King Lear by William Shakespeare: Act 3

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Act three of King Lear. This is a librifox recording.
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King Lear by William Shakespeare, Act three, seene one. A heath,

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a storm with thunder and lightning enter Kent, and a
gentleman meeting.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Who's there besides foul weather?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
One minded like the weather, most unquietly.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I know you? Where's the king?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Contending with the fretful elements, bids the wind blow the
earth into the sea, or swell the curled waters above
the main, that things might change or cease. Tears his
white hair, which the impetuous blast, with eyeless rage, catch
in their fury and make nothing of strives in his

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little world of man to outscorn the to and fro
conflicting wind and rain this night wherein the cub drawn
there would crouch the lion and the belly pinched wolf
keep their fur dry unbonneted. He runs and bids what
will take all?

Speaker 2 (01:25):
But who is with them?

Speaker 3 (01:28):
None but the fool who labors to outjest his heart
struck injuries.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Sir, I do know you, and dare upon the warrant
of my note commend a dear thing to you. There
is division, although as yet the face of it be
covered with mutual cunning. TwixT Albany and cornwall Is, who

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have not that their great stars thrown and set high.
I servants who seem no less, which are to France
the spies and speculations intelligent of our state? What hath
been seen either in snuffs and packings of the dukes,

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or the hard rain which both of them have borne
against the old kind King, or something deeper, whereof perchance
these are but furnishings. But true it is from France
there comes a power into this scattered kingdom, who already

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wise in our negligence, have secret feet in some of
our best ports, and are at point to show their
open banner now to you. If on my credit you
dare build so far to make your speed to Dover,
you shall find some that will thank you making just

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report of how unnatural and be madding sorrow the king
hath cause to plane. I am a gentleman of blood
and breeding, and from some knowledge an assurance offer this
office to you.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
I will talk further with you.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
No, do not for confirmation that I am much more
than my outlaw. Open this purse and take what it contains.
If you shall see Cordelia as fear not, but you
shall show her this ring, and she will tell you

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who your fellow is. That yet you do not know
fi on this storm, I will go seek the king.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Give me your hand. Have you no more to say.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Few words, but to effect more than all. Yet that
when we have found the king in which you're pained,
that way, I'll this he that first lights on him
Hollah the.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Other exitent severally Scene two another parts of the heath.
The storm continues. Enter Lear and the fall.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
Blow winds and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow you cataracts
and hurricanoes spout till you have drenched our steeples, drowned
the cocks. You sulfer us and thought executing fires. Want
couriers to oak, cleaving thunderbolts singe my white head, and
thou all shaking thunder strike flat the thick rotundity of

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the world, crack nature's molds. All Germans spill at once
that making grateful ma'am.

Speaker 5 (05:01):
Oh nuncle court. Holy water in a dry house is
better than this rain water out of the door. Good Nuncle,
in and ask thy daughter's blessing. Here's a knight pities
neither wise men nor fools.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Rumble thy bellyful spit fire, spout rain, nor rain, wind
thunder fire of my daughters. I tax you, not you
elements with unkindness. I never gave you kingdom, called you children.
You owe me no subscription. Then let for your horrible pleasure.
Here I stand your slave, a poor, infirm, weak and

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despised old man. But yet I call you servile ministers,
that will, with two pernicious daughters join your high engendered
battle against their heads so old and white as this, Oh,
oh tis foul.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
He that has a house to put his head in
has a good head piece, the cord piece that were
house before the head has any the head, and he
shall euse so beggars marry many. The man that makes
his toe what he his heart should make, shall have
a corn cry woe, and turn his sleep to wake.

