_sophisticated_] _so phisticated_ Q₂.

[3747] _lendings_] Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2) Ff. _leadings_ Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃.

_come, unbutton here._] Ff (_heere_ F₁ F₂). _come on be true._ Q₁ Q₃. _come on bee true_. Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _come on_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2).

[Tearing ...] Rowe. Tearing ...; Kent and the Fool strive to hinder him. Capell. om Qq Ff.

[3748] _Prithee_] Q₁. _Prithe_ Q₂. _Prythee_ F₁. _Prethee_ The rest.

_contented_] _content_ Qq.

[3749] _wild field_] Q₂ F₃ F₄. _wilde field_ Q₁ F₁ F₂. _wildfield_ Q₃. _wide field_ Jennens, and Long MS.

[3750] _all_] _and all_ Rowe.

_on's_] Ff. _in_ Qq.

[3751] Enter ... torch.] Ff, after line 106. Transferred by Capell. Enter Glocester. Qq (Gloster. Q₂), after line 110. Pope puts it after line 120.

[3752] _fiend_] Qq. om. Ff.

_Flibbertigibbet_] Ff. _Sirberdegibit_ Q₁ Q₃. _Sriberdegibit_ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _Fliberdegibek_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2).

[3753] _till the_] Qq. _at_ Ff.

_gives_] _gins_ Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃.

[3754] _and the pin, squints_] Ff. _the pinqueuer_ Q₁. _the pin-queues_ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _& the pin, squemes_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. and Mus. per.) _the pinquever_ Q₃. See note (XV).

[3755] _hare-lip_] F₃. _hare-lippe_ F₁ F₂. _hair-lip_ F₄. _hare lip_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _hart lip_ Q₁ Q₃. _harte lip_ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1).

[3756] _creature_] _creatures_ Hanmer.

_earth_] _the earth_ F₃ F₄.

[3757] _Saint ... aroint thee:_] Arranged as by Capell. Four lines in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3758] _Saint Withold_] _St. Withold_ Theobald. _swithald_ Qq. _Swithold_ Ff. _Swithin_ So quoted by Hill.

_'old_] _olde_ Q₁. _old_ Q₂ Ff Q₃. _wold_ Theobald (Bishop conj.) _cold_ So quoted by Hill. _world_ Colman's version (a misprint). _oles_ Farmer conj.

[3759] _He met the night-mare_] Ff. _anelthu night Moore_ Q₁. _a nellthu night more_ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _he met the night mare_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _anelthunight Moor_ Q₃.

_nine-fold_] F₁. _ninefold_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _nine fold_ Qq. _name told_ Warburton. _nine foles_ Farmer conj.

[3760] _her alight_] _her a-light_ Ff. _her, O light_ Q₁ Q₂. _her O light_ Q₃.

[3761] _troth plight_] Qq. _troth-plight_ Ff.

[3762] _aroint ... aroint_] _aroynt ... aroynt_ Ff. _arint ... arint_ Qq.

_thee, witch,_] _thee, witch_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _thee witch,_ F₁ F₂. _the witch,_ F₃ F₄. _thee, with_ Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. Imp. and Bodl. 1).

_thee!_] _thee right._ Warburton.

[3763] SCENE VII. Pope.

[3764] _Who's_] F₁ F₃ F₄. _Whos_ F₂. _Whose_ Qq.

[3765] _tadpole_] Johnson. _toade pold_ Q₁. _tode pold_ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _tod pole_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _toade-pold_ Q₃. _tod-pole_ F₁ F₂. _tod-pool_ F₃ F₄.

_wall-newt_] Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _wall neut_ Ff. _wall-wort_ Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃.

_water_] Qq Ff. _water-neut_ Rowe.

_fury_] _fruite_ Q₁. _fruit_ Q₃.

[3766] _sallets_] _sallet_ Capell conj.

[3767] _stock-punished_] _stock-punisht_ Q₁ Q₂. _stock-punish_ Q₃. _stockt, punish'd_ Ff.

[3768] _had_] Qq. om. Ff.

[3769] _horse ... wear;_] Prose in Qq. Verse in Ff.

