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-<title remap="TITLE">The Tragedy of King Lear</title>
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-<info remap="FM"><dc:title xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">The Tragedy of King Lear</dc:title><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">William Shakespeare</dc:creator><dc:contributor xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">ASCII text placed in the public domain by Moby Lexical Tools, 1992.</dc:contributor><dc:contributor xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">SGML markup by Jon Bosak, 1992-1994.</dc:contributor><dc:contributor xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">XML version by Jon Bosak, 1996-1999.</dc:contributor><dc:contributor xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">DocBook version by Scott Hudson, 2008.</dc:contributor><dcterms:license xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">Bosak and Hudson license this work for worldwide use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
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-<preface remap="PERSONAE">
-<title remap="TITLE">Dramatis Personae</title>
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-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">LEAR, king of Britain </personname></para>
-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">KING OF FRANCE</personname></para>
-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">DUKE OF BURGUNDY</personname></para>
-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">DUKE OF CORNWALL</personname></para>
-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">DUKE OF ALBANY</personname></para>
-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">EARL OF KENT</personname></para>
-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">EARL OF GLOUCESTER</personname></para>
-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">EDGAR, son to Gloucester.</personname></para>
-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">EDMUND, bastard son to Gloucester.</personname></para>
-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">CURAN, a courtier.</personname></para>
-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">Old Man, tenant to Gloucester.</personname></para>
-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">Doctor</personname></para>
-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">Fool</personname></para>
-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">OSWALD, steward to Goneril.</personname></para>
-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">A Captain employed by Edmund. </personname></para>
-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">Gentleman attendant on Cordelia. </personname></para>
-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">A Herald.</personname></para>
-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">Servants to Cornwall.</personname></para>
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-<simplelist columns="2" remap="PGROUP"><member><personname remap="PERSONA">GONERIL</personname><personname remap="PERSONA">REGAN</personname><personname remap="PERSONA">CORDELIA</personname></member><member>daughters to Lear.</member></simplelist>
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-<para><personname remap="PERSONA">Knights of Lear's train, Captains, Messengers, Soldiers, and Attendants</personname></para>
- <para remap="SCNDESCR">SCENE Britain.</para>
-</preface>
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-<chapter remap="ACT"><title remap="TITLE">ACT I</title>
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-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE I. King Lear's palace.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KENT, GLOUCESTER, and EDMUND</para>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I thought the king had more affected the Duke of</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Albany than Cornwall.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">It did always seem so to us: but now, in the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">division of the kingdom, it appears not which of</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the dukes he values most; for equalities are so</line>
-<line remap="LINE">weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice</line>
-<line remap="LINE">of either's moiety.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Is not this your son, my lord?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge: I have</line>
-<line remap="LINE">so often blushed to acknowledge him, that now I am</line>
-<line remap="LINE">brazed to it.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I cannot conceive you.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sir, this young fellow's mother could: whereupon</line>
-<line remap="LINE">she grew round-wombed, and had, indeed, sir, a son</line>
-<line remap="LINE">for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Do you smell a fault?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it</line>
-<line remap="LINE">being so proper.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">But I have, sir, a son by order of law, some year</line>
-<line remap="LINE">elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my account:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">though this knave came something saucily into the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">world before he was sent for, yet was his mother</line>
-<line remap="LINE">fair; there was good sport at his making, and the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">whoreson must be acknowledged. Do you know this</line>
-<line remap="LINE">noble gentleman, Edmund?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, my lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">My lord of Kent: remember him hereafter as my</line>
-<line remap="LINE">honourable friend.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">My services to your lordship.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I must love you, and sue to know you better.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sir, I shall study deserving.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He hath been out nine years, and away he shall</line>
-<line remap="LINE">again. The king is coming.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Sennet. Enter KING LEAR, CORNWALL, ALBANY,
-GONERIL, REGAN, CORDELIA, and Attendants</para>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I shall, my liege.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt GLOUCESTER and EDMUND</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Give me the map there. Know that we have divided</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To shake all cares and business from our age;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Conferring them on younger strengths, while we</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Unburthen'd crawl toward death. Our son of Cornwall,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And you, our no less loving son of Albany,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">We have this hour a constant will to publish</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Our daughters' several dowers, that future strife</line>
-<line remap="LINE">May be prevented now. The princes, France and Burgundy,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And here are to be answer'd. Tell me, my daughters,--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Since now we will divest us both of rule,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Interest of territory, cares of state,--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which of you shall we say doth love us most?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That we our largest bounty may extend</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Where nature doth with merit challenge. Goneril,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Our eldest-born, speak first.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As much as child e'er loved, or father found;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A love that makes breath poor, and speech unable;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Beyond all manner of so much I love you.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> What shall Cordelia do?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Love, and be silent.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Of all these bounds, even from this line to this,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With shadowy forests and with champains rich'd,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">We make thee lady: to thine and Albany's issue</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Be this perpetual. What says our second daughter,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Our dearest Regan, wife to Cornwall? Speak.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sir, I am made</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Of the self-same metal that my sister is,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And prize me at her worth. In my true heart</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I find she names my very deed of love;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Only she comes too short: that I profess</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Myself an enemy to all other joys,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which the most precious square of sense possesses;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And find I am alone felicitate</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In your dear highness' love.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> Then poor Cordelia!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And yet not so; since, I am sure, my love's</line>
-<line remap="LINE">More richer than my tongue.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">To thee and thine hereditary ever</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">No less in space, validity, and pleasure,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Than that conferr'd on Goneril. Now, our joy,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Although the last, not least; to whose young love</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The vines of France and milk of Burgundy</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Strive to be interess'd; what can you say to draw</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Nothing, my lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Nothing!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Nothing.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty</line>
-<line remap="LINE">According to my bond; nor more nor less.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How, how, Cordelia! mend your speech a little,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Lest it may mar your fortunes.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Good my lord,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You have begot me, bred me, loved me: I</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Return those duties back as are right fit,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Obey you, love you, and most honour you.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Why have my sisters husbands, if they say</line>
-<line remap="LINE">They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Half my love with him, half my care and duty:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To love my father all.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">But goes thy heart with this?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ay, good my lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">So young, and so untender?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">So young, my lord, and true.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let it be so; thy truth, then, be thy dower:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For, by the sacred radiance of the sun,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The mysteries of Hecate, and the night;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">By all the operation of the orbs</line>
-<line remap="LINE">From whom we do exist, and cease to be;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Here I disclaim all my paternal care,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Propinquity and property of blood,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And as a stranger to my heart and me</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hold thee, from this, for ever. The barbarous Scythian,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Or he that makes his generation messes</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Be as well neighbour'd, pitied, and relieved,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As thou my sometime daughter.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Good my liege,--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Peace, Kent!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Come not between the dragon and his wrath.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I loved her most, and thought to set my rest</line>
-<line remap="LINE">On her kind nursery. Hence, and avoid my sight!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">So be my grave my peace, as here I give</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Her father's heart from her! Call France; who stirs?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Call Burgundy. Cornwall and Albany,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With my two daughters' dowers digest this third:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I do invest you jointly with my power,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Pre-eminence, and all the large effects</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That troop with majesty. Ourself, by monthly course,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With reservation of an hundred knights,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">By you to be sustain'd, shall our abode</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Make with you by due turns. Only we still retain</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The name, and all the additions to a king;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The sway, revenue, execution of the rest,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Beloved sons, be yours: which to confirm,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This coronet part betwixt you.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Giving the crown</para>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Royal Lear,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Whom I have ever honour'd as my king,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Loved as my father, as my master follow'd,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As my great patron thought on in my prayers,--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The bow is bent and drawn, make from the shaft.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let it fall rather, though the fork invade</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The region of my heart: be Kent unmannerly,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When Lear is mad. What wilt thou do, old man?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When power to flattery bows? To plainness honour's bound,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When majesty stoops to folly. Reverse thy doom;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And, in thy best consideration, cheque</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This hideous rashness: answer my life my judgment,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Reverbs no hollowness.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Kent, on thy life, no more.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">My life I never held but as a pawn</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To wage against thy enemies; nor fear to lose it,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy safety being the motive.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Out of my sight!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">See better, Lear; and let me still remain</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The true blank of thine eye.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Now, by Apollo,--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Now, by Apollo, king,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou swear'st thy gods in vain.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O, vassal! miscreant!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Laying his hand on his sword</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Dear sir, forbear.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Do:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Upon thy foul disease. Revoke thy doom;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Or, whilst I can vent clamour from my throat,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I'll tell thee thou dost evil.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Hear me, recreant!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">On thine allegiance, hear me!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Since thou hast sought to make us break our vow,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which we durst never yet, and with strain'd pride</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To come between our sentence and our power,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which nor our nature nor our place can bear,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Our potency made good, take thy reward.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Five days we do allot thee, for provision</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To shield thee from diseases of the world;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And on the sixth to turn thy hated back</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Upon our kingdom: if, on the tenth day following,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy banish'd trunk be found in our dominions,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The moment is thy death. Away! by Jupiter,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This shall not be revoked.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To CORDELIA</para>
-<line remap="LINE">The gods to their dear shelter take thee, maid,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That justly think'st, and hast most rightly said!</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To REGAN and GONERIL</para>
-<line remap="LINE">And your large speeches may your deeds approve,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That good effects may spring from words of love.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thus Kent, O princes, bids you all adieu;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He'll shape his old course in a country new.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Flourish. Re-enter GLOUCESTER, with KING OF FRANCE,
-BURGUNDY, and Attendants</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Here's France and Burgundy, my noble lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">My lord of Burgundy.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">We first address towards you, who with this king</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hath rivall'd for our daughter: what, in the least,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Will you require in present dower with her,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Or cease your quest of love?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">BURGUNDY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Most royal majesty,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I crave no more than what your highness offer'd,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Nor will you tender less.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Right noble Burgundy,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When she was dear to us, we did hold her so;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But now her price is fall'n. Sir, there she stands:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If aught within that little seeming substance,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Or all of it, with our displeasure pieced,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And nothing more, may fitly like your grace,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">She's there, and she is yours.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">BURGUNDY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I know no answer.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Will you, with those infirmities she owes,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Unfriended, new-adopted to our hate,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Dower'd with our curse, and stranger'd with our oath,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Take her, or leave her?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">BURGUNDY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Pardon me, royal sir;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Election makes not up on such conditions.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Then leave her, sir; for, by the power that made me,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I tell you all her wealth.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To KING OF FRANCE</para>
-<line remap="LINE">For you, great king,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I would not from your love make such a stray,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To match you where I hate; therefore beseech you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To avert your liking a more worthier way</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Than on a wretch whom nature is ashamed</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Almost to acknowledge hers.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING OF FRANCE</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This is most strange,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That she, that even but now was your best object,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The argument of your praise, balm of your age,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Most best, most dearest, should in this trice of time</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle</line>
-<line remap="LINE">So many folds of favour. Sure, her offence</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Must be of such unnatural degree,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That monsters it, or your fore-vouch'd affection</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Fall'n into taint: which to believe of her,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Must be a faith that reason without miracle</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Could never plant in me.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I yet beseech your majesty,--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If for I want that glib and oily art,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To speak and purpose not; since what I well intend,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I'll do't before I speak,--that you make known</line>
-<line remap="LINE">It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulness,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">No unchaste action, or dishonour'd step,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That hath deprived me of your grace and favour;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But even for want of that for which I am richer,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As I am glad I have not, though not to have it</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hath lost me in your liking.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Better thou</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hadst not been born than not to have pleased me better.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING OF FRANCE</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Is it but this,--a tardiness in nature</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which often leaves the history unspoke</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That it intends to do? My lord of Burgundy,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What say you to the lady? Love's not love</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When it is mingled with regards that stand</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Aloof from the entire point. Will you have her?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">She is herself a dowry.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">BURGUNDY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Royal Lear,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Give but that portion which yourself proposed,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And here I take Cordelia by the hand,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Duchess of Burgundy.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Nothing: I have sworn; I am firm.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">BURGUNDY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I am sorry, then, you have so lost a father</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That you must lose a husband.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Peace be with Burgundy!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Since that respects of fortune are his love,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I shall not be his wife.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING OF FRANCE</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Be it lawful I take up what's cast away.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My love should kindle to inflamed respect.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Can buy this unprized precious maid of me.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou losest here, a better where to find.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou hast her, France: let her be thine; for we</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That face of hers again. Therefore be gone</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Without our grace, our love, our benison.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Come, noble Burgundy.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Flourish. Exeunt all but KING OF FRANCE, GONERIL,
-REGAN, and CORDELIA</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING OF FRANCE</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Bid farewell to your sisters.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The jewels of our father, with wash'd eyes</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Cordelia leaves you: I know you what you are;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And like a sister am most loath to call</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Your faults as they are named. Use well our father:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To your professed bosoms I commit him</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But yet, alas, stood I within his grace,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I would prefer him to a better place.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">So, farewell to you both.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Prescribe not us our duties.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let your study</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Be to content your lord, who hath received you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">At fortune's alms. You have obedience scanted,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And well are worth the want that you have wanted.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Well may you prosper!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING OF FRANCE</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Come, my fair Cordelia.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt KING OF FRANCE and CORDELIA</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sister, it is not a little I have to say of what</line>
-<line remap="LINE">most nearly appertains to us both. I think our</line>
-<line remap="LINE">father will hence to-night.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">That's most certain, and with you; next month with us.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">You see how full of changes his age is; the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">observation we have made of it hath not been</line>
-<line remap="LINE">little: he always loved our sister most; and</line>
-<line remap="LINE">with what poor judgment he hath now cast her off</line>
-<line remap="LINE">appears too grossly.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever</line>
-<line remap="LINE">but slenderly known himself.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The best and soundest of his time hath been but</line>
-<line remap="LINE">rash; then must we look to receive from his age,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">not alone the imperfections of long-engraffed</line>
-<line remap="LINE">condition, but therewithal the unruly waywardness</line>
-<line remap="LINE">that infirm and choleric years bring with them.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Such unconstant starts are we like to have from</line>
-<line remap="LINE">him as this of Kent's banishment.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">There is further compliment of leavetaking</line>
-<line remap="LINE">between France and him. Pray you, let's hit</line>
-<line remap="LINE">together: if our father carry authority with</line>
-<line remap="LINE">such dispositions as he bears, this last</line>
-<line remap="LINE">surrender of his will but offend us.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">We shall further think on't.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">We must do something, and i' the heat.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE II. The Earl of Gloucester's castle.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDMUND, with a letter</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My services are bound. Wherefore should I</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Stand in the plague of custom, and permit</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The curiosity of nations to deprive me,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When my dimensions are as well compact,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My mind as generous, and my shape as true,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take</line>
-<line remap="LINE">More composition and fierce quality</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well, then,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As to the legitimate: fine word,--legitimate!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And my invention thrive, Edmund the base</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Now, gods, stand up for bastards!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GLOUCESTER</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Kent banish'd thus! and France in choler parted!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And the king gone to-night! subscribed his power!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Confined to exhibition! All this done</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Upon the gad! Edmund, how now! what news?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">So please your lordship, none.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Putting up the letter</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I know no news, my lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What paper were you reading?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Nothing, my lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No? What needed, then, that terrible dispatch of</line>
-<line remap="LINE">it into your pocket? the quality of nothing hath</line>
-<line remap="LINE">not such need to hide itself. Let's see: come,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I beseech you, sir, pardon me: it is a letter</line>
-<line remap="LINE">from my brother, that I have not all o'er-read;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">and for so much as I have perused, I find it not</line>
-<line remap="LINE">fit for your o'er-looking.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Give me the letter, sir.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I shall offend, either to detain or give it. The</line>
-<line remap="LINE">contents, as in part I understand them, are to blame.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let's see, let's see.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote</line>
-<line remap="LINE">this but as an essay or taste of my virtue.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Reads</phrase> 'This policy and reverence of age makes</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the world bitter to the best of our times; keeps</line>
-<line remap="LINE">our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish</line>
-<line remap="LINE">them. I begin to find an idle and fond bondage</line>
-<line remap="LINE">in the oppression of aged tyranny; who sways, not</line>
-<line remap="LINE">as it hath power, but as it is suffered. Come to</line>
-<line remap="LINE">me, that of this I may speak more. If our father</line>
-<line remap="LINE">would sleep till I waked him, you should half his</line>
-<line remap="LINE">revenue for ever, and live the beloved of your</line>
-<line remap="LINE">brother, EDGAR.'</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hum--conspiracy!--'Sleep till I waked him,--you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">should enjoy half his revenue,'--My son Edgar!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Had he a hand to write this? a heart and brain</line>
-<line remap="LINE">to breed it in?--When came this to you? who</line>
-<line remap="LINE">brought it?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">It was not brought me, my lord; there's the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">cunning of it; I found it thrown in at the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">casement of my closet.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">You know the character to be your brother's?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">If the matter were good, my lord, I durst swear</line>
-<line remap="LINE">it were his; but, in respect of that, I would</line>
-<line remap="LINE">fain think it were not.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">It is his.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">It is his hand, my lord; but I hope his heart is</line>
-<line remap="LINE">not in the contents.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Hath he never heretofore sounded you in this business?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Never, my lord: but I have heard him oft</line>
-<line remap="LINE">maintain it to be fit, that, sons at perfect age,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">and fathers declining, the father should be as</line>
-<line remap="LINE">ward to the son, and the son manage his revenue.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O villain, villain! His very opinion in the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">letter! Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">brutish villain! worse than brutish! Go, sirrah,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">seek him; I'll apprehend him: abominable villain!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Where is he?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I do not well know, my lord. If it shall please</line>
-<line remap="LINE">you to suspend your indignation against my</line>
-<line remap="LINE">brother till you can derive from him better</line>
-<line remap="LINE">testimony of his intent, you shall run a certain</line>
-<line remap="LINE">course; where, if you violently proceed against</line>
-<line remap="LINE">him, mistaking his purpose, it would make a great</line>
-<line remap="LINE">gap in your own honour, and shake in pieces the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">heart of his obedience. I dare pawn down my life</line>
-<line remap="LINE">for him, that he hath wrote this to feel my</line>
-<line remap="LINE">affection to your honour, and to no further</line>
-<line remap="LINE">pretence of danger.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Think you so?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">If your honour judge it meet, I will place you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">where you shall hear us confer of this, and by an</line>
-<line remap="LINE">auricular assurance have your satisfaction; and</line>
-<line remap="LINE">that without any further delay than this very evening.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He cannot be such a monster--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Nor is not, sure.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">To his father, that so tenderly and entirely</line>
-<line remap="LINE">loves him. Heaven and earth! Edmund, seek him</line>
-<line remap="LINE">out: wind me into him, I pray you: frame the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">business after your own wisdom. I would unstate</line>
-<line remap="LINE">myself, to be in a due resolution.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I will seek him, sir, presently: convey the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">business as I shall find means and acquaint you withal.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend</line>
-<line remap="LINE">no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can</line>
-<line remap="LINE">reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself</line>
-<line remap="LINE">scourged by the sequent effects: love cools,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">friendship falls off, brothers divide: in</line>
-<line remap="LINE">cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in</line>
-<line remap="LINE">palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son</line>
-<line remap="LINE">and father. This villain of mine comes under the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">prediction; there's son against father: the king</line>
-<line remap="LINE">falls from bias of nature; there's father against</line>
-<line remap="LINE">child. We have seen the best of our time:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all</line>
-<line remap="LINE">ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our</line>
-<line remap="LINE">graves. Find out this villain, Edmund; it shall</line>
-<line remap="LINE">lose thee nothing; do it carefully. And the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his</line>
-<line remap="LINE">offence, honesty! 'Tis strange.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit</line>
-<line remap="LINE">of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our</line>
-<line remap="LINE">disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as</line>
-<line remap="LINE">if we were villains by necessity; fools by</line>
-<line remap="LINE">heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and</line>
-<line remap="LINE">treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of</line>
-<line remap="LINE">planetary influence; and all that we are evil in,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion</line>
-<line remap="LINE">of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish</line>
-<line remap="LINE">disposition to the charge of a star! My</line>
-<line remap="LINE">father compounded with my mother under the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">dragon's tail; and my nativity was under Ursa</line>
-<line remap="LINE">major; so that it follows, I am rough and</line>
-<line remap="LINE">lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">had the maidenliest star in the firmament</line>
-<line remap="LINE">twinkled on my bastardizing. Edgar--</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDGAR</para>
-<line remap="LINE">And pat he comes like the catastrophe of the old</line>
-<line remap="LINE">comedy: my cue is villanous melancholy, with a</line>
-<line remap="LINE">sigh like Tom o' Bedlam. O, these eclipses do</line>
-<line remap="LINE">portend these divisions! fa, sol, la, mi.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How now, brother Edmund! what serious</line>
-<line remap="LINE">contemplation are you in?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read</line>
-<line remap="LINE">this other day, what should follow these eclipses.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Do you busy yourself about that?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed</line>
-<line remap="LINE">unhappily; as of unnaturalness between the child</line>
-<line remap="LINE">and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of</line>
-<line remap="LINE">ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and</line>
-<line remap="LINE">maledictions against king and nobles; needless</line>
-<line remap="LINE">diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation</line>
-<line remap="LINE">of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How long have you been a sectary astronomical?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Come, come; when saw you my father last?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, the night gone by.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Spake you with him?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ay, two hours together.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Parted you in good terms? Found you no</line>
-<line remap="LINE">displeasure in him by word or countenance?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">None at all.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Bethink yourself wherein you may have offended</line>
-<line remap="LINE">him: and at my entreaty forbear his presence</line>
-<line remap="LINE">till some little time hath qualified the heat of</line>
-<line remap="LINE">his displeasure; which at this instant so rageth</line>
-<line remap="LINE">in him, that with the mischief of your person it</line>
-<line remap="LINE">would scarcely allay.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Some villain hath done me wrong.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">That's my fear. I pray you, have a continent</line>
-<line remap="LINE">forbearance till the spied of his rage goes</line>
-<line remap="LINE">slower; and, as I say, retire with me to my</line>
-<line remap="LINE">lodging, from whence I will fitly bring you to</line>
-<line remap="LINE">hear my lord speak: pray ye, go; there's my key:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">if you do stir abroad, go armed.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Armed, brother!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Brother, I advise you to the best; go armed: I</line>
-<line remap="LINE">am no honest man if there be any good meaning</line>
-<line remap="LINE">towards you: I have told you what I have seen</line>
-<line remap="LINE">and heard; but faintly, nothing like the image</line>
-<line remap="LINE">and horror of it: pray you, away.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Shall I hear from you anon?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I do serve you in this business.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit EDGAR</para>
-<line remap="LINE">A credulous father! and a brother noble,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Whose nature is so far from doing harms,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That he suspects none: on whose foolish honesty</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My practises ride easy! I see the business.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE III. The Duke of Albany's palace.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GONERIL, and OSWALD, her steward</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Yes, madam.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">By day and night he wrongs me; every hour</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He flashes into one gross crime or other,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That sets us all at odds: I'll not endure it:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us</line>
-<line remap="LINE">On every trifle. When he returns from hunting,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I will not speak with him; say I am sick:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If you come slack of former services,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You shall do well; the fault of it I'll answer.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He's coming, madam; I hear him.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Horns within</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Put on what weary negligence you please,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You and your fellows; I'll have it come to question:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If he dislike it, let him to our sister,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Whose mind and mine, I know, in that are one,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Not to be over-ruled. Idle old man,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That still would manage those authorities</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That he hath given away! Now, by my life,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Old fools are babes again; and must be used</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With cheques as flatteries,--when they are seen abused.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Remember what I tell you.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Well, madam.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">And let his knights have colder looks among you;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What grows of it, no matter; advise your fellows so:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That I may speak: I'll write straight to my sister,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To hold my very course. Prepare for dinner.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE IV. A hall in the same.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KENT, disguised</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">If but as well I other accents borrow,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That can my speech defuse, my good intent</line>
-<line remap="LINE">May carry through itself to that full issue</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For which I razed my likeness. Now, banish'd Kent,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">So may it come, thy master, whom thou lovest,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Shall find thee full of labours.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Horns within. Enter KING LEAR, Knights, and
-Attendants</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let me not stay a jot for dinner; go get it ready.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit an Attendant</para>
-<line remap="LINE">How now! what art thou?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">A man, sir.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What dost thou profess? what wouldst thou with us?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve</line>
-<line remap="LINE">him truly that will put me in trust: to love him</line>
-<line remap="LINE">that is honest; to converse with him that is wise,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I</line>
-<line remap="LINE">cannot choose; and to eat no fish.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What art thou?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">A very honest-hearted fellow, and as poor as the king.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">If thou be as poor for a subject as he is for a</line>
-<line remap="LINE">king, thou art poor enough. What wouldst thou?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Service.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Who wouldst thou serve?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">You.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Dost thou know me, fellow?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, sir; but you have that in your countenance</line>
-<line remap="LINE">which I would fain call master.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What's that?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Authority.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What services canst thou do?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a curious</line>
-<line remap="LINE">tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message</line>
-<line remap="LINE">bluntly: that which ordinary men are fit for, I am</line>
-<line remap="LINE">qualified in; and the best of me is diligence.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How old art thou?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing, nor</line>
-<line remap="LINE">so old to dote on her for any thing: I have years</line>
-<line remap="LINE">on my back forty eight.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Follow me; thou shalt serve me: if I like thee no</line>
-<line remap="LINE">worse after dinner, I will not part from thee yet.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Dinner, ho, dinner! Where's my knave? my fool?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Go you, and call my fool hither.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit an Attendant</para>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter OSWALD</para>
-<line remap="LINE">You, you, sirrah, where's my daughter?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">So please you,--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What says the fellow there? Call the clotpoll back.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit a Knight</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Where's my fool, ho? I think the world's asleep.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Re-enter Knight</para>
-<line remap="LINE">How now! where's that mongrel?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Knight</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He says, my lord, your daughter is not well.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why came not the slave back to me when I called him.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Knight</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sir, he answered me in the roundest manner, he would</line>
-<line remap="LINE">not.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He would not!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Knight</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">My lord, I know not what the matter is; but, to my</line>
-<line remap="LINE">judgment, your highness is not entertained with that</line>
-<line remap="LINE">ceremonious affection as you were wont; there's a</line>
-<line remap="LINE">great abatement of kindness appears as well in the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">general dependants as in the duke himself also and</line>
-<line remap="LINE">your daughter.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ha! sayest thou so?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Knight</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I beseech you, pardon me, my lord, if I be mistaken;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">for my duty cannot be silent when I think your</line>
-<line remap="LINE">highness wronged.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou but rememberest me of mine own conception: I</line>
-<line remap="LINE">have perceived a most faint neglect of late; which I</line>
-<line remap="LINE">have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity</line>
-<line remap="LINE">than as a very pretence and purpose of unkindness:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I will look further into't. But where's my fool? I</line>
-<line remap="LINE">have not seen him this two days.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Knight</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Since my young lady's going into France, sir, the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">fool hath much pined away.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No more of that; I have noted it well. Go you, and</line>
-<line remap="LINE">tell my daughter I would speak with her.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit an Attendant</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Go you, call hither my fool.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit an Attendant</para>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Re-enter OSWALD</para>
-<line remap="LINE">O, you sir, you, come you hither, sir: who am I,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">sir?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">My lady's father.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">'My lady's father'! my lord's knave: your</line>
-<line remap="LINE">whoreson dog! you slave! you cur!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I am none of these, my lord; I beseech your pardon.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Striking him</para>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I'll not be struck, my lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Nor tripped neither, you base football player.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Tripping up his heels</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I thank thee, fellow; thou servest me, and I'll</line>
-<line remap="LINE">love thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Come, sir, arise, away! I'll teach you differences:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">away, away! if you will measure your lubber's</line>
-<line remap="LINE">length again, tarry: but away! go to; have you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">wisdom? so.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Pushes OSWALD out</para>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Now, my friendly knave, I thank thee: there's</line>
-<line remap="LINE">earnest of thy service.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Giving KENT money</para>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter Fool</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let me hire him too: here's my coxcomb.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Offering KENT his cap</para>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How now, my pretty knave! how dost thou?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sirrah, you were best take my coxcomb.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, fool?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, for taking one's part that's out of favour:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">nay, an thou canst not smile as the wind sits,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">thou'lt catch cold shortly: there, take my coxcomb:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">why, this fellow has banished two on's daughters,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">and did the third a blessing against his will; if</line>
-<line remap="LINE">thou follow him, thou must needs wear my coxcomb.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">How now, nuncle! Would I had two coxcombs and two daughters!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, my boy?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">If I gave them all my living, I'ld keep my coxcombs</line>
-<line remap="LINE">myself. There's mine; beg another of thy daughters.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Take heed, sirrah; the whip.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Truth's a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped</line>
-<line remap="LINE">out, when Lady the brach may stand by the fire and stink.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">A pestilent gall to me!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sirrah, I'll teach thee a speech.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Do.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Mark it, nuncle:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Have more than thou showest,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Speak less than thou knowest,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Lend less than thou owest,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Ride more than thou goest,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Learn more than thou trowest,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Set less than thou throwest;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Leave thy drink and thy whore,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And keep in-a-door,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And thou shalt have more</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Than two tens to a score.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This is nothing, fool.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer; you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">gave me nothing for't. Can you make no use of</line>
-<line remap="LINE">nothing, nuncle?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, no, boy; nothing can be made out of nothing.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">To KENT</phrase> Prithee, tell him, so much the rent of</line>
-<line remap="LINE">his land comes to: he will not believe a fool.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">A bitter fool!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Dost thou know the difference, my boy, between a</line>
-<line remap="LINE">bitter fool and a sweet fool?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, lad; teach me.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">That lord that counsell'd thee</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To give away thy land,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Come place him here by me,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Do thou for him stand:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The sweet and bitter fool</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Will presently appear;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The one in motley here,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The other found out there.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Dost thou call me fool, boy?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">All thy other titles thou hast given away; that</line>
-<line remap="LINE">thou wast born with.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This is not altogether fool, my lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, faith, lords and great men will not let me; if</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I had a monopoly out, they would have part on't:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">and ladies too, they will not let me have all fool</line>
-<line remap="LINE">to myself; they'll be snatching. Give me an egg,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">nuncle, and I'll give thee two crowns.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What two crowns shall they be?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, after I have cut the egg i' the middle, and eat</line>
-<line remap="LINE">up the meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou</line>
-<line remap="LINE">clovest thy crown i' the middle, and gavest away</line>
-<line remap="LINE">both parts, thou borest thy ass on thy back o'er</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the dirt: thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">when thou gavest thy golden one away. If I speak</line>
-<line remap="LINE">like myself in this, let him be whipped that first</line>
-<line remap="LINE">finds it so.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Singing</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Fools had ne'er less wit in a year;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For wise men are grown foppish,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">They know not how their wits to wear,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Their manners are so apish.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">When were you wont to be so full of songs, sirrah?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I have used it, nuncle, ever since thou madest thy</line>
-<line remap="LINE">daughters thy mothers: for when thou gavest them</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the rod, and put'st down thine own breeches,</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Singing</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Then they for sudden joy did weep,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And I for sorrow sung,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That such a king should play bo-peep,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And go the fools among.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach</line>
-<line remap="LINE">thy fool to lie: I would fain learn to lie.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">An you lie, sirrah, we'll have you whipped.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">they'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'lt</line>
-<line remap="LINE">have me whipped for lying; and sometimes I am</line>
-<line remap="LINE">whipped for holding my peace. I had rather be any</line>
-<line remap="LINE">kind o' thing than a fool: and yet I would not be</line>
-<line remap="LINE">thee, nuncle; thou hast pared thy wit o' both sides,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">and left nothing i' the middle: here comes one o'</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the parings.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GONERIL</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How now, daughter! what makes that frontlet on?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to</line>
-<line remap="LINE">care for her frowning; now thou art an O without a</line>
-<line remap="LINE">figure: I am better than thou art now; I am a fool,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">thou art nothing.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To GONERIL</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Yes, forsooth, I will hold my tongue; so your face</line>
