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I am more an antique Roman than a Dane:
Here's yet some liquor left.
Ham.

As thou'rt a man, 356 Give me the cup: let go; by heaven, I'll have 't. O God! Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me.

If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,
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Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story.

[March afar off, and shot within.
What war-like noise is this?

Osr. Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland, 364

To the ambassadors of England gives

This war-like volley.

Ham.

O! I die, Horatio;

The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit:
I cannot live to hear the news from England, 368
But I do prophesy the election lights

On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;

So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less, Which have solicited-The rest is silence. [Dies. Hor. Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince,

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[March within.

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! Why does the drum come hither?

Enter FORTINBRAS, the English Ambassadors, and Others.

Fort. Where is this sight?

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Are here arriv'd, give order that these bodies
High on a stage be placed to the view;
And let me speak to the yet unknowing world
How these things came about: so shall you

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ACT I.

Glo. My Lord of Kent: remember him here

SCENE I.-A Room of State in KING LEAR'S after as my honourable friend.

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Glo. Sir, this young fellow's mother could; whereupon she grew round-wombed, and had, indeed, sir, a son for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed. Do you smell a fault? 16 Kent. I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so proper.

Glo. But I have a son, sir, by order of law, some year elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my account: though this knave came somewhat saucily into the world before he was sent for, yet was his mother fair; there was good sport at his making, and the whoreson must be acknowledged. Do you know this noble gentleman, Edmund?

Edm. No, my lord.

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Edm. My services to your lordship.

Kent. I must love you, and sue to know you better.

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And you, our no less loving son of Albany,
We have this hour a constant will to publish
Our daughters' several dowers, that future strife
May be prevented now. The princes, France

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Our eldest-born, speak first.

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Lest you may mar your fortunes. Cor.

Good my lord,

Gon. Sir, I love you more than words can You have begot me, bred me, lov'd me: I wield the matter;

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Return those duties back as are right fit,
Obey you, love you, and most honour you. 100
Why have my sisters husbands, if they say
They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed,
That lord whose hand must take my plight

shall carry

As much as child e'er lov'd, or father found; A love that makes breath poor and speech unable;

Beyond all manner of so much I love you.

Cor. [Aside.] What shall Cordelia do? Love, and be silent.

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Scythian,

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Or he that makes his generation messes
To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom
Be as well neighbour'd, pitied, and reliev'd,
As thou my sometime daughter.
Kent.

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Good my liege,

Which the most precious square of sense pos

sesses

And find I am alone felicitate

In your dear highness' love.
Cor.

[Aside.] Then, poor Cordelia! And yet not so; since, I am sure, my love's More richer than my tongue.

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Lear. To thee and thine, hereditary ever, Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom, No less in space, validity, and pleasure, Than that conferr'd on Goneril. Now, our

joy,

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84 Although our last, not least; to whose young love The vines of France and milk of Burgundy Strive to be interess'd; what can you say to

draw

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Cor. Nothing.

With reservation of a hundred knights,
By you to be sustain'd, shall our abode 136

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Make with you by due turn. Only we shall Our potency made good, take thy reward. retain

The name and all th' addition to a king;

Five days we do allot thee for provision To shield thee from diseases of the world; And, on the sixth, to turn thy hated back

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The sway, revenue, execution of the rest,
Beloved sons, be yours: which to confirm, 140 Upon our kingdom: if, on the tenth day follow-

This coronet part between you.

Kent.

Royal Lear, Whom I have ever honour'd as my king, Lov'd as my father, as my master follow'd, As my great patron thought on in my prayers, Lear. The bow is bent and drawn; make from the shaft. 145

Kent. Let it fall rather, though the fork invade

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The region of my heart: be Kent unmannerly When Lear is mad. What wouldst thou do, old man? 148 Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak

That justly think'st, and hast most rightly said! [To REGAN and GONERIL.] And your large speeches may your deeds approve, That good effects may spring from words of love.

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I would not from your love make such a stray To match you where I hate; therefore, beseech you 213

To avert your liking a more worthier way
Than on a wretch whom nature is asham'd
Almost to acknowledge hers.
France.

This is most strange, 216 That she, who even but now was your best object,

The argument of your praise, balm of your age, The best, the dearest, should in this trice of time

Commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle 220 So many folds of favour. Sure, her offence Must be of such unnatural degree

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Cor.

intend,

I yet beseech your majesty

If for I want that glib and oily art
To speak and purpose not; since what I well
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I'll do 't before I speak that you make known
It is no vicious blot nor other foulness,
No unchaste action, or dishonour'd step,

That hath depriv'd me of your grace and favour,
But even for want of that for which I am richer,
A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue
That I am glad I have not, though not to have it
Hath lost me in your liking.

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Gon. The best and soundest of his time hath been but rash; then, must we look to receive

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