[3770] _deer_] _deere_ Qq. _deare_ F₁ F₂. _dear_ F₃ F₄. _geer_ Hanmer. _cheer_ Grey conj.

[3771] _Have_] Ff. _Hath_ Qq.

[3772] _Smulkin_] Ff. _snulbug_ Qq. _Smolkin_ Theobald.

[3773] _The ... Mahu._] Prose in Qq Ff. Verse in Capell.

[3774] _Modo_] _Mohu_ Johnson.

[3775] _Mahu_] Ff. _ma hu--_ Qq.

[3776] _Our ... gets it._] Verse in Pope. Prose in Qq Ff.

[3777] _is ... lord,_] _is growne so vilde my Lord,_ Qq (_vild_ Q₂). _my Lord, is growne so vilde,_ Ff (_grown_ F₃ F₄. _vild,_ F₂ F₃ F₄).

[3778] _gets it_] _it gets_ F₃ F₄.

[3779] _Poor_] om. Pope.

[3780] _a-cold_] Hyphened by Rowe.

[3781] _Go ... ready._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3782] _Though_] _Though all_ F₃ F₄.

[3783] _ventured_] Ff _venterd_ Qq.

[3784] _fire and food_] Ff. _food and fire_ Qq.

_is_] _are_ Hanmer.

[3785] _Good ... house._] Two lines in Ff.

_Good my_] Ff. _My good_ Qq.

[3786] _I'll ... study?_] As in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3787] _talk_] _take_ F₃ F₄.

_same_] Ff. _most_ Qq.

[3788] _me_] _us_ F₃ F₄.

_private_] _private, friend_ Keightley.

[3789] _Importune ... unsettle._] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[3790] _once more_] Ff. Omitted in Qq.

[3791] [Storm still.] Ff. om. Qq.

[3792] _ah_] Ff. _O_ Qq.

[3793] _say'st_] _saist_ Q₁ Q₃. _sayest_ Q₂ Ff.

[3794] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope.

[3795] _outlaw'd_] _out-lawed_ Qq.

_he sought_] _a sought_ Q₂.

[3796] _truth_] Q₁ Q₃. _true_ Q₂ Ff.

[Storm still. Malone.

[3797] _hath_] _has_ Q₁ _haz_ Q₃.

_night's_] _nights_ Qq.

[3798] _grace,--_] Capell. _grace_. Qq Ff.

[3799] _O ... company._] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

_mercy, sir. Noble_] _mercy, sir: Noble_ Ff. _mercy noble_ Qq.

[3800] _there, into the_] _there, into th'_ Q₁ Ff. _there, in't_ Q₂. _there, into th_ Q₃. _into th'_ Pope. _there, to the_ Capell.

[3801] _With ... philosopher._] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

_him; I_] Ff. _him I_ Qq.

[3802] _Good ... fellow._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[3803] _Sirrah ... us._] _Sirrah, come on; along with us._ Pope. _On, sirrah; go with us._ Capell.

[3804] _Come ... words:_] As a line of verse in Steevens (1793).

[3805] _tower_] Ff. _towne_ Q₁ Q₂. _town_ Q₃.

_came_] Ff. _come_ Qq.

After this Capell, reading _come_, marks the omission of a line and proposes to add _The giant roar'd, and out he ran._ Keightley proposes _The giant saw him, and out he ran._

[3806] [Exeunt.] Ff. om. Qq.

[3807] SCENE V.] SCENE IV. Rowe. SCENE VIII. Pope.

Gloucester's castle.] Rowe. A Room in Gloster's Castle. Capell.

Enter ... Edmund.] Ff. Enter ... Bastard. Qq. Omitted by Johnson.

[3808] _my_] om. F₃ F₄.

_his_] Ff. _the_ Qq.

[3809] _provoking merit_] _provoked spirit_ Hanmer.

[3810] _a-work_] _a-worke_ F₁. _a worke_ Qq F₂. _a-work_ F₃ F₄.

_himself_] _him_ Hanmer.

[3811] _letter_] Qq. _letter which_ Ff.

[3812] _advantages_] _advances_ Anon. conj.