-<line remap="LINE">bids me, though you say nothing. Mum, mum,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He that keeps nor crust nor crum,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Weary of all, shall want some.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Pointing to KING LEAR</para>
-<line remap="LINE">That's a shealed peascod.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Not only, sir, this your all-licensed fool,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But other of your insolent retinue</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Do hourly carp and quarrel; breaking forth</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In rank and not-to-be endured riots. Sir,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I had thought, by making this well known unto you,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To have found a safe redress; but now grow fearful,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">By what yourself too late have spoke and done.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That you protect this course, and put it on</line>
-<line remap="LINE">By your allowance; which if you should, the fault</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Would not 'scape censure, nor the redresses sleep,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which, in the tender of a wholesome weal,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Might in their working do you that offence,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which else were shame, that then necessity</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Will call discreet proceeding.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">For, you trow, nuncle,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That it's had it head bit off by it young.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Are you our daughter?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Come, sir,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I would you would make use of that good wisdom,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Whereof I know you are fraught; and put away</line>
-<line remap="LINE">These dispositions, that of late transform you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">From what you rightly are.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">May not an ass know when the cart</line>
-<line remap="LINE">draws the horse? Whoop, Jug! I love thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Doth any here know me? This is not Lear:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Doth Lear walk thus? speak thus? Where are his eyes?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Either his notion weakens, his discernings</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Are lethargied--Ha! waking? 'tis not so.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who is it that can tell me who I am?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Lear's shadow.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I would learn that; for, by the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">marks of sovereignty, knowledge, and reason,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I should be false persuaded I had daughters.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Which they will make an obedient father.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Your name, fair gentlewoman?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This admiration, sir, is much o' the savour</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Of other your new pranks. I do beseech you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To understand my purposes aright:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Men so disorder'd, so debosh'd and bold,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That this our court, infected with their manners,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Shows like a riotous inn: epicurism and lust</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Make it more like a tavern or a brothel</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Than a graced palace. The shame itself doth speak</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For instant remedy: be then desired</line>
-<line remap="LINE">By her, that else will take the thing she begs,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A little to disquantity your train;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And the remainder, that shall still depend,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To be such men as may besort your age,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And know themselves and you.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Darkness and devils!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Saddle my horses; call my train together:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Degenerate bastard! I'll not trouble thee.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Yet have I left a daughter.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">You strike my people; and your disorder'd rabble</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Make servants of their betters.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter ALBANY</para>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Woe, that too late repents,--</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To ALBANY</para>
-<line remap="LINE">O, sir, are you come?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Is it your will? Speak, sir. Prepare my horses.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Than the sea-monster!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Pray, sir, be patient.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">To GONERIL</phrase> Detested kite! thou liest.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My train are men of choice and rarest parts,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That all particulars of duty know,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And in the most exact regard support</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The worships of their name. O most small fault,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">How ugly didst thou in Cordelia show!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That, like an engine, wrench'd my frame of nature</line>
-<line remap="LINE">From the fix'd place; drew from heart all love,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And added to the gall. O Lear, Lear, Lear!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Beat at this gate, that let thy folly in,</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Striking his head</para>
-<line remap="LINE">And thy dear judgment out! Go, go, my people.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Of what hath moved you.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">It may be so, my lord.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To make this creature fruitful!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Into her womb convey sterility!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Dry up in her the organs of increase;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And from her derogate body never spring</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A babe to honour her! If she must teem,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Create her child of spleen; that it may live,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And be a thwart disnatured torment to her!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Turn all her mother's pains and benefits</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To laughter and contempt; that she may feel</line>
-<line remap="LINE">How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To have a thankless child! Away, away!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Never afflict yourself to know the cause;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But let his disposition have that scope</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That dotage gives it.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Re-enter KING LEAR</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What, fifty of my followers at a clap!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Within a fortnight!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What's the matter, sir?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I'll tell thee:</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To GONERIL</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Life and death! I am ashamed</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That these hot tears, which break from me perforce,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Should make thee worth them. Blasts and fogs upon thee!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The untented woundings of a father's curse</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Pierce every sense about thee! Old fond eyes,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Beweep this cause again, I'll pluck ye out,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And cast you, with the waters that you lose,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To temper clay. Yea, it is come to this?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Let is be so: yet have I left a daughter,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who, I am sure, is kind and comfortable:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails</line>
-<line remap="LINE">She'll flay thy wolvish visage. Thou shalt find</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That I'll resume the shape which thou dost think</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I have cast off for ever: thou shalt,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I warrant thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt KING LEAR, KENT, and Attendants</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Do you mark that, my lord?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I cannot be so partial, Goneril,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To the great love I bear you,--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Pray you, content. What, Oswald, ho!</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To the Fool</para>
-<line remap="LINE">You, sir, more knave than fool, after your master.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Nuncle Lear, nuncle Lear, tarry and take the fool</line>
-<line remap="LINE">with thee.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A fox, when one has caught her,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And such a daughter,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Should sure to the slaughter,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If my cap would buy a halter:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">So the fool follows after.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This man hath had good counsel:--a hundred knights!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis politic and safe to let him keep</line>
-<line remap="LINE">At point a hundred knights: yes, that, on every dream,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Each buzz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He may enguard his dotage with their powers,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And hold our lives in mercy. Oswald, I say!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Well, you may fear too far.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Safer than trust too far:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Let me still take away the harms I fear,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Not fear still to be taken: I know his heart.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What he hath utter'd I have writ my sister</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If she sustain him and his hundred knights</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When I have show'd the unfitness,--</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Re-enter OSWALD</para>
-<line remap="LINE">How now, Oswald!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What, have you writ that letter to my sister?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Yes, madam.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Take you some company, and away to horse:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Inform her full of my particular fear;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And thereto add such reasons of your own</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As may compact it more. Get you gone;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And hasten your return.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit OSWALD</para>
-<line remap="LINE">No, no, my lord,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This milky gentleness and course of yours</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Though I condemn not, yet, under pardon,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You are much more attask'd for want of wisdom</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Than praised for harmful mildness.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How far your eyes may pierce I can not tell:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Nay, then--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Well, well; the event.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE V. Court before the same.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KING LEAR, KENT, and Fool</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Go you before to Gloucester with these letters.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Acquaint my daughter no further with any thing you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">know than comes from her demand out of the letter.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If your diligence be not speedy, I shall be there afore you.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I will not sleep, my lord, till I have delivered</line>
-<line remap="LINE">your letter.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">If a man's brains were in's heels, were't not in</line>
-<line remap="LINE">danger of kibes?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ay, boy.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Then, I prithee, be merry; thy wit shall ne'er go</line>
-<line remap="LINE">slip-shod.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ha, ha, ha!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Shalt see thy other daughter will use thee kindly;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">for though she's as like this as a crab's like an</line>
-<line remap="LINE">apple, yet I can tell what I can tell.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, what canst thou tell, my boy?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">She will taste as like this as a crab does to a</line>
-<line remap="LINE">crab. Thou canst tell why one's nose stands i'</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the middle on's face?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, to keep one's eyes of either side's nose; that</line>
-<line remap="LINE">what a man cannot smell out, he may spy into.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I did her wrong--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Nor I neither; but I can tell why a snail has a house.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, to put his head in; not to give it away to his</line>
-<line remap="LINE">daughters, and leave his horns without a case.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I will forget my nature. So kind a father! Be my</line>
-<line remap="LINE">horses ready?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy asses are gone about 'em. The reason why the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Because they are not eight?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">To take 't again perforce! Monster ingratitude!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten</line>
-<line remap="LINE">for being old before thy time.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How's that?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst</line>
-<line remap="LINE">been wise.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Keep me in temper: I would not be mad!</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter Gentleman</para>
-<line remap="LINE">How now! are the horses ready?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ready, my lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Come, boy.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">She that's a maid now, and laughs at my departure,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Shall not be a maid long, unless things be cut shorter.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
-</section>
-
-</chapter>
-
-<chapter remap="ACT"><title remap="TITLE">ACT II</title>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE I. GLOUCESTER's castle.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDMUND, and CURAN meets him</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Save thee, Curan.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CURAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">And you, sir. I have been with your father, and</line>
-<line remap="LINE">given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan</line>
-<line remap="LINE">his duchess will be here with him this night.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How comes that?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CURAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Nay, I know not. You have heard of the news abroad;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but</line>
-<line remap="LINE">ear-kissing arguments?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Not I pray you, what are they?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CURAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Have you heard of no likely wars toward, 'twixt the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Dukes of Cornwall and Albany?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Not a word.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CURAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">You may do, then, in time. Fare you well, sir.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The duke be here to-night? The better! best!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This weaves itself perforce into my business.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My father hath set guard to take my brother;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And I have one thing, of a queasy question,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which I must act: briefness and fortune, work!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Brother, a word; descend: brother, I say!</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDGAR</para>
-<line remap="LINE">My father watches: O sir, fly this place;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Intelligence is given where you are hid;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You have now the good advantage of the night:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Have you not spoken 'gainst the Duke of Cornwall?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He's coming hither: now, i' the night, i' the haste,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And Regan with him: have you nothing said</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Upon his party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Advise yourself.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I am sure on't, not a word.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I hear my father coming: pardon me:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In cunning I must draw my sword upon you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Draw; seem to defend yourself; now quit you well.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Yield: come before my father. Light, ho, here!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Fly, brother. Torches, torches! So, farewell.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit EDGAR</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Wounds his arm</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Of my more fierce endeavour: I have seen drunkards</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Do more than this in sport. Father, father!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Stop, stop! No help?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GLOUCESTER, and Servants with torches</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Now, Edmund, where's the villain?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To stand auspicious mistress,--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">But where is he?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Look, sir, I bleed.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Where is the villain, Edmund?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Fled this way, sir. When by no means he could--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Pursue him, ho! Go after.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt some Servants</para>
-<line remap="LINE">By no means what?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Persuade me to the murder of your lordship;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But that I told him, the revenging gods</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Spoke, with how manifold and strong a bond</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The child was bound to the father; sir, in fine,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Seeing how loathly opposite I stood</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To his unnatural purpose, in fell motion,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With his prepared sword, he charges home</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My unprovided body, lanced mine arm:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But when he saw my best alarum'd spirits,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Bold in the quarrel's right, roused to the encounter,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Or whether gasted by the noise I made,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Full suddenly he fled.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let him fly far:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Not in this land shall he remain uncaught;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And found--dispatch. The noble duke my master,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My worthy arch and patron, comes to-night:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">By his authority I will proclaim it,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That he which finds him shall deserve our thanks,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Bringing the murderous coward to the stake;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He that conceals him, death.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">When I dissuaded him from his intent,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And found him pight to do it, with curst speech</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I threaten'd to discover him: he replied,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'Thou unpossessing bastard! dost thou think,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If I would stand against thee, would the reposal</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Make thy words faith'd? No: what I should deny,--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As this I would: ay, though thou didst produce</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My very character,--I'ld turn it all</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To thy suggestion, plot, and damned practise:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And thou must make a dullard of the world,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If they not thought the profits of my death</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Were very pregnant and potential spurs</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To make thee seek it.'</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Strong and fasten'd villain</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Would he deny his letter? I never got him.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Tucket within</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Hark, the duke's trumpets! I know not why he comes.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">All ports I'll bar; the villain shall not 'scape;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The duke must grant me that: besides, his picture</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I will send far and near, that all the kingdom</line>
-<line remap="LINE">May have the due note of him; and of my land,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Loyal and natural boy, I'll work the means</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To make thee capable.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter CORNWALL, REGAN, and Attendants</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How now, my noble friend! since I came hither,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which I can call but now, I have heard strange news.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">If it be true, all vengeance comes too short</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which can pursue the offender. How dost, my lord?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O, madam, my old heart is crack'd, it's crack'd!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What, did my father's godson seek your life?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He whom my father named? your Edgar?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O, lady, lady, shame would have it hid!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Was he not companion with the riotous knights</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That tend upon my father?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I know not, madam: 'tis too bad, too bad.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Yes, madam, he was of that consort.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No marvel, then, though he were ill affected:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis they have put him on the old man's death,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To have the expense and waste of his revenues.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I have this present evening from my sister</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Been well inform'd of them; and with such cautions,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That if they come to sojourn at my house,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I'll not be there.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Nor I, assure thee, Regan.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Edmund, I hear that you have shown your father</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A child-like office.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">'Twas my duty, sir.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He did bewray his practise; and received</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This hurt you see, striving to apprehend him.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Is he pursued?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ay, my good lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">If he be taken, he shall never more</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Be fear'd of doing harm: make your own purpose,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">How in my strength you please. For you, Edmund,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Whose virtue and obedience doth this instant</line>
-<line remap="LINE">So much commend itself, you shall be ours:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Natures of such deep trust we shall much need;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You we first seize on.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I shall serve you, sir,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Truly, however else.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">For him I thank your grace.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">You know not why we came to visit you,--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Thus out of season, threading dark-eyed night:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Occasions, noble Gloucester, of some poise,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Wherein we must have use of your advice:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Our father he hath writ, so hath our sister,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Of differences, which I least thought it fit</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To answer from our home; the several messengers</line>
-<line remap="LINE">From hence attend dispatch. Our good old friend,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Lay comforts to your bosom; and bestow</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Your needful counsel to our business,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which craves the instant use.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I serve you, madam:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Your graces are right welcome.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE II. Before Gloucester's castle.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KENT and OSWALD, severally</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Good dawning to thee, friend: art of this house?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ay.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Where may we set our horses?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I' the mire.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Prithee, if thou lovest me, tell me.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I love thee not.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, then, I care not for thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee</line>
-<line remap="LINE">care for me.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why dost thou use me thus? I know thee not.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Fellow, I know thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What dost thou know me for?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a</line>
-<line remap="LINE">base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a</line>
-<line remap="LINE">lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a</line>
-<line remap="LINE">bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I</line>
-<line remap="LINE">will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the least syllable of thy addition.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to rail</line>
-<line remap="LINE">on one that is neither known of thee nor knows thee!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What a brazen-faced varlet art thou, to deny thou</line>
-<line remap="LINE">knowest me! Is it two days ago since I tripped up</line>
-<line remap="LINE">thy heels, and beat thee before the king? Draw, you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">rogue: for, though it be night, yet the moon</line>
-<line remap="LINE">shines; I'll make a sop o' the moonshine of you:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">draw, you whoreson cullionly barber-monger, draw.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Drawing his sword</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Away! I have nothing to do with thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Draw, you rascal: you come with letters against the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">king; and take vanity the puppet's part against the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">royalty of her father: draw, you rogue, or I'll so</line>
-<line remap="LINE">carbonado your shanks: draw, you rascal; come your ways.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Help, ho! murder! help!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Strike, you slave; stand, rogue, stand; you neat</line>
-<line remap="LINE">slave, strike.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Beating him</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Help, ho! murder! murder!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDMUND, with his rapier drawn, CORNWALL,
-REGAN, GLOUCESTER, and Servants</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How now! What's the matter?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">With you, goodman boy, an you please: come, I'll</line>
-<line remap="LINE">flesh ye; come on, young master.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Weapons! arms! What 's the matter here?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Keep peace, upon your lives:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He dies that strikes again. What is the matter?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The messengers from our sister and the king.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What is your difference? speak.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I am scarce in breath, my lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No marvel, you have so bestirred your valour. You</line>
-<line remap="LINE">cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee: a</line>
-<line remap="LINE">tailor made thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou art a strange fellow: a tailor make a man?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ay, a tailor, sir: a stone-cutter or painter could</line>
-<line remap="LINE">not have made him so ill, though he had been but two</line>
-<line remap="LINE">hours at the trade.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Speak yet, how grew your quarrel?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This ancient ruffian, sir, whose life I have spared</line>
-<line remap="LINE">at suit of his gray beard,--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter! My</line>
-<line remap="LINE">lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this</line>
-<line remap="LINE">unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of</line>
-<line remap="LINE">a jakes with him. Spare my gray beard, you wagtail?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Peace, sirrah!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You beastly knave, know you no reverence?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Yes, sir; but anger hath a privilege.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why art thou angry?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">That such a slave as this should wear a sword,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Like rats, oft bite the holy cords a-twain</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passion</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That in the natures of their lords rebel;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With every gale and vary of their masters,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Knowing nought, like dogs, but following.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A plague upon your epileptic visage!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Smile you my speeches, as I were a fool?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Goose, if I had you upon Sarum plain,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I'ld drive ye cackling home to Camelot.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, art thou mad, old fellow?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How fell you out? say that.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No contraries hold more antipathy</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Than I and such a knave.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why dost thou call him a knave? What's his offence?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">His countenance likes me not.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No more, perchance, does mine, nor his, nor hers.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sir, 'tis my occupation to be plain:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I have seen better faces in my time</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Than stands on any shoulder that I see</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Before me at this instant.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This is some fellow,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Quite from his nature: he cannot flatter, he,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">An honest mind and plain, he must speak truth!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">An they will take it, so; if not, he's plain.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Than twenty silly ducking observants</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That stretch their duties nicely.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sir, in good sooth, in sincere verity,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Under the allowance of your great aspect,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire</line>
-<line remap="LINE">On flickering Phoebus' front,--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What mean'st by this?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">To go out of my dialect, which you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">discommend so much. I know, sir, I am no</line>
-<line remap="LINE">flatterer: he that beguiled you in a plain</line>
-<line remap="LINE">accent was a plain knave; which for my part</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I will not be, though I should win your displeasure</line>
-<line remap="LINE">to entreat me to 't.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What was the offence you gave him?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I never gave him any:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">It pleased the king his master very late</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To strike at me, upon his misconstruction;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When he, conjunct and flattering his displeasure,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Tripp'd me behind; being down, insulted, rail'd,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And put upon him such a deal of man,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That worthied him, got praises of the king</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For him attempting who was self-subdued;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And, in the fleshment of this dread exploit,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Drew on me here again.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">None of these rogues and cowards</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But Ajax is their fool.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Fetch forth the stocks!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You stubborn ancient knave, you reverend braggart,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">We'll teach you--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sir, I am too old to learn:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Call not your stocks for me: I serve the king;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">On whose employment I was sent to you:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You shall do small respect, show too bold malice</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Against the grace and person of my master,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Stocking his messenger.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Fetch forth the stocks! As I have life and honour,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">There shall he sit till noon.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Till noon! till night, my lord; and all night too.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, madam, if I were your father's dog,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You should not use me so.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sir, being his knave, I will.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This is a fellow of the self-same colour</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Our sister speaks of. Come, bring away the stocks!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Stocks brought out</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let me beseech your grace not to do so:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">His fault is much, and the good king his master</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Will cheque him for 't: your purposed low correction</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Is such as basest and contemned'st wretches</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For pilferings and most common trespasses</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Are punish'd with: the king must take it ill,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That he's so slightly valued in his messenger,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Should have him thus restrain'd.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I'll answer that.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">My sister may receive it much more worse,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To have her gentleman abused, assaulted,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For following her affairs. Put in his legs.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">KENT is put in the stocks</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Come, my good lord, away.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER and KENT</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I am sorry for thee, friend; 'tis the duke's pleasure,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Whose disposition, all the world well knows,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Will not be rubb'd nor stopp'd: I'll entreat for thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Pray, do not, sir: I have watched and travell'd hard;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Some time I shall sleep out, the rest I'll whistle.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A good man's fortune may grow out at heels:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Give you good morrow!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The duke's to blame in this; 'twill be ill taken.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Good king, that must approve the common saw,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou out of heaven's benediction comest</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To the warm sun!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Approach, thou beacon to this under globe,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That by thy comfortable beams I may</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Peruse this letter! Nothing almost sees miracles</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But misery: I know 'tis from Cordelia,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who hath most fortunately been inform'd</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Of my obscured course; and shall find time</line>
-<line remap="LINE">From this enormous state, seeking to give</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Losses their remedies. All weary and o'erwatch'd,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This shameful lodging.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Fortune, good night: smile once more: turn thy wheel!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Sleeps</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE III. A wood.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDGAR</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I heard myself proclaim'd;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And by the happy hollow of a tree</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Escaped the hunt. No port is free; no place,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That guard, and most unusual vigilance,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Does not attend my taking. Whiles I may 'scape,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I will preserve myself: and am bethought</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To take the basest and most poorest shape</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That ever penury, in contempt of man,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Brought near to beast: my face I'll grime with filth;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Blanket my loins: elf all my hair in knots;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And with presented nakedness out-face</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The winds and persecutions of the sky.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The country gives me proof and precedent</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Strike in their numb'd and mortified bare arms</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And with this horrible object, from low farms,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Poor pelting villages, sheep-cotes, and mills,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Enforce their charity. Poor Turlygod! poor Tom!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That's something yet: Edgar I nothing am.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE IV. Before GLOUCESTER's castle. KENT in the stocks.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KING LEAR, Fool, and Gentleman</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis strange that they should so depart from home,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And not send back my messenger.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">As I learn'd,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The night before there was no purpose in them</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Of this remove.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Hail to thee, noble master!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ha!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Makest thou this shame thy pastime?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, my lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ha, ha! he wears cruel garters. Horses are tied</line>
-<line remap="LINE">by the heads, dogs and bears by the neck, monkeys by</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the loins, and men by the legs: when a man's</line>
-<line remap="LINE">over-lusty at legs, then he wears wooden</line>
-<line remap="LINE">nether-stocks.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What's he that hath so much thy place mistook</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To set thee here?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">It is both he and she;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Your son and daughter.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Yes.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, I say.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I say, yea.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, no, they would not.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Yes, they have.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">By Jupiter, I swear, no.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">By Juno, I swear, ay.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">They durst not do 't;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">They could not, would not do 't; 'tis worse than murder,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To do upon respect such violent outrage:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Resolve me, with all modest haste, which way</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou mightst deserve, or they impose, this usage,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Coming from us.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">My lord, when at their home</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I did commend your highness' letters to them,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Ere I was risen from the place that show'd</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My duty kneeling, came there a reeking post,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Stew'd in his haste, half breathless, panting forth</line>
-<line remap="LINE">From Goneril his mistress salutations;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Deliver'd letters, spite of intermission,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which presently they read: on whose contents,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">They summon'd up their meiny, straight took horse;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Commanded me to follow, and attend</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The leisure of their answer; gave me cold looks:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And meeting here the other messenger,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Whose welcome, I perceived, had poison'd mine,--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Being the very fellow that of late</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Display'd so saucily against your highness,--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Having more man than wit about me, drew:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He raised the house with loud and coward cries.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Your son and daughter found this trespass worth</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The shame which here it suffers.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Winter's not gone yet, if the wild-geese fly that way.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Fathers that wear rags</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Do make their children blind;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But fathers that bear bags</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Shall see their children kind.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Fortune, that arrant whore,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Ne'er turns the key to the poor.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But, for all this, thou shalt have as many dolours</line>
-<line remap="LINE">for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O, how this mother swells up toward my heart!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy element's below! Where is this daughter?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">With the earl, sir, here within.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Follow me not;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Stay here.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Made you no more offence but what you speak of?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">None.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">How chance the king comes with so small a train?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">And thou hadst been set i' the stocks for that</line>
-<line remap="LINE">question, thou hadst well deserved it.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, fool?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee</line>
-<line remap="LINE">there's no labouring i' the winter. All that follow</line>
-<line remap="LINE">their noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and</line>
-<line remap="LINE">there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him</line>
-<line remap="LINE">that's stinking. Let go thy hold when a great wheel</line>
-<line remap="LINE">runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with</line>
-<line remap="LINE">following it: but the great one that goes up the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">hill, let him draw thee after. When a wise man</line>
-<line remap="LINE">gives thee better counsel, give me mine again: I</line>
-<line remap="LINE">would have none but knaves follow it, since a fool gives it.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That sir which serves and seeks for gain,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And follows but for form,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Will pack when it begins to rain,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And leave thee in the storm,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But I will tarry; the fool will stay,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And let the wise man fly:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The knave turns fool that runs away;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The fool no knave, perdy.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Where learned you this, fool?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Not i' the stocks, fool.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Re-enter KING LEAR with GLOUCESTER</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Deny to speak with me? They are sick? they are weary?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">They have travell'd all the night? Mere fetches;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The images of revolt and flying off.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Fetch me a better answer.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">My dear lord,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You know the fiery quality of the duke;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">How unremoveable and fix'd he is</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In his own course.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Vengeance! plague! death! confusion!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Fiery? what quality? Why, Gloucester, Gloucester,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I'ld speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Well, my good lord, I have inform'd them so.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Inform'd them! Dost thou understand me, man?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ay, my good lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The king would speak with Cornwall; the dear father</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Would with his daughter speak, commands her service:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Are they inform'd of this? My breath and blood!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Fiery? the fiery duke? Tell the hot duke that--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">No, but not yet: may be he is not well:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Infirmity doth still neglect all office</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To suffer with the body: I'll forbear;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And am fall'n out with my more headier will,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To take the indisposed and sickly fit</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For the sound man. Death on my state! wherefore</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Looking on KENT</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Should he sit here? This act persuades me</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That this remotion of the duke and her</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Is practise only. Give me my servant forth.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Go tell the duke and 's wife I'ld speak with them,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Now, presently: bid them come forth and hear me,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Or at their chamber-door I'll beat the drum</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Till it cry sleep to death.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I would have all well betwixt you.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O me, my heart, my rising heart! but, down!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels</line>
-<line remap="LINE">when she put 'em i' the paste alive; she knapped 'em</line>
-<line remap="LINE">o' the coxcombs with a stick, and cried 'Down,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">wantons, down!' 'Twas her brother that, in pure</line>
-<line remap="LINE">kindness to his horse, buttered his hay.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter CORNWALL, REGAN, GLOUCESTER, and Servants</para>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Good morrow to you both.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Hail to your grace!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">KENT is set at liberty</para>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I am glad to see your highness.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Regan, I think you are; I know what reason</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I have to think so: if thou shouldst not be glad,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I would divorce me from thy mother's tomb,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Sepulchring an adultress.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To KENT</para>
-<line remap="LINE">O, are you free?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Some other time for that. Beloved Regan,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy sister's naught: O Regan, she hath tied</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture, here:</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Points to his heart</para>
-<line remap="LINE">I can scarce speak to thee; thou'lt not believe</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With how depraved a quality--O Regan!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I pray you, sir, take patience: I have hope.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You less know how to value her desert</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Than she to scant her duty.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Say, how is that?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I cannot think my sister in the least</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Would fail her obligation: if, sir, perchance</line>
-<line remap="LINE">She have restrain'd the riots of your followers,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis on such ground, and to such wholesome end,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As clears her from all blame.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">My curses on her!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O, sir, you are old.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Nature in you stands on the very verge</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Of her confine: you should be ruled and led</line>
-<line remap="LINE">By some discretion, that discerns your state</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Better than you yourself. Therefore, I pray you,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That to our sister you do make return;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Say you have wrong'd her, sir.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ask her forgiveness?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Do you but mark how this becomes the house:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'Dear daughter, I confess that I am old;</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Kneeling</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Age is unnecessary: on my knees I beg</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That you'll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food.'</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Good sir, no more; these are unsightly tricks:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Return you to my sister.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Rising</phrase> Never, Regan:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">She hath abated me of half my train;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Look'd black upon me; struck me with her tongue,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Most serpent-like, upon the very heart:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">All the stored vengeances of heaven fall</line>
-<line remap="LINE">On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You taking airs, with lameness!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Fie, sir, fie!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Into her scornful eyes! Infect her beauty,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You fen-suck'd fogs, drawn by the powerful sun,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To fall and blast her pride!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O the blest gods! so will you wish on me,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When the rash mood is on.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, Regan, thou shalt never have my curse:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thee o'er to harshness: her eyes are fierce; but thine</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Do comfort and not burn. 'Tis not in thee</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And in conclusion to oppose the bolt</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Against my coming in: thou better know'st</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The offices of nature, bond of childhood,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy half o' the kingdom hast thou not forgot,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Wherein I thee endow'd.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Good sir, to the purpose.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Who put my man i' the stocks?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Tucket within</para>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What trumpet's that?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I know't, my sister's: this approves her letter,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That she would soon be here.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter OSWALD</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Is your lady come?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This is a slave, whose easy-borrow'd pride</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Dwells in the fickle grace of her he follows.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Out, varlet, from my sight!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What means your grace?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Who stock'd my servant? Regan, I have good hope</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou didst not know on't. Who comes here? O heavens,</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GONERIL</para>
