King Lear by William Shakespeare: Act 2

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Act too of King Lear. This is a LibriVox recording.
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Lear by William Shakespeare, Act two, Scene one, A court

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within the castle of the Earl of Gloucester. Enter Edmund
and Courran, meeting.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Save the e Curin and.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
You, sir. I have been with your father and given
him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Reagan his duchess,
will be here with him this night.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
How comes that?

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Nay?

Speaker 3 (00:43):
I know not you have heard of the news abroad?
I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but
ear kissing arguments.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Not, I pray you, what are they?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Have you heard of? No? Likely wars toward TwixT the
two Dukes of Cornwall in Albany.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Not a word?

Speaker 5 (01:00):
You may do?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Then in time, fare you well, sir, Exit.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
The Duke be here to night the better best. This
weaves itself perforce into my business. My father hath set
guard to take my brother, and I have one thing
of a queasy question which I must act. Briefness and
fortune work brother, A word, descend, brother.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
I say, Enter Edgar.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
My father watches, sir, fly this place. Intelligence is given
where you are hid. You have now the good advantage
of the night. Have you not spoken against the Duke
of Cornwall. He's coming hither now with a knight in haste,
and Reagan with him. Have you said nothing upon his
party against the Duke of Albany. Advise yourself.

Speaker 6 (01:56):
I am sure aunt not a word.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
I hear my father coming. Pardon me in cunning, I
must draw my sword upon you. Draw seem to defend yourself.
Now quit you well, yield, come before my father. Light
ho here fly, brother torches torches.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
So farewell exit, Edgar.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion of my
more fierce endeavor. I have seen drunkards do more than
this in sport.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
He wounds himself in the arm.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Father, Father, stop, stop, no help.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Enter Gloucester and servants with torches.

Speaker 7 (02:44):
Now, Edmund, where is the villain?

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out,
mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon to stand auspicious mistress.

Speaker 7 (02:55):
But where is he? Look, Sir, I bleed, where is
the villain?

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Edmund fled this way, sir, when by no means he
could pursue him.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Ho go after exience.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Some servants by no means what persuade me to the
murder of your lordship, But that I told him the
revenging gods against Patricides, did all their thunders bend, spoke
with how manifold and strong, upon the child was bound
to the father, Sir in fine. Seeing how loathly opposite,
I stood to his unnatural purpose and fell motion with

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his prepared sword. He charges home when my unprovided body
lancet mine arm. But when he saw my best alarmed
spirits bold in the quarrel's right, roused to the encounter,
or whether gasted by the noise I made full, suddenly
he fled.

Speaker 7 (03:47):
Let him fly far. Not in this land shall he
remain uncaught and found despatch'd. The noble Duke, my master,
my worthy arch and patron, comes to night by his authority.
I will proclaim it that he which finds him shall

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deserve our thanks. Bringing the murderous coward to the stake,
he that conceals him death.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
When I dissuaded him from his intent and found him
pite to do it with cursed speech, I threatened to
discover him. He replied, thou unpossessing bastard. Dost thou think
if I would stand against THEE? Would the reposal of
any trust virtue are worth in THEE? Make thy words? Faith?
Know what I should deny? As this I would I,

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though thou didst produce my very character. I turn it
all to thy suggestion, plot and damned practice. And thou
must make a dullard of the world if they not
thought the prophets of my death were very pregnant and
potential spurs to make.

Speaker 7 (04:56):
THEE seek it strong and fastened. Villain? Would he deny
his letter? I never got him, but bah hark the
Duke's trumpets. I know not why he comes, all ports,
all bar the villain shall not escape. The Duke must
grant me that, besides his picture, I will send far

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and near, that all the kingdom may have due note
of him and of my land, loyal and natural boy,
I'll work the means to make THEE capable.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Into Cornwall, Reagan and attendants.

Speaker 8 (05:34):
How now, my noble friend, since I came hither, which
I can call, But now I have heard strange news.

Speaker 9 (05:42):
If it be true, all vengeance comes too short, which
can pursue the offender? How dost my lord.

Speaker 7 (05:51):
Oh madam, my old heart is cracked. It's cracked.

Speaker 9 (05:56):
What did my father's god son seek your life? He
whom my father named your edgar.

Speaker 7 (06:05):
O lady, lady shame would have it? Hid?

Speaker 9 (06:09):
Was he not companion with the riotous knights that tend
upon my father?