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For there was never yet fair woman, but she made
mouths in a glass, and to kent.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
No, I will be the pattern of all patients. I
will say nothing.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
Who's there, Mary, Here's grace and a codpiece. That's a
wise man and a fool.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
A lester. Are you here, things that love night love
not such nights as these. The wrathful skies gallow the
very wanderers of the dark, and make them keep their caves.
Since I was man, such sheets of fire, such bursts

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of horrid thunder, such groans of roaring wind and rain,
I never remember to have heard. Man's nature cannot carry
the affliction nor the fear.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Let the great gods that keep this dreadful pother or
our heads find out their enemies. Now tremble, thou wretch
that hast within the undivulged crimes, unwhipped of justice, Hide
thee thou bloody hand, thou perjured, and thou similar man
of virtue, that art incestuous. Kate if to Peace's shake,

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that under covert and convenient seeming has practiced on man's
life clothes pent up guilts, rive your concealing continence, and
cry these dreadful summoner's grace. I am a man more
sinned against than sinning.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
A lack bear headed. Gracious, my lord hard By, here
is a hobble friendship. Will it lend you against the tempest?
Free pose you there, whilst I to this hard house
more harder than the stones whereof tis raised, which even

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now demanding, after you denied me, to come in return
and force their scantied courtesy.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
Thy wits begin to turn. Come on, my boy, how
dost my boy hoart cold? I am cold myself? Where
is this straw? My fellow? The art of our necessities
is strange, that can make vile things precious. Come your hovel,
poor fool and knave. I have one part in my

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heart that's sorry yet for.

Speaker 6 (08:48):
Thee he that has had a little tiny wit with
hey ho the wind and the rain must make contempt
with his fortunes fit for the rain it raineth every.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
Day, True boy, Come bring us to this hovel, excellent
leah and kent.

Speaker 5 (09:12):
This is a brave knight to cool a cortizan. I'll
speak a prophecy. Ere I go. When priests are more
in words than matter, when brewers mar their malt with water,
when nobles are their tailor's tutors, no heretics burnt, but
wenches suitors. When every case in law is right, no

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squire in debt, nor no poor knight. When slanders do
not live in tongues nor cut purses. Come not to throngs.
When usurers tell their gold in the field, and bods
and horrors do churches build. Then shall the realm of
Albion come to great confusion? Then comes the time who

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lives to see it that going shall be used with feet.
This prophecy Merlin shall make for I live before his time.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Exit Scene three. A room in Gloucester's castle. Enter Gloucester
and Edmund.

Speaker 7 (10:18):
A lack a lack Edmund. I like not this unnatural dealing.
When I desired their leave that I might pity him,
they took from me the use of mine own house,
charged me on pain of perpetual displeasure. Neither to speak
of him, entreat for him, nor any ways sustain him.

Speaker 8 (10:36):
Most savage and unnatural.

Speaker 7 (10:40):
Go too, say you nothing. There is division betwixt the dukes,
and a worse matter than that. I have received a
letter this night tis dangerous to be spoken. I have
locked the letter in my closet. These injuries the King
now bears will be revenged home. There's part of a
power already footed. We must incline to the King. I

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will seek him and privily relieve him. Go you and
maintain talk with the Duke that my charity be not
of him perceived. If he ask for me, I am
ill and gone to bed. If I die for it,
as no less is threatened me the king, my old master,
must be relieved. There is some strange thing toward Edmund.

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Pray you be careful.

Speaker 8 (11:30):
Exit this courtesy forbid thee. Shall the Duke instantly know,
and of that letter too. This seems a fair deserving,
and must draw me that which my father loses no
less than all the younger rises when the old doth fall?

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Exit Scene four. Art of the heath with a hovel.
Storm continues. Enter lear Kent and the fall.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Here is the place, my lord, Good, my lord enter
the tyranny of the open night's too rough for nature
to endure. Let me alone, Good, my lord enter here?

Speaker 4 (12:24):
Wilt break my heart?

Speaker 2 (12:26):
I had rather break mine own? Could my lord enter?

Speaker 4 (12:31):
Thou think'st tis much that this contentious storm invades us
to the skin, So tis to thee. But where the
greater malady is fixed, the letter is scarce felt thou'd
shun a bear, But if thy flight lay towards the
raging sea, thou'dst meet the bear in the mouth. When
the mind's free, the body is delicate. The tempest in

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my mind doth from my senses take all feeling else
save what beats there filial ingratitude. Is it not as
this mouth should tear this hand for lifting food to it?
But I will punish ho No, I will weep no more.
It's such a night to shut me out, poor on,