-<line remap="LINE">If you do love old men, if your sweet sway</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Allow obedience, if yourselves are old,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Make it your cause; send down, and take my part!</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To GONERIL</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Art not ashamed to look upon this beard?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">O Regan, wilt thou take her by the hand?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why not by the hand, sir? How have I offended?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">All's not offence that indiscretion finds</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And dotage terms so.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O sides, you are too tough;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Will you yet hold? How came my man i' the stocks?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I set him there, sir: but his own disorders</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Deserved much less advancement.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">You! did you?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I pray you, father, being weak, seem so.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If, till the expiration of your month,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You will return and sojourn with my sister,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Dismissing half your train, come then to me:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I am now from home, and out of that provision</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which shall be needful for your entertainment.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Return to her, and fifty men dismiss'd?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To wage against the enmity o' the air;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Necessity's sharp pinch! Return with her?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, the hot-blooded France, that dowerless took</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Our youngest born, I could as well be brought</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To knee his throne, and, squire-like; pension beg</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To keep base life afoot. Return with her?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To this detested groom.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Pointing at OSWALD</para>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">At your choice, sir.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">We'll no more meet, no more see one another:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Or rather a disease that's in my flesh,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which I must needs call mine: thou art a boil,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In my corrupted blood. But I'll not chide thee;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Let shame come when it will, I do not call it:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I can be patient; I can stay with Regan,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I and my hundred knights.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Not altogether so:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I look'd not for you yet, nor am provided</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For your fit welcome. Give ear, sir, to my sister;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For those that mingle reason with your passion</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Must be content to think you old, and so--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But she knows what she does.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Is this well spoken?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I dare avouch it, sir: what, fifty followers?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Is it not well? What should you need of more?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Yea, or so many, sith that both charge and danger</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Speak 'gainst so great a number? How, in one house,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Should many people, under two commands,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hold amity? 'Tis hard; almost impossible.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance</line>
-<line remap="LINE">From those that she calls servants or from mine?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why not, my lord? If then they chanced to slack you,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">We could control them. If you will come to me,--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For now I spy a danger,--I entreat you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To bring but five and twenty: to no more</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Will I give place or notice.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I gave you all--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">And in good time you gave it.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Made you my guardians, my depositaries;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But kept a reservation to be follow'd</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With such a number. What, must I come to you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With five and twenty, Regan? said you so?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">And speak't again, my lord; no more with me.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When others are more wicked: not being the worst</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Stands in some rank of praise.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To GONERIL</para>
-<line remap="LINE">I'll go with thee:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And thou art twice her love.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Hear me, my lord;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What need you five and twenty, ten, or five,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To follow in a house where twice so many</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Have a command to tend you?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What need one?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O, reason not the need: our basest beggars</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Are in the poorest thing superfluous:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Allow not nature more than nature needs,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Man's life's as cheap as beast's: thou art a lady;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If only to go warm were gorgeous,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need,--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As full of grief as age; wretched in both!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Against their father, fool me not so much</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And let not women's weapons, water-drops,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I will have such revenges on you both,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That all the world shall--I will do such things,--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep</line>
-<line remap="LINE">No, I'll not weep:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I have full cause of weeping; but this heart</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt KING LEAR, GLOUCESTER, KENT, and Fool</para>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Storm and tempest</para>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let us withdraw; 'twill be a storm.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This house is little: the old man and his people</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Cannot be well bestow'd.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis his own blame; hath put himself from rest,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And must needs taste his folly.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">For his particular, I'll receive him gladly,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But not one follower.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">So am I purposed.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Where is my lord of Gloucester?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Follow'd the old man forth: he is return'd.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Re-enter GLOUCESTER</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The king is in high rage.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Whither is he going?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He calls to horse; but will I know not whither.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis best to give him way; he leads himself.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">My lord, entreat him by no means to stay.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about</line>
-<line remap="LINE">There's scarce a bush.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O, sir, to wilful men,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The injuries that they themselves procure</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Must be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He is attended with a desperate train;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And what they may incense him to, being apt</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To have his ear abused, wisdom bids fear.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Shut up your doors, my lord; 'tis a wild night:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My Regan counsels well; come out o' the storm.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
-</section>
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-</chapter>
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-<chapter remap="ACT"><title remap="TITLE">ACT III</title>
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-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE I. A heath.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Storm still. Enter KENT and a Gentleman, meeting</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Who's there, besides foul weather?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">One minded like the weather, most unquietly.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I know you. Where's the king?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Contending with the fretful element:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Bids the winds blow the earth into the sea,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Or swell the curled water 'bove the main,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That things might change or cease; tears his white hair,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Catch in their fury, and make nothing of;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Strives in his little world of man to out-scorn</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The lion and the belly-pinched wolf</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And bids what will take all.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">But who is with him?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">None but the fool; who labours to out-jest</line>
-<line remap="LINE">His heart-struck injuries.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sir, I do know you;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And dare, upon the warrant of my note,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Commend a dear thing to you. There is division,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Although as yet the face of it be cover'd</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With mutual cunning, 'twixt Albany and Cornwall;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who have--as who have not, that their great stars</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Throned and set high?--servants, who seem no less,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which are to France the spies and speculations</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Intelligent of our state; what hath been seen,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Either in snuffs and packings of the dukes,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Or the hard rein which both of them have borne</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Against the old kind king; or something deeper,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Whereof perchance these are but furnishings;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But, true it is, from France there comes a power</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Into this scatter'd kingdom; who already,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Wise in our negligence, have secret feet</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In some of our best ports, and are at point</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To show their open banner. Now to you:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If on my credit you dare build so far</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To make your speed to Dover, you shall find</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Some that will thank you, making just report</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Of how unnatural and bemadding sorrow</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The king hath cause to plain.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I am a gentleman of blood and breeding;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And, from some knowledge and assurance, offer</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This office to you.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I will talk further with you.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, do not.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For confirmation that I am much more</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Than my out-wall, open this purse, and take</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What it contains. If you shall see Cordelia,--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As fear not but you shall,--show her this ring;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And she will tell you who your fellow is</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That yet you do not know. Fie on this storm!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I will go seek the king.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Give me your hand: have you no more to say?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Few words, but, to effect, more than all yet;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That, when we have found the king,--in which your pain</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That way, I'll this,--he that first lights on him</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Holla the other.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt severally</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE II. Another part of the heath. Storm still.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KING LEAR and Fool</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Crack nature's moulds, an germens spill at once,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That make ingrateful man!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry</line>
-<line remap="LINE">house is better than this rain-water out o' door.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters' blessing:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">here's a night pities neither wise man nor fool.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You owe me no subscription: then let fall</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Your horrible pleasure: here I stand, your slave,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But yet I call you servile ministers,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That have with two pernicious daughters join'd</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Your high engender'd battles 'gainst a head</line>
-<line remap="LINE">So old and white as this. O! O! 'tis foul!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He that has a house to put's head in has a good</line>
-<line remap="LINE">head-piece.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The cod-piece that will house</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Before the head has any,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The head and he shall louse;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">So beggars marry many.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The man that makes his toe</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What he his heart should make</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Shall of a corn cry woe,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And turn his sleep to wake.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For there was never yet fair woman but she made</line>
-<line remap="LINE">mouths in a glass.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, I will be the pattern of all patience;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I will say nothing.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KENT</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Who's there?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise</line>
-<line remap="LINE">man and a fool.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Alas, sir, are you here? things that love night</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Gallow the very wanderers of the dark,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And make them keep their caves: since I was man,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Remember to have heard: man's nature cannot carry</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The affliction nor the fear.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let the great gods,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That hast within thee undivulged crimes,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Unwhipp'd of justice: hide thee, thou bloody hand;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou perjured, and thou simular man of virtue</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That art incestuous: caitiff, to pieces shake,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That under covert and convenient seeming</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hast practised on man's life: close pent-up guilts,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Rive your concealing continents, and cry</line>
-<line remap="LINE">These dreadful summoners grace. I am a man</line>
-<line remap="LINE">More sinn'd against than sinning.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Alack, bare-headed!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Repose you there; while I to this hard house--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">More harder than the stones whereof 'tis raised;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which even but now, demanding after you,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Denied me to come in--return, and force</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Their scanted courtesy.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">My wits begin to turn.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Come on, my boy: how dost, my boy? art cold?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I am cold myself. Where is this straw, my fellow?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The art of our necessities is strange,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That can make vile things precious. Come,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">your hovel.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That's sorry yet for thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Singing</phrase></line>
-<line remap="LINE">He that has and a little tiny wit--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Must make content with his fortunes fit,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For the rain it raineth every day.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">True, my good boy. Come, bring us to this hovel.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt KING LEAR and KENT</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This is a brave night to cool a courtezan.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I'll speak a prophecy ere I go:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When priests are more in word than matter;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When brewers mar their malt with water;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When nobles are their tailors' tutors;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">No heretics burn'd, but wenches' suitors;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When every case in law is right;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">No squire in debt, nor no poor knight;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When slanders do not live in tongues;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Nor cutpurses come not to throngs;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When usurers tell their gold i' the field;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And bawds and whores do churches build;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Then shall the realm of Albion</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Come to great confusion:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Then comes the time, who lives to see't,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That going shall be used with feet.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This prophecy Merlin shall make; for I live before his time.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE III. Gloucester's castle.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GLOUCESTER and EDMUND</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural</line>
-<line remap="LINE">dealing. When I desire their leave that I might</line>
-<line remap="LINE">pity him, they took from me the use of mine own</line>
-<line remap="LINE">house; charged me, on pain of their perpetual</line>
-<line remap="LINE">displeasure, neither to speak of him, entreat for</line>
-<line remap="LINE">him, nor any way sustain him.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Most savage and unnatural!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Go to; say you nothing. There's a division betwixt</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the dukes; and a worse matter than that: I have</line>
-<line remap="LINE">received a letter this night; 'tis dangerous to be</line>
-<line remap="LINE">spoken; I have locked the letter in my closet:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">these injuries the king now bears will be revenged</line>
-<line remap="LINE">home; there's part of a power already footed: we</line>
-<line remap="LINE">must incline to the king. I will seek him, and</line>
-<line remap="LINE">privily relieve him: go you and maintain talk with</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the duke, that my charity be not of him perceived:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">if he ask for me. I am ill, and gone to bed.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Though I die for it, as no less is threatened me,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the king my old master must be relieved. There is</line>
-<line remap="LINE">some strange thing toward, Edmund; pray you, be careful.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the duke</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Instantly know; and of that letter too:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That which my father loses; no less than all:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The younger rises when the old doth fall.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE IV. The heath. Before a hovel.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KING LEAR, KENT, and Fool</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Here is the place, my lord; good my lord, enter:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The tyranny of the open night's too rough</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For nature to endure.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Storm still</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let me alone.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Good my lord, enter here.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Wilt break my heart?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I had rather break mine own. Good my lord, enter.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Invades us to the skin: so 'tis to thee;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But where the greater malady is fix'd,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'ldst shun a bear;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou'ldst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">mind's free,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The body's delicate: the tempest in my mind</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Doth from my senses take all feeling else</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Save what beats there. Filial ingratitude!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For lifting food to't? But I will punish home:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">No, I will weep no more. In such a night</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all,--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">O, that way madness lies; let me shun that;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">No more of that.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Good my lord, enter here.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Prithee, go in thyself: seek thine own ease:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This tempest will not give me leave to ponder</line>
-<line remap="LINE">On things would hurt me more. But I'll go in.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To the Fool</para>
-<line remap="LINE">In, boy; go first. You houseless poverty,--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Fool goes in</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And show the heavens more just.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Within</phrase> Fathom and half, fathom and half! Poor Tom!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">The Fool runs out from the hovel</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Come not in here, nuncle, here's a spirit</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Help me, help me!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Give me thy hand. Who's there?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">A spirit, a spirit: he says his name's poor Tom.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What art thou that dost grumble there i' the straw?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Come forth.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDGAR disguised as a mad man</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Away! the foul fiend follows me!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Through the sharp hawthorn blows the cold wind.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hum! go to thy cold bed, and warm thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Hast thou given all to thy two daughters?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And art thou come to this?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Who gives any thing to poor Tom? whom the foul</line>
-<line remap="LINE">fiend hath led through fire and through flame, and</line>
-<line remap="LINE">through ford and whirlipool e'er bog and quagmire;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">that hath laid knives under his pillow, and halters</line>
-<line remap="LINE">in his pew; set ratsbane by his porridge; made film</line>
-<line remap="LINE">proud of heart, to ride on a bay trotting-horse over</line>
-<line remap="LINE">four-inched bridges, to course his own shadow for a</line>
-<line remap="LINE">traitor. Bless thy five wits! Tom's a-cold,--O, do</line>
-<line remap="LINE">de, do de, do de. Bless thee from whirlwinds,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">star-blasting, and taking! Do poor Tom some</line>
-<line remap="LINE">charity, whom the foul fiend vexes: there could I</line>
-<line remap="LINE">have him now,--and there,--and there again, and there.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Storm still</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Couldst thou save nothing? Didst thou give them all?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Nay, he reserved a blanket, else we had been all shamed.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Now, all the plagues that in the pendulous air</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hang fated o'er men's faults light on thy daughters!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He hath no daughters, sir.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Death, traitor! nothing could have subdued nature</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To such a lowness but his unkind daughters.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Is it the fashion, that discarded fathers</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Should have thus little mercy on their flesh?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Judicious punishment! 'twas this flesh begot</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Those pelican daughters.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hill:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Halloo, halloo, loo, loo!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Take heed o' the foul fiend: obey thy parents;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with</line>
-<line remap="LINE">man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud</line>
-<line remap="LINE">array. Tom's a-cold.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What hast thou been?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">A serving-man, proud in heart and mind; that curled</line>
-<line remap="LINE">my hair; wore gloves in my cap; served the lust of</line>
-<line remap="LINE">my mistress' heart, and did the act of darkness with</line>
-<line remap="LINE">her; swore as many oaths as I spake words, and</line>
-<line remap="LINE">broke them in the sweet face of heaven: one that</line>
-<line remap="LINE">slept in the contriving of lust, and waked to do it:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">wine loved I deeply, dice dearly: and in woman</line>
-<line remap="LINE">out-paramoured the Turk: false of heart, light of</line>
-<line remap="LINE">ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of</line>
-<line remap="LINE">silks betray thy poor heart to woman: keep thy foot</line>
-<line remap="LINE">out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen</line>
-<line remap="LINE">from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Says suum, mun, ha, no, nonny.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Dolphin my boy, my boy, sessa! let him trot by.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Storm still</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer</line>
-<line remap="LINE">with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou</line>
-<line remap="LINE">owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep</line>
-<line remap="LINE">no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'s are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">come unbutton here.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Tearing off his clothes</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Prithee, nuncle, be contented; 'tis a naughty night</line>
-<line remap="LINE">to swim in. Now a little fire in a wild field were</line>
-<line remap="LINE">like an old lecher's heart; a small spark, all the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">rest on's body cold. Look, here comes a walking fire.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GLOUCESTER, with a torch</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins</line>
-<line remap="LINE">at curfew, and walks till the first cock; he gives</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the web and the pin, squints the eye, and makes the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">hare-lip; mildews the white wheat, and hurts the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">poor creature of earth.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">S. Withold footed thrice the old;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He met the night-mare, and her nine-fold;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Bid her alight,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And her troth plight,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And, aroint thee, witch, aroint thee!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How fares your grace?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What's he?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Who's there? What is't you seek?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What are you there? Your names?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Poor Tom; that eats the swimming frog, the toad,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the tadpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to</line>
-<line remap="LINE">tithing, and stock- punished, and imprisoned; who</line>
-<line remap="LINE">hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his</line>
-<line remap="LINE">body, horse to ride, and weapon to wear;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But mice and rats, and such small deer,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Have been Tom's food for seven long year.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Beware my follower. Peace, Smulkin; peace, thou fiend!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What, hath your grace no better company?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The prince of darkness is a gentleman:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Modo he's call'd, and Mahu.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Our flesh and blood is grown so vile, my lord,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That it doth hate what gets it.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Poor Tom's a-cold.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Go in with me: my duty cannot suffer</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To obey in all your daughters' hard commands:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Though their injunction be to bar my doors,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Yet have I ventured to come seek you out,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And bring you where both fire and food is ready.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">First let me talk with this philosopher.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What is the cause of thunder?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Good my lord, take his offer; go into the house.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What is your study?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How to prevent the fiend, and to kill vermin.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let me ask you one word in private.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Importune him once more to go, my lord;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">His wits begin to unsettle.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Canst thou blame him?</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Storm still</para>
-<line remap="LINE">His daughters seek his death: ah, that good Kent!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He said it would be thus, poor banish'd man!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou say'st the king grows mad; I'll tell thee, friend,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I am almost mad myself: I had a son,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Now outlaw'd from my blood; he sought my life,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But lately, very late: I loved him, friend;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">No father his son dearer: truth to tell thee,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The grief hath crazed my wits. What a night's this!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I do beseech your grace,--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O, cry your mercy, sir.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Noble philosopher, your company.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Tom's a-cold.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">In, fellow, there, into the hovel: keep thee warm.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Come let's in all.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This way, my lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">With him;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I will keep still with my philosopher.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Good my lord, soothe him; let him take the fellow.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Take him you on.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sirrah, come on; go along with us.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Come, good Athenian.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No words, no words: hush.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Child Rowland to the dark tower came,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">His word was still,--Fie, foh, and fum,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I smell the blood of a British man.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE V. Gloucester's castle.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter CORNWALL and EDMUND</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus</line>
-<line remap="LINE">gives way to loyalty, something fears me to think</line>
-<line remap="LINE">of.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I now perceive, it was not altogether your</line>
-<line remap="LINE">brother's evil disposition made him seek his death;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">but a provoking merit, set a-work by a reprovable</line>
-<line remap="LINE">badness in himself.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to</line>
-<line remap="LINE">be just! This is the letter he spoke of, which</line>
-<line remap="LINE">approves him an intelligent party to the advantages</line>
-<line remap="LINE">of France: O heavens! that this treason were not,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">or not I the detector!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">o with me to the duchess.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">If the matter of this paper be certain, you have</line>
-<line remap="LINE">mighty business in hand.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">True or false, it hath made thee earl of</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Gloucester. Seek out where thy father is, that he</line>
-<line remap="LINE">may be ready for our apprehension.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> If I find him comforting the king, it will</line>
-<line remap="LINE">stuff his suspicion more fully.--I will persevere in</line>
-<line remap="LINE">my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore</line>
-<line remap="LINE">between that and my blood.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I will lay trust upon thee; and thou shalt find a</line>
-<line remap="LINE">dearer father in my love.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE VI. A chamber in a farmhouse adjoining the castle.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GLOUCESTER, KING LEAR, KENT, Fool, and EDGAR</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Here is better than the open air; take it</line>
-<line remap="LINE">thankfully. I will piece out the comfort with what</line>
-<line remap="LINE">addition I can: I will not be long from you.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">All the power of his wits have given way to his</line>
-<line remap="LINE">impatience: the gods reward your kindness!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit GLOUCESTER</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Frateretto calls me; and tells me</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Prithee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a</line>
-<line remap="LINE">gentleman or a yeoman?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">A king, a king!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, he's a yeoman that has a gentleman to his son;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">for he's a mad yeoman that sees his son a gentleman</line>
-<line remap="LINE">before him.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">To have a thousand with red burning spits</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Come hissing in upon 'em,--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The foul fiend bites my back.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a</line>
-<line remap="LINE">horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">It shall be done; I will arraign them straight.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To EDGAR</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Come, sit thou here, most learned justicer;</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To the Fool</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou, sapient sir, sit here. Now, you she foxes!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Look, where he stands and glares!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Wantest thou eyes at trial, madam?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me,--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Her boat hath a leak,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And she must not speak</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Why she dares not come over to thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of a</line>
-<line remap="LINE">nightingale. Hopdance cries in Tom's belly for two</line>
-<line remap="LINE">white herring. Croak not, black angel; I have no</line>
-<line remap="LINE">food for thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How do you, sir? Stand you not so amazed:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Will you lie down and rest upon the cushions?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I'll see their trial first. Bring in the evidence.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To EDGAR</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou robed man of justice, take thy place;</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To the Fool</para>
-<line remap="LINE">And thou, his yoke-fellow of equity,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Bench by his side:</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To KENT</para>
-<line remap="LINE">you are o' the commission,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Sit you too.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let us deal justly.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy sheep be in the corn;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And for one blast of thy minikin mouth,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy sheep shall take no harm.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Pur! the cat is gray.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Arraign her first; 'tis Goneril. I here take my</line>
-<line remap="LINE">oath before this honourable assembly, she kicked the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">poor king her father.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Come hither, mistress. Is your name Goneril?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">She cannot deny it.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">And here's another, whose warp'd looks proclaim</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What store her heart is made on. Stop her there!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Arms, arms, sword, fire! Corruption in the place!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">False justicer, why hast thou let her 'scape?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Bless thy five wits!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O pity! Sir, where is the patience now,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That thou so oft have boasted to retain?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> My tears begin to take his part so much,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">They'll mar my counterfeiting.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Tom will throw his head at them. Avaunt, you curs!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Be thy mouth or black or white,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Tooth that poisons if it bite;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Mastiff, grey-hound, mongrel grim,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hound or spaniel, brach or lym,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Tom will make them weep and wail:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For, with throwing thus my head,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Do de, de, de. Sessa! Come, march to wakes and</line>
-<line remap="LINE">fairs and market-towns. Poor Tom, thy horn is dry.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Then let them anatomize Regan; see what breeds</line>
-<line remap="LINE">about her heart. Is there any cause in nature that</line>
-<line remap="LINE">makes these hard hearts?</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To EDGAR</para>
-<line remap="LINE">You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I</line>
-<line remap="LINE">do not like the fashion of your garments: you will</line>
-<line remap="LINE">say they are Persian attire: but let them be changed.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Now, good my lord, lie here and rest awhile.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Make no noise, make no noise; draw the curtains:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">so, so, so. We'll go to supper i' he morning. So, so, so.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">And I'll go to bed at noon.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Re-enter GLOUCESTER</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Come hither, friend: where is the king my master?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Here, sir; but trouble him not, his wits are gone.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Good friend, I prithee, take him in thy arms;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I have o'erheard a plot of death upon him:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">There is a litter ready; lay him in 't,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Both welcome and protection. Take up thy master:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With thine, and all that offer to defend him,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Stand in assured loss: take up, take up;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And follow me, that will to some provision</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Give thee quick conduct.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Oppressed nature sleeps:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which, if convenience will not allow,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Stand in hard cure.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To the Fool</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Come, help to bear thy master;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou must not stay behind.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Come, come, away.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt all but EDGAR</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">When we our betters see bearing our woes,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">We scarcely think our miseries our foes.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who alone suffers suffers most i' the mind,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Leaving free things and happy shows behind:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But then the mind much sufferance doth o'er skip,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">How light and portable my pain seems now,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When that which makes me bend makes the king bow,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He childed as I father'd! Tom, away!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Mark the high noises; and thyself bewray,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When false opinion, whose wrong thought defiles thee,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In thy just proof, repeals and reconciles thee.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What will hap more to-night, safe 'scape the king!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Lurk, lurk.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE VII. Gloucester's castle.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter CORNWALL, REGAN, GONERIL, EDMUND, and Servants</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Post speedily to my lord your husband; show him</line>
-<line remap="LINE">this letter: the army of France is landed. Seek</line>
-<line remap="LINE">out the villain Gloucester.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt some of the Servants</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Hang him instantly.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Pluck out his eyes.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Leave him to my displeasure. Edmund, keep you our</line>
-<line remap="LINE">sister company: the revenges we are bound to take</line>
-<line remap="LINE">upon your traitorous father are not fit for your</line>
-<line remap="LINE">beholding. Advise the duke, where you are going, to</line>
-<line remap="LINE">a most festinate preparation: we are bound to the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">like. Our posts shall be swift and intelligent</line>
-<line remap="LINE">betwixt us. Farewell, dear sister: farewell, my</line>
-<line remap="LINE">lord of Gloucester.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter OSWALD</para>
-<line remap="LINE">How now! where's the king?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">My lord of Gloucester hath convey'd him hence:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Some five or six and thirty of his knights,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hot questrists after him, met him at gate;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who, with some other of the lords dependants,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Are gone with him towards Dover; where they boast</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To have well-armed friends.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Get horses for your mistress.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Farewell, sweet lord, and sister.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Edmund, farewell.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt GONERIL, EDMUND, and OSWALD</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Go seek the traitor Gloucester,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Pinion him like a thief, bring him before us.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt other Servants</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Though well we may not pass upon his life</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Without the form of justice, yet our power</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Shall do a courtesy to our wrath, which men</line>
-<line remap="LINE">May blame, but not control. Who's there? the traitor?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GLOUCESTER, brought in by two or three</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ingrateful fox! 'tis he.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Bind fast his corky arms.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What mean your graces? Good my friends, consider</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You are my guests: do me no foul play, friends.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Bind him, I say.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Servants bind him</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Hard, hard. O filthy traitor!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Unmerciful lady as you are, I'm none.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">To this chair bind him. Villain, thou shalt find--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">REGAN plucks his beard</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">By the kind gods, 'tis most ignobly done</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To pluck me by the beard.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">So white, and such a traitor!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Naughty lady,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">These hairs, which thou dost ravish from my chin,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Will quicken, and accuse thee: I am your host:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With robbers' hands my hospitable favours</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You should not ruffle thus. What will you do?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Come, sir, what letters had you late from France?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Be simple answerer, for we know the truth.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">And what confederacy have you with the traitors</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Late footed in the kingdom?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">To whose hands have you sent the lunatic king? Speak.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I have a letter guessingly set down,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which came from one that's of a neutral heart,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And not from one opposed.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Cunning.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">And false.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Where hast thou sent the king?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">To Dover.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Wherefore to Dover? Wast thou not charged at peril--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Wherefore to Dover? Let him first answer that.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Wherefore to Dover, sir?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Because I would not see thy cruel nails</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Pluck out his poor old eyes; nor thy fierce sister</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The sea, with such a storm as his bare head</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In hell-black night endured, would have buoy'd up,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And quench'd the stelled fires:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Yet, poor old heart, he holp the heavens to rain.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If wolves had at thy gate howl'd that stern time,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou shouldst have said 'Good porter, turn the key,'</line>
-<line remap="LINE">All cruels else subscribed: but I shall see</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The winged vengeance overtake such children.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">See't shalt thou never. Fellows, hold the chair.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He that will think to live till he be old,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Give me some help! O cruel! O you gods!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">One side will mock another; the other too.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">If you see vengeance,--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">First Servant</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Hold your hand, my lord:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I have served you ever since I was a child;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But better service have I never done you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Than now to bid you hold.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How now, you dog!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">First Servant</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">If you did wear a beard upon your chin,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I'd shake it on this quarrel. What do you mean?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">My villain!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">They draw and fight</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">First Servant</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Nay, then, come on, and take the chance of anger.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Give me thy sword. A peasant stand up thus!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Takes a sword, and runs at him behind</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">First Servant</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O, I am slain! My lord, you have one eye left</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To see some mischief on him. O!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Dies</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Lest it see more, prevent it. Out, vile jelly!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Where is thy lustre now?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">All dark and comfortless. Where's my son Edmund?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Edmund, enkindle all the sparks of nature,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To quit this horrid act.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Out, treacherous villain!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou call'st on him that hates thee: it was he</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That made the overture of thy treasons to us;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who is too good to pity thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O my follies! then Edgar was abused.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Kind gods, forgive me that, and prosper him!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Go thrust him out at gates, and let him smell</line>
-<line remap="LINE">His way to Dover.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit one with GLOUCESTER</para>
-<line remap="LINE">How is't, my lord? how look you?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I have received a hurt: follow me, lady.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Turn out that eyeless villain; throw this slave</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Upon the dunghill. Regan, I bleed apace:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Untimely comes this hurt: give me your arm.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit CORNWALL, led by REGAN</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Second Servant</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I'll never care what wickedness I do,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If this man come to good.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Third Servant</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">If she live long,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And in the end meet the old course of death,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Women will all turn monsters.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Second Servant</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let's follow the old earl, and get the Bedlam</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To lead him where he would: his roguish madness</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Allows itself to any thing.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Third Servant</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Go thou: I'll fetch some flax and whites of eggs</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To apply to his bleeding face. Now, heaven help him!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt severally</para>
-</section>
-
-</chapter>
-
-<chapter remap="ACT"><title remap="TITLE">ACT IV</title>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE I. The heath.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDGAR</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Yet better thus, and known to be contemn'd,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Than still contemn'd and flatter'd. To be worst,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The lamentable change is from the best;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The worst returns to laughter. Welcome, then,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou unsubstantial air that I embrace!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The wretch that thou hast blown unto the worst</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Owes nothing to thy blasts. But who comes here?</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GLOUCESTER, led by an Old Man</para>
-<line remap="LINE">My father, poorly led? World, world, O world!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Lie would not yield to age.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Old Man</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O, my good lord, I have been your tenant, and</line>