[3813] _this treason were not_] Ff. _his treason were_ Qq. _his treason were not_ Anon. MS. See note (V).

[3814] [Aside] Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

[3815] _persever_] F₁ F₂ F₃. _persevere_ Qq F₄.

[3816] _dearer_] Qq. _deere_ F₁ F₂. _dear_ F₃ F₄.

[Exeunt.] Ff. Exit. Qq.

[3817] SCENE VI.] SCENE V. Rowe. SCENE IX. Pope.

A chamber ... castle.] A Chamber. Rowe. A Chamber, in a Farmhouse. Theobald. A Room in some of the out-buildings of the Castle. Capell.

Enter ... Edgar.] Enter ... Tom. Qq (and Lear, Q₂). Enter Kent, and Gloucester Ff.

[3818] _have_] _has_ Pope. _hath_ Capell.

_to his_] Ff. _to_ Qq.

[3819] _reward_] Ff. _deserve_ Qq. _preserve_ Capell conj.

[Exit Gloucester.] As in Capell. After line 3 in Ff. Omitted in Qq.

Enter Lear, Edgar, and Foole. Ff. om. Qq.

[3820] _Frateretto_] _Fretereto_ Qq. _Fraterretto_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _Fraterreto_ F₄.

_Nero_] _Trajan_ Upton conj.

[3821] _and_] Ff. om. Qq.

[3822] _be_] _may bee_ Q₁ Q₃.

[3823] _gentleman_] _gentlemen_ F₂.

[3824] Fool. _No ... him._ Lear.] Ff. Omitted in Qq.

[3825] _mad_] om. F₃ F₄.

[3826] _To have ... 'em,--_] Divided as in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3827] _hissing_] Q₁ Q₃. _hiszing_ Q₂. _hizzing_ Ff. _whizzing_ Boswell (Malone conj.)

_'em,--_] _'em--_ Theobald. _'em._ Ff. _them._ Qq.

[3828] Edg. _The foul ... 'scape?_] Qq. Omitted in Ff.

[3829] _trusts_] _trust_ Q₃.

[3830] _a horse's health_] _the heels of a horse_ Warburton. _a horse's heels_ Singer, ed. 2 (Anon. MS.) See note (V).

_a horse's ... oath._] _the health of a horse, the love of a boy, or the oath of a whore._ Pope.

[3831] _them_] _'em_ Pope.

[3832] [To Edgar.] Capell. To the Fool. Hanmer.

_justicer_] Theobald. _justice_ Qq.

[3833] [To the Fool.] Capell. To Edgar. Hanmer.

_here. Now, you_] _heere, now you_ Q₁ _here, no you_ Q₂. _here now you_ Q₃. _here. Now ye_ Pope.

_foxes!_] _foxes._ Pope. _Foxes_--Qq.

[3834] Edg. _Look ... thee._] Omitted by Pope.

[3835] _Look ... me._] As in Capell. Prose in Qq. Verse, the first line ending _eyes_, in Theobald, and Capell's Errata.

[3836] _he_] _she_ Theobald.

_Wantest_] Theobald. _wantst_ Q₁ Q₃. _wanst_ Q₂. _wanton'st_ Jennens (Seward conj.)

[3837] _Wantest thou eyes_] _Wantonizeth thou_ Staunton conj.

[3838] _eyes ... madam?_] _eyes_? Lear. _At trial, Madam._ Rann (Johnson conj.)

_trial, madam_?] _triall madam_, Q₁ Q₃. _tral madam_ Q₂.

[3839] [Sings. Edd. conj.

_bourn_] _boorne_ Capell. _broome_ Qq. _brook_ Jennens (Johnson conj.)

[3840] [Sings. Edd. conj.

[3841] _Her ... speak_] As in Capell. One line in Qq.

[3842] _herring_] _herrings_ Pope and Anon. MS. See note (V).

[3843] Kent. _How ... cushions_?] Verse in Theobald. Prose in Qq. Omitted by Pope.

[3844] _cushions_] _cushings_ Q₂.

[3845] _I'll ... father_] Verse in Pope and Theobald. Prose in Qq.