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I will endure in such a night as this ole
Reagan goneril you, your kind old father, whose frank heart
gave all. Oh that way madness lies, Let me shun
that no more of that.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Good my lord enter here.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
Pretty, go in thyself, seek thine own knees. This tempest
will not give me leave to ponder on things would
hurt me more. But I'll go in in. Boy, go first,
you houseless poverty. Nay, get thee inn. I'll pray, and
then I'll sleep. Exit the fool, poor naked wretches. Wheresoe'er

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you are that by the pelting of this pitiless storm?
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, your loops
and windows raggedness defend you from seasons such as these? Oh,
I attain too little care of this, Take pomp, expose
thyself to feel what wretches feeled that thou mayst shake

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the super flux to them and show the heavens more.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Just Adam and arf, Adam and arf, Poor Tom enter
the fall from the hovel.

Speaker 5 (14:31):
Come not in here, nuicole, here's a spirit, help me, help.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Me give me thy hand. Who's there a spirit?

Speaker 9 (14:39):
A spirit?

Speaker 5 (14:40):
He says, his name's poor Tom.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
What art thou that dust grumble there at the straw?

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Come forth, enter Edgar, disguised as poor Tom.

Speaker 10 (14:53):
Away the foul fiend follows me through the sharp orthorn,
blows the cold wind. Hum, Go to thy cold bed
and warm.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
Thee didst thou give all to thy two daughters? And
art thou come to this?

Speaker 10 (15:10):
Who gives anything to Poor Tom? Whom the foul fiend
hath led through fire and through flame, through ford and whirlpool,
Our barg and quagmire that hath laid, knives under his
pillow and halters in his pew, set ratsbain by his porridge,
made him proud of heart to ride on a bay

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trotting horse over four inched bridges to course his own
shadow for a traitor. Bless thy five wits Tom's cold?
Oh do do doody doody bless thee from whirlwind star
blasting and taking, do poor Tom some charity hung the

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foul fiend Vexes there could I have him?

Speaker 8 (15:55):
Now?

Speaker 10 (15:55):
And there? And there again and there?

Speaker 4 (15:59):
What have his daughters brought him to this pass? Couldst
thou save nothing? Didst thou give them all?

Speaker 8 (16:06):
Nay?

Speaker 5 (16:07):
He reserved a blanket? Else we had been all shamed.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
Now all the plagues that in the pendulous air hang fated,
all men's faults light on thy daughters.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Gee hath no daughter, Sir.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
Death traitor? Nothing could have subdued nature to such lonness
but his unkind daughters. Is it the fashion that discarded
fathers should have thus little mercy on their flesh? Judicious punishment?
Twas this flesh begot those Pellican daughters.

Speaker 10 (16:38):
Pillacock sat on pillycock hill. Halloo, Halloo, Lou Lou.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.

Speaker 10 (16:49):
Take heed of the foul fiend, or by thy parents,
Keep thy word justly, swear not commit not with man's
sworn spouse, Set not thy SWI heart on proud array.
Tom's a cold What hast thou been? A serving man?
Proud in heart and mind that curled my hair, wore

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gloves in my cap, served the lust of my mistress's heart,
and did the act of darkness with her, swore as
many oaths as I spake words, and broke them in
the sweet face of heaven. One that slept in the
contriving of lust and waked to do it wine love
died deeply, dice dearly, and in woman out paramour'd the

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turk false of heart, light, a air, bloody of hand,
hogin's sluth, fox in stealth, wolf ingredientous, dog in madness,
lin in prey. Let not the creaking of shoes, nor
the rustling of silks betray thy poor heart to woman,
Keep thy foot out of brothel, thy hand out of placket,
thy pen from lender's book, and defy the foul fiend.

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Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind says some money,
noney dolphin, my boy boy set up. Let him trot by.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
Why thou wert better in thy grave than to answer
with thy uncovered body. This extremity of the skies is
man no more than this, Consider him well. Thou owest
the worm, no silk, the beast, no hide, the sheet,
no wool, the cat no perfume. H here's three ones
are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself unaccommodated. Man is

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no more but such a poor, bare forked animal, as
thou art off off you lendings come unbutton.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Here he tears off his clothes.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
Prithee, uncle, be contented, tis a noddy knight to swim in.
Now a little fire in a wild field were like
an old letcher's heart, a small spark all the rest
one's body called. Look, here comes a walking fire enter
Gloucester with a torch.