Speaker 7 (06:15):
I know not, madam. It is too bad, too.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Bad, yes, madam, he was of that consort.

Speaker 9 (06:24):
No marvel then, though he were ill effected. Tis they
have put him on the old man's death to have
the expense and waste of his revenues. I have this
present evening from my sister, been well informed of them,
and with such cautions that if they come to sojoin
at my house, I'll not be there.

Speaker 8 (06:46):
Nor I assure thee Reagan Edmund, I hear that you
have shown your father a childlike office.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Twas my duty, sir.

Speaker 7 (06:56):
He did bewray his practice and received this hurt you
see striving to apprehend him. Is he pursued? I, my
good lord.

Speaker 8 (07:07):
If he be taken, he shall never more be feared
of doing harm. Make your own purpose, how in my
strength you please? For you, Edmund, whose virtue and obedience
doth this instant so much commend itself. You shall be
ours natures of such deep trust we shall much need you.
We first seize on.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
I shall serve you, sir truly.

Speaker 7 (07:31):
However else for him, I thank your grace.

Speaker 8 (07:36):
You know not why we came to visit you.

Speaker 9 (07:40):
That's out of season, threading dark eyed night occasions, noble
gloster of some boys, wherein we must have use of
your advice. Our father he hath writ so hath our sister,
of differences which I best thought it fit to answer
from home. The several messengers from him said in despatch,

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our good old friend, lay umfort to your bosom, and
bestow your needful counsel to our business which graves the instant.

Speaker 7 (08:09):
Use I serve you, madam. Your graces are right welcome.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Excellent flourish scene too before Gloucester's Castle, enter Kent and
Oswald severally.

Speaker 10 (08:31):
Good dawning to thee friend aught of this house? Ay,
where may we set our horses.

Speaker 11 (08:40):
In the mire?

Speaker 10 (08:41):
Prithee? If thou lovest me, tell me I love THEE not?
Why then I care not for THEE?

Speaker 11 (08:49):
If I had THEE in Lipsbury pinfuled, I would make
THEE care for me.

Speaker 10 (08:55):
Why dost thou use me, thus, I know THEE.

Speaker 11 (08:57):
Not fellow, I know THEE.

Speaker 10 (09:01):
What dost thou know me?

Speaker 11 (09:02):
For a knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats,
a base, proud, shallow beggarly three suited, hundred pound filthy
wor stood, stocky nave, a lily livered action taking horsen

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glass gazing, super serviceable, finnacal rogue, one trunk inheriting slave,
one that wouldst be a bad in a way of
good service and art, nothing but the composition of a
nave beggar, coward pander, and the sun and air of

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a mongrel bitch, a one whom I will beat into
clamorous whining. If thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.

Speaker 10 (09:53):
Why what a monstrous fellow art thou thus to reil
on one that's neither known of THEE, nor no.

Speaker 11 (10:01):
Oh, what a brazen faced varlet art thou to deny
thou knowest me? Is it two days ago since I
beat THEE and tripped up thy heels before the king
draw you rogue? For though it be night yet the
moon shines, I'll make a sop of the moonshine of

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you draw you horse and culon ye barbermonger.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
Draw.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Away.

Speaker 10 (10:31):
I have nothing to do with thee.

Speaker 11 (10:32):
Draw you rascal. You come with letters against the king
and take vanity the puppet's part against the royalty of
her father. Draw you rogue or also carbonado your shanks,
draw your rascal, come your ways. Help, oh murder, help

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strike you slave.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Olswild tries to escape.

Speaker 11 (10:56):
Stand rogue, stand eat slaves strike.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
He beats him.

Speaker 10 (11:03):
Help, Oh murder, murder.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Enter Edmund Cornwall, Reagan, Gloucester and servants.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
How now, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 11 (11:14):
Goodman boy? Can you please come? I'll flesh you come on,
young master?

Speaker 7 (11:21):
Weapons arms? What's the matter here?

Speaker 8 (11:24):
Keep peace upon your lives? He dies, that strikes again?
What is the matter?

Speaker 9 (11:30):
The messengers from our sister and the king?

Speaker 8 (11:33):
What is your difference?

Speaker 5 (11:34):
Speak?

Speaker 10 (11:36):
I am scarce in breath, my lord?

Speaker 11 (11:38):
Ah, no, marvel you have so bestirred your valor, you
cowardly rascal. Nature disclaims in THEE. A tailor made thee.