[3846] _trial first. Bring_] _trial, bring me in_ Pope, _trial first, bring me in_ Theobald.

_the_] Pope, _their_ Qq.

[3847] To Edgar] Capell.

_robed_] Pope, _robbed_ Qq.

[3848] [To the Fool] Capell.

[3849] [To Kent] Capell.]

_o' the_] _of the_ Hanmer.

[3850] Edg. _Let ... gray._ Lear.] Omitted by Pope.

[3851] [Sings. Edd. conj.

[3852] _Sleepest ... harm_] Verse by Theobald. Prose in Qq.

[3853] _I here ... father._] Omitted by Pope.

[3854] _she_] Q₁ Q₃. om. Q₂.

[3855] _cannot_] _can't_ Hanmer.

[3856] _joint-stool_] _joynt stoole_ Q₁ Q₃. _joyne stoole_ Q₂.

[3857] _And ... there!_] Omitted by Pope.

[3858] _store_] _stuff_ Jennens conj. _stone_ Collier, ed. 2 (Theobald conj.)

_made on_] Capell. _made an_ Qq. _made of_ Theobald.

[3859] _Corruption_] _corruption's_ Hanmer.

_place_] _palace_ Grant White.

[3860] _retain_] _remain_ F₃ F₄.

[3861] [Aside] Rowe.

[3862] _They'll_] _They'l_ Q₁ Q₃. _Theile_ Q₃. _They_ Ff.]

_counterfeiting_] Q₂ F₃ F₄. _counterfeting_ Q₁. _counterfetting_ F₁ F₂ Q₃.

[3863] _Tom ... fled._] As in Rowe. Verse in Ff, the first line ending _you._ Prose in Qq.

[3864] _mongrel grim, Hound_] Rowe (substantially). _Mongrill, Grim, Hound_ Ff (_Mungril_ F₄). _Mungrel, Grim-hound_ Q₁. _mungril, grim-hoūd_ Q₂. _Mungril, Grim-hound_ Q₃.

[3865] _lym_] Hanmer. _Him_ Q₁. _him_ Q₂ Q₃. _Hym_ Ff.

[3866] _Or bobtail tike_] F₄. _Bobtaile tike_ Qq. _Or Bobtaile tight_ F₁ F₂ F₃ (_Bobtail_ F₃).

_trundle-tail_] _Trundle-taile_ Qq. _Troudle taile_ F₁ F₂. _Troudle tail_ F₃ F₄.

[3867] _them_] Qq. _him_ Ff. _you_ Eccles conj.

[3868] _leap_] _leape_ Qq. _leapt_ Ff.

[3869] _Do ... dry._] Prose in Qq and Capell. Two lines, the first ending _fayres_, in Ff.

[3870] _Do ... Sessa!_] Malone. _Do, de, de, de: sese:_ Ff. _loudla doodla_, Qq. _Do, do, de, de, &c._ [singing. Capell.

_Sessa! Come_] _Sessy, come_ Pope. _Bessy, come_ Anon. ap. Rann conj. _see, see! Come_ Collier.

[3871] _dry._] Qq F₁. _dry._ [Exit. F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3872] _Then ... changed._] Prose in Ff. Five lines in Qq.

[3873] _anatomize_] Ff. _anotomize_ Qq.

[3874] _her heart. Is_] Ff. _her, Hart is_ Q₁. _her Hart is_ Q₂. _her Heart is_ Q₃.

[3875] _makes_] Qq. _make_ Ff.

_these hard hearts?_] Rowe. _these hard-hearts._ F₁ F₂. _these hard hearts._ F₃ F₄. _this hardnesse;_ Q₁ Q₃. _this hardnes_, Q₂.

[To Edgar] Capell.

[3876] _for_] Ff. _you for_ Qq.

[3877] _garments. You will say_] Ff. _garment; youl say_ Q₁ Q₃. _garments youle say,_ Q₂.

_attire_] Qq. om. Ff.

[3878] _and rest_] Omitted in Qq.

[pointing to a mean Couch. Capell.

[3879] Prose in Qq Ff. Verse in Rowe, reading with Ff.

[3880] _so, so, so._] Qq. _so, so._ Ff.