Speaker 10 (19:03):
This is the foul fiend, flippitay gibbit. He begins at
curfew and walks till the first cock. He gives the
web and the pen, squints the eye and makes the
hair lip mildews the white weight, and hurts the poor
creature of earth. So with old footed thrice the old
he met the nightmare and her ninefold, bid her a

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light and her troth plight. And I rite thee witch,
I write thee.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
How far's your grace?

Speaker 1 (19:33):
What's he to Gloucester?

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Who's there? What ist you seek?

Speaker 7 (19:40):
What are you there?

Speaker 10 (19:41):
Your name's poor Tom that eats the swimming frog, the toad,
the todpole, the walnut, and the water that, in the
fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages eats
cow dung for salads, swallows the old rat, and the
ditch dog drinks the green mantled the standing pool. Who

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is whipped from tithing to tithing and stuck to punished
and imprisoned. Who hath had three suits to his back,
six shirts to his body, harstroyd, and weapons to wear?
But mice and rats and such small deer have been
Tom's food for seven long year. Beware, my follower, peace
smokin' peace, thou fiend.

Speaker 7 (20:22):
What hath your grace no better company?

Speaker 10 (20:25):
The Prince of darkness is a gentleman modo. He's cold,
and mahou.

Speaker 7 (20:31):
Our flesh and blood. My lord is grown so vile
that it doth hate what gets it.

Speaker 10 (20:37):
Or Tom's a cold Go in with me.

Speaker 7 (20:41):
My duty cannot suffer to obey in all your daughter's
hard commands, though their injunction be to bar my doors
and let this tyrannous knight take hold upon you. Yet
have I ventured to come seek you out and bring
you where both fire and food is ready.

Speaker 4 (20:58):
First, let me talk with this philosopher to Edgar, what
is the cause of thunder?

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Good? My lord, take this offer, go into the house.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
I'll talk a word with this same learned theban to Edgar,
what is your study?

Speaker 10 (21:16):
How to prevent the fiend and to kill vermin?

Speaker 4 (21:19):
Let me ask you one word in private?

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Leir and Edgar talk apart.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Importune him once more. To go, my lord. His wits
begin to unsettle.

Speaker 7 (21:32):
Canst thou blame him? His daughters seek his death?

Speaker 4 (21:36):
Ah?

Speaker 7 (21:36):
That good? Can't he said? It would be? Thus, poor
banished man, thou sayest the king grows mad. I'll tell THEE, friend,
I am almost mad myself. I had a son now
outlawed from my blood. He sought my life. But lately,
very late, I loved him. Friend, no father, his son

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dearer true To tell THEE the grief hath crazed my wits.
What a knight's this? I do? Beseech your grace, Oh.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
Cry you mercy, sir, noble philosophy, your company.

Speaker 7 (22:12):
Tom's a cold in fellow there into the hovel, Keep
thee warm.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
Come. Let's in all this this way, my lord, with him,
I will keep still with my philosopher.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Good, my lord, soothe him. Let him take the fellow.

Speaker 7 (22:31):
Take him.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
You on, Sarah, come on.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
Go along with us, Come good Athenian.

Speaker 7 (22:37):
No words, no words, Hush.

Speaker 10 (22:42):
Child Roland to the dark tower came His word was
still fie foe and FuMB I smell the blood of
a British man.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Exellant Scene five. A room in Gloucester's castle, enter Cornwall
and Edmund, I will.

Speaker 11 (23:05):
Have my revenge. Ere I depart his house.

Speaker 8 (23:08):
How my Lord, I may be censured that nature thus
gives way to loyalty. Something fears me to think of.

Speaker 11 (23:17):
I now perceive it was not altogether your brother's evil
disposition made him seek his death, but a provoking merit
set a work by a reprovable badness in himself.

Speaker 8 (23:29):
How malicious is my fortune that I must repent to
be just? This is the letter he spoke of, which
approves him an intelligent party to the advantages of France. Oh,
heavens that this treason were not Were not I the detector.