-<line remap="LINE">your father's tenant, these fourscore years.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Away, get thee away; good friend, be gone:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy comforts can do me no good at all;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thee they may hurt.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Old Man</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Alack, sir, you cannot see your way.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I have no way, and therefore want no eyes;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I stumbled when I saw: full oft 'tis seen,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Our means secure us, and our mere defects</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Prove our commodities. O dear son Edgar,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The food of thy abused father's wrath!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Might I but live to see thee in my touch,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I'ld say I had eyes again!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Old Man</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How now! Who's there?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> O gods! Who is't can say 'I am at</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the worst'?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I am worse than e'er I was.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Old Man</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis poor mad Tom.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> And worse I may be yet: the worst is not</line>
-<line remap="LINE">So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Old Man</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Fellow, where goest?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Is it a beggar-man?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Old Man</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Madman and beggar too.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He has some reason, else he could not beg.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I' the last night's storm I such a fellow saw;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which made me think a man a worm: my son</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Came then into my mind; and yet my mind</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Was then scarce friends with him: I have heard</line>
-<line remap="LINE">more since.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">They kill us for their sport.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> How should this be?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Angering itself and others.--Bless thee, master!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Is that the naked fellow?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Old Man</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ay, my lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Then, prithee, get thee gone: if, for my sake,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou wilt o'ertake us, hence a mile or twain,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I' the way toward Dover, do it for ancient love;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And bring some covering for this naked soul,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who I'll entreat to lead me.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Old Man</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Alack, sir, he is mad.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Do as I bid thee, or rather do thy pleasure;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Above the rest, be gone.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Old Man</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I'll bring him the best 'parel that I have,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Come on't what will.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sirrah, naked fellow,--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Poor Tom's a-cold.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</para>
-<line remap="LINE">I cannot daub it further.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Come hither, fellow.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> And yet I must.--Bless thy sweet eyes, they bleed.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Know'st thou the way to Dover?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Both stile and gate, horse-way and foot-path. Poor</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Tom hath been scared out of his good wits: bless</line>
-<line remap="LINE">thee, good man's son, from the foul fiend! five</line>
-<line remap="LINE">fiends have been in poor Tom at once; of lust, as</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Obidicut; Hobbididence, prince of dumbness; Mahu, of</line>
-<line remap="LINE">stealing; Modo, of murder; Flibbertigibbet, of</line>
-<line remap="LINE">mopping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids</line>
-<line remap="LINE">and waiting-women. So, bless thee, master!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens' plagues</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Have humbled to all strokes: that I am wretched</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Makes thee the happier: heavens, deal so still!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That slaves your ordinance, that will not see</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">So distribution should undo excess,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And each man have enough. Dost thou know Dover?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ay, master.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">There is a cliff, whose high and bending head</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Looks fearfully in the confined deep:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Bring me but to the very brim of it,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And I'll repair the misery thou dost bear</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With something rich about me: from that place</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I shall no leading need.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Give me thy arm:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Poor Tom shall lead thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE II. Before ALBANY's palace.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GONERIL and EDMUND</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Welcome, my lord: I marvel our mild husband</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Not met us on the way.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter OSWALD</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Now, where's your master'?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Madam, within; but never man so changed.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I told him of the army that was landed;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He smiled at it: I told him you were coming:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">His answer was 'The worse:' of Gloucester's treachery,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And of the loyal service of his son,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When I inform'd him, then he call'd me sot,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And told me I had turn'd the wrong side out:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What most he should dislike seems pleasant to him;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What like, offensive.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">To EDMUND</phrase> Then shall you go no further.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">It is the cowish terror of his spirit,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That dares not undertake: he'll not feel wrongs</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which tie him to an answer. Our wishes on the way</line>
-<line remap="LINE">May prove effects. Back, Edmund, to my brother;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hasten his musters and conduct his powers:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I must change arms at home, and give the distaff</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Into my husband's hands. This trusty servant</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Shall pass between us: ere long you are like to hear,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If you dare venture in your own behalf,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A mistress's command. Wear this; spare speech;</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Giving a favour</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Decline your head: this kiss, if it durst speak,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Would stretch thy spirits up into the air:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Conceive, and fare thee well.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Yours in the ranks of death.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">My most dear Gloucester!</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit EDMUND</para>
-<line remap="LINE">O, the difference of man and man!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To thee a woman's services are due:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My fool usurps my body.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Madam, here comes my lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter ALBANY</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I have been worth the whistle.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O Goneril!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You are not worth the dust which the rude wind</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Blows in your face. I fear your disposition:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That nature, which contemns its origin,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Cannot be border'd certain in itself;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">She that herself will sliver and disbranch</line>
-<line remap="LINE">From her material sap, perforce must wither</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And come to deadly use.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No more; the text is foolish.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Filths savour but themselves. What have you done?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Tigers, not daughters, what have you perform'd?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A father, and a gracious aged man,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Whose reverence even the head-lugg'd bear would lick,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Most barbarous, most degenerate! have you madded.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Could my good brother suffer you to do it?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A man, a prince, by him so benefited!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If that the heavens do not their visible spirits</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Send quickly down to tame these vile offences,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">It will come,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Humanity must perforce prey on itself,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Like monsters of the deep.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Milk-liver'd man!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thine honour from thy suffering; that not know'st</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Fools do those villains pity who are punish'd</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">France spreads his banners in our noiseless land;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With plumed helm thy slayer begins threats;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Whiles thou, a moral fool, sit'st still, and criest</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'Alack, why does he so?'</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">See thyself, devil!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Proper deformity seems not in the fiend</line>
-<line remap="LINE">So horrid as in woman.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O vain fool!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou changed and self-cover'd thing, for shame,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Be-monster not thy feature. Were't my fitness</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To let these hands obey my blood,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">They are apt enough to dislocate and tear</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy flesh and bones: howe'er thou art a fiend,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A woman's shape doth shield thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Marry, your manhood now--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter a Messenger</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What news?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Messenger</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O, my good lord, the Duke of Cornwall's dead:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Slain by his servant, going to put out</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The other eye of Gloucester.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Gloucester's eye!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Messenger</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">A servant that he bred, thrill'd with remorse,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Opposed against the act, bending his sword</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To his great master; who, thereat enraged,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Flew on him, and amongst them fell'd him dead;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But not without that harmful stroke, which since</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hath pluck'd him after.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This shows you are above,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You justicers, that these our nether crimes</line>
-<line remap="LINE">So speedily can venge! But, O poor Gloucester!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Lost he his other eye?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Messenger</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Both, both, my lord.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This letter, madam, craves a speedy answer;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis from your sister.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> One way I like this well;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But being widow, and my Gloucester with her,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">May all the building in my fancy pluck</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Upon my hateful life: another way,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The news is not so tart.--I'll read, and answer.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Where was his son when they did take his eyes?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Messenger</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Come with my lady hither.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He is not here.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Messenger</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, my good lord; I met him back again.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Knows he the wickedness?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Messenger</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ay, my good lord; 'twas he inform'd against him;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And quit the house on purpose, that their punishment</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Might have the freer course.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Gloucester, I live</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To thank thee for the love thou show'dst the king,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And to revenge thine eyes. Come hither, friend:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Tell me what more thou know'st.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE III. The French camp near Dover.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KENT and a Gentleman</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why the King of France is so suddenly gone back</line>
-<line remap="LINE">know you the reason?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Something he left imperfect in the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">state, which since his coming forth is thought</line>
-<line remap="LINE">of; which imports to the kingdom so much</line>
-<line remap="LINE">fear and danger, that his personal return was</line>
-<line remap="LINE">most required and necessary.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Who hath he left behind him general?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The Marshal of France, Monsieur La Far.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Did your letters pierce the queen to any</line>
-<line remap="LINE">demonstration of grief?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ay, sir; she took them, read them in my presence;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And now and then an ample tear trill'd down</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Her delicate cheek: it seem'd she was a queen</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Over her passion; who, most rebel-like,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Sought to be king o'er her.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O, then it moved her.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Not to a rage: patience and sorrow strove</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who should express her goodliest. You have seen</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Were like a better way: those happy smilets,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to know</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As pearls from diamonds dropp'd. In brief,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Sorrow would be a rarity most beloved,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If all could so become it.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Made she no verbal question?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">'Faith, once or twice she heaved the name of 'father'</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Pantingly forth, as if it press'd her heart:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Cried 'Sisters! sisters! Shame of ladies! sisters!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Kent! father! sisters! What, i' the storm? i' the night?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Let pity not be believed!' There she shook</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The holy water from her heavenly eyes,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And clamour moisten'd: then away she started</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To deal with grief alone.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">It is the stars,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The stars above us, govern our conditions;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Else one self mate and mate could not beget</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Such different issues. You spoke not with her since?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Was this before the king return'd?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, since.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Well, sir, the poor distressed Lear's i' the town;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who sometime, in his better tune, remembers</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What we are come about, and by no means</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Will yield to see his daughter.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, good sir?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">A sovereign shame so elbows him: his own unkindness,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That stripp'd her from his benediction, turn'd her</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To foreign casualties, gave her dear rights</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To his dog-hearted daughters, these things sting</line>
-<line remap="LINE">His mind so venomously, that burning shame</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Detains him from Cordelia.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Alack, poor gentleman!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Of Albany's and Cornwall's powers you heard not?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis so, they are afoot.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Well, sir, I'll bring you to our master Lear,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And leave you to attend him: some dear cause</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Will in concealment wrap me up awhile;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When I am known aright, you shall not grieve</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Lending me this acquaintance. I pray you, go</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Along with me.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE IV. The same. A tent.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter, with drum and colours, CORDELIA, Doctor, and Soldiers</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Alack, 'tis he: why, he was met even now</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In our sustaining corn. A century send forth;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Search every acre in the high-grown field,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And bring him to our eye.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit an Officer</para>
-<line remap="LINE">What can man's wisdom</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In the restoring his bereaved sense?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He that helps him take all my outward worth.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Doctor</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">There is means, madam:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Our foster-nurse of nature is repose,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The which he lacks; that to provoke in him,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Are many simples operative, whose power</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Will close the eye of anguish.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">All blest secrets,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">All you unpublish'd virtues of the earth,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Spring with my tears! be aidant and remediate</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In the good man's distress! Seek, seek for him;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Lest his ungovern'd rage dissolve the life</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That wants the means to lead it.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter a Messenger</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Messenger</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">News, madam;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The British powers are marching hitherward.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis known before; our preparation stands</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In expectation of them. O dear father,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">It is thy business that I go about;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Therefore great France</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My mourning and important tears hath pitied.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">No blown ambition doth our arms incite,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But love, dear love, and our aged father's right:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Soon may I hear and see him!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE V. Gloucester's castle.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter REGAN and OSWALD</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">But are my brother's powers set forth?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ay, madam.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Himself in person there?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Madam, with much ado:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Your sister is the better soldier.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Lord Edmund spake not with your lord at home?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, madam.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What might import my sister's letter to him?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I know not, lady.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">'Faith, he is posted hence on serious matter.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">It was great ignorance, Gloucester's eyes being out,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To let him live: where he arrives he moves</line>
-<line remap="LINE">All hearts against us: Edmund, I think, is gone,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In pity of his misery, to dispatch</line>
-<line remap="LINE">His nighted life: moreover, to descry</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The strength o' the enemy.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I must needs after him, madam, with my letter.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Our troops set forth to-morrow: stay with us;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The ways are dangerous.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I may not, madam:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My lady charged my duty in this business.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why should she write to Edmund? Might not you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Transport her purposes by word? Belike,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Something--I know not what: I'll love thee much,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Let me unseal the letter.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Madam, I had rather--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I know your lady does not love her husband;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I am sure of that: and at her late being here</line>
-<line remap="LINE">She gave strange oeillades and most speaking looks</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To noble Edmund. I know you are of her bosom.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I, madam?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I speak in understanding; you are; I know't:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Therefore I do advise you, take this note:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My lord is dead; Edmund and I have talk'd;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And more convenient is he for my hand</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Than for your lady's: you may gather more.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If you do find him, pray you, give him this;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And when your mistress hears thus much from you,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I pray, desire her call her wisdom to her.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">So, fare you well.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Preferment falls on him that cuts him off.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Would I could meet him, madam! I should show</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What party I do follow.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Fare thee well.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE VI. Fields near Dover.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GLOUCESTER, and EDGAR dressed like a peasant</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">When shall we come to the top of that same hill?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">You do climb up it now: look, how we labour.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Methinks the ground is even.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Horrible steep.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hark, do you hear the sea?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, truly.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect</line>
-<line remap="LINE">By your eyes' anguish.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">So may it be, indeed:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Methinks thy voice is alter'd; and thou speak'st</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In better phrase and matter than thou didst.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">You're much deceived: in nothing am I changed</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But in my garments.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Methinks you're better spoken.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The crows and choughs that wing the midway air</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Show scarce so gross as beetles: half way down</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Methinks he seems no bigger than his head:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The fishermen, that walk upon the beach,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Appear like mice; and yond tall anchoring bark,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Almost too small for sight: the murmuring surge,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Topple down headlong.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Set me where you stand.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Give me your hand: you are now within a foot</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Of the extreme verge: for all beneath the moon</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Would I not leap upright.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let go my hand.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Here, friend, 's another purse; in it a jewel</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Well worth a poor man's taking: fairies and gods</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Prosper it with thee! Go thou farther off;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Bid me farewell, and let me hear thee going.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Now fare you well, good sir.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">With all my heart.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why I do trifle thus with his despair</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Is done to cure it.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Kneeling</phrase> O you mighty gods!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This world I do renounce, and, in your sights,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Shake patiently my great affliction off:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If I could bear it longer, and not fall</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To quarrel with your great opposeless wills,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My snuff and loathed part of nature should</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Burn itself out. If Edgar live, O, bless him!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Now, fellow, fare thee well.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">He falls forward</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Gone, sir: farewell.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And yet I know not how conceit may rob</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The treasury of life, when life itself</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Yields to the theft: had he been where he thought,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">By this, had thought been past. Alive or dead?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Ho, you sir! friend! Hear you, sir! speak!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thus might he pass indeed: yet he revives.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What are you, sir?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Away, and let me die.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Hadst thou been aught but gossamer, feathers, air,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">So many fathom down precipitating,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou'dst shiver'd like an egg: but thou dost breathe;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hast heavy substance; bleed'st not; speak'st; art sound.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Ten masts at each make not the altitude</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which thou hast perpendicularly fell:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy life's a miracle. Speak yet again.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">But have I fall'n, or no?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">From the dread summit of this chalky bourn.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Look up a-height; the shrill-gorged lark so far</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Cannot be seen or heard: do but look up.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Alack, I have no eyes.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Is wretchedness deprived that benefit,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To end itself by death? 'Twas yet some comfort,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And frustrate his proud will.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Give me your arm:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Up: so. How is 't? Feel you your legs? You stand.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Too well, too well.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This is above all strangeness.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Upon the crown o' the cliff, what thing was that</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which parted from you?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">A poor unfortunate beggar.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">As I stood here below, methought his eyes</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Were two full moons; he had a thousand noses,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Horns whelk'd and waved like the enridged sea:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">It was some fiend; therefore, thou happy father,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Think that the clearest gods, who make them honours</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Of men's impossibilities, have preserved thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I do remember now: henceforth I'll bear</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Affliction till it do cry out itself</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'Enough, enough,' and die. That thing you speak of,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I took it for a man; often 'twould say</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'The fiend, the fiend:' he led me to that place.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Bear free and patient thoughts. But who comes here?</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KING LEAR, fantastically dressed with wild flowers</para>
-<line remap="LINE">The safer sense will ne'er accommodate</line>
-<line remap="LINE">His master thus.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, they cannot touch me for coining; I am the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">king himself.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O thou side-piercing sight!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Nature's above art in that respect. There's your</line>
-<line remap="LINE">press-money. That fellow handles his bow like a</line>
-<line remap="LINE">crow-keeper: draw me a clothier's yard. Look,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">look, a mouse! Peace, peace; this piece of toasted</line>
-<line remap="LINE">cheese will do 't. There's my gauntlet; I'll prove</line>
-<line remap="LINE">it on a giant. Bring up the brown bills. O, well</line>
-<line remap="LINE">flown, bird! i' the clout, i' the clout: hewgh!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Give the word.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sweet marjoram.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Pass.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I know that voice.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ha! Goneril, with a white beard! They flattered</line>
-<line remap="LINE">me like a dog; and told me I had white hairs in my</line>
-<line remap="LINE">beard ere the black ones were there. To say 'ay'</line>
-<line remap="LINE">and 'no' to every thing that I said!--'Ay' and 'no'</line>
-<line remap="LINE">too was no good divinity. When the rain came to</line>
-<line remap="LINE">wet me once, and the wind to make me chatter; when</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the thunder would not peace at my bidding; there I</line>
-<line remap="LINE">found 'em, there I smelt 'em out. Go to, they are</line>
-<line remap="LINE">not men o' their words: they told me I was every</line>
-<line remap="LINE">thing; 'tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The trick of that voice I do well remember:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Is 't not the king?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ay, every inch a king:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When I do stare, see how the subject quakes.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause? Adultery?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou shalt not die: die for adultery! No:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The wren goes to 't, and the small gilded fly</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Does lecher in my sight.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester's bastard son</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Was kinder to his father than my daughters</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Got 'tween the lawful sheets.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To 't, luxury, pell-mell! for I lack soldiers.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Behold yond simpering dame,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Whose face between her forks presages snow;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That minces virtue, and does shake the head</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To hear of pleasure's name;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to 't</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With a more riotous appetite.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Down from the waist they are Centaurs,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Though women all above:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But to the girdle do the gods inherit,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Beneath is all the fiends';</line>
-<line remap="LINE">There's hell, there's darkness, there's the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">sulphurous pit,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Burning, scalding, stench, consumption; fie,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">fie, fie! pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">there's money for thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O, let me kiss that hand!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O ruin'd piece of nature! This great world</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Shall so wear out to nought. Dost thou know me?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou squiny</line>
-<line remap="LINE">at me? No, do thy worst, blind Cupid! I'll not</line>
-<line remap="LINE">love. Read thou this challenge; mark but the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">penning of it.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Were all the letters suns, I could not see one.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I would not take this from report; it is,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And my heart breaks at it.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Read.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What, with the case of eyes?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O, ho, are you there with me? No eyes in your</line>
-<line remap="LINE">head, nor no money in your purse? Your eyes are in</line>
-<line remap="LINE">a heavy case, your purse in a light; yet you see how</line>
-<line remap="LINE">this world goes.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I see it feelingly.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What, art mad? A man may see how this world goes</line>
-<line remap="LINE">with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond</line>
-<line remap="LINE">justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in</line>
-<line remap="LINE">thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which</line>
-<line remap="LINE">is the justice, which is the thief? Thou hast seen</line>
-<line remap="LINE">a farmer's dog bark at a beggar?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ay, sir.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">And the creature run from the cur? There thou</line>
-<line remap="LINE">mightst behold the great image of authority: a</line>
-<line remap="LINE">dog's obeyed in office.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For which thou whipp'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">None does offend, none, I say, none; I'll able 'em:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Take that of me, my friend, who have the power</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To seal the accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And like a scurvy politician, seem</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To see the things thou dost not. Now, now, now, now:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Pull off my boots: harder, harder: so.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O, matter and impertinency mix'd! Reason in madness!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I know thee well enough; thy name is Gloucester:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou must be patient; we came crying hither:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">We wawl and cry. I will preach to thee: mark.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Alack, alack the day!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">When we are born, we cry that we are come</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To this great stage of fools: this a good block;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">It were a delicate stratagem, to shoe</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A troop of horse with felt: I'll put 't in proof;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And when I have stol'n upon these sons-in-law,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Then, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter a Gentleman, with Attendants</para>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O, here he is: lay hand upon him. Sir,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Your most dear daughter--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No rescue? What, a prisoner? I am even</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The natural fool of fortune. Use me well;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You shall have ransom. Let me have surgeons;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I am cut to the brains.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">You shall have any thing.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No seconds? all myself?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, this would make a man a man of salt,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To use his eyes for garden water-pots,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Ay, and laying autumn's dust.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Good sir,--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I will die bravely, like a bridegroom. What!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I will be jovial: come, come; I am a king,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My masters, know you that.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">You are a royal one, and we obey you.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Then there's life in't. Nay, if you get it, you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">shall get it with running. Sa, sa, sa, sa.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit running; Attendants follow</para>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">A sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Past speaking of in a king! Thou hast one daughter,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who redeems nature from the general curse</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which twain have brought her to.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Hail, gentle sir.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sir, speed you: what's your will?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Most sure and vulgar: every one hears that,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which can distinguish sound.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">But, by your favour,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">How near's the other army?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Near and on speedy foot; the main descry</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Stands on the hourly thought.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I thank you, sir: that's all.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Though that the queen on special cause is here,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Her army is moved on.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I thank you, sir.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit Gentleman</para>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Let not my worser spirit tempt me again</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To die before you please!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Well pray you, father.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Now, good sir, what are you?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Am pregnant to good pity. Give me your hand,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I'll lead you to some biding.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Hearty thanks:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The bounty and the benison of heaven</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To boot, and boot!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter OSWALD</para>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">A proclaim'd prize! Most happy!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That eyeless head of thine was first framed flesh</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To raise my fortunes. Thou old unhappy traitor,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Briefly thyself remember: the sword is out</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That must destroy thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Now let thy friendly hand</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Put strength enough to't.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
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-<para remap="STAGEDIR">EDGAR interposes</para>
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-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Wherefore, bold peasant,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Darest thou support a publish'd traitor? Hence;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Lest that the infection of his fortune take</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Like hold on thee. Let go his arm.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ch'ill not let go, zir, without vurther 'casion.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let go, slave, or thou diest!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor volk</line>
-<line remap="LINE">pass. An chud ha' bin zwaggered out of my life,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'twould not ha' bin zo long as 'tis by a vortnight.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Nay, come not near th' old man; keep out, che vor</line>
-<line remap="LINE">ye, or ise try whether your costard or my ballow be</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the harder: ch'ill be plain with you.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Out, dunghill!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ch'ill pick your teeth, zir: come; no matter vor</line>
-<line remap="LINE">your foins.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">They fight, and EDGAR knocks him down</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Slave, thou hast slain me: villain, take my purse:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And give the letters which thou find'st about me</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To Edmund earl of Gloucester; seek him out</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Upon the British party: O, untimely death!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Dies</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I know thee well: a serviceable villain;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As duteous to the vices of thy mistress</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As badness would desire.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What, is he dead?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sit you down, father; rest you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Let's see these pockets: the letters that he speaks of</line>
-<line remap="LINE">May be my friends. He's dead; I am only sorry</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He had no other death's-man. Let us see:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Leave, gentle wax; and, manners, blame us not:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To know our enemies' minds, we'ld rip their hearts;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Their papers, is more lawful.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Reads</para>
-<line remap="LINE">'Let our reciprocal vows be remembered. You have</line>
-<line remap="LINE">many opportunities to cut him off: if your will</line>
-<line remap="LINE">want not, time and place will be fruitfully offered.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">There is nothing done, if he return the conqueror:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">then am I the prisoner, and his bed my goal; from</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the loathed warmth whereof deliver me, and supply</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the place for your labour.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'Your--wife, so I would say--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'Affectionate servant,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'GONERIL.'</line>
-<line remap="LINE">O undistinguish'd space of woman's will!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A plot upon her virtuous husband's life;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And the exchange my brother! Here, in the sands,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thee I'll rake up, the post unsanctified</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Of murderous lechers: and in the mature time</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With this ungracious paper strike the sight</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Of the death practised duke: for him 'tis well</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That of thy death and business I can tell.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The king is mad: how stiff is my vile sense,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That I stand up, and have ingenious feeling</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Of my huge sorrows! Better I were distract:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">So should my thoughts be sever'd from my griefs,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And woes by wrong imaginations lose</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The knowledge of themselves.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Give me your hand:</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Drum afar off</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Far off, methinks, I hear the beaten drum:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Come, father, I'll bestow you with a friend.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE VII. A tent in the French camp. LEAR on a bed asleep, soft music playing; Gentleman, and others attending.</title>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter CORDELIA, KENT, and Doctor</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To match thy goodness? My life will be too short,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And every measure fail me.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">To be acknowledged, madam, is o'erpaid.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">All my reports go with the modest truth;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Nor more nor clipp'd, but so.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Be better suited:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">These weeds are memories of those worser hours:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I prithee, put them off.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Pardon me, dear madam;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Yet to be known shortens my made intent:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My boon I make it, that you know me not</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Till time and I think meet.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Then be't so, my good lord.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To the Doctor</para>
-<line remap="LINE">How does the king?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Doctor</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Madam, sleeps still.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O you kind gods,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Cure this great breach in his abused nature!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The untuned and jarring senses, O, wind up</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Of this child-changed father!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Doctor</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">So please your majesty</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That we may wake the king: he hath slept long.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Be govern'd by your knowledge, and proceed</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I' the sway of your own will. Is he array'd?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ay, madam; in the heaviness of his sleep</line>
-<line remap="LINE">We put fresh garments on him.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Doctor</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Be by, good madam, when we do awake him;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I doubt not of his temperance.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Very well.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Doctor</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Please you, draw near. Louder the music there!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O my dear father! Restoration hang</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy medicine on my lips; and let this kiss</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Repair those violent harms that my two sisters</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Have in thy reverence made!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Kind and dear princess!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Had you not been their father, these white flakes</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Had challenged pity of them. Was this a face</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To be opposed against the warring winds?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In the most terrible and nimble stroke</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Of quick, cross lightning? to watch--poor perdu!--</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With this thin helm? Mine enemy's dog,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Though he had bit me, should have stood that night</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Against my fire; and wast thou fain, poor father,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In short and musty straw? Alack, alack!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Had not concluded all. He wakes; speak to him.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Doctor</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Madam, do you; 'tis fittest.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Do scald like moulten lead.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sir, do you know me?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">You are a spirit, I know: when did you die?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Still, still, far wide!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Doctor</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He's scarce awake: let him alone awhile.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Where have I been? Where am I? Fair daylight?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I am mightily abused. I should e'en die with pity,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To see another thus. I know not what to say.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I will not swear these are my hands: let's see;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I feel this pin prick. Would I were assured</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Of my condition!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">O, look upon me, sir,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And hold your hands in benediction o'er me:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">No, sir, you must not kneel.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Pray, do not mock me:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I am a very foolish fond old man,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And, to deal plainly,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I fear I am not in my perfect mind.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Methinks I should know you, and know this man;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Yet I am doubtful for I am mainly ignorant</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What place this is; and all the skill I have</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Remembers not these garments; nor I know not</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For, as I am a man, I think this lady</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To be my child Cordelia.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">And so I am, I am.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Be your tears wet? yes, 'faith. I pray, weep not:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If you have poison for me, I will drink it.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I know you do not love me; for your sisters</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Have, as I do remember, done me wrong:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You have some cause, they have not.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No cause, no cause.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Am I in France?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">In your own kingdom, sir.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Do not abuse me.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Doctor</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Be comforted, good madam: the great rage,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You see, is kill'd in him: and yet it is danger</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To make him even o'er the time he has lost.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Desire him to go in; trouble him no more</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Till further settling.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Will't please your highness walk?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">You must bear with me:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Pray you now, forget and forgive: I am old and foolish.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt all but KENT and Gentleman</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Holds it true, sir, that the Duke of Cornwall was so slain?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Most certain, sir.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Who is conductor of his people?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">As 'tis said, the bastard son of Gloucester.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">They say Edgar, his banished son, is with the Earl</line>
-<line remap="LINE">of Kent in Germany.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Report is changeable. 'Tis time to look about; the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">powers of the kingdom approach apace.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The arbitrement is like to be bloody. Fare you</line>
-<line remap="LINE">well, sir.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">My point and period will be throughly wrought,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Or well or ill, as this day's battle's fought.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-</section>
-
-</chapter>
-
-<chapter remap="ACT"><title remap="TITLE">ACT V</title>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE I. The British camp, near Dover.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter, with drum and colours, EDMUND, REGAN,
-Gentlemen, and Soldiers.