_i' the_] _in the_ Q₁ Q₃.

_So, so, so._] Qq. Omitted in Ff.

[3881] Fool. _And ... noon._] Ff. Omitted in Qq.

Re-enter ...] Capell. Enter Glocester. Qq (Gloster Q₂). Enter Gloster. Ff, after line 79. Re-Enter Glo'ster. Pope, after line 79.

[3882] _Come ... master?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[3883] _There ... provision_] Arranged as in Ff. Five lines, ending _friend, ... master, ... thine, ... losse, ... provision,_ in Qq.

[3884] _in't_] _in it_ Q₁ Q₃.

[3885] _toward_] Ff. _towards_ Qq.

[3886] _shouldst_] _should_ Johnson.

[3887] _Take up, take up_] Ff. _Take up to keepe_ Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. _Take up the King_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _Take up to the keep_ Becket conj.

[3888] Kent. _Oppressed ... behind._ Glou.] Omitted in Ff.

[3889] _Oppressed_] Qq. _Opprest_ Theobald.

[3890] _balm'd_] Theobald. _balmed_ Qq.

_sinews_] Qq. _senses_ Theobald.

[3891] _Which ... behind._] Arranged as by Theobald. Two lines, the first ending cure, in Qq.

[3892] _convenience_] _conveniency_ Theobald.

[3893] [To the Fool] Theobald.

[3894] _Come, come,_] _Come, away,_ Pope.

[Exeunt ... Edgar.] Edd. (Globe ed.) Exit. Qq. Exeunt. Ff. Exeunt, bearing off the King. Manet Edgar. Theobald. Exeunt Kent, Gloster, and the Fool, bearing off Lear. Capell.

[3895] Edg. _When ... lurk._] Omitted in Ff. See note (XVI).

[3896] _When ... foes_] As in Q₁ Q₃. Prose in Q₂.

[3897] _suffers suffers most_] _suffers, suffers most_ Theobald. _suffers suffers, most_ Q₂. _suffers, most_ Q₁ Q₃.

[3898] _doth_] _does_ Theobald.

[3899] _father'd!_] Theobald, _fatherd,_ Q₁. _fathered,_ Q₂ Q₃.

[3900] After _bewray_ Warburton marks an omission.

[3901] _thought defiles_] Theobald. _thoughts defile_ Qq.

[3902] _What will hap_] _Hap what will hap_ Anon. MS. See note (V). _What will, hap_ Theobald.

_What ... to-night,_] Qq. _What ... to-night?_ Capell.

[3903] [Exit.] Exit Edgar. Theobald, om. Qq Ff.

[3904] SCENE VII.] SCENE VI. Rowe. SCENE X. Pope.

Gloucester's castle.] Rowe. A Room in the Castle. Capell.

Regan] Q₁ F₁ F₂ Q₃. and Regan and Q₂. om. F₃ F₄.

Edmund, and Servants.] Theobald. Bastard, and Servants. Ff. and Bastard. Qq.

[3905] _Post ... Gloucester._] Prose in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _letter,_ in Qq.

[3906] _traitor_] Ff. _villaine_ Q₁ Q₃. _vilaine_ Q₂.

[Exeunt....] Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[3907] _Leave ... like._] Prose in Q₁ Ff Q₃. Four lines in Q₂.

[3908] _displeasure_] _disposure_ Collier MS.

[3909] _revenges_] _revenge_ Qq.

[3910] _Advise_] _Advice_ F₁.

_where_] _when_ Steevens (1778).

_festinate_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _festuant_ Qq. _festiuate_ F₁. _festivant_ Anon. MS. See note (V).

[3911] _Our ... Gloucester._] Prose in Ff. Two lines in Qq.

[3912] _posts_] _poste_ Q₁. _post_ Q₂ Q₃.

[3913] _and intelligent_] Ff. _and intelligence_ Qq. _in intelligence_ Capell (withdrawn in MS.)

[3914] Enter Oswald.] Collier. Enter Steward. Ff. Enter Steward. Qq, after _king?_ line 13.