Speaker 11 (23:46):
Go with me to the Duchess.

Speaker 8 (23:49):
If the matter of this paper be certain, you have
mighty business in hand.

Speaker 11 (23:54):
True or false? It hath made the Earl of Gloucester
seek out where thy father is that he may be
ready for our apprehension.

Speaker 8 (24:03):
If I find him comforting the king, it will stuff
his suspicion more fully. I will persevere in my course
of loyalty, though the conflict be sore between that and
my blood.

Speaker 11 (24:17):
I will lay trust upon thee, and thou shalt find
a dearer father in my love.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Exit Scene six. A chamber in a farmhouse adjoining the castle.
Enter Gloucester, lear Kent the fool and.

Speaker 7 (24:37):
Edgar here is better than the open air. Take it thankfully.
I will peace out the comfort with what addition I can.
I will not be long from you.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
All the power of his wits have given way to
his impatience. The gods reward your kindness.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Exit Gloucester.

Speaker 10 (24:59):
Fraarrata Oh calls me and tells me Nero is an
angler in the lake of darkness. Pray innocent and beware
the foul fiend.

Speaker 5 (25:08):
Prithy nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a gentleman
or a yeoman, a king a king. No, he's a
yeoman that has a gentleman to his son. For he's
a mad yeoman that sees his son a gentleman before
him to have.

Speaker 4 (25:23):
A thousand with red burning spits, come hissing in upon him.

Speaker 10 (25:29):
The foul fane bites my back.

Speaker 5 (25:31):
He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf,
a horse's health, a boy's love, or a hoarse oath.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
It shall be done.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
I will arraign them straight to Edgar.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
Come sit thou here most learning justice, her to the
fool Thou sapience, sir, sit here now she foxes look.

Speaker 10 (25:54):
Where he stands and glares onst thou eyes a trial. Madam, Come, oh,
the born bessy to me?

Speaker 5 (26:02):
Her boat hath a leak? And she must not speak?
Why she dares not come over to thee.

Speaker 10 (26:08):
The foul fiend aunts poor Tom in the voice of
a nightingale. Hoppy Dance cries in Tom's belly for two
white herring croak, not black angel. I have no food
for thee.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
How do you, sir? Stand you not so amazed? Will
you lie down and rest upon the cushions.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
I'll see their trial first. Bring in their evidence to Edgar.
Thou a robed man of justice, Take thy place to
the fall, and thou his yoke fellow of equity, bench
by his side to kent you are of the commission,
Sit you too.

Speaker 10 (26:49):
Let us deal justly. Sleepest or wakest thou jolly shepherd,
thy sheep be in the corn, and for one blast
of noyminichan mouth, thy sheep, she shall take no arm.
Po Ah, the cat is gray rain.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Her first tis Goneril. I here take my oath before
this honorable assembly. She kicked the poor king her father.

Speaker 5 (27:16):
Come hither, mistress, is your name Goneril?

Speaker 4 (27:20):
She cannot deny it.

Speaker 5 (27:21):
Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint stool.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
And here's another who's warped her looks, proclaimed what store
her heart is made on? Stop her? There arms, armed, sword, fire,
corruption in the place, false JUSTICEA Why hast thou let
her escape?

Speaker 10 (27:39):
Bless thy five wets?

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Oh pity, sir, where is the patience now that you
so oft have boasted to retain my tears?

Speaker 10 (27:50):
Begin to take his part so much though mar my
counterfeiting the.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
Little dogs and all tray Blanche and sweetheart, see they
bark at me.

Speaker 10 (28:02):
Tom will throw his head at them. Avaunt, ye curs
be thy mouth or black or white tooth that poisons
if it bite mastiff, greyhound, mongrel, grim hound or spaniel
brack or a lemb or poptail tike or trundle tail.
Tom will make them weep and whale, for with throwing
thust my head, dogs leap the atch and all are fled.

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Do d D d cesa, come march to wakes and
fairs and market towns. Poor Tom thy arn is dry.

Speaker 4 (28:34):
Then let them anatomize reagans. See what breeds about her heart?
Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts? You, sir,
I entertain you for one of my hundred only. I
do not like the fashion of your garments. You'll say
they are Persian, but let them be changed.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
No good, my lord, lie here and rest awhile.