-
-EDMUND Know of the duke if his last purpose hold,
-Or whether since he is advised by aught
-To change the course: he's full of alteration
-And self-reproving: bring his constant pleasure.
-
-[To a Gentleman, who goes out</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Our sister's man is certainly miscarried.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis to be doubted, madam.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Now, sweet lord,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You know the goodness I intend upon you:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Tell me--but truly--but then speak the truth,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Do you not love my sister?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">In honour'd love.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">But have you never found my brother's way</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To the forfended place?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">That thought abuses you.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I am doubtful that you have been conjunct</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And bosom'd with her, as far as we call hers.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, by mine honour, madam.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I never shall endure her: dear my lord,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Be not familiar with her.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Fear me not:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">She and the duke her husband!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter, with drum and colours, ALBANY, GONERIL, and Soldiers</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> I had rather lose the battle than that sister</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Should loosen him and me.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Our very loving sister, well be-met.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Sir, this I hear; the king is come to his daughter,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With others whom the rigor of our state</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Forced to cry out. Where I could not be honest,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I never yet was valiant: for this business,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">It toucheth us, as France invades our land,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Not bolds the king, with others, whom, I fear,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Most just and heavy causes make oppose.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sir, you speak nobly.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why is this reason'd?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Combine together 'gainst the enemy;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For these domestic and particular broils</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Are not the question here.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let's then determine</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With the ancient of war on our proceedings.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I shall attend you presently at your tent.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sister, you'll go with us?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis most convenient; pray you, go with us.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> O, ho, I know the riddle.--I will go.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">As they are going out, enter EDGAR disguised</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">If e'er your grace had speech with man so poor,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hear me one word.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I'll overtake you. Speak.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt all but ALBANY and EDGAR</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Before you fight the battle, ope this letter.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If you have victory, let the trumpet sound</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For him that brought it: wretched though I seem,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I can produce a champion that will prove</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What is avouched there. If you miscarry,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Your business of the world hath so an end,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And machination ceases. Fortune love you.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Stay till I have read the letter.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I was forbid it.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When time shall serve, let but the herald cry,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And I'll appear again.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, fare thee well: I will o'erlook thy paper.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit EDGAR</para>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Re-enter EDMUND</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The enemy's in view; draw up your powers.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Here is the guess of their true strength and forces</line>
-<line remap="LINE">By diligent discovery; but your haste</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Is now urged on you.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">We will greet the time.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">To both these sisters have I sworn my love;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Each jealous of the other, as the stung</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Are of the adder. Which of them shall I take?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Both? one? or neither? Neither can be enjoy'd,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If both remain alive: to take the widow</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And hardly shall I carry out my side,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Her husband being alive. Now then we'll use</line>
-<line remap="LINE">His countenance for the battle; which being done,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Let her who would be rid of him devise</line>
-<line remap="LINE">His speedy taking off. As for the mercy</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which he intends to Lear and to Cordelia,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The battle done, and they within our power,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Shall never see his pardon; for my state</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Stands on me to defend, not to debate.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE II. A field between the two camps.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Alarum within. Enter, with drum and colours,
-KING LEAR, CORDELIA, and Soldiers, over the stage;
-and exeunt</para>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDGAR and GLOUCESTER</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Here, father, take the shadow of this tree</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For your good host; pray that the right may thrive:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If ever I return to you again,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I'll bring you comfort.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Grace go with you, sir!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit EDGAR</para>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Alarum and retreat within. Re-enter EDGAR</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Away, old man; give me thy hand; away!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">King Lear hath lost, he and his daughter ta'en:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Give me thy hand; come on.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No farther, sir; a man may rot even here.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Their going hence, even as their coming hither;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Ripeness is all: come on.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">And that's true too.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
-</section>
-
-<section remap="SCENE"><title remap="TITLE">SCENE III. The British camp near Dover.</title>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter, in conquest, with drum and colours, EDMUND,
-KING LEAR and CORDELIA, prisoners; Captain,
-Soldiers, &c</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Some officers take them away: good guard,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Until their greater pleasures first be known</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That are to censure them.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">We are not the first</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who, with best meaning, have incurr'd the worst.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For thee, oppressed king, am I cast down;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Myself could else out-frown false fortune's frown.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh</line>
-<line remap="LINE">At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And take upon's the mystery of things,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That ebb and flow by the moon.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Take them away.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The gods themselves throw incense. Have I caught thee?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And fire us hence like foxes. Wipe thine eyes;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The good-years shall devour them, flesh and fell,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Ere they shall make us weep: we'll see 'em starve</line>
-<line remap="LINE">first. Come.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt KING LEAR and CORDELIA, guarded</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Come hither, captain; hark.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Take thou this note;</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Giving a paper</para>
-<line remap="LINE">go follow them to prison:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">One step I have advanced thee; if thou dost</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As this instructs thee, thou dost make thy way</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To noble fortunes: know thou this, that men</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Are as the time is: to be tender-minded</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Does not become a sword: thy great employment</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Will not bear question; either say thou'lt do 't,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Or thrive by other means.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Captain</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I'll do 't, my lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">About it; and write happy when thou hast done.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Mark, I say, instantly; and carry it so</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As I have set it down.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Captain</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If it be man's work, I'll do 't.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Flourish. Enter ALBANY, GONERIL, REGAN, another
-Captain, and Soldiers</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sir, you have shown to-day your valiant strain,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And fortune led you well: you have the captives</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That were the opposites of this day's strife:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">We do require them of you, so to use them</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As we shall find their merits and our safety</line>
-<line remap="LINE">May equally determine.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sir, I thought it fit</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To send the old and miserable king</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To some retention and appointed guard;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Whose age has charms in it, whose title more,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To pluck the common bosom on his side,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">An turn our impress'd lances in our eyes</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which do command them. With him I sent the queen;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My reason all the same; and they are ready</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To-morrow, or at further space, to appear</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Where you shall hold your session. At this time</line>
-<line remap="LINE">We sweat and bleed: the friend hath lost his friend;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And the best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed</line>
-<line remap="LINE">By those that feel their sharpness:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The question of Cordelia and her father</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Requires a fitter place.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sir, by your patience,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I hold you but a subject of this war,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Not as a brother.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">That's as we list to grace him.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Methinks our pleasure might have been demanded,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Ere you had spoke so far. He led our powers;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Bore the commission of my place and person;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The which immediacy may well stand up,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And call itself your brother.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Not so hot:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">In his own grace he doth exalt himself,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">More than in your addition.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">In my rights,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">By me invested, he compeers the best.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">That were the most, if he should husband you.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Jesters do oft prove prophets.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Holla, holla!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That eye that told you so look'd but a-squint.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Lady, I am not well; else I should answer</line>
-<line remap="LINE">From a full-flowing stomach. General,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Take thou my soldiers, prisoners, patrimony;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Dispose of them, of me; the walls are thine:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Witness the world, that I create thee here</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My lord and master.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Mean you to enjoy him?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The let-alone lies not in your good will.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Nor in thine, lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Half-blooded fellow, yes.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">To EDMUND</phrase> Let the drum strike, and prove my title thine.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Stay yet; hear reason. Edmund, I arrest thee</line>
-<line remap="LINE">On capital treason; and, in thine attaint,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This gilded serpent</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Pointing to Goneril</para>
-<line remap="LINE">For your claim, fair sister,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I bar it in the interest of my wife:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis she is sub-contracted to this lord,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And I, her husband, contradict your bans.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If you will marry, make your loves to me,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My lady is bespoke.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">An interlude!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou art arm'd, Gloucester: let the trumpet sound:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If none appear to prove upon thy head</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy heinous, manifest, and many treasons,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">There is my pledge;</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Throwing down a glove</para>
-<line remap="LINE">I'll prove it on thy heart,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Ere I taste bread, thou art in nothing less</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Than I have here proclaim'd thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sick, O, sick!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> If not, I'll ne'er trust medicine.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">There's my exchange:</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Throwing down a glove</para>
-<line remap="LINE">what in the world he is</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That names me traitor, villain-like he lies:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Call by thy trumpet: he that dares approach,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">On him, on you, who not? I will maintain</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My truth and honour firmly.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">A herald, ho!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">A herald, ho, a herald!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Trust to thy single virtue; for thy soldiers,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">All levied in my name, have in my name</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Took their discharge.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">My sickness grows upon me.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">She is not well; convey her to my tent.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit Regan, led</para>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter a Herald</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Come hither, herald,--Let the trumpet sound,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And read out this.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Captain</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sound, trumpet!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">A trumpet sounds</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Herald</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Reads</phrase> 'If any man of quality or degree within</line>
-<line remap="LINE">the lists of the army will maintain upon Edmund,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">supposed Earl of Gloucester, that he is a manifold</line>
-<line remap="LINE">traitor, let him appear by the third sound of the</line>
-<line remap="LINE">trumpet: he is bold in his defence.'</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Sound!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">First trumpet</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Herald</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Again!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Second trumpet</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Herald</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Again!</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Third trumpet</para>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Trumpet answers within</para>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDGAR, at the third sound, armed, with a
-trumpet before him</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ask him his purposes, why he appears</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Upon this call o' the trumpet.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Herald</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What are you?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Your name, your quality? and why you answer</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This present summons?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Know, my name is lost;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Yet am I noble as the adversary</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I come to cope.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Which is that adversary?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What's he that speaks for Edmund Earl of Gloucester?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Himself: what say'st thou to him?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Draw thy sword,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That, if my speech offend a noble heart,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy arm may do thee justice: here is mine.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Behold, it is the privilege of mine honours,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My oath, and my profession: I protest,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Maugre thy strength, youth, place, and eminence,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Despite thy victor sword and fire-new fortune,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy valour and thy heart, thou art a traitor;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Conspirant 'gainst this high-illustrious prince;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And, from the extremest upward of thy head</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To the descent and dust below thy foot,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A most toad-spotted traitor. Say thou 'No,'</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This sword, this arm, and my best spirits, are bent</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To prove upon thy heart, whereto I speak,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou liest.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">In wisdom I should ask thy name;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But, since thy outside looks so fair and warlike,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And that thy tongue some say of breeding breathes,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What safe and nicely I might well delay</line>
-<line remap="LINE">By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Back do I toss these treasons to thy head;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With the hell-hated lie o'erwhelm thy heart;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which, for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This sword of mine shall give them instant way,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Where they shall rest for ever. Trumpets, speak!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Alarums. They fight. EDMUND falls</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Save him, save him!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This is practise, Gloucester:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">By the law of arms thou wast not bound to answer</line>
-<line remap="LINE">An unknown opposite; thou art not vanquish'd,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">But cozen'd and beguiled.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Shut your mouth, dame,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Or with this paper shall I stop it: Hold, sir:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou worse than any name, read thine own evil:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">No tearing, lady: I perceive you know it.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Gives the letter to EDMUND</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Say, if I do, the laws are mine, not thine:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who can arraign me for't.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Most monstrous! oh!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Know'st thou this paper?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ask me not what I know.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Go after her: she's desperate; govern her.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What you have charged me with, that have I done;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And more, much more; the time will bring it out:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis past, and so am I. But what art thou</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That hast this fortune on me? If thou'rt noble,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I do forgive thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Let's exchange charity.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I am no less in blood than thou art, Edmund;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If more, the more thou hast wrong'd me.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My name is Edgar, and thy father's son.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Make instruments to plague us:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The dark and vicious place where thee he got</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Cost him his eyes.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Thou hast spoken right, 'tis true;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The wheel is come full circle: I am here.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Methought thy very gait did prophesy</line>
-<line remap="LINE">A royal nobleness: I must embrace thee:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Let sorrow split my heart, if ever I</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Did hate thee or thy father!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Worthy prince, I know't.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Where have you hid yourself?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">How have you known the miseries of your father?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">By nursing them, my lord. List a brief tale;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And when 'tis told, O, that my heart would burst!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The bloody proclamation to escape,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That follow'd me so near,--O, our lives' sweetness!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That we the pain of death would hourly die</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Rather than die at once!--taught me to shift</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Into a madman's rags; to assume a semblance</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That very dogs disdain'd: and in this habit</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Met I my father with his bleeding rings,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Their precious stones new lost: became his guide,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Led him, begg'd for him, saved him from despair;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Never,--O fault!--reveal'd myself unto him,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Until some half-hour past, when I was arm'd:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Not sure, though hoping, of this good success,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I ask'd his blessing, and from first to last</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Told him my pilgrimage: but his flaw'd heart,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Alack, too weak the conflict to support!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Burst smilingly.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This speech of yours hath moved me,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And shall perchance do good: but speak you on;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You look as you had something more to say.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">If there be more, more woeful, hold it in;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">For I am almost ready to dissolve,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Hearing of this.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This would have seem'd a period</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To such as love not sorrow; but another,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To amplify too much, would make much more,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And top extremity.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Whilst I was big in clamour came there in a man,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who, having seen me in my worst estate,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Shunn'd my abhorr'd society; but then, finding</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Who 'twas that so endured, with his strong arms</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He fastened on my neck, and bellow'd out</line>
-<line remap="LINE">As he'ld burst heaven; threw him on my father;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Told the most piteous tale of Lear and him</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That ever ear received: which in recounting</line>
-<line remap="LINE">His grief grew puissant and the strings of life</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Began to crack: twice then the trumpets sounded,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And there I left him tranced.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">But who was this?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Kent, sir, the banish'd Kent; who in disguise</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Improper for a slave.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter a Gentleman, with a bloody knife</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Help, help, O, help!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What kind of help?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Speak, man.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">What means that bloody knife?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis hot, it smokes;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">It came even from the heart of--O, she's dead!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Who dead? speak, man.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Your lady, sir, your lady: and her sister</line>
-<line remap="LINE">By her is poisoned; she hath confess'd it.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I was contracted to them both: all three</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Now marry in an instant.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Here comes Kent.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Produce their bodies, be they alive or dead:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">This judgment of the heavens, that makes us tremble,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Touches us not with pity.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit Gentleman</para>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KENT</para>
-<line remap="LINE">O, is this he?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The time will not allow the compliment</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Which very manners urges.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I am come</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To bid my king and master aye good night:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Is he not here?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Great thing of us forgot!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Speak, Edmund, where's the king? and where's Cordelia?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">See'st thou this object, Kent?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">The bodies of GONERIL and REGAN are brought in</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Alack, why thus?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Yet Edmund was beloved:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The one the other poison'd for my sake,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And after slew herself.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Even so. Cover their faces.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I pant for life: some good I mean to do,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Despite of mine own nature. Quickly send,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Be brief in it, to the castle; for my writ</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Is on the life of Lear and on Cordelia:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Nay, send in time.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Run, run, O, run!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">To who, my lord? Who hath the office? send</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Thy token of reprieve.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Well thought on: take my sword,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Give it the captain.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Haste thee, for thy life.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit EDGAR</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He hath commission from thy wife and me</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To hang Cordelia in the prison, and</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To lay the blame upon her own despair,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That she fordid herself.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The gods defend her! Bear him hence awhile.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">EDMUND is borne off</para>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Re-enter KING LEAR, with CORDELIA dead in his arms;
-EDGAR, Captain, and others following</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Had I your tongues and eyes, I'ld use them so</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I know when one is dead, and when one lives;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Why, then she lives.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Is this the promised end</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Or image of that horror?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Fall, and cease!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That ever I have felt.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Kneeling</phrase> O my good master!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Prithee, away.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis noble Kent, your friend.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">A plague upon you, murderers, traitors all!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I might have saved her; now she's gone for ever!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Cordelia, Cordelia! stay a little. Ha!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I kill'd the slave that was a-hanging thee.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Captain</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">'Tis true, my lords, he did.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Did I not, fellow?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I have seen the day, with my good biting falchion</line>
-<line remap="LINE">I would have made them skip: I am old now,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And these same crosses spoil me. Who are you?</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Mine eyes are not o' the best: I'll tell you straight.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">If fortune brag of two she loved and hated,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">One of them we behold.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The same,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Your servant Kent: Where is your servant Caius?</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He's a good fellow, I can tell you that;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He'll strike, and quickly too: he's dead and rotten.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">No, my good lord; I am the very man,--</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I'll see that straight.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">That, from your first of difference and decay,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Have follow'd your sad steps.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">You are welcome hither.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Nor no man else: all's cheerless, dark, and deadly.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Your eldest daughters have fordone them selves,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And desperately are dead.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Ay, so I think.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He knows not what he says: and vain it is</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That we present us to him.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Very bootless.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter a Captain</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">Captain</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Edmund is dead, my lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">That's but a trifle here.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">You lords and noble friends, know our intent.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">What comfort to this great decay may come</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Shall be applied: for us we will resign,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">During the life of this old majesty,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">To him our absolute power:</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To EDGAR and KENT</para>
-<line remap="LINE">you, to your rights:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">With boot, and such addition as your honours</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Have more than merited. All friends shall taste</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The wages of their virtue, and all foes</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The cup of their deservings. O, see, see!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Never, never, never, never, never!</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Pray you, undo this button: thank you, sir.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips,</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Look there, look there!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Dies</para>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He faints! My lord, my lord!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Break, heart; I prithee, break!</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Look up, my lord.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him much</line>
-<line remap="LINE">That would upon the rack of this tough world</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Stretch him out longer.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">He is gone, indeed.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The wonder is, he hath endured so long:</line>
-<line remap="LINE">He but usurp'd his life.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">Bear them from hence. Our present business</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Is general woe.</line>
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">To KENT and EDGAR</para>
-<line remap="LINE">Friends of my soul, you twain</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Rule in this realm, and the gored state sustain.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">I have a journey, sir, shortly to go;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">My master calls me, I must not say no.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<dialogue remap="SPEECH"><linegroup>
-<speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
-<line remap="LINE">The weight of this sad time we must obey;</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.</line>
-<line remap="LINE">The oldest hath borne most: we that are young</line>
-<line remap="LINE">Shall never see so much, nor live so long.</line>
-</linegroup></dialogue>
-
-<para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt, with a dead march</para>
-</section>
-</chapter>
-</book>
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+<book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" remap="PLAY">
+ <title remap="TITLE">The Tragedy of King Lear</title>
+
+ <info remap="FM">
+ <dc:title xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">The Tragedy of King Lear</dc:title>
+ <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">William Shakespeare</dc:creator>
+ <dc:contributor xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">ASCII text placed in the public
+ domain by Moby Lexical Tools, 1992.</dc:contributor>
+ <dc:contributor xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">SGML markup by Jon Bosak,
+ 1992-1994.</dc:contributor>
+ <dc:contributor xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">XML version by Jon Bosak,
+ 1996-1999.</dc:contributor>
+ <dc:contributor xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">DocBook version by Scott Hudson,
+ 2008.</dc:contributor>
+ <dcterms:license xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">Bosak and Hudson license this
+ work for worldwide use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
+ 3.0 Unported License. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode).</dcterms:license>
+ <dc:source xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
+ >http://metalab.unc.edu/bosak/xml/eg/shaks200.zip</dc:source>
+ </info>
+
+ <preface remap="PERSONAE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">Dramatis Personae</title>
+
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">LEAR, king of Britain </personname>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">KING OF FRANCE</personname>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">DUKE OF BURGUNDY</personname>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">DUKE OF CORNWALL</personname>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">DUKE OF ALBANY</personname>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">EARL OF KENT</personname>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">EARL OF GLOUCESTER</personname>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">EDGAR, son to Gloucester.</personname>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">EDMUND, bastard son to Gloucester.</personname>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">CURAN, a courtier.</personname>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">Old Man, tenant to Gloucester.</personname>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">Doctor</personname>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">Fool</personname>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">OSWALD, steward to Goneril.</personname>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">A Captain employed by Edmund. </personname>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">Gentleman attendant on Cordelia. </personname>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">A Herald.</personname>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">Servants to Cornwall.</personname>
+ </para>
+
+ <simplelist columns="2" remap="PGROUP">
+ <member>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">GONERIL</personname>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">REGAN</personname>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">CORDELIA</personname>
+ </member>
+ <member>daughters to Lear.</member>
+ </simplelist>
+
+ <para>
+ <personname remap="PERSONA">Knights of Lear's train, Captains, Messengers, Soldiers, and
+ Attendants</personname>
+ </para>
+ <para remap="SCNDESCR">SCENE Britain.</para>
+ </preface>
+
+
+
+
+ <chapter remap="ACT">
+ <title remap="TITLE">ACT I</title>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE I. King Lear's palace.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KENT, GLOUCESTER, and EDMUND</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I thought the king had more affected the Duke of</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Albany than Cornwall.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">It did always seem so to us: but now, in the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">division of the kingdom, it appears not which of</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the dukes he values most; for equalities are so</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">of either's moiety.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is not this your son, my lord?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge: I have</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">so often blushed to acknowledge him, that now I am</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">brazed to it.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I cannot conceive you.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sir, this young fellow's mother could: whereupon</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">she grew round-wombed, and had, indeed, sir, a son</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do you smell a fault?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">being so proper.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">But I have, sir, a son by order of law, some year</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my account:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">though this knave came something saucily into the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">world before he was sent for, yet was his mother</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">fair; there was good sport at his making, and the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">whoreson must be acknowledged. Do you know this</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">noble gentleman, Edmund?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, my lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">My lord of Kent: remember him hereafter as my</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">honourable friend.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">My services to your lordship.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I must love you, and sue to know you better.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sir, I shall study deserving.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He hath been out nine years, and away he shall</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">again. The king is coming.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Sennet. Enter KING LEAR, CORNWALL, ALBANY, GONERIL, REGAN,
+ CORDELIA, and Attendants</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I shall, my liege.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt GLOUCESTER and EDMUND</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Give me the map there. Know that we have divided</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To shake all cares and business from our age;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Conferring them on younger strengths, while we</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Unburthen'd crawl toward death. Our son of Cornwall,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And you, our no less loving son of Albany,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">We have this hour a constant will to publish</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Our daughters' several dowers, that future strife</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">May be prevented now. The princes, France and Burgundy,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And here are to be answer'd. Tell me, my daughters,--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Since now we will divest us both of rule,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Interest of territory, cares of state,--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which of you shall we say doth love us most?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That we our largest bounty may extend</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Where nature doth with merit challenge. Goneril,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Our eldest-born, speak first.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As much as child e'er loved, or father found;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A love that makes breath poor, and speech unable;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Beyond all manner of so much I love you.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> What shall Cordelia
+ do?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Love, and be silent.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of all these bounds, even from this line to this,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With shadowy forests and with champains rich'd,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">We make thee lady: to thine and Albany's issue</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Be this perpetual. What says our second daughter,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Our dearest Regan, wife to Cornwall? Speak.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sir, I am made</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of the self-same metal that my sister is,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And prize me at her worth. In my true heart</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I find she names my very deed of love;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Only she comes too short: that I profess</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Myself an enemy to all other joys,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which the most precious square of sense possesses;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And find I am alone felicitate</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In your dear highness' love.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> Then poor Cordelia!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And yet not so; since, I am sure, my love's</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">More richer than my tongue.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">To thee and thine hereditary ever</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">No less in space, validity, and pleasure,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Than that conferr'd on Goneril. Now, our joy,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Although the last, not least; to whose young love</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The vines of France and milk of Burgundy</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Strive to be interess'd; what can you say to draw</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nothing, my lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nothing!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nothing.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">According to my bond; nor more nor less.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How, how, Cordelia! mend your speech a little,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Lest it may mar your fortunes.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Good my lord,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You have begot me, bred me, loved me: I</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Return those duties back as are right fit,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Obey you, love you, and most honour you.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why have my sisters husbands, if they say</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Half my love with him, half my care and duty:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To love my father all.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">But goes thy heart with this?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ay, good my lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">So young, and so untender?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">So young, my lord, and true.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let it be so; thy truth, then, be thy dower:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For, by the sacred radiance of the sun,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The mysteries of Hecate, and the night;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">By all the operation of the orbs</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">From whom we do exist, and cease to be;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Here I disclaim all my paternal care,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Propinquity and property of blood,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And as a stranger to my heart and me</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hold thee, from this, for ever. The barbarous Scythian,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Or he that makes his generation messes</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Be as well neighbour'd, pitied, and relieved,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As thou my sometime daughter.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Good my liege,--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Peace, Kent!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come not between the dragon and his wrath.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I loved her most, and thought to set my rest</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">On her kind nursery. Hence, and avoid my sight!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">So be my grave my peace, as here I give</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Her father's heart from her! Call France; who stirs?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Call Burgundy. Cornwall and Albany,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With my two daughters' dowers digest this third:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I do invest you jointly with my power,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pre-eminence, and all the large effects</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That troop with majesty. Ourself, by monthly course,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With reservation of an hundred knights,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">By you to be sustain'd, shall our abode</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Make with you by due turns. Only we still retain</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The name, and all the additions to a king;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The sway, revenue, execution of the rest,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Beloved sons, be yours: which to confirm,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This coronet part betwixt you.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Giving the crown</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Royal Lear,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Whom I have ever honour'd as my king,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Loved as my father, as my master follow'd,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As my great patron thought on in my prayers,--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The bow is bent and drawn, make from the shaft.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let it fall rather, though the fork invade</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The region of my heart: be Kent unmannerly,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When Lear is mad. What wilt thou do, old man?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When power to flattery bows? To plainness honour's bound,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When majesty stoops to folly. Reverse thy doom;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And, in thy best consideration, cheque</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This hideous rashness: answer my life my judgment,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Reverbs no hollowness.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Kent, on thy life, no more.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">My life I never held but as a pawn</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To wage against thy enemies; nor fear to lose it,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy safety being the motive.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Out of my sight!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">See better, Lear; and let me still remain</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The true blank of thine eye.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Now, by Apollo,--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Now, by Apollo, king,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou swear'st thy gods in vain.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, vassal! miscreant!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Laying his hand on his sword</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Dear sir, forbear.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Upon thy foul disease. Revoke thy doom;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Or, whilst I can vent clamour from my throat,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'll tell thee thou dost evil.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hear me, recreant!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">On thine allegiance, hear me!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Since thou hast sought to make us break our vow,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which we durst never yet, and with strain'd pride</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To come between our sentence and our power,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which nor our nature nor our place can bear,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Our potency made good, take thy reward.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Five days we do allot thee, for provision</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To shield thee from diseases of the world;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And on the sixth to turn thy hated back</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Upon our kingdom: if, on the tenth day following,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy banish'd trunk be found in our dominions,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The moment is thy death. Away! by Jupiter,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This shall not be revoked.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To CORDELIA</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">The gods to their dear shelter take thee, maid,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That justly think'st, and hast most rightly said!</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To REGAN and GONERIL</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">And your large speeches may your deeds approve,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That good effects may spring from words of love.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thus Kent, O princes, bids you all adieu;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He'll shape his old course in a country new.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Flourish. Re-enter GLOUCESTER, with KING OF FRANCE, BURGUNDY, and