[3915] _Some ... friends._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3916] _questrists_] Ff. _questrits_ Qq. _questers_ Pope, _coystrills_ Anon. MS. See note (V). _questists_ Heath conj.

_after him_] _after_ Hanmer (ed. 2).

[3917] _lords_] _lord's_ Pope.

[3918] _toward_] Ff. _towards_ Qq.

[3919] [Exeunt ... Oswald.] Dyce. Exeunt ... Steward. Capell, (after line 20). Exit Gon. and Bast. Qq, after line 20. Exit. Ff, after line 20. Exit Oswald (after line 19), Exeunt Goneril and Edmund (after line 21). Staunton.

[3920] [Exeunt other Servants.] Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[3921] _well_] om. Qq.

[3922] _Shall ... blame_] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[3923] _courtesy_] _curtesie_ Qq. _curt'sie_ Ff.

[3924] SCENE XI. Pope.

_Who's_] _Whose_ Q₂.

Enter ... three.] Qq. Enter Gloucester, and Servants. Ff (after _comptroll_). Re-enter Servants, with Gloster Prisoner. Capell.

[3925] _What ... friends._] As in Qq. Three lines, the first two ending _graces?... ghests,_ in Ff.

[3926] _mean_] F₄. _meanes_ Qq F₁ F₂. _means_ F₃.

_friends_] _friends_ [to the Ser. Capell MS.

[3927] [Servants bind him.] They bind him. Rowe. om. Qq Ff.

[3928] _I'm none_] F₃ F₄. _I'me none_ F₁. _Ime none_ F₂. _I am none_ Capell. _I am true_ Qq.

[3929] _To ... find--_] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff.

_find--_] Qq. _finde._ F₁ F₂. _find._ F₃ F₄.

[Regan....] Johnson, om. Qq Ff.

[3930] _By ... beard._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3931] _Naughty ... chin_] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[3932] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope.

[3933] _robbers'_] Theobald. _robbers_ Qq Ff. _robber's_ Pope.

_favours_] _favour_ Hanmer (Warburton).

[3934] _do?_] Q₁ F₁ Q₃ F₄. _doe._ Q₂. _doe_ F₂. _do_ F₃.

[3935] _Come, sir,_] As in Qq. In a separate line in Ff.

[3936] _simple answerer_] Qq. _simple answer'd_ Ff. _simple-answer'd_ Hanmer.

[3937] _And what ... kingdom?_] As in Rowe. Prose in Qq Ff.

[3938] _Late_] Q₂ Ff. _lately_ Q₁ Q₃.

[3939] _To ... Speak._] As in Capell. One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _hands,_ in Ff.

[3940] _have you sent_] Q₁ Q₃. _you have sent_ Q₂ Ff.

[3941] _I have_] _I've_ Hanmer.

[3942] _Dover_] _Dover, sir_ Hanmer.

[3943] _Wherefore ... peril--_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_peril--_] _perill--_ Qq. _perill._ F₁ F₂ F₃. _peril?_ F₄.

[3944] _first_] Qq. om. Ff.

[3945] _I am ... course._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[3946] _sir_] Qq. om. Ff.

[3947] _anointed_] F₄. _annoynted_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _annointed_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _aurynted_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃.

_stick_] F₃ F₄. _sticke_ F₁ F₂. _rash_ Qq. _rush_ Anon. MS. See note (V).

[3948] _as his bare_] Ff. _of his lou'd_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _on his lowd_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _of his lov'd_ Q₃.

[3949] _hell-black night_] Pope. _hell-blacke-night_ Ff. _hell blacke night_ Qq.

_buoy'd_] Ff. _laid_ Q₁ Q₃. _layd_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _bod_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _boil'd_ Warburton.

[3950] _And ... heart,_] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[3951] _stelled_] Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2) Ff. _steeled_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. _stellar_ Hanmer.

[3952] _holp_] F₃ F₄. _holpe_ F₁ F₂. _holpt_ Qq. _help'd_ Pope.

_rain_] F₃ F₄. _raine_ F₁ F₂. _rage_ Qq.

[3953] _howl'd that stern_] F₃ F₄. _howl'd that sterne_ F₁ F₂. _heard that dearne_ Qq. _howl'd that dearn_ Capell.