Speaker 4 (29:01):
Make no noise, Make no noise, draw the curtains. So
so we'll go to supply the morning.

Speaker 5 (29:09):
And I'll go to bed at noon.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Enter Gloucester.

Speaker 7 (29:14):
Come hither, friend, where is the king? My master here, sir,
But trouble him not his wits are gone? 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 it, and drive towards dover, Friend,

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where thou shalt meet both welcome and protection. Take up
thy master. If thou shouldst lly half an hour his
life with thine and all that offer to defend him.
Stand in assured loss, Take up, take up, and follow me.
That will, to some provision give THEE quick conduct.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Oh pressed nature sleeps. This rest might yet have have
bound thy broken sinews, which, if convenience will not allow,
stand in.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Hard cure to the full.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Come help to bear thy master.

Speaker 7 (30:14):
Come, Come away.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Exillant Kent Gloucester in the fall, bearing off the king.

Speaker 10 (30:22):
When we our betters see bearing our woes, we scarcely
think our miseries are foes. Who alone suffers, suffers most
of the mind, leaving free things and happy shows behind.
But then the mind much sufferance doth o'er skip when

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grief hath mates in bearing fellowship. How light and portable
my pain seems now, when that which makes me bend
makes the king bow he childed as I fathered talm
away mark the ironises and thyself berat. When false opinion,

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whose wrong thought defils thee in thy just proof repeals
and reconciles THEE. What will app more to night? Safe
escape the king clerk lerk.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Exit Scene seven, a room in Gloucester's castle and to Cornwall. Reagan, Goneril,
Edmund and servants to Goneril.

Speaker 11 (31:39):
Host speedily to my lord your husband. Show him this letter.
The army of France is landed. Seek out the traitor Gloucester.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
Exit.

Speaker 12 (31:48):
Some servants hang him instantly, pluck out his eyes.

Speaker 11 (31:54):
Leave him to my displeasure. Edmund, keep you our sister company.
The revenges we are bound to take upon your traitorous
father are not fit for your beholding. Advise the Duke
where you are going to a most festinate preparation. We
are bound to the like. Our posts shall be swift

(32:14):
and intelligent. Betwixt us. Farewell, dear sister. Farewell my Lord
of Gloucester.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Enter Oswald.

Speaker 11 (32:23):
How now where's the king?

Speaker 13 (32:25):
My Lord of Gloucester hath conveyed him. Hence some five
or six and thirty of his knights hot questrests after him,
met him at Gate, who with some other of the
Lord's dependants, are gone with him towards Dover, where they
boast to have well armed friends.

Speaker 11 (32:41):
Get horses for your mistress.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Exit Oswald.

Speaker 14 (32:45):
Farewell, sweet Lord and sister.

Speaker 11 (32:47):
Edmund. Farewell, Exeant, Goneril and Edmund, go seek the traitor. Gloucester.
Pinion him like a thief. Bring him before.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Us exillan servants.

Speaker 11 (32:59):
Though well, we may not pass upon his life without
the form of justice. Yet our power shall do a
courtesy to our wrath, which men may blame but not control.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Enter Gloucester, brought in by two or three servants.

Speaker 11 (33:15):
Who's there?

Speaker 12 (33:16):
The traitor ingrateful fox tis here?

Speaker 11 (33:19):
Bind fast his corky arms?

Speaker 7 (33:21):
What menor graces good? My friends? Consider you are my guests?
Do me no foul play friends?

Speaker 11 (33:29):
Bind him, I say, servants.

Speaker 12 (33:31):
Tie his hands hard art o filthy.

Speaker 7 (33:35):
Trader, unmerciful lady as you are, I'm none to this chair.

Speaker 11 (33:40):
Bind him, villain.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Thou shalt find Reagan plucks his beard by.

Speaker 7 (33:46):
The kind gods, tis most ignobly done to pluck me by.

Speaker 12 (33:51):
The beard so white and such a trader.

Speaker 7 (33:54):
Naughty lady. These hairs which thou dost ravish from my
chin will quicken and accuse thee. I am your host,
with robbers hands, my hospitable favors. You should not ruffle.
Thus what will you do?