Speaker 8 (11:50):
Thou art a strange fellow, A tailor, make a man.

Speaker 11 (11:54):
Ay, a tailor, sir, a stone cutter or a painter
could not have made him so ill, though he had
been but two hours at the trade.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
To Oswald speak.

Speaker 8 (12:06):
Yet how grew your quarrel?

Speaker 10 (12:09):
This ancient ruffian sir, whose life I have spared at
suit of his gray beard?

Speaker 11 (12:14):
Thou horsen z thou unnecessary letter, my lord? If you'll
give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into
mortar and daub the walls of a jake's with him.
Spare my gray beard, you wagtail.

Speaker 8 (12:31):
Peace surrah, you beastly knave. Know you no reverence?

Speaker 11 (12:35):
Yes, sir, but anger hath a privilege?

Speaker 8 (12:40):
Why art thou angry that such.

Speaker 11 (12:43):
A knave as this should wear a sword, who wears
no honesty? Such smiling rogues as these, like rats off
bite the holy cords a twain, which are too intrnse tunlouse,
smooth every passion that, in the natures of their lord's

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rebel bring oil to the fire, snow to their colder moods,
reneg a firm and turn their halcyon beaks with every
gale and very of their masters, knowing not like dogs,
but following a plague upon your epileptic visage, Smile you

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my speeches as if I were a fool goose. An
I had you upon sarrem plain, I'd drive ye cackling
home to Camelot.

Speaker 8 (13:42):
What art thou, mad old fellow?

Speaker 7 (13:44):
How fell you out say that no contraries hold more
antipathy than I.

Speaker 11 (13:51):
And such a knave?

Speaker 8 (13:54):
Why dost thou call him knave? What is his fault?

Speaker 11 (13:57):
His countenance likes me.

Speaker 8 (14:00):
No more perchance does mine or his or hers?

Speaker 11 (14:05):
Sir, tis my preoccupation to be plain. I have seen
better faces in my time than stands on any shoulder
that I see before me at this instant.

Speaker 8 (14:18):
This is some fellow who, having been praised for bluntness,
doth affect a saucy roughness and constrains the garb quite
from his nature. He cannot flatter he an honest mind
and plain. He must speak truth, and they will take
it so if not he's plain These kinds of knaves

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I know, which, in this plainness harbor more craft and
more corrupt ends than twenty silly, ducking observants that stretch
their duties nicely.

Speaker 11 (14:48):
Sir, in good faith, in sincere verity, under the allowance
of your great aspect, whose influence like the wreath of
radiant fire on flickering Phoebus's front.

Speaker 8 (15:01):
What means by this.

Speaker 11 (15:04):
To go out of my dialect, which you discommend so much.
I know, sir, I am no flatterer. He that beguiled
you in a plain accent was a plain knave, which
for my part I will not be, though I should
win your displeasure to entreat.

Speaker 7 (15:25):
Me to it.

Speaker 8 (15:26):
What was the offense you gave him?

Speaker 10 (15:28):
I never gave him any. It pleased the King his
master very late to strike at me upon his misconstruction,
when he compact and flattering his displeasure tripped me behind,
being down, insulted, railed, and put upon him such a
deal of man that worthied him got praises of the

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King for him attempting, who was self subdued, and in
the fleshment of this dread exploit drew on me here again.

Speaker 11 (15:58):
None of these rogues in howards, but Ajax is there full.

Speaker 8 (16:03):
Fetch forth the stocks you stubb an ancient knave, you,
Reverend Braggot, will teach you.

Speaker 11 (16:11):
M Sir, I am too old to learn. Call not
your stocks for me. I serve the King on whose
employment I was sent to you. You shall do small respect,
show too bold malice against the grace and person of

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my master stocking his messenger.

Speaker 8 (16:36):
Fetch forth the stocks, as I have life and honor.
There shall he sit till noon, till noon.

Speaker 9 (16:44):
Till night, my lord, and all night too.

Speaker 11 (16:47):
Why Madam, if I were your father's dog, you should
not use me so, sir.

Speaker 8 (16:53):
Being a knave, I will this is a fellow of
the self same color our sister speaks of. Come, bring
away the stalks.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Stocks brought out.