[3954] _Good_] _go,_ Theobald (ed. 2).

[3955] _cruels_] _quarrels_ Jervis conj.

_subscribed_] _subscrib'd_ Qq. _subscribe_ Ff.

[3956] _these_] Ff. _those_ Qq.

[Gloster is held down while Cornwall treads out one of his Eyes. Rowe. Gloster is held down in his Chair, while Cornwal plucks out one his Eyes, and stamps on it. Capell.

[3957] _old,_] Ff. _old_ Q₂. _old--_ Q₁ Q₃.

[3958] _you_] Ff. _ye_ Qq.

[3959] _the other too_] _th other too_ Ff. _tother to_ Qq.

[3960] _vengeance--_] Qq. _vengeance._ Ff.

First Serv.] 1. S. Capell. Servant. Qq. Serv. Ff.

[3961] _I have_] _I've_ Pope.

_you_] om. Q₂.

[3962] _But ... hold._] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[3963] _If ... mean?_] As in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3964] _on this_] _in this_ Capell conj.

[3965] [They draw....] Draw and fight. Qq. Omitted in Ff. Fight, in the scuffle Cornwall is wounded. Rowe.

[3966] _Nay_] Ff. _Why_ Qq.

[3967] Reg.] Reg. [to another servant. Johnson. Reg. [To Corn. Collier conj.

_thus!_] _thus?_ Ff. _thus._ Qq.

[Takes....] She takes.... Qq. Killes him. Ff. Snatches a Sword from an Att: and stabs him. Capell.

[3968] _O ... him. O!_] As in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3969] _slain! My lord, you have_] _slaine: my Lord, you have_ Ff. _slaine my Lord, yet have you_ Qq.

[3970] _him_] _them_ Dyce (ed. 2). _'em_ Dyce conj. (ed. 1).

[Dies.] He dies. Q₁. om. Q₂ Ff Q₃.

[3971] _vile_] Pope. _vilde_ Q₁ F₁ F₂. _vild_ Q₂ F₃ F₄.

[3972] [Treads out the other Eye. Rowe. Dashing Gloster's other Eye to the Ground. Capell.

[3973] _All ... Edmund!_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_comfortless._] _comfortles,_ Qq. _comfortlesse?_ Ff.

[3974] _Edmund ... act._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3975] _enkindle_] Ff. _unbridle_ Qq.

[3976] _Out ... thee._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3977] _treacherous_] Ff. _om._ Qq.

[3978] _overture_] _o'erture_ S. Walker conj.

[3979] _O ... you?_] Five lines, ending _follies!... forgive ... out ... Dover ... you?_ in Pope.

[3980] _O ... abused._] As in Qq Ff. Two lines in Capell.

[3981] _Go ... you?_] As in Capell. Three lines in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[3982] _at gates_] _At th' gates_ Hanmer.

[3983] [Exit....] Exit with Glouster. Ff. Omitted in Qq.

_look_] _do_ Jennens.

[3984] _Turn ... arm._] As in Ff. In Qq the first two lines end _upon ... untimely._

[3985] _dunghill_] _dungell_ Q₂.

[3986] [Exit....] Exit Qq. Exeunt. Ff. Exeunt Cornwal, and Regan. Servants unbind Gloster, and lead him out. Capell.

[3987] Sec. Serv. _I'll ... him!_] Omitted in Ff.

[3988] Sec. Serv.] 2. S. Capell. Servant. Qq. 1st Serv. Theobald.

[3989] Third Serv.] 3. S. Capell. 2. Servant. Qq.

[3990] _If ... monsters._] As in Theobald. Prose in Qq.

[3991] Sec. Serv.] 2. S. Capell. 1 Ser. Qq.

_Bedlam_] _bedlom_ Q₂.

[3992] _roguish_] om. Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2).

[3993] Third Serv.] 3. S. Capell. 2 Ser. Qq.

[3994] _Go ... him!_] As in Theobald. Prose in Qq.

[3995] _To ... his_] _T' apply to's_ Theobald.

[Exeunt severally.] Theobald. Exit. Qq.