Speaker 11 (34:10):
Come, sir? What letters had you late from France?

Speaker 12 (34:13):
Be simple answered, for we know the truth.

Speaker 11 (34:16):
And what confederacy have you with? The traitors late footed
in the kingdom.

Speaker 12 (34:21):
Two hands have you sent the lunatic king speak?

Speaker 7 (34:26):
I have a letter guessingly set down, which came from
one that's of a neutral heart, and not from one opposed.

Speaker 11 (34:34):
Cunning and false. Where hast thou sent the king to.

Speaker 12 (34:39):
Dover wellfard' dover? Wast thou not charged at Beryl?

Speaker 11 (34:44):
Wherefore to dover? Let him first answer.

Speaker 7 (34:47):
That I am tied to the stake, and I must
stand the course well for do dover, sir, because I
would not see thy cruel nails pluck out his poor
old eyes, nor thy fierce sister in his anointed flesh
stick boorish fangs the sea with such a storm as

(35:09):
his bare head in hell black night endur'd would have
buoyed up and quench'd the stell'd fires. Yet, poor old heart,
he hope the heavens to reign. If wolves had at
thy gait howl'd that stern time, thou should'st have said,
good porter, turn the key, all cruels else subscrib'd. But

(35:35):
I shall see the winged vengeance overtake such children see it.

Speaker 11 (35:40):
Thou shalt never fellows hold the chair upon these eyes
of thine I'll set my foot.

Speaker 7 (35:47):
He that will think to live till he be old,
give me some help, Oh cruel, Oh ye gods.

Speaker 12 (35:56):
One side will mark another the other.

Speaker 11 (35:59):
Do if you see vengeance?

Speaker 9 (36:02):
Hold your hand, my lord. I have served you ever
since I was a child. But better service have I
never done you than now to bid you? Hold?

Speaker 12 (36:10):
Oh, now, you dog, if you did.

Speaker 9 (36:13):
Wear a beard upon your chin, I'd shake it on
this quarrel.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Cornwall draws his sword.

Speaker 11 (36:18):
What do you mean, my villain, he lunges at him.

Speaker 9 (36:22):
Nay, then come on and take the chance of anger.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
He wounds Cornwall, Give me thy sword.

Speaker 12 (36:29):
A peasant stand up.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Thus she takes a sword and runs at him behind.

Speaker 9 (36:34):
Oh I am slain, my lord. You have one eye
left to see some mischief on him?

Speaker 1 (36:40):
Oh he dies?

Speaker 7 (36:43):
Lest it?

Speaker 11 (36:43):
Seymour, prevent it out, vile jelly. Where is thy luster now?

Speaker 7 (36:51):
Ah, dark and comfortless? Where's my son? Edmund? Edmund enkindle
all the sparks of nature to quit this horrid act?

Speaker 12 (37:05):
Our dreader's villain, thou callest on him that hates thee.
It was he that made the overture of thy treasons.
Do us who is too good to bity.

Speaker 7 (37:15):
Thee O my follies. Then Edgar was abused. Kind gods,
forgive me that and prosper him.

Speaker 12 (37:28):
Go thrust him out at gates and let him smell
his waded over.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Exit a servant with Gloucester.

Speaker 12 (37:35):
How is it, my lord? How look you?

Speaker 11 (37:38):
I have received a hurt? Follow me, lady, Turn out
that eyeless villain. Throw this slave upon the dunghill. Reagan,
I bleed apace. Untimely comes this hurt. Give me your arm.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Exit Cornwell, supported by Reagan.

Speaker 14 (37:58):
I'll never care what wickedness do. If this man come
to good, if.

Speaker 15 (38:03):
She lived long and in the end meet the old
course of death, women will altern monsters.

Speaker 14 (38:09):
Let's follow the old earl and get the bedlamb to
lead him where he would. His roguish madness allows itself
to anything. Go thou.

Speaker 15 (38:17):
I'll fetch some flax and whites of eggs to apply
to his bleeding face. Now Heaven help it.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
Exitent by opposite doors. End of Act three,