Speaker 7 (17:05):
Let me beseech your grace not to do so. His
fault is much, and the good King his master will
check him for it. Your purposed low correction is such
as basest and contemptedness. Wretches for pilferings and most common
trespasses are punished with. The King must take it ill

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that he so slightly valued in his messenger should have
him thus restrained.

Speaker 8 (17:32):
I'll answer that my.

Speaker 9 (17:34):
Sister may receive it much more worse to have a
gentleman abused, assaulted for following her affairs put in his legs.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Kent is put in the stalks. Excellent, all but Gloucester
and Kent.

Speaker 7 (17:50):
I am sorry for thee friend tis the Duke's pleasure,
whose disposition all the world well knows, will not be
rubbed nor stop I'll entreat for thee.

Speaker 11 (18:02):
Pray do not, sir. I have watched and traveled hard.
Sometime I shall sleep out.

Speaker 7 (18:14):
The rest.

Speaker 11 (18:15):
I'll whistle. A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.
Give you goodmorrow.

Speaker 7 (18:22):
The dukes to blame in this twill be ill taken.

Speaker 11 (18:27):
Exit good king, that must approve the common saw. Thou,
out of Heaven's benediction, comest to the warm sun. Approach
thou beacon to this under globe, that by thy comfortable

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beings I may peruse this letter. Nothing almost sees miracles
but misery. I notice from Cordelia, who hath most fortunately
been informed of my obscured course, and shall find time

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from this enormous state, seeking to give losses their remedies.
All weary and overwatched, take advantage heavy eyes not to
behold this shameful lodging fortune. Good night, smile once more, Ah,

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turn thy wheel, Hm.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
He sleeps seeing three the open country, Enter Edgar.

Speaker 6 (19:53):
I heard myself proclaimed, and by the happy hollow of
a tree, escaped the hunt. No port is free, no
place that guard and most unusual vigilance does not attend
my taking. While I may escape, I will preserve myself
and am bethought to take the basest and most poorest

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shape that ever penury in contempt of man brought near
to beast my face, I'll grime with filth, blanket my
loins elf, or my hair in knots, and with present
nakedness outface the winds and persecutions of the sky. The
country gives me proof and precedent of bedlam beggars, who

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with roaring voices strike in their numbed and mortified bare arms, pins,
wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary, and with this horrible
object from low farms, poor pelting villages, sheep cuts and mills,
sometime with lunatic bands, sometime with prayers, enforce their charity.

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Poor turly God, poor Tom. That's something yet, Edgar, I
nothing am.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Exit scene four before Gloucester's castle, Kent is still in
the stocks. And to Leah the fool and a gentleman.

Speaker 12 (21:30):
Tis strange that they should so depart from home and
not send back my messenger.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
As I learned the night before, there was no purpose
in them of this.

Speaker 11 (21:39):
Remove hail to thee noble master.

Speaker 12 (21:44):
Huh makes thout a shame thy pastime, No, my lord.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
Haha, he wears cruel garters. Horses are tied by the head,
dogs and bears by the neck, monkeys by the loins,
and men by the legs. When a man is over
lusty at legs, then he wears wooden nether stocks.

Speaker 12 (22:06):
What he that hath so much thy place mistooked? To
set thee here?

Speaker 11 (22:10):
It is both he and she your son and daughter.

Speaker 12 (22:16):
No, yes, no, I say, I say yea, no, no,
they would not.

Speaker 7 (22:25):
Yes they have.

Speaker 12 (22:27):
By Jupiter, I swear no.

Speaker 11 (22:29):
By Juno, I swear I.

Speaker 12 (22:33):
They darest not do it. They would not, could not
do it. Tis worse than murder to do upon respect.
Such violent outrage resolved me with all modest haste, which
way thou mightst deserve or they impose this usage coming from.

Speaker 11 (22:48):
Us, my lord? When at their home I did commend
your Highness's letters to them, ere I was risen from
the place that showed my duty. Kneeling came there a
reeking post stewed in his haste, half breathless, panting forth

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from Goneril his mistress salutations, delivered letters spite of intermission,
which presently they read, on whose contents they summoned up
their many straight took course commanded me to follow and attend.

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The leisure of their answer gave me cold looks, and,
meeting here the other messenger, whose welcome I perceived had
poisoned mine, being the very fellow which of late displayed
so saucily against your highness, Having more man than wit

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about me, drew he raised the house with loud and
coward cries. Your son and daughter found this trespass worth
the shame which here it suffers.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
Winter's not gone yet if the wild geese fly that way.
Fathers that wear rags do make their children blind, but
fathers that their bags shall see their children kind fortune.
That errant whore ne'er turns the key to the poor.
But for all this thou shalt have as many dollars

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for their daughters as thou canst tell in a year.