+ Attendants</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Here's France and Burgundy, my noble lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">My lord of Burgundy.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">We first address towards you, who with this king</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hath rivall'd for our daughter: what, in the least,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Will you require in present dower with her,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Or cease your quest of love?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">BURGUNDY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Most royal majesty,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I crave no more than what your highness offer'd,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nor will you tender less.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Right noble Burgundy,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When she was dear to us, we did hold her so;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But now her price is fall'n. Sir, there she stands:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If aught within that little seeming substance,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Or all of it, with our displeasure pieced,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And nothing more, may fitly like your grace,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">She's there, and she is yours.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">BURGUNDY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I know no answer.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Will you, with those infirmities she owes,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Unfriended, new-adopted to our hate,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Dower'd with our curse, and stranger'd with our oath,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Take her, or leave her?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">BURGUNDY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pardon me, royal sir;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Election makes not up on such conditions.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Then leave her, sir; for, by the power that made me,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I tell you all her wealth.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To KING OF FRANCE</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">For you, great king,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I would not from your love make such a stray,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To match you where I hate; therefore beseech you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To avert your liking a more worthier way</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Than on a wretch whom nature is ashamed</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Almost to acknowledge hers.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING OF FRANCE</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This is most strange,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That she, that even but now was your best object,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The argument of your praise, balm of your age,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Most best, most dearest, should in this trice of time</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">So many folds of favour. Sure, her offence</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Must be of such unnatural degree,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That monsters it, or your fore-vouch'd affection</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fall'n into taint: which to believe of her,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Must be a faith that reason without miracle</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Could never plant in me.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I yet beseech your majesty,--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If for I want that glib and oily art,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To speak and purpose not; since what I well intend,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'll do't before I speak,--that you make known</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulness,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">No unchaste action, or dishonour'd step,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That hath deprived me of your grace and favour;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But even for want of that for which I am richer,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As I am glad I have not, though not to have it</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hath lost me in your liking.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Better thou</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hadst not been born than not to have pleased me
+ better.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING OF FRANCE</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is it but this,--a tardiness in nature</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which often leaves the history unspoke</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That it intends to do? My lord of Burgundy,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What say you to the lady? Love's not love</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When it is mingled with regards that stand</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Aloof from the entire point. Will you have her?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">She is herself a dowry.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">BURGUNDY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Royal Lear,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Give but that portion which yourself proposed,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And here I take Cordelia by the hand,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Duchess of Burgundy.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nothing: I have sworn; I am firm.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">BURGUNDY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am sorry, then, you have so lost a father</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That you must lose a husband.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Peace be with Burgundy!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Since that respects of fortune are his love,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I shall not be his wife.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING OF FRANCE</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Be it lawful I take up what's cast away.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My love should kindle to inflamed respect.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Can buy this unprized precious maid of me.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou losest here, a better where to find.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou hast her, France: let her be thine; for we</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That face of hers again. Therefore be gone</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Without our grace, our love, our benison.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come, noble Burgundy.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Flourish. Exeunt all but KING OF FRANCE, GONERIL, REGAN, and
+ CORDELIA</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING OF FRANCE</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Bid farewell to your sisters.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The jewels of our father, with wash'd eyes</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Cordelia leaves you: I know you what you are;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And like a sister am most loath to call</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Your faults as they are named. Use well our father:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To your professed bosoms I commit him</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But yet, alas, stood I within his grace,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I would prefer him to a better place.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">So, farewell to you both.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Prescribe not us our duties.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let your study</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Be to content your lord, who hath received you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">At fortune's alms. You have obedience scanted,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And well are worth the want that you have wanted.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Well may you prosper!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING OF FRANCE</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come, my fair Cordelia.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt KING OF FRANCE and CORDELIA</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sister, it is not a little I have to say of what</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">most nearly appertains to us both. I think our</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">father will hence to-night.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">That's most certain, and with you; next month with us.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">You see how full of changes his age is; the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">observation we have made of it hath not been</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">little: he always loved our sister most; and</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">with what poor judgment he hath now cast her off</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">appears too grossly.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">but slenderly known himself.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The best and soundest of his time hath been but</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">rash; then must we look to receive from his age,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">not alone the imperfections of long-engraffed</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">condition, but therewithal the unruly waywardness</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">that infirm and choleric years bring with them.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Such unconstant starts are we like to have from</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">him as this of Kent's banishment.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">There is further compliment of leavetaking</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">between France and him. Pray you, let's hit</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">together: if our father carry authority with</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">such dispositions as he bears, this last</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">surrender of his will but offend us.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">We shall further think on't.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">We must do something, and i' the heat.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE II. The Earl of Gloucester's castle.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDMUND, with a letter</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My services are bound. Wherefore should I</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Stand in the plague of custom, and permit</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The curiosity of nations to deprive me,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When my dimensions are as well compact,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My mind as generous, and my shape as true,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">More composition and fierce quality</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well, then,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As to the legitimate: fine word,--legitimate!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And my invention thrive, Edmund the base</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Now, gods, stand up for bastards!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GLOUCESTER</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Kent banish'd thus! and France in choler parted!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And the king gone to-night! subscribed his power!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Confined to exhibition! All this done</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Upon the gad! Edmund, how now! what news?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">So please your lordship, none.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Putting up the letter</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I know no news, my lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What paper were you reading?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nothing, my lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No? What needed, then, that terrible dispatch of</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">it into your pocket? the quality of nothing hath</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">not such need to hide itself. Let's see: come,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I beseech you, sir, pardon me: it is a letter</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">from my brother, that I have not all o'er-read;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">and for so much as I have perused, I find it not</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">fit for your o'er-looking.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Give me the letter, sir.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I shall offend, either to detain or give it. The</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">contents, as in part I understand them, are to blame.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let's see, let's see.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">this but as an essay or taste of my virtue.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Reads</phrase> 'This policy and
+ reverence of age makes</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the world bitter to the best of our times; keeps</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">them. I begin to find an idle and fond bondage</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">in the oppression of aged tyranny; who sways, not</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">as it hath power, but as it is suffered. Come to</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">me, that of this I may speak more. If our father</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">would sleep till I waked him, you should half his</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">revenue for ever, and live the beloved of your</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">brother, EDGAR.'</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hum--conspiracy!--'Sleep till I waked him,--you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">should enjoy half his revenue,'--My son Edgar!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Had he a hand to write this? a heart and brain</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">to breed it in?--When came this to you? who</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">brought it?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">It was not brought me, my lord; there's the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">cunning of it; I found it thrown in at the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">casement of my closet.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">You know the character to be your brother's?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">If the matter were good, my lord, I durst swear</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">it were his; but, in respect of that, I would</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">fain think it were not.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">It is his.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">It is his hand, my lord; but I hope his heart is</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">not in the contents.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hath he never heretofore sounded you in this business?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Never, my lord: but I have heard him oft</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">maintain it to be fit, that, sons at perfect age,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">and fathers declining, the father should be as</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">ward to the son, and the son manage his revenue.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O villain, villain! His very opinion in the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">letter! Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">brutish villain! worse than brutish! Go, sirrah,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">seek him; I'll apprehend him: abominable villain!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Where is he?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I do not well know, my lord. If it shall please</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">you to suspend your indignation against my</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">brother till you can derive from him better</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">testimony of his intent, you shall run a certain</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">course; where, if you violently proceed against</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">him, mistaking his purpose, it would make a great</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">gap in your own honour, and shake in pieces the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">heart of his obedience. I dare pawn down my life</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">for him, that he hath wrote this to feel my</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">affection to your honour, and to no further</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">pretence of danger.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Think you so?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">If your honour judge it meet, I will place you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">where you shall hear us confer of this, and by an</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">auricular assurance have your satisfaction; and</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">that without any further delay than this very evening.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He cannot be such a monster--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nor is not, sure.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">To his father, that so tenderly and entirely</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">loves him. Heaven and earth! Edmund, seek him</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">out: wind me into him, I pray you: frame the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">business after your own wisdom. I would unstate</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">myself, to be in a due resolution.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will seek him, sir, presently: convey the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">business as I shall find means and acquaint you
+ withal.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">scourged by the sequent effects: love cools,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">friendship falls off, brothers divide: in</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">and father. This villain of mine comes under the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">prediction; there's son against father: the king</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">falls from bias of nature; there's father against</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">child. We have seen the best of our time:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">graves. Find out this villain, Edmund; it shall</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">lose thee nothing; do it carefully. And the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">offence, honesty! 'Tis strange.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">if we were villains by necessity; fools by</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">planetary influence; and all that we are evil in,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">disposition to the charge of a star! My</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">father compounded with my mother under the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">dragon's tail; and my nativity was under Ursa</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">major; so that it follows, I am rough and</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">had the maidenliest star in the firmament</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">twinkled on my bastardizing. Edgar--</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDGAR</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">And pat he comes like the catastrophe of the old</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">comedy: my cue is villanous melancholy, with a</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">sigh like Tom o' Bedlam. O, these eclipses do</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">portend these divisions! fa, sol, la, mi.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How now, brother Edmund! what serious</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">contemplation are you in?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">this other day, what should follow these eclipses.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do you busy yourself about that?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">unhappily; as of unnaturalness between the child</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">maledictions against king and nobles; needless</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How long have you been a sectary astronomical?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come, come; when saw you my father last?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, the night gone by.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Spake you with him?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ay, two hours together.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Parted you in good terms? Found you no</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">displeasure in him by word or countenance?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">None at all.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Bethink yourself wherein you may have offended</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">him: and at my entreaty forbear his presence</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">till some little time hath qualified the heat of</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">his displeasure; which at this instant so rageth</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">in him, that with the mischief of your person it</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">would scarcely allay.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Some villain hath done me wrong.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">That's my fear. I pray you, have a continent</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">forbearance till the spied of his rage goes</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">slower; and, as I say, retire with me to my</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">lodging, from whence I will fitly bring you to</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">hear my lord speak: pray ye, go; there's my key:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">if you do stir abroad, go armed.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Armed, brother!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Brother, I advise you to the best; go armed: I</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">am no honest man if there be any good meaning</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">towards you: I have told you what I have seen</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">and heard; but faintly, nothing like the image</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">and horror of it: pray you, away.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shall I hear from you anon?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I do serve you in this business.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit EDGAR</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">A credulous father! and a brother noble,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Whose nature is so far from doing harms,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That he suspects none: on whose foolish honesty</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My practises ride easy! I see the business.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE III. The Duke of Albany's palace.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GONERIL, and OSWALD, her steward</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his
+ fool?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yes, madam.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">By day and night he wrongs me; every hour</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He flashes into one gross crime or other,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That sets us all at odds: I'll not endure it:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">On every trifle. When he returns from hunting,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will not speak with him; say I am sick:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If you come slack of former services,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You shall do well; the fault of it I'll answer.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He's coming, madam; I hear him.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Horns within</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Put on what weary negligence you please,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You and your fellows; I'll have it come to question:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If he dislike it, let him to our sister,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Whose mind and mine, I know, in that are one,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Not to be over-ruled. Idle old man,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That still would manage those authorities</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That he hath given away! Now, by my life,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Old fools are babes again; and must be used</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With cheques as flatteries,--when they are seen abused.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Remember what I tell you.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Well, madam.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">And let his knights have colder looks among you;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What grows of it, no matter; advise your fellows so:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That I may speak: I'll write straight to my sister,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To hold my very course. Prepare for dinner.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE IV. A hall in the same.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KENT, disguised</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">If but as well I other accents borrow,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That can my speech defuse, my good intent</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">May carry through itself to that full issue</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For which I razed my likeness. Now, banish'd Kent,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">So may it come, thy master, whom thou lovest,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shall find thee full of labours.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Horns within. Enter KING LEAR, Knights, and Attendants</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let me not stay a jot for dinner; go get it ready.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit an Attendant</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">How now! what art thou?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">A man, sir.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What dost thou profess? what wouldst thou with us?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">him truly that will put me in trust: to love him</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">that is honest; to converse with him that is wise,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">cannot choose; and to eat no fish.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What art thou?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">A very honest-hearted fellow, and as poor as the king.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">If thou be as poor for a subject as he is for a</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">king, thou art poor enough. What wouldst thou?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Service.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who wouldst thou serve?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">You.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Dost thou know me, fellow?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, sir; but you have that in your countenance</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">which I would fain call master.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What's that?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Authority.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What services canst thou do?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a curious</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">bluntly: that which ordinary men are fit for, I am</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">qualified in; and the best of me is diligence.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How old art thou?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing, nor</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">so old to dote on her for any thing: I have years</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">on my back forty eight.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Follow me; thou shalt serve me: if I like thee no</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">worse after dinner, I will not part from thee yet.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Dinner, ho, dinner! Where's my knave? my fool?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Go you, and call my fool hither.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit an Attendant</para>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter OSWALD</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">You, you, sirrah, where's my daughter?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">So please you,--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What says the fellow there? Call the clotpoll back.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit a Knight</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Where's my fool, ho? I think the world's asleep.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Re-enter Knight</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">How now! where's that mongrel?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Knight</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He says, my lord, your daughter is not well.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why came not the slave back to me when I called him.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Knight</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sir, he answered me in the roundest manner, he would</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">not.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He would not!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Knight</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">My lord, I know not what the matter is; but, to my</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">judgment, your highness is not entertained with that</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">ceremonious affection as you were wont; there's a</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">great abatement of kindness appears as well in the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">general dependants as in the duke himself also and</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">your daughter.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ha! sayest thou so?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Knight</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I beseech you, pardon me, my lord, if I be mistaken;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">for my duty cannot be silent when I think your</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">highness wronged.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou but rememberest me of mine own conception: I</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">have perceived a most faint neglect of late; which I</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">than as a very pretence and purpose of unkindness:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will look further into't. But where's my fool? I</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">have not seen him this two days.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Knight</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Since my young lady's going into France, sir, the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">fool hath much pined away.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No more of that; I have noted it well. Go you, and</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">tell my daughter I would speak with her.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit an Attendant</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Go you, call hither my fool.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit an Attendant</para>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Re-enter OSWALD</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, you sir, you, come you hither, sir: who am I,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">sir?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">My lady's father.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">'My lady's father'! my lord's knave: your</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">whoreson dog! you slave! you cur!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am none of these, my lord; I beseech your pardon.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Striking him</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'll not be struck, my lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nor tripped neither, you base football player.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Tripping up his heels</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I thank thee, fellow; thou servest me, and I'll</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">love thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come, sir, arise, away! I'll teach you differences:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">away, away! if you will measure your lubber's</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">length again, tarry: but away! go to; have you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">wisdom? so.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Pushes OSWALD out</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Now, my friendly knave, I thank thee: there's</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">earnest of thy service.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Giving KENT money</para>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter Fool</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let me hire him too: here's my coxcomb.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Offering KENT his cap</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How now, my pretty knave! how dost thou?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sirrah, you were best take my coxcomb.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, fool?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, for taking one's part that's out of favour:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">nay, an thou canst not smile as the wind sits,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">thou'lt catch cold shortly: there, take my coxcomb:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">why, this fellow has banished two on's daughters,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">and did the third a blessing against his will; if</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">thou follow him, thou must needs wear my coxcomb.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">How now, nuncle! Would I had two coxcombs and two
+ daughters!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, my boy?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">If I gave them all my living, I'ld keep my coxcombs</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">myself. There's mine; beg another of thy daughters.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Take heed, sirrah; the whip.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Truth's a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">out, when Lady the brach may stand by the fire and
+ stink.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">A pestilent gall to me!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sirrah, I'll teach thee a speech.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Mark it, nuncle:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Have more than thou showest,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Speak less than thou knowest,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Lend less than thou owest,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ride more than thou goest,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Learn more than thou trowest,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Set less than thou throwest;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Leave thy drink and thy whore,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And keep in-a-door,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And thou shalt have more</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Than two tens to a score.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This is nothing, fool.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer; you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">gave me nothing for't. Can you make no use of</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">nothing, nuncle?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, no, boy; nothing can be made out of nothing.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">To KENT</phrase> Prithee, tell him,
+ so much the rent of</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">his land comes to: he will not believe a fool.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">A bitter fool!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Dost thou know the difference, my boy, between a</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">bitter fool and a sweet fool?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, lad; teach me.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">That lord that counsell'd thee</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To give away thy land,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come place him here by me,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do thou for him stand:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The sweet and bitter fool</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Will presently appear;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The one in motley here,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The other found out there.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Dost thou call me fool, boy?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">All thy other titles thou hast given away; that</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">thou wast born with.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This is not altogether fool, my lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, faith, lords and great men will not let me; if</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I had a monopoly out, they would have part on't:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">and ladies too, they will not let me have all fool</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">to myself; they'll be snatching. Give me an egg,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">nuncle, and I'll give thee two crowns.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What two crowns shall they be?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, after I have cut the egg i' the middle, and eat</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">up the meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">clovest thy crown i' the middle, and gavest away</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">both parts, thou borest thy ass on thy back o'er</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the dirt: thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">when thou gavest thy golden one away. If I speak</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">like myself in this, let him be whipped that first</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">finds it so.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Singing</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fools had ne'er less wit in a year;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For wise men are grown foppish,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">They know not how their wits to wear,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Their manners are so apish.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">When were you wont to be so full of songs, sirrah?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I have used it, nuncle, ever since thou madest thy</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">daughters thy mothers: for when thou gavest them</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the rod, and put'st down thine own breeches,</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Singing</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Then they for sudden joy did weep,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And I for sorrow sung,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That such a king should play bo-peep,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And go the fools among.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">thy fool to lie: I would fain learn to lie.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">An you lie, sirrah, we'll have you whipped.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">they'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'lt</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">have me whipped for lying; and sometimes I am</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">whipped for holding my peace. I had rather be any</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">kind o' thing than a fool: and yet I would not be</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">thee, nuncle; thou hast pared thy wit o' both sides,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">and left nothing i' the middle: here comes one o'</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the parings.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GONERIL</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How now, daughter! what makes that frontlet on?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">care for her frowning; now thou art an O without a</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">figure: I am better than thou art now; I am a fool,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">thou art nothing.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To GONERIL</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yes, forsooth, I will hold my tongue; so your face</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">bids me, though you say nothing. Mum, mum,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He that keeps nor crust nor crum,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Weary of all, shall want some.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Pointing to KING LEAR</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">That's a shealed peascod.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Not only, sir, this your all-licensed fool,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But other of your insolent retinue</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do hourly carp and quarrel; breaking forth</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In rank and not-to-be endured riots. Sir,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I had thought, by making this well known unto you,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To have found a safe redress; but now grow fearful,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">By what yourself too late have spoke and done.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That you protect this course, and put it on</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">By your allowance; which if you should, the fault</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Would not 'scape censure, nor the redresses sleep,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which, in the tender of a wholesome weal,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Might in their working do you that offence,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which else were shame, that then necessity</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Will call discreet proceeding.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">For, you trow, nuncle,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That it's had it head bit off by it young.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Are you our daughter?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come, sir,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I would you would make use of that good wisdom,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Whereof I know you are fraught; and put away</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">These dispositions, that of late transform you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">From what you rightly are.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">May not an ass know when the cart</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">draws the horse? Whoop, Jug! I love thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Doth any here know me? This is not Lear:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Doth Lear walk thus? speak thus? Where are his eyes?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Either his notion weakens, his discernings</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Are lethargied--Ha! waking? 'tis not so.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who is it that can tell me who I am?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Lear's shadow.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I would learn that; for, by the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">marks of sovereignty, knowledge, and reason,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I should be false persuaded I had daughters.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which they will make an obedient father.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Your name, fair gentlewoman?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This admiration, sir, is much o' the savour</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of other your new pranks. I do beseech you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To understand my purposes aright:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Men so disorder'd, so debosh'd and bold,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That this our court, infected with their manners,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shows like a riotous inn: epicurism and lust</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Make it more like a tavern or a brothel</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Than a graced palace. The shame itself doth speak</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For instant remedy: be then desired</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">By her, that else will take the thing she begs,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A little to disquantity your train;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And the remainder, that shall still depend,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To be such men as may besort your age,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And know themselves and you.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Darkness and devils!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Saddle my horses; call my train together:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Degenerate bastard! I'll not trouble thee.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yet have I left a daughter.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">You strike my people; and your disorder'd rabble</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Make servants of their betters.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter ALBANY</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Woe, that too late repents,--</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To ALBANY</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, sir, are you come?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is it your will? Speak, sir. Prepare my horses.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Than the sea-monster!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pray, sir, be patient.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">To GONERIL</phrase> Detested kite!