Speaker 12 (24:35):
Oh, how this mother swells up toward my heart hysterica,
pass it down, thy climbing sorrow, thy elements below? Where
is this daughter with the earl sir?

Speaker 11 (24:47):
Here within?

Speaker 12 (24:50):
Follow me, not stay here?

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Exit made you no more offense.

Speaker 7 (24:56):
But what you speak of none.

Speaker 11 (24:59):
How chance which the king comes with so small a number.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
And thou hadst been set in the stalks for that question,
thou hadst well deserved it. A wif will set thee
to school, to an aunt to teach thee. There's no
laboring in the winter. All that follow their noses are
led by their eyes, but blind men. And there's not
a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking.

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Let go thy hold. When a great wheel runs down
a hill, lest it break thy neck with following it.
But the great one that goes up the hill, let
him draw thee after. When a wise man gives thee
better counsel, give me mine again. I would have none,
but knaves follow it. Since a fool gives it. That sir,

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which serves and seeks for gain and follows but for form,
will pack when it begins to rain and leave thee
in the storm. But I will tarry. The fool will
stay and let the wise man fly. The knave turns
fool that runs away the fool no knave pertee.

Speaker 11 (26:06):
Where learned you this fool?

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Not in the Stark's fool?

Speaker 1 (26:11):
And to Lear and Gloucester.

Speaker 12 (26:14):
Deny to speak with me. They are sick, they are weary,
they have traveled all the night. Mere fetches the images
of revolt and flying off. Petch me a better answer.

Speaker 7 (26:27):
My dear lord, you know the fiery quality of the Duke,
how unremovable and fixed he is in his own course.

Speaker 12 (26:35):
Vengeance, plague, death, confusion, fie what quality? Why Goster gosta
Arth speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife?

Speaker 7 (26:44):
Well, my good lord, I have informed them.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
So informed them.

Speaker 12 (26:50):
Dost thou understand me?

Speaker 7 (26:51):
Ma'am I, my good lord, the.

Speaker 12 (26:54):
King would speak with Cornwall, the dear father would with
his daughter speak, come on her service? Are they informed
of this? My breath and blood fiery the fiery Duke
tell the hot Duke that no, but not yet, maybe
he is not well. Infirmity doth still neglect all office

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where to our health is bound. We are not ourselves.
When nature, being oppressed commands the mind to suffer with
the body, I'll forbear, and am fallen out with my
more headier will to take the indisposed and sickly fit
for the sound man death on my state? Wherefore should
he sit here? This act persuades me that this remotion

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of the Duke and her is practiced. Only give me,
my servant, forth, go tell the Duke and wife I'd
speak with them now, presently, bid them come forth and
hear me. Or at their chamber door, I'll beat the
drum till it christ sleep to death.

Speaker 7 (27:52):
I would have all well betwixt you exit.

Speaker 13 (27:58):
O me, my heart, my rising up, but down, cry
to it, nuncle, as the Cockney did to the eels
when she put him in a paste alive.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
She napped them. Oh the cocks combs with a stick
and cried down Wanton's down. Twas her brother that, in
pure kindness to his horse, buttered his hay.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
And to Cornwall. Reagan, Gloucester and servants.

Speaker 8 (28:25):
Good Morrow, do you both hail to your grace?

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Kent is here set at liberty.

Speaker 9 (28:31):
I am glad to see your highness, Reagan.

Speaker 12 (28:34):
I think you are. I know what reason I have
to think. So if thou shouldst not be glad, I
would divorce me from thy mother's tomb, sepultering an adulteress
to Kent. Oh, are you free some other time for
that beloved Reagan? Thy sisters not, Oh, Reagan, she hath
tied sharp toothstone kindness like a vulture.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Here laying his hand on his heart.

Speaker 12 (29:00):
I can scarce speak to thee thou not believe with
how depraved a quality, Oh.

Speaker 9 (29:05):
Reagan, I pray you, sir, take patience. I have hope
you less know how to value her desert than she
to scant her duty.

Speaker 12 (29:14):
Say how is that?