+ thou liest.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My train are men of choice and rarest parts,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That all particulars of duty know,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And in the most exact regard support</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The worships of their name. O most small fault,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">How ugly didst thou in Cordelia show!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That, like an engine, wrench'd my frame of nature</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">From the fix'd place; drew from heart all love,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And added to the gall. O Lear, Lear, Lear!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Beat at this gate, that let thy folly in,</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Striking his head</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">And thy dear judgment out! Go, go, my people.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of what hath moved you.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">It may be so, my lord.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To make this creature fruitful!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Into her womb convey sterility!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Dry up in her the organs of increase;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And from her derogate body never spring</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A babe to honour her! If she must teem,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Create her child of spleen; that it may live,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And be a thwart disnatured torment to her!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Turn all her mother's pains and benefits</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To laughter and contempt; that she may feel</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To have a thankless child! Away, away!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Never afflict yourself to know the cause;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But let his disposition have that scope</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That dotage gives it.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Re-enter KING LEAR</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What, fifty of my followers at a clap!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Within a fortnight!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What's the matter, sir?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'll tell thee:</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To GONERIL</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Life and death! I am ashamed</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That these hot tears, which break from me perforce,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Should make thee worth them. Blasts and fogs upon thee!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The untented woundings of a father's curse</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pierce every sense about thee! Old fond eyes,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Beweep this cause again, I'll pluck ye out,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And cast you, with the waters that you lose,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To temper clay. Yea, it is come to this?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let is be so: yet have I left a daughter,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who, I am sure, is kind and comfortable:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">She'll flay thy wolvish visage. Thou shalt find</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That I'll resume the shape which thou dost think</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I have cast off for ever: thou shalt,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I warrant thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt KING LEAR, KENT, and Attendants</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do you mark that, my lord?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I cannot be so partial, Goneril,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To the great love I bear you,--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pray you, content. What, Oswald, ho!</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To the Fool</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">You, sir, more knave than fool, after your master.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nuncle Lear, nuncle Lear, tarry and take the fool</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">with thee.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A fox, when one has caught her,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And such a daughter,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Should sure to the slaughter,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If my cap would buy a halter:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">So the fool follows after.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This man hath had good counsel:--a hundred knights!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis politic and safe to let him keep</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">At point a hundred knights: yes, that, on every dream,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Each buzz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He may enguard his dotage with their powers,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And hold our lives in mercy. Oswald, I say!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Well, you may fear too far.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Safer than trust too far:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let me still take away the harms I fear,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Not fear still to be taken: I know his heart.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What he hath utter'd I have writ my sister</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If she sustain him and his hundred knights</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When I have show'd the unfitness,--</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Re-enter OSWALD</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">How now, Oswald!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What, have you writ that letter to my sister?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yes, madam.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Take you some company, and away to horse:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Inform her full of my particular fear;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And thereto add such reasons of your own</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As may compact it more. Get you gone;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And hasten your return.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit OSWALD</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, no, my lord,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This milky gentleness and course of yours</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Though I condemn not, yet, under pardon,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You are much more attask'd for want of wisdom</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Than praised for harmful mildness.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How far your eyes may pierce I can not tell:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nay, then--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Well, well; the event.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE V. Court before the same.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KING LEAR, KENT, and Fool</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Go you before to Gloucester with these letters.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Acquaint my daughter no further with any thing you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">know than comes from her demand out of the letter.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If your diligence be not speedy, I shall be there afore
+ you.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will not sleep, my lord, till I have delivered</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">your letter.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">If a man's brains were in's heels, were't not in</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">danger of kibes?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ay, boy.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Then, I prithee, be merry; thy wit shall ne'er go</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">slip-shod.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ha, ha, ha!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shalt see thy other daughter will use thee kindly;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">for though she's as like this as a crab's like an</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">apple, yet I can tell what I can tell.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, what canst thou tell, my boy?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">She will taste as like this as a crab does to a</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">crab. Thou canst tell why one's nose stands i'</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the middle on's face?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, to keep one's eyes of either side's nose; that</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">what a man cannot smell out, he may spy into.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I did her wrong--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nor I neither; but I can tell why a snail has a house.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, to put his head in; not to give it away to his</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">daughters, and leave his horns without a case.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will forget my nature. So kind a father! Be my</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">horses ready?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy asses are gone about 'em. The reason why the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Because they are not eight?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">To take 't again perforce! Monster ingratitude!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">for being old before thy time.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How's that?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">been wise.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Keep me in temper: I would not be mad!</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter Gentleman</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">How now! are the horses ready?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ready, my lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come, boy.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">She that's a maid now, and laughs at my departure,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shall not be a maid long, unless things be cut
+ shorter.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
+ </section>
+
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter remap="ACT">
+ <title remap="TITLE">ACT II</title>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE I. GLOUCESTER's castle.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDMUND, and CURAN meets him</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Save thee, Curan.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CURAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">And you, sir. I have been with your father, and</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">his duchess will be here with him this night.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How comes that?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CURAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nay, I know not. You have heard of the news abroad;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">ear-kissing arguments?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Not I pray you, what are they?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CURAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Have you heard of no likely wars toward, 'twixt the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Dukes of Cornwall and Albany?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Not a word.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CURAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">You may do, then, in time. Fare you well, sir.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The duke be here to-night? The better! best!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This weaves itself perforce into my business.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My father hath set guard to take my brother;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And I have one thing, of a queasy question,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which I must act: briefness and fortune, work!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Brother, a word; descend: brother, I say!</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDGAR</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">My father watches: O sir, fly this place;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Intelligence is given where you are hid;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You have now the good advantage of the night:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Have you not spoken 'gainst the Duke of Cornwall?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He's coming hither: now, i' the night, i' the haste,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And Regan with him: have you nothing said</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Upon his party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Advise yourself.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am sure on't, not a word.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I hear my father coming: pardon me:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In cunning I must draw my sword upon you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Draw; seem to defend yourself; now quit you well.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yield: come before my father. Light, ho, here!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fly, brother. Torches, torches! So, farewell.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit EDGAR</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Wounds his arm</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of my more fierce endeavour: I have seen drunkards</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do more than this in sport. Father, father!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Stop, stop! No help?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GLOUCESTER, and Servants with torches</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Now, Edmund, where's the villain?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To stand auspicious mistress,--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">But where is he?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Look, sir, I bleed.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Where is the villain, Edmund?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fled this way, sir. When by no means he could--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pursue him, ho! Go after.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt some Servants</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">By no means what?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Persuade me to the murder of your lordship;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But that I told him, the revenging gods</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Spoke, with how manifold and strong a bond</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The child was bound to the father; sir, in fine,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Seeing how loathly opposite I stood</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To his unnatural purpose, in fell motion,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With his prepared sword, he charges home</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My unprovided body, lanced mine arm:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But when he saw my best alarum'd spirits,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Bold in the quarrel's right, roused to the encounter,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Or whether gasted by the noise I made,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Full suddenly he fled.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let him fly far:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Not in this land shall he remain uncaught;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And found--dispatch. The noble duke my master,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My worthy arch and patron, comes to-night:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">By his authority I will proclaim it,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That he which finds him shall deserve our thanks,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Bringing the murderous coward to the stake;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He that conceals him, death.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">When I dissuaded him from his intent,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And found him pight to do it, with curst speech</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I threaten'd to discover him: he replied,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Thou unpossessing bastard! dost thou think,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If I would stand against thee, would the reposal</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Make thy words faith'd? No: what I should deny,--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As this I would: ay, though thou didst produce</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My very character,--I'ld turn it all</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To thy suggestion, plot, and damned practise:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And thou must make a dullard of the world,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If they not thought the profits of my death</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Were very pregnant and potential spurs</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To make thee seek it.'</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Strong and fasten'd villain</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Would he deny his letter? I never got him.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Tucket within</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hark, the duke's trumpets! I know not why he comes.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">All ports I'll bar; the villain shall not 'scape;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The duke must grant me that: besides, his picture</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will send far and near, that all the kingdom</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">May have the due note of him; and of my land,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Loyal and natural boy, I'll work the means</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To make thee capable.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter CORNWALL, REGAN, and Attendants</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How now, my noble friend! since I came hither,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which I can call but now, I have heard strange news.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">If it be true, all vengeance comes too short</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which can pursue the offender. How dost, my lord?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, madam, my old heart is crack'd, it's crack'd!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What, did my father's godson seek your life?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He whom my father named? your Edgar?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, lady, lady, shame would have it hid!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Was he not companion with the riotous knights</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That tend upon my father?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I know not, madam: 'tis too bad, too bad.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yes, madam, he was of that consort.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No marvel, then, though he were ill affected:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis they have put him on the old man's death,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To have the expense and waste of his revenues.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I have this present evening from my sister</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Been well inform'd of them; and with such cautions,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That if they come to sojourn at my house,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'll not be there.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nor I, assure thee, Regan.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Edmund, I hear that you have shown your father</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A child-like office.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Twas my duty, sir.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He did bewray his practise; and received</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This hurt you see, striving to apprehend him.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is he pursued?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ay, my good lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">If he be taken, he shall never more</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Be fear'd of doing harm: make your own purpose,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">How in my strength you please. For you, Edmund,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Whose virtue and obedience doth this instant</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">So much commend itself, you shall be ours:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Natures of such deep trust we shall much need;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You we first seize on.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I shall serve you, sir,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Truly, however else.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">For him I thank your grace.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">You know not why we came to visit you,--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thus out of season, threading dark-eyed night:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Occasions, noble Gloucester, of some poise,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Wherein we must have use of your advice:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Our father he hath writ, so hath our sister,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of differences, which I least thought it fit</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To answer from our home; the several messengers</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">From hence attend dispatch. Our good old friend,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Lay comforts to your bosom; and bestow</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Your needful counsel to our business,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which craves the instant use.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I serve you, madam:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Your graces are right welcome.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE II. Before Gloucester's castle.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KENT and OSWALD, severally</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Good dawning to thee, friend: art of this house?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ay.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Where may we set our horses?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I' the mire.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Prithee, if thou lovest me, tell me.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I love thee not.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, then, I care not for thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">care for me.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why dost thou use me thus? I know thee not.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fellow, I know thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What dost thou know me for?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the least syllable of thy addition.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to rail</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">on one that is neither known of thee nor knows thee!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What a brazen-faced varlet art thou, to deny thou</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">knowest me! Is it two days ago since I tripped up</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">thy heels, and beat thee before the king? Draw, you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">rogue: for, though it be night, yet the moon</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">shines; I'll make a sop o' the moonshine of you:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">draw, you whoreson cullionly barber-monger, draw.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Drawing his sword</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Away! I have nothing to do with thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Draw, you rascal: you come with letters against the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">king; and take vanity the puppet's part against the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">royalty of her father: draw, you rogue, or I'll so</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">carbonado your shanks: draw, you rascal; come your
+ ways.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Help, ho! murder! help!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Strike, you slave; stand, rogue, stand; you neat</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">slave, strike.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Beating him</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Help, ho! murder! murder!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDMUND, with his rapier drawn, CORNWALL, REGAN, GLOUCESTER,
+ and Servants</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How now! What's the matter?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">With you, goodman boy, an you please: come, I'll</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">flesh ye; come on, young master.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Weapons! arms! What 's the matter here?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Keep peace, upon your lives:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He dies that strikes again. What is the matter?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The messengers from our sister and the king.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What is your difference? speak.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am scarce in breath, my lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No marvel, you have so bestirred your valour. You</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee: a</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">tailor made thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou art a strange fellow: a tailor make a man?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ay, a tailor, sir: a stone-cutter or painter could</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">not have made him so ill, though he had been but two</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">hours at the trade.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Speak yet, how grew your quarrel?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This ancient ruffian, sir, whose life I have spared</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">at suit of his gray beard,--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter! My</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">a jakes with him. Spare my gray beard, you wagtail?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Peace, sirrah!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You beastly knave, know you no reverence?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yes, sir; but anger hath a privilege.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why art thou angry?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">That such a slave as this should wear a sword,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Like rats, oft bite the holy cords a-twain</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passion</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That in the natures of their lords rebel;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With every gale and vary of their masters,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Knowing nought, like dogs, but following.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A plague upon your epileptic visage!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Smile you my speeches, as I were a fool?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Goose, if I had you upon Sarum plain,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'ld drive ye cackling home to Camelot.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, art thou mad, old fellow?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How fell you out? say that.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No contraries hold more antipathy</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Than I and such a knave.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why dost thou call him a knave? What's his offence?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">His countenance likes me not.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No more, perchance, does mine, nor his, nor hers.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sir, 'tis my occupation to be plain:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I have seen better faces in my time</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Than stands on any shoulder that I see</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Before me at this instant.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This is some fellow,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Quite from his nature: he cannot flatter, he,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">An honest mind and plain, he must speak truth!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">An they will take it, so; if not, he's plain.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Than twenty silly ducking observants</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That stretch their duties nicely.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sir, in good sooth, in sincere verity,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Under the allowance of your great aspect,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">On flickering Phoebus' front,--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What mean'st by this?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">To go out of my dialect, which you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">discommend so much. I know, sir, I am no</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">flatterer: he that beguiled you in a plain</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">accent was a plain knave; which for my part</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will not be, though I should win your displeasure</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">to entreat me to 't.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What was the offence you gave him?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I never gave him any:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">It pleased the king his master very late</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To strike at me, upon his misconstruction;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When he, conjunct and flattering his displeasure,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Tripp'd me behind; being down, insulted, rail'd,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And put upon him such a deal of man,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That worthied him, got praises of the king</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For him attempting who was self-subdued;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And, in the fleshment of this dread exploit,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Drew on me here again.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">None of these rogues and cowards</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But Ajax is their fool.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fetch forth the stocks!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You stubborn ancient knave, you reverend braggart,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">We'll teach you--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sir, I am too old to learn:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Call not your stocks for me: I serve the king;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">On whose employment I was sent to you:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You shall do small respect, show too bold malice</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Against the grace and person of my master,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Stocking his messenger.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fetch forth the stocks! As I have life and honour,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">There shall he sit till noon.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Till noon! till night, my lord; and all night too.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, madam, if I were your father's dog,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You should not use me so.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sir, being his knave, I will.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This is a fellow of the self-same colour</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Our sister speaks of. Come, bring away the stocks!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Stocks brought out</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let me beseech your grace not to do so:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">His fault is much, and the good king his master</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Will cheque him for 't: your purposed low correction</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is such as basest and contemned'st wretches</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For pilferings and most common trespasses</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Are punish'd with: the king must take it ill,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That he's so slightly valued in his messenger,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Should have him thus restrain'd.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'll answer that.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">My sister may receive it much more worse,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To have her gentleman abused, assaulted,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For following her affairs. Put in his legs.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">KENT is put in the stocks</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come, my good lord, away.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER and KENT</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am sorry for thee, friend; 'tis the duke's pleasure,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Whose disposition, all the world well knows,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Will not be rubb'd nor stopp'd: I'll entreat for thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pray, do not, sir: I have watched and travell'd hard;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Some time I shall sleep out, the rest I'll whistle.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A good man's fortune may grow out at heels:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Give you good morrow!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The duke's to blame in this; 'twill be ill taken.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Good king, that must approve the common saw,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou out of heaven's benediction comest</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To the warm sun!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Approach, thou beacon to this under globe,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That by thy comfortable beams I may</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Peruse this letter! Nothing almost sees miracles</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But misery: I know 'tis from Cordelia,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who hath most fortunately been inform'd</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of my obscured course; and shall find time</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">From this enormous state, seeking to give</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Losses their remedies. All weary and o'erwatch'd,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This shameful lodging.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fortune, good night: smile once more: turn thy wheel!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Sleeps</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE III. A wood.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDGAR</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I heard myself proclaim'd;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And by the happy hollow of a tree</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Escaped the hunt. No port is free; no place,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That guard, and most unusual vigilance,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Does not attend my taking. Whiles I may 'scape,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will preserve myself: and am bethought</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To take the basest and most poorest shape</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That ever penury, in contempt of man,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Brought near to beast: my face I'll grime with filth;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Blanket my loins: elf all my hair in knots;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And with presented nakedness out-face</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The winds and persecutions of the sky.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The country gives me proof and precedent</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Strike in their numb'd and mortified bare arms</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And with this horrible object, from low farms,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Poor pelting villages, sheep-cotes, and mills,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Enforce their charity. Poor Turlygod! poor Tom!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That's something yet: Edgar I nothing am.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE IV. Before GLOUCESTER's castle. KENT in the stocks.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KING LEAR, Fool, and Gentleman</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis strange that they should so depart from home,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And not send back my messenger.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">As I learn'd,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The night before there was no purpose in them</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of this remove.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hail to thee, noble master!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ha!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Makest thou this shame thy pastime?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, my lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ha, ha! he wears cruel garters. Horses are tied</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">by the heads, dogs and bears by the neck, monkeys by</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the loins, and men by the legs: when a man's</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">over-lusty at legs, then he wears wooden</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">nether-stocks.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What's he that hath so much thy place mistook</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To set thee here?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">It is both he and she;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Your son and daughter.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yes.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, I say.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I say, yea.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, no, they would not.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yes, they have.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">By Jupiter, I swear, no.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">By Juno, I swear, ay.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">They durst not do 't;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">They could not, would not do 't; 'tis worse than murder,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To do upon respect such violent outrage:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Resolve me, with all modest haste, which way</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou mightst deserve, or they impose, this usage,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Coming from us.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">My lord, when at their home</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I did commend your highness' letters to them,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ere I was risen from the place that show'd</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My duty kneeling, came there a reeking post,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Stew'd in his haste, half breathless, panting forth</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">From Goneril his mistress salutations;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Deliver'd letters, spite of intermission,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which presently they read: on whose contents,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">They summon'd up their meiny, straight took horse;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Commanded me to follow, and attend</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The leisure of their answer; gave me cold looks:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And meeting here the other messenger,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Whose welcome, I perceived, had poison'd mine,--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Being the very fellow that of late</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Display'd so saucily against your highness,--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Having more man than wit about me, drew:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He raised the house with loud and coward cries.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Your son and daughter found this trespass worth</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The shame which here it suffers.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Winter's not gone yet, if the wild-geese fly that way.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fathers that wear rags</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do make their children blind;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But fathers that bear bags</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shall see their children kind.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fortune, that arrant whore,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ne'er turns the key to the poor.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But, for all this, thou shalt have as many dolours</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, how this mother swells up toward my heart!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy element's below! Where is this daughter?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">With the earl, sir, here within.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Follow me not;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Stay here.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Made you no more offence but what you speak of?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">None.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">How chance the king comes with so small a train?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">And thou hadst been set i' the stocks for that</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">question, thou hadst well deserved it.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, fool?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">there's no labouring i' the winter. All that follow</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">their noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">that's stinking. Let go thy hold when a great wheel</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">following it: but the great one that goes up the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">hill, let him draw thee after. When a wise man</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">gives thee better counsel, give me mine again: I</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">would have none but knaves follow it, since a fool gives it.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That sir which serves and seeks for gain,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And follows but for form,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Will pack when it begins to rain,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And leave thee in the storm,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But I will tarry; the fool will stay,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And let the wise man fly:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The knave turns fool that runs away;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The fool no knave, perdy.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Where learned you this, fool?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Not i' the stocks, fool.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Re-enter KING LEAR with GLOUCESTER</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Deny to speak with me? They are sick? they are weary?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">They have travell'd all the night? Mere fetches;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The images of revolt and flying off.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fetch me a better answer.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">My dear lord,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You know the fiery quality of the duke;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">How unremoveable and fix'd he is</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In his own course.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Vengeance! plague! death! confusion!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fiery? what quality? Why, Gloucester, Gloucester,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'ld speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Well, my good lord, I have inform'd them so.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Inform'd them! Dost thou understand me, man?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ay, my good lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The king would speak with Cornwall; the dear father</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Would with his daughter speak, commands her service:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Are they inform'd of this? My breath and blood!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fiery? the fiery duke? Tell the hot duke that--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, but not yet: may be he is not well:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Infirmity doth still neglect all office</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To suffer with the body: I'll forbear;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And am fall'n out with my more headier will,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To take the indisposed and sickly fit</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For the sound man. Death on my state! wherefore</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Looking on KENT</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Should he sit here? This act persuades me</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That this remotion of the duke and her</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is practise only. Give me my servant forth.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Go tell the duke and 's wife I'ld speak with them,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Now, presently: bid them come forth and hear me,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Or at their chamber-door I'll beat the drum</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Till it cry sleep to death.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I would have all well betwixt you.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O me, my heart, my rising heart! but, down!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">when she put 'em i' the paste alive; she knapped 'em</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">o' the coxcombs with a stick, and cried 'Down,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">wantons, down!' 'Twas her brother that, in pure</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">kindness to his horse, buttered his hay.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter CORNWALL, REGAN, GLOUCESTER, and Servants</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Good morrow to you both.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hail to your grace!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">KENT is set at liberty</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am glad to see your highness.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Regan, I think you are; I know what reason</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I have to think so: if thou shouldst not be glad,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I would divorce me from thy mother's tomb,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sepulchring an adultress.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To KENT</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, are you free?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Some other time for that. Beloved Regan,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy sister's naught: O Regan, she hath tied</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture, here:</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Points to his heart</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">I can scarce speak to thee; thou'lt not believe</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With how depraved a quality--O Regan!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I pray you, sir, take patience: I have hope.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You less know how to value her desert</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Than she to scant her duty.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Say, how is that?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I cannot think my sister in the least</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Would fail her obligation: if, sir, perchance</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">She have restrain'd the riots of your followers,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis on such ground, and to such wholesome end,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As clears her from all blame.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">My curses on her!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, sir, you are old.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nature in you stands on the very verge</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of her confine: you should be ruled and led</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">By some discretion, that discerns your state</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Better than you yourself. Therefore, I pray you,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That to our sister you do make return;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Say you have wrong'd her, sir.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ask her forgiveness?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do you but mark how this becomes the house:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Dear daughter, I confess that I am old;</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Kneeling</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Age is unnecessary: on my knees I beg</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That you'll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food.'</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Good sir, no more; these are unsightly tricks:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Return you to my sister.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Rising</phrase> Never, Regan:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">She hath abated me of half my train;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Look'd black upon me; struck me with her tongue,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Most serpent-like, upon the very heart:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">All the stored vengeances of heaven fall</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You taking airs, with lameness!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fie, sir, fie!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Into her scornful eyes! Infect her beauty,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You fen-suck'd fogs, drawn by the powerful sun,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To fall and blast her pride!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O the blest gods! so will you wish on me,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When the rash mood is on.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, Regan, thou shalt never have my curse:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thee o'er to harshness: her eyes are fierce; but thine</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do comfort and not burn. 'Tis not in thee</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And in conclusion to oppose the bolt</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Against my coming in: thou better know'st</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The offices of nature, bond of childhood,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy half o' the kingdom hast thou not forgot,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Wherein I thee endow'd.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Good sir, to the purpose.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who put my man i' the stocks?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Tucket within</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What trumpet's that?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I know't, my sister's: this approves her letter,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That she would soon be here.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter OSWALD</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is your lady come?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This is a slave, whose easy-borrow'd pride</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Dwells in the fickle grace of her he follows.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Out, varlet, from my sight!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What means your grace?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who stock'd my servant? Regan, I have good hope</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou didst not know on't. Who comes here? O heavens,</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GONERIL</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">If you do love old men, if your sweet sway</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Allow obedience, if yourselves are old,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Make it your cause; send down, and take my part!</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To GONERIL</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Art not ashamed to look upon this beard?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">O Regan, wilt thou take her by the hand?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why not by the hand, sir? How have I offended?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">All's not offence that indiscretion finds</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And dotage terms so.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O sides, you are too tough;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Will you yet hold? How came my man i' the stocks?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I set him there, sir: but his own disorders</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Deserved much less advancement.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">You! did you?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I pray you, father, being weak, seem so.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If, till the expiration of your month,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You will return and sojourn with my sister,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Dismissing half your train, come then to me:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am now from home, and out of that provision</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which shall be needful for your entertainment.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Return to her, and fifty men dismiss'd?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To wage against the enmity o' the air;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Necessity's sharp pinch! Return with her?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, the hot-blooded France, that dowerless took</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Our youngest born, I could as well be brought</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To knee his throne, and, squire-like; pension beg</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To keep base life afoot. Return with her?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To this detested groom.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Pointing at OSWALD</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">At your choice, sir.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">We'll no more meet, no more see one another:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Or rather a disease that's in my flesh,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which I must needs call mine: thou art a boil,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In my corrupted blood. But I'll not chide thee;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let shame come when it will, I do not call it:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I can be patient; I can stay with Regan,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I and my hundred knights.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Not altogether so:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I look'd not for you yet, nor am provided</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For your fit welcome. Give ear, sir, to my sister;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For those that mingle reason with your passion</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Must be content to think you old, and so--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But she knows what she does.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is this well spoken?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I dare avouch it, sir: what, fifty followers?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is it not well? What should you need of more?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yea, or so many, sith that both charge and danger</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Speak 'gainst so great a number? How, in one house,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Should many people, under two commands,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hold amity? 'Tis hard; almost impossible.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">From those that she calls servants or from mine?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why not, my lord? If then they chanced to slack you,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">We could control them. If you will come to me,--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For now I spy a danger,--I entreat you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To bring but five and twenty: to no more</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Will I give place or notice.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I gave you all--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">And in good time you gave it.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Made you my guardians, my depositaries;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But kept a reservation to be follow'd</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With such a number. What, must I come to you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With five and twenty, Regan? said you so?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">And speak't again, my lord; no more with me.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When others are more wicked: not being the worst</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Stands in some rank of praise.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To GONERIL</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'll go with thee:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And thou art twice her love.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hear me, my lord;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What need you five and twenty, ten, or five,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To follow in a house where twice so many</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Have a command to tend you?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What need one?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, reason not the need: our basest beggars</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Are in the poorest thing superfluous:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Allow not nature more than nature needs,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Man's life's as cheap as beast's: thou art a lady;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If only to go warm were gorgeous,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need,--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As full of grief as age; wretched in both!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Against their father, fool me not so much</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And let not women's weapons, water-drops,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will have such revenges on you both,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That all the world shall--I will do such things,--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, I'll not weep:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I have full cause of weeping; but this heart</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt KING LEAR, GLOUCESTER, KENT, and Fool</para>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Storm and tempest</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let us withdraw; 'twill be a storm.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This house is little: the old man and his people</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Cannot be well bestow'd.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis his own blame; hath put himself from rest,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And must needs taste his folly.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">For his particular, I'll receive him gladly,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But not one follower.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">So am I purposed.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Where is my lord of Gloucester?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Follow'd the old man forth: he is return'd.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Re-enter GLOUCESTER</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The king is in high rage.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Whither is he going?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He calls to horse; but will I know not whither.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis best to give him way; he leads himself.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">My lord, entreat him by no means to stay.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">There's scarce a bush.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, sir, to wilful men,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The injuries that they themselves procure</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Must be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He is attended with a desperate train;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And what they may incense him to, being apt</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To have his ear abused, wisdom bids fear.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shut up your doors, my lord; 'tis a wild night:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My Regan counsels well; come out o' the storm.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
+ </section>
+
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter remap="ACT">
+ <title remap="TITLE">ACT III</title>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE I. A heath.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Storm still. Enter KENT and a Gentleman, meeting</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who's there, besides foul weather?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">One minded like the weather, most unquietly.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I know you. Where's the king?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Contending with the fretful element:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Bids the winds blow the earth into the sea,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Or swell the curled water 'bove the main,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That things might change or cease; tears his white hair,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Catch in their fury, and make nothing of;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Strives in his little world of man to out-scorn</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The lion and the belly-pinched wolf</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And bids what will take all.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">But who is with him?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">None but the fool; who labours to out-jest</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">His heart-struck injuries.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sir, I do know you;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And dare, upon the warrant of my note,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Commend a dear thing to you. There is division,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Although as yet the face of it be cover'd</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With mutual cunning, 'twixt Albany and Cornwall;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who have--as who have not, that their great stars</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Throned and set high?--servants, who seem no less,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which are to France the spies and speculations</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Intelligent of our state; what hath been seen,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Either in snuffs and packings of the dukes,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Or the hard rein which both of them have borne</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Against the old kind king; or something deeper,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Whereof perchance these are but furnishings;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But, true it is, from France there comes a power</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Into this scatter'd kingdom; who already,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Wise in our negligence, have secret feet</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In some of our best ports, and are at point</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To show their open banner. Now to you:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If on my credit you dare build so far</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To make your speed to Dover, you shall find</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Some that will thank you, making just report</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of how unnatural and bemadding sorrow</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The king hath cause to plain.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am a gentleman of blood and breeding;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And, from some knowledge and assurance, offer</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This office to you.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will talk further with you.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, do not.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For confirmation that I am much more</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Than my out-wall, open this purse, and take</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What it contains. If you shall see Cordelia,--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As fear not but you shall,--show her this ring;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And she will tell you who your fellow is</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That yet you do not know. Fie on this storm!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will go seek the king.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Give me your hand: have you no more to say?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Few words, but, to effect, more than all yet;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That, when we have found the king,--in which your pain</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That way, I'll this,--he that first lights on him</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Holla the other.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt severally</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE II. Another part of the heath. Storm still.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KING LEAR and Fool</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Crack nature's moulds, an germens spill at once,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That make ingrateful man!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">house is better than this rain-water out o' door.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters' blessing:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">here's a night pities neither wise man nor fool.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You owe me no subscription: then let fall</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Your horrible pleasure: here I stand, your slave,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But yet I call you servile ministers,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That have with two pernicious daughters join'd</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Your high engender'd battles 'gainst a head</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">So old and white as this. O! O! 'tis foul!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He that has a house to put's head in has a good</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">head-piece.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The cod-piece that will house</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Before the head has any,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The head and he shall louse;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">So beggars marry many.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The man that makes his toe</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What he his heart should make</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shall of a corn cry woe,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And turn his sleep to wake.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For there was never yet fair woman but she made</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">mouths in a glass.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, I will be the pattern of all patience;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will say nothing.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KENT</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who's there?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">man and a fool.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Alas, sir, are you here? things that love night</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Gallow the very wanderers of the dark,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And make them keep their caves: since I was man,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Remember to have heard: man's nature cannot carry</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The affliction nor the fear.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let the great gods,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That hast within thee undivulged crimes,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Unwhipp'd of justice: hide thee, thou bloody hand;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou perjured, and thou simular man of virtue</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That art incestuous: caitiff, to pieces shake,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That under covert and convenient seeming</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hast practised on man's life: close pent-up guilts,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Rive your concealing continents, and cry</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">These dreadful summoners grace. I am a man</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">More sinn'd against than sinning.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Alack, bare-headed!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Repose you there; while I to this hard house--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">More harder than the stones whereof 'tis raised;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which even but now, demanding after you,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Denied me to come in--return, and force</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Their scanted courtesy.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">My wits begin to turn.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come on, my boy: how dost, my boy? art cold?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am cold myself. Where is this straw, my fellow?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The art of our necessities is strange,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That can make vile things precious. Come,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">your hovel.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That's sorry yet for thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">
+ <phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Singing</phrase>
+ </line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He that has and a little tiny wit--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Must make content with his fortunes fit,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For the rain it raineth every day.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">True, my good boy. Come, bring us to this hovel.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt KING LEAR and KENT</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This is a brave night to cool a courtezan.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'll speak a prophecy ere I go:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When priests are more in word than matter;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When brewers mar their malt with water;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When nobles are their tailors' tutors;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">No heretics burn'd, but wenches' suitors;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When every case in law is right;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">No squire in debt, nor no poor knight;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When slanders do not live in tongues;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nor cutpurses come not to throngs;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When usurers tell their gold i' the field;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And bawds and whores do churches build;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Then shall the realm of Albion</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come to great confusion:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Then comes the time, who lives to see't,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That going shall be used with feet.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This prophecy Merlin shall make; for I live before his