Speaker 9 (29:16):
I cannot think my sister in the least would fail
her obligation. If sir, perchance she have restrained the riots
of your followers, tis on such ground and to such wholesome,
and as clear as her from all blame.

Speaker 12 (29:32):
My curse is on her, Oh sir.

Speaker 9 (29:36):
You are old nature in you stands on the very
verge of her confine. You should be ruled and led
by some discretion. Let discern your state better than you yourself. Therefore,
I pray you that to our sister you do make return.
So you have wronged her.

Speaker 12 (29:54):
Sir, ask her forgiveness? Do you but mark how this
becomes the house? He kneels, Dear daughter, I confess that
I am old. Age is unnecessary.

Speaker 13 (30:06):
On my knees.

Speaker 12 (30:07):
I beg that you'll vouchsafe me raiment bed.

Speaker 9 (30:09):
And food good Sir, No more, these are unsightly tricks.
Return you to my sister rising.

Speaker 12 (30:18):
Never Reagan, she hath abated me of half my train,
look black upon me, struck me with her tongue most
serpent like upon the very heart. All the stored vengeances
of heaven fall on her, ingrateful top, strike her young bones.
You taking airs with lameness.

Speaker 8 (30:36):
Fie, sir, fie.

Speaker 12 (30:38):
You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames into her scornful eyes,
infect her beauty. You fend such fogs drawn by the
powerful sun to fall and blast her pride.

Speaker 9 (30:50):
Oh, the blessed gods, so will you wish on me
when the rash mood is on?

Speaker 12 (30:56):
No Reagan, thou shalt never have my curse, thy tender head.
Nature shall not give thee awe to harshness. Her eyes
are fierce, But thine do comfort and not burn. Tis
not in THEE to grudge my pleasures, to cut off
my train, to bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes,
and in conclusion, to oppose the bolt against my coming in.

(31:17):
Thou better knowest the offices of nature, bond of childhood,
effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude, Thy half of the kingdom,
hast thou not forgot wherein I THEE.

Speaker 13 (31:28):
Endowed, good Sir, to the berbose who put.

Speaker 12 (31:32):
My man in the stocks.

Speaker 9 (31:34):
Ah, what trumpets that I know it, my sisters, this
approves her letter that she would soon be here.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Enter Oswald is your lady, gun?

Speaker 12 (31:46):
This is a slave whose easy borrowed pride dwells in
the fickle grace of her. He follows out violor from
my sight?

Speaker 8 (31:53):
What means your grace?

Speaker 12 (31:55):
Who stocked my servant? Reagan? I have good hope thou
didst not know?

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Enter Goneril, who comes here?

Speaker 12 (32:03):
Oh heavens, if you do love old men, if your
sweet sway allow obedience, if yourselves are old, make it
your cause sent down?

Speaker 1 (32:12):
And take my part to Goneril.

Speaker 12 (32:15):
Art not a shame to look upon this beard, Oh Reagan,
wilt thou take her by the hand?

Speaker 5 (32:21):
Why not by the hand?

Speaker 9 (32:22):
Sir?

Speaker 5 (32:23):
How have I offended? All's not offense that indiscretion finds
in dotage terms.

Speaker 12 (32:28):
So, oh sides, you are too tough? Will you yet help?
How came my man in the stocks?

Speaker 8 (32:35):
I set him there?

Speaker 9 (32:36):
Sir?

Speaker 8 (32:37):
But his own disorders deserved much less advancement.

Speaker 9 (32:41):
You you did, I pray you, father, being weak seems
so if till the expiration of your month you will return,
And sir John, with my sister dismissing half your train,
come then to me. I am now from home and
out of that provision which shall be needful for your entertainment.

Speaker 12 (33:04):
Return to her, and fifty men dismissed. No, Rather, I
abjure all rouse and choose to wage against the end
of the air, to be a comrade with the wolf
and owl necessity's sharp pinch. Return with her. Why the
hot blooded France that dowerless took our youngest born, I
could as well be brought to knee his throne and

(33:25):
squire like pension Beck to keep base life afoot. Return
with her. Persuade me rather to be slave than sumter
to this detested groom.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
He points to Oswald.

Speaker 5 (33:37):
At your choice, sir, I.

Speaker 12 (33:39):
Prithee daughter, do not make me mad. I will not
trouble thee my child farewell. We'll no more meat, no
more see one another. But yet thou art my flesh,
my blood, my daughter, or rather a disease that in
my flesh, which I must needs call mine. Thou art
a boil, a plague, sore and embossed carbuncle in my

(34:01):
corrupted blood. But I'll not chide thee. Let shame come
when it will, I do not call it. I do
not bid the thunderbearer, shoot, nor tell tales of thee
to high judging jove men, when thou canst be better
at thy leisure. I can be patient. I can stay
with the Reagan, I and my hundred knights.

Speaker 9 (34:23):
Not altogether. So I look not for you yet, nor
am provided for your fit. Welcome, Give ea, sir, to
my sister. For those that mingle reason with your passion,
must be content to think you old and so. But
she knows what she does?

Speaker 12 (34:42):
Is this well spoken?

Speaker 9 (34:44):
I'd aer a voucher, sir? What fifty followers? Is it not? Well?
What should you need of more? Yeah? Here were so many, sith,
they both charge and dangerous, speaking so great a number.
How in one house should many people under due commands?
Old amity tis odd, almost impossible.

Speaker 5 (35:05):
Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance from those
that she calls servants or from mine?

Speaker 9 (35:11):
Why not, my lord? If then they answer to stlack you,
we would control them. If you will come to me
for now I spy a danger. I entreat you to
bring but five and twenty to no more will I
give place or notice. I gave you all, and in
good time you gave it.

Speaker 12 (35:33):
Made you my guardians my depositories, but kept a reservation
to be followed with such a number. What must I
come to you with five and twenty? Reagan said you so.

Speaker 9 (35:44):
And speak it again, my lord, No more with.

Speaker 12 (35:47):
Me those wicked creatures, Yet do look well favored when
others are more wicked. Not being the worst, stands in
some rank of praise to Goneril, I'll go with thee
thy fifth, yet doth double five and twenty, and thou
art twice her love?

Speaker 5 (36:04):
Hear me, my lord? What needs you five and twenty
ten or five to follow in a house where twice
so many have a command to tend you?

Speaker 9 (36:13):
What need one?

Speaker 13 (36:16):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (36:16):
Reason?

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Not the need?

Speaker 12 (36:18):
Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous, Allow
not nature more than nature needs. Man's life is cheap
as beasts. Thou art, a lady, if only to go
warm were gorgeous? Why nature needs not what thou gorgeous wearst,
which scarcely keeps thee warm? But for true need, you, heavens,
give me that patience, patience I need you, see me,

(36:42):
hear you. God's a poor old man, as full of
grief as age, wretched in both. If it be you
that stirs these daughter's hearts against their father. Fool me
not so much to bear it. Tamely touch me with
noble anger, and let not woman's weapons water drops tain
in my man's chin. No hw unnatural hags. I will

(37:03):
have such revenges on you both that all the wild
shall I will do such things while they are yet
I know not that they shall be the terrors of
the earth. You think I'll weep, No, I'll not weep.
I have full cause of weeping. But this heart shall
break into one hundred thousand floors where I'll weep, Oh fool,
I shall go mad.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
Excellent lear Gloucester kent the fool and gentleman, let.

Speaker 8 (37:29):
Us withdraw, twill be a storm.

Speaker 9 (37:32):
This house is little. The old man and his people
cannot be well bestowed.

Speaker 5 (37:37):
Tis his own blame. Have put himself from rest, and
must needs taste his folly for.

Speaker 9 (37:43):
His particular I'll receive him gladly, but not one follower.

Speaker 5 (37:47):
So I am purposed. Where is my Lord of Gloucester?

Speaker 8 (37:51):
Followed the old man? Forth he is returned enter Gloucester.

Speaker 7 (37:56):
The king is in high rage.

Speaker 8 (37:58):
Whither is he going?

Speaker 7 (38:00):
Calls to horse? But will I know not whither.

Speaker 8 (38:03):
Tis best to give him way. He leads himself.

Speaker 5 (38:06):
My Lord, entreat him by no means to stay alack.

Speaker 7 (38:10):
The night comes on, and the high winds do sorely ruffle.
For many miles about. There's scarce a.

Speaker 9 (38:18):
Bush osur de wilful men. The injuries that they themselves
brocure must be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors. He
is attended with a desperate train, and what they may
in sent him to, being apt to have his ear abused,
wisdom bids fear.

Speaker 8 (38:39):
Shut up your doors. My lord tis a wild knight.
My Reagan counsel's well come out of the storm.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Exillant end of Act two,