+ time.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE III. Gloucester's castle.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GLOUCESTER and EDMUND</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">dealing. When I desire their leave that I might</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">pity him, they took from me the use of mine own</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">house; charged me, on pain of their perpetual</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">displeasure, neither to speak of him, entreat for</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">him, nor any way sustain him.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Most savage and unnatural!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Go to; say you nothing. There's a division betwixt</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the dukes; and a worse matter than that: I have</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">received a letter this night; 'tis dangerous to be</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">spoken; I have locked the letter in my closet:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">these injuries the king now bears will be revenged</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">home; there's part of a power already footed: we</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">must incline to the king. I will seek him, and</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">privily relieve him: go you and maintain talk with</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the duke, that my charity be not of him perceived:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">if he ask for me. I am ill, and gone to bed.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Though I die for it, as no less is threatened me,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the king my old master must be relieved. There is</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">some strange thing toward, Edmund; pray you, be
+ careful.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the duke</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Instantly know; and of that letter too:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That which my father loses; no less than all:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The younger rises when the old doth fall.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE IV. The heath. Before a hovel.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KING LEAR, KENT, and Fool</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Here is the place, my lord; good my lord, enter:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The tyranny of the open night's too rough</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For nature to endure.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Storm still</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let me alone.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Good my lord, enter here.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Wilt break my heart?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I had rather break mine own. Good my lord, enter.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Invades us to the skin: so 'tis to thee;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But where the greater malady is fix'd,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'ldst shun a bear;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou'ldst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">mind's free,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The body's delicate: the tempest in my mind</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Doth from my senses take all feeling else</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Save what beats there. Filial ingratitude!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For lifting food to't? But I will punish home:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, I will weep no more. In such a night</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all,--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, that way madness lies; let me shun that;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">No more of that.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Good my lord, enter here.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Prithee, go in thyself: seek thine own ease:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This tempest will not give me leave to ponder</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">On things would hurt me more. But I'll go in.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To the Fool</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">In, boy; go first. You houseless poverty,--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Fool goes in</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And show the heavens more just.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Within</phrase> Fathom and half,
+ fathom and half! Poor Tom!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">The Fool runs out from the hovel</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come not in here, nuncle, here's a spirit</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Help me, help me!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Give me thy hand. Who's there?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">A spirit, a spirit: he says his name's poor Tom.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What art thou that dost grumble there i' the straw?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come forth.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDGAR disguised as a mad man</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Away! the foul fiend follows me!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Through the sharp hawthorn blows the cold wind.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hum! go to thy cold bed, and warm thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hast thou given all to thy two daughters?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And art thou come to this?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who gives any thing to poor Tom? whom the foul</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">fiend hath led through fire and through flame, and</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">through ford and whirlipool e'er bog and quagmire;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">that hath laid knives under his pillow, and halters</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">in his pew; set ratsbane by his porridge; made film</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">proud of heart, to ride on a bay trotting-horse over</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">four-inched bridges, to course his own shadow for a</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">traitor. Bless thy five wits! Tom's a-cold,--O, do</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">de, do de, do de. Bless thee from whirlwinds,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">star-blasting, and taking! Do poor Tom some</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">charity, whom the foul fiend vexes: there could I</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">have him now,--and there,--and there again, and there.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Storm still</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Couldst thou save nothing? Didst thou give them all?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nay, he reserved a blanket, else we had been all
+ shamed.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Now, all the plagues that in the pendulous air</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hang fated o'er men's faults light on thy daughters!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He hath no daughters, sir.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Death, traitor! nothing could have subdued nature</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To such a lowness but his unkind daughters.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is it the fashion, that discarded fathers</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Should have thus little mercy on their flesh?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Judicious punishment! 'twas this flesh begot</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Those pelican daughters.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hill:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Halloo, halloo, loo, loo!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Take heed o' the foul fiend: obey thy parents;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">array. Tom's a-cold.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What hast thou been?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">A serving-man, proud in heart and mind; that curled</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">my hair; wore gloves in my cap; served the lust of</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">my mistress' heart, and did the act of darkness with</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">her; swore as many oaths as I spake words, and</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">broke them in the sweet face of heaven: one that</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">slept in the contriving of lust, and waked to do it:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">wine loved I deeply, dice dearly: and in woman</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">out-paramoured the Turk: false of heart, light of</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">silks betray thy poor heart to woman: keep thy foot</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Says suum, mun, ha, no, nonny.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Dolphin my boy, my boy, sessa! let him trot by.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Storm still</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'s are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">come unbutton here.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Tearing off his clothes</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Prithee, nuncle, be contented; 'tis a naughty night</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">to swim in. Now a little fire in a wild field were</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">like an old lecher's heart; a small spark, all the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">rest on's body cold. Look, here comes a walking fire.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GLOUCESTER, with a torch</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">at curfew, and walks till the first cock; he gives</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the web and the pin, squints the eye, and makes the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">hare-lip; mildews the white wheat, and hurts the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">poor creature of earth.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">S. Withold footed thrice the old;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He met the night-mare, and her nine-fold;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Bid her alight,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And her troth plight,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And, aroint thee, witch, aroint thee!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How fares your grace?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What's he?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who's there? What is't you seek?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What are you there? Your names?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Poor Tom; that eats the swimming frog, the toad,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the tadpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">tithing, and stock- punished, and imprisoned; who</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">body, horse to ride, and weapon to wear;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But mice and rats, and such small deer,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Have been Tom's food for seven long year.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Beware my follower. Peace, Smulkin; peace, thou fiend!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What, hath your grace no better company?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The prince of darkness is a gentleman:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Modo he's call'd, and Mahu.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Our flesh and blood is grown so vile, my lord,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That it doth hate what gets it.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Poor Tom's a-cold.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Go in with me: my duty cannot suffer</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To obey in all your daughters' hard commands:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Though their injunction be to bar my doors,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yet have I ventured to come seek you out,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And bring you where both fire and food is ready.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">First let me talk with this philosopher.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What is the cause of thunder?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Good my lord, take his offer; go into the house.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What is your study?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How to prevent the fiend, and to kill vermin.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let me ask you one word in private.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Importune him once more to go, my lord;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">His wits begin to unsettle.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Canst thou blame him?</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Storm still</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">His daughters seek his death: ah, that good Kent!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He said it would be thus, poor banish'd man!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou say'st the king grows mad; I'll tell thee, friend,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am almost mad myself: I had a son,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Now outlaw'd from my blood; he sought my life,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But lately, very late: I loved him, friend;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">No father his son dearer: truth to tell thee,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The grief hath crazed my wits. What a night's this!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I do beseech your grace,--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, cry your mercy, sir.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Noble philosopher, your company.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Tom's a-cold.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">In, fellow, there, into the hovel: keep thee warm.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come let's in all.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This way, my lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">With him;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will keep still with my philosopher.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Good my lord, soothe him; let him take the fellow.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Take him you on.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sirrah, come on; go along with us.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come, good Athenian.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No words, no words: hush.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Child Rowland to the dark tower came,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">His word was still,--Fie, foh, and fum,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I smell the blood of a British man.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE V. Gloucester's castle.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter CORNWALL and EDMUND</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">gives way to loyalty, something fears me to think</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">of.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I now perceive, it was not altogether your</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">brother's evil disposition made him seek his death;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">but a provoking merit, set a-work by a reprovable</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">badness in himself.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">be just! This is the letter he spoke of, which</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">approves him an intelligent party to the advantages</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">of France: O heavens! that this treason were not,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">or not I the detector!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">o with me to the duchess.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">If the matter of this paper be certain, you have</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">mighty business in hand.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">True or false, it hath made thee earl of</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Gloucester. Seek out where thy father is, that he</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">may be ready for our apprehension.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> If I find him
+ comforting the king, it will</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">stuff his suspicion more fully.--I will persevere in</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">between that and my blood.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will lay trust upon thee; and thou shalt find a</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">dearer father in my love.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE VI. A chamber in a farmhouse adjoining the castle.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GLOUCESTER, KING LEAR, KENT, Fool, and EDGAR</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Here is better than the open air; take it</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">thankfully. I will piece out the comfort with what</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">addition I can: I will not be long from you.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">All the power of his wits have given way to his</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">impatience: the gods reward your kindness!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit GLOUCESTER</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Frateretto calls me; and tells me</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Prithee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">gentleman or a yeoman?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">A king, a king!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, he's a yeoman that has a gentleman to his son;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">for he's a mad yeoman that sees his son a gentleman</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">before him.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">To have a thousand with red burning spits</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come hissing in upon 'em,--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The foul fiend bites my back.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">It shall be done; I will arraign them straight.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To EDGAR</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come, sit thou here, most learned justicer;</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To the Fool</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou, sapient sir, sit here. Now, you she foxes!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Look, where he stands and glares!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Wantest thou eyes at trial, madam?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me,--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Her boat hath a leak,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And she must not speak</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why she dares not come over to thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of a</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">nightingale. Hopdance cries in Tom's belly for two</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">white herring. Croak not, black angel; I have no</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">food for thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How do you, sir? Stand you not so amazed:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Will you lie down and rest upon the cushions?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'll see their trial first. Bring in the evidence.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To EDGAR</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou robed man of justice, take thy place;</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To the Fool</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">And thou, his yoke-fellow of equity,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Bench by his side:</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To KENT</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">you are o' the commission,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sit you too.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let us deal justly.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy sheep be in the corn;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And for one blast of thy minikin mouth,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy sheep shall take no harm.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pur! the cat is gray.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Arraign her first; 'tis Goneril. I here take my</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">oath before this honourable assembly, she kicked the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">poor king her father.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come hither, mistress. Is your name Goneril?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">She cannot deny it.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">And here's another, whose warp'd looks proclaim</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What store her heart is made on. Stop her there!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Arms, arms, sword, fire! Corruption in the place!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">False justicer, why hast thou let her 'scape?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Bless thy five wits!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O pity! Sir, where is the patience now,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That thou so oft have boasted to retain?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> My tears begin to
+ take his part so much,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">They'll mar my counterfeiting.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Tom will throw his head at them. Avaunt, you curs!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Be thy mouth or black or white,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Tooth that poisons if it bite;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Mastiff, grey-hound, mongrel grim,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hound or spaniel, brach or lym,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Tom will make them weep and wail:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For, with throwing thus my head,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do de, de, de. Sessa! Come, march to wakes and</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">fairs and market-towns. Poor Tom, thy horn is dry.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Then let them anatomize Regan; see what breeds</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">about her heart. Is there any cause in nature that</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">makes these hard hearts?</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To EDGAR</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">do not like the fashion of your garments: you will</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">say they are Persian attire: but let them be changed.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Now, good my lord, lie here and rest awhile.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Make no noise, make no noise; draw the curtains:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">so, so, so. We'll go to supper i' he morning. So, so,
+ so.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Fool</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">And I'll go to bed at noon.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Re-enter GLOUCESTER</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come hither, friend: where is the king my master?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Here, sir; but trouble him not, his wits are gone.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Good friend, I prithee, take him in thy arms;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I have o'erheard a plot of death upon him:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">There is a litter ready; lay him in 't,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Both welcome and protection. Take up thy master:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With thine, and all that offer to defend him,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Stand in assured loss: take up, take up;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And follow me, that will to some provision</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Give thee quick conduct.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Oppressed nature sleeps:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which, if convenience will not allow,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Stand in hard cure.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To the Fool</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come, help to bear thy master;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou must not stay behind.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come, come, away.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt all but EDGAR</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">When we our betters see bearing our woes,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">We scarcely think our miseries our foes.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who alone suffers suffers most i' the mind,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Leaving free things and happy shows behind:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But then the mind much sufferance doth o'er skip,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">How light and portable my pain seems now,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When that which makes me bend makes the king bow,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He childed as I father'd! Tom, away!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Mark the high noises; and thyself bewray,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When false opinion, whose wrong thought defiles thee,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In thy just proof, repeals and reconciles thee.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What will hap more to-night, safe 'scape the king!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Lurk, lurk.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE VII. Gloucester's castle.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter CORNWALL, REGAN, GONERIL, EDMUND, and Servants</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Post speedily to my lord your husband; show him</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">this letter: the army of France is landed. Seek</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">out the villain Gloucester.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt some of the Servants</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hang him instantly.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pluck out his eyes.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Leave him to my displeasure. Edmund, keep you our</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">sister company: the revenges we are bound to take</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">upon your traitorous father are not fit for your</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">beholding. Advise the duke, where you are going, to</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">a most festinate preparation: we are bound to the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">like. Our posts shall be swift and intelligent</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">betwixt us. Farewell, dear sister: farewell, my</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">lord of Gloucester.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter OSWALD</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">How now! where's the king?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">My lord of Gloucester hath convey'd him hence:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Some five or six and thirty of his knights,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hot questrists after him, met him at gate;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who, with some other of the lords dependants,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Are gone with him towards Dover; where they boast</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To have well-armed friends.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Get horses for your mistress.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Farewell, sweet lord, and sister.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Edmund, farewell.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt GONERIL, EDMUND, and OSWALD</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Go seek the traitor Gloucester,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pinion him like a thief, bring him before us.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt other Servants</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Though well we may not pass upon his life</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Without the form of justice, yet our power</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shall do a courtesy to our wrath, which men</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">May blame, but not control. Who's there? the traitor?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GLOUCESTER, brought in by two or three</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ingrateful fox! 'tis he.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Bind fast his corky arms.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What mean your graces? Good my friends, consider</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You are my guests: do me no foul play, friends.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Bind him, I say.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Servants bind him</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hard, hard. O filthy traitor!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Unmerciful lady as you are, I'm none.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">To this chair bind him. Villain, thou shalt find--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">REGAN plucks his beard</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">By the kind gods, 'tis most ignobly done</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To pluck me by the beard.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">So white, and such a traitor!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Naughty lady,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">These hairs, which thou dost ravish from my chin,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Will quicken, and accuse thee: I am your host:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With robbers' hands my hospitable favours</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You should not ruffle thus. What will you do?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come, sir, what letters had you late from France?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Be simple answerer, for we know the truth.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">And what confederacy have you with the traitors</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Late footed in the kingdom?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">To whose hands have you sent the lunatic king? Speak.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I have a letter guessingly set down,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which came from one that's of a neutral heart,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And not from one opposed.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Cunning.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">And false.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Where hast thou sent the king?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">To Dover.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Wherefore to Dover? Wast thou not charged at peril--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Wherefore to Dover? Let him first answer that.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Wherefore to Dover, sir?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Because I would not see thy cruel nails</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pluck out his poor old eyes; nor thy fierce sister</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The sea, with such a storm as his bare head</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In hell-black night endured, would have buoy'd up,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And quench'd the stelled fires:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yet, poor old heart, he holp the heavens to rain.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If wolves had at thy gate howl'd that stern time,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou shouldst have said 'Good porter, turn the key,'</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">All cruels else subscribed: but I shall see</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The winged vengeance overtake such children.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">See't shalt thou never. Fellows, hold the chair.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He that will think to live till he be old,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Give me some help! O cruel! O you gods!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">One side will mock another; the other too.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">If you see vengeance,--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">First Servant</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hold your hand, my lord:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I have served you ever since I was a child;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But better service have I never done you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Than now to bid you hold.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How now, you dog!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">First Servant</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">If you did wear a beard upon your chin,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'd shake it on this quarrel. What do you mean?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">My villain!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">They draw and fight</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">First Servant</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nay, then, come on, and take the chance of anger.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Give me thy sword. A peasant stand up thus!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Takes a sword, and runs at him behind</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">First Servant</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, I am slain! My lord, you have one eye left</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To see some mischief on him. O!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Dies</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Lest it see more, prevent it. Out, vile jelly!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Where is thy lustre now?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">All dark and comfortless. Where's my son Edmund?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Edmund, enkindle all the sparks of nature,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To quit this horrid act.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Out, treacherous villain!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou call'st on him that hates thee: it was he</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That made the overture of thy treasons to us;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who is too good to pity thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O my follies! then Edgar was abused.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Kind gods, forgive me that, and prosper him!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Go thrust him out at gates, and let him smell</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">His way to Dover.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit one with GLOUCESTER</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">How is't, my lord? how look you?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORNWALL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I have received a hurt: follow me, lady.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Turn out that eyeless villain; throw this slave</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Upon the dunghill. Regan, I bleed apace:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Untimely comes this hurt: give me your arm.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit CORNWALL, led by REGAN</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Second Servant</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'll never care what wickedness I do,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If this man come to good.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Third Servant</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">If she live long,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And in the end meet the old course of death,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Women will all turn monsters.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Second Servant</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let's follow the old earl, and get the Bedlam</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To lead him where he would: his roguish madness</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Allows itself to any thing.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Third Servant</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Go thou: I'll fetch some flax and whites of eggs</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To apply to his bleeding face. Now, heaven help him!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt severally</para>
+ </section>
+
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter remap="ACT">
+ <title remap="TITLE">ACT IV</title>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE I. The heath.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDGAR</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yet better thus, and known to be contemn'd,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Than still contemn'd and flatter'd. To be worst,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The lamentable change is from the best;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The worst returns to laughter. Welcome, then,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou unsubstantial air that I embrace!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The wretch that thou hast blown unto the worst</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Owes nothing to thy blasts. But who comes here?</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GLOUCESTER, led by an Old Man</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">My father, poorly led? World, world, O world!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Lie would not yield to age.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Old Man</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, my good lord, I have been your tenant, and</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">your father's tenant, these fourscore years.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Away, get thee away; good friend, be gone:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy comforts can do me no good at all;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thee they may hurt.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Old Man</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Alack, sir, you cannot see your way.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I have no way, and therefore want no eyes;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I stumbled when I saw: full oft 'tis seen,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Our means secure us, and our mere defects</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Prove our commodities. O dear son Edgar,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The food of thy abused father's wrath!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Might I but live to see thee in my touch,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'ld say I had eyes again!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Old Man</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How now! Who's there?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> O gods! Who is't can
+ say 'I am at</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the worst'?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am worse than e'er I was.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Old Man</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis poor mad Tom.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> And worse I may be
+ yet: the worst is not</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Old Man</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fellow, where goest?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is it a beggar-man?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Old Man</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Madman and beggar too.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He has some reason, else he could not beg.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I' the last night's storm I such a fellow saw;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which made me think a man a worm: my son</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Came then into my mind; and yet my mind</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Was then scarce friends with him: I have heard</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">more since.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">They kill us for their sport.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> How should this be?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Angering itself and others.--Bless thee, master!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is that the naked fellow?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Old Man</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ay, my lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Then, prithee, get thee gone: if, for my sake,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou wilt o'ertake us, hence a mile or twain,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I' the way toward Dover, do it for ancient love;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And bring some covering for this naked soul,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who I'll entreat to lead me.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Old Man</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Alack, sir, he is mad.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do as I bid thee, or rather do thy pleasure;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Above the rest, be gone.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Old Man</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'll bring him the best 'parel that I have,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come on't what will.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sirrah, naked fellow,--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Poor Tom's a-cold.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">I cannot daub it further.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come hither, fellow.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> And yet I
+ must.--Bless thy sweet eyes, they bleed.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Know'st thou the way to Dover?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Both stile and gate, horse-way and foot-path. Poor</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Tom hath been scared out of his good wits: bless</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">thee, good man's son, from the foul fiend! five</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">fiends have been in poor Tom at once; of lust, as</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Obidicut; Hobbididence, prince of dumbness; Mahu, of</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">stealing; Modo, of murder; Flibbertigibbet, of</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">mopping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">and waiting-women. So, bless thee, master!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens' plagues</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Have humbled to all strokes: that I am wretched</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Makes thee the happier: heavens, deal so still!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That slaves your ordinance, that will not see</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">So distribution should undo excess,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And each man have enough. Dost thou know Dover?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ay, master.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">There is a cliff, whose high and bending head</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Looks fearfully in the confined deep:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Bring me but to the very brim of it,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And I'll repair the misery thou dost bear</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With something rich about me: from that place</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I shall no leading need.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Give me thy arm:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Poor Tom shall lead thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE II. Before ALBANY's palace.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GONERIL and EDMUND</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Welcome, my lord: I marvel our mild husband</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Not met us on the way.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter OSWALD</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Now, where's your master'?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Madam, within; but never man so changed.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I told him of the army that was landed;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He smiled at it: I told him you were coming:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">His answer was 'The worse:' of Gloucester's treachery,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And of the loyal service of his son,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When I inform'd him, then he call'd me sot,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And told me I had turn'd the wrong side out:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What most he should dislike seems pleasant to him;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What like, offensive.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">To EDMUND</phrase> Then shall you go
+ no further.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">It is the cowish terror of his spirit,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That dares not undertake: he'll not feel wrongs</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which tie him to an answer. Our wishes on the way</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">May prove effects. Back, Edmund, to my brother;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hasten his musters and conduct his powers:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I must change arms at home, and give the distaff</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Into my husband's hands. This trusty servant</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shall pass between us: ere long you are like to hear,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If you dare venture in your own behalf,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A mistress's command. Wear this; spare speech;</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Giving a favour</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Decline your head: this kiss, if it durst speak,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Would stretch thy spirits up into the air:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Conceive, and fare thee well.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yours in the ranks of death.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">My most dear Gloucester!</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit EDMUND</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, the difference of man and man!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To thee a woman's services are due:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My fool usurps my body.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Madam, here comes my lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter ALBANY</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I have been worth the whistle.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O Goneril!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You are not worth the dust which the rude wind</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Blows in your face. I fear your disposition:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That nature, which contemns its origin,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Cannot be border'd certain in itself;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">She that herself will sliver and disbranch</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">From her material sap, perforce must wither</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And come to deadly use.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No more; the text is foolish.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Filths savour but themselves. What have you done?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Tigers, not daughters, what have you perform'd?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A father, and a gracious aged man,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Whose reverence even the head-lugg'd bear would lick,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Most barbarous, most degenerate! have you madded.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Could my good brother suffer you to do it?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A man, a prince, by him so benefited!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If that the heavens do not their visible spirits</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Send quickly down to tame these vile offences,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">It will come,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Humanity must perforce prey on itself,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Like monsters of the deep.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Milk-liver'd man!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thine honour from thy suffering; that not know'st</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fools do those villains pity who are punish'd</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">France spreads his banners in our noiseless land;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With plumed helm thy slayer begins threats;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Whiles thou, a moral fool, sit'st still, and criest</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Alack, why does he so?'</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">See thyself, devil!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Proper deformity seems not in the fiend</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">So horrid as in woman.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O vain fool!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou changed and self-cover'd thing, for shame,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Be-monster not thy feature. Were't my fitness</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To let these hands obey my blood,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">They are apt enough to dislocate and tear</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy flesh and bones: howe'er thou art a fiend,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A woman's shape doth shield thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Marry, your manhood now--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter a Messenger</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What news?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Messenger</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, my good lord, the Duke of Cornwall's dead:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Slain by his servant, going to put out</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The other eye of Gloucester.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Gloucester's eye!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Messenger</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">A servant that he bred, thrill'd with remorse,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Opposed against the act, bending his sword</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To his great master; who, thereat enraged,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Flew on him, and amongst them fell'd him dead;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But not without that harmful stroke, which since</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hath pluck'd him after.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This shows you are above,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You justicers, that these our nether crimes</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">So speedily can venge! But, O poor Gloucester!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Lost he his other eye?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Messenger</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Both, both, my lord.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This letter, madam, craves a speedy answer;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis from your sister.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> One way I like this
+ well;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But being widow, and my Gloucester with her,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">May all the building in my fancy pluck</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Upon my hateful life: another way,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The news is not so tart.--I'll read, and answer.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Where was his son when they did take his eyes?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Messenger</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come with my lady hither.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He is not here.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Messenger</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, my good lord; I met him back again.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Knows he the wickedness?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Messenger</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ay, my good lord; 'twas he inform'd against him;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And quit the house on purpose, that their punishment</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Might have the freer course.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Gloucester, I live</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To thank thee for the love thou show'dst the king,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And to revenge thine eyes. Come hither, friend:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Tell me what more thou know'st.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE III. The French camp near Dover.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KENT and a Gentleman</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why the King of France is so suddenly gone back</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">know you the reason?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Something he left imperfect in the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">state, which since his coming forth is thought</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">of; which imports to the kingdom so much</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">fear and danger, that his personal return was</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">most required and necessary.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who hath he left behind him general?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The Marshal of France, Monsieur La Far.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Did your letters pierce the queen to any</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">demonstration of grief?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ay, sir; she took them, read them in my presence;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And now and then an ample tear trill'd down</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Her delicate cheek: it seem'd she was a queen</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Over her passion; who, most rebel-like,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sought to be king o'er her.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, then it moved her.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Not to a rage: patience and sorrow strove</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who should express her goodliest. You have seen</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Were like a better way: those happy smilets,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to know</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As pearls from diamonds dropp'd. In brief,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sorrow would be a rarity most beloved,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If all could so become it.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Made she no verbal question?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Faith, once or twice she heaved the name of 'father'</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pantingly forth, as if it press'd her heart:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Cried 'Sisters! sisters! Shame of ladies! sisters!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Kent! father! sisters! What, i' the storm? i' the night?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let pity not be believed!' There she shook</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The holy water from her heavenly eyes,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And clamour moisten'd: then away she started</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To deal with grief alone.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">It is the stars,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The stars above us, govern our conditions;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Else one self mate and mate could not beget</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Such different issues. You spoke not with her since?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Was this before the king return'd?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, since.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Well, sir, the poor distressed Lear's i' the town;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who sometime, in his better tune, remembers</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What we are come about, and by no means</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Will yield to see his daughter.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, good sir?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">A sovereign shame so elbows him: his own unkindness,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That stripp'd her from his benediction, turn'd her</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To foreign casualties, gave her dear rights</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To his dog-hearted daughters, these things sting</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">His mind so venomously, that burning shame</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Detains him from Cordelia.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Alack, poor gentleman!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of Albany's and Cornwall's powers you heard not?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis so, they are afoot.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Well, sir, I'll bring you to our master Lear,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And leave you to attend him: some dear cause</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Will in concealment wrap me up awhile;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When I am known aright, you shall not grieve</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Lending me this acquaintance. I pray you, go</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Along with me.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE IV. The same. A tent.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter, with drum and colours, CORDELIA, Doctor, and Soldiers</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Alack, 'tis he: why, he was met even now</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In our sustaining corn. A century send forth;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Search every acre in the high-grown field,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And bring him to our eye.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit an Officer</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">What can man's wisdom</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In the restoring his bereaved sense?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He that helps him take all my outward worth.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Doctor</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">There is means, madam:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Our foster-nurse of nature is repose,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The which he lacks; that to provoke in him,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Are many simples operative, whose power</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Will close the eye of anguish.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">All blest secrets,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">All you unpublish'd virtues of the earth,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Spring with my tears! be aidant and remediate</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In the good man's distress! Seek, seek for him;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Lest his ungovern'd rage dissolve the life</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That wants the means to lead it.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter a Messenger</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Messenger</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">News, madam;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The British powers are marching hitherward.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis known before; our preparation stands</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In expectation of them. O dear father,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">It is thy business that I go about;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Therefore great France</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My mourning and important tears hath pitied.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">No blown ambition doth our arms incite,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But love, dear love, and our aged father's right:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Soon may I hear and see him!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE V. Gloucester's castle.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter REGAN and OSWALD</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">But are my brother's powers set forth?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ay, madam.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Himself in person there?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Madam, with much ado:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Your sister is the better soldier.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Lord Edmund spake not with your lord at home?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, madam.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What might import my sister's letter to him?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I know not, lady.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Faith, he is posted hence on serious matter.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">It was great ignorance, Gloucester's eyes being out,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To let him live: where he arrives he moves</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">All hearts against us: Edmund, I think, is gone,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In pity of his misery, to dispatch</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">His nighted life: moreover, to descry</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The strength o' the enemy.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I must needs after him, madam, with my letter.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Our troops set forth to-morrow: stay with us;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The ways are dangerous.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I may not, madam:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My lady charged my duty in this business.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why should she write to Edmund? Might not you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Transport her purposes by word? Belike,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Something--I know not what: I'll love thee much,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let me unseal the letter.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Madam, I had rather--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I know your lady does not love her husband;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am sure of that: and at her late being here</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">She gave strange oeillades and most speaking looks</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To noble Edmund. I know you are of her bosom.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I, madam?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I speak in understanding; you are; I know't:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Therefore I do advise you, take this note:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My lord is dead; Edmund and I have talk'd;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And more convenient is he for my hand</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Than for your lady's: you may gather more.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If you do find him, pray you, give him this;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And when your mistress hears thus much from you,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I pray, desire her call her wisdom to her.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">So, fare you well.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Preferment falls on him that cuts him off.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Would I could meet him, madam! I should show</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What party I do follow.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fare thee well.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE VI. Fields near Dover.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter GLOUCESTER, and EDGAR dressed like a peasant</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">When shall we come to the top of that same hill?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">You do climb up it now: look, how we labour.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Methinks the ground is even.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Horrible steep.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hark, do you hear the sea?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, truly.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">By your eyes' anguish.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">So may it be, indeed:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Methinks thy voice is alter'd; and thou speak'st</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In better phrase and matter than thou didst.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">You're much deceived: in nothing am I changed</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But in my garments.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Methinks you're better spoken.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The crows and choughs that wing the midway air</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Show scarce so gross as beetles: half way down</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Methinks he seems no bigger than his head:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The fishermen, that walk upon the beach,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Appear like mice; and yond tall anchoring bark,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Almost too small for sight: the murmuring surge,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Topple down headlong.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Set me where you stand.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Give me your hand: you are now within a foot</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of the extreme verge: for all beneath the moon</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Would I not leap upright.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let go my hand.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Here, friend, 's another purse; in it a jewel</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Well worth a poor man's taking: fairies and gods</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Prosper it with thee! Go thou farther off;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Bid me farewell, and let me hear thee going.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Now fare you well, good sir.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">With all my heart.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why I do trifle thus with his despair</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is done to cure it.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Kneeling</phrase> O you mighty gods!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This world I do renounce, and, in your sights,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shake patiently my great affliction off:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If I could bear it longer, and not fall</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To quarrel with your great opposeless wills,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My snuff and loathed part of nature should</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Burn itself out. If Edgar live, O, bless him!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Now, fellow, fare thee well.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">He falls forward</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Gone, sir: farewell.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And yet I know not how conceit may rob</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The treasury of life, when life itself</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yields to the theft: had he been where he thought,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">By this, had thought been past. Alive or dead?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ho, you sir! friend! Hear you, sir! speak!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thus might he pass indeed: yet he revives.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What are you, sir?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Away, and let me die.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hadst thou been aught but gossamer, feathers, air,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">So many fathom down precipitating,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou'dst shiver'd like an egg: but thou dost breathe;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hast heavy substance; bleed'st not; speak'st; art sound.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ten masts at each make not the altitude</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which thou hast perpendicularly fell:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy life's a miracle. Speak yet again.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">But have I fall'n, or no?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">From the dread summit of this chalky bourn.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Look up a-height; the shrill-gorged lark so far</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Cannot be seen or heard: do but look up.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Alack, I have no eyes.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is wretchedness deprived that benefit,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To end itself by death? 'Twas yet some comfort,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And frustrate his proud will.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Give me your arm:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Up: so. How is 't? Feel you your legs? You stand.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Too well, too well.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This is above all strangeness.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Upon the crown o' the cliff, what thing was that</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which parted from you?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">A poor unfortunate beggar.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">As I stood here below, methought his eyes</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Were two full moons; he had a thousand noses,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Horns whelk'd and waved like the enridged sea:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">It was some fiend; therefore, thou happy father,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Think that the clearest gods, who make them honours</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of men's impossibilities, have preserved thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I do remember now: henceforth I'll bear</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Affliction till it do cry out itself</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Enough, enough,' and die. That thing you speak of,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I took it for a man; often 'twould say</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'The fiend, the fiend:' he led me to that place.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Bear free and patient thoughts. But who comes here?</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KING LEAR, fantastically dressed with wild flowers</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">The safer sense will ne'er accommodate</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">His master thus.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, they cannot touch me for coining; I am the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">king himself.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O thou side-piercing sight!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nature's above art in that respect. There's your</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">press-money. That fellow handles his bow like a</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">crow-keeper: draw me a clothier's yard. Look,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">look, a mouse! Peace, peace; this piece of toasted</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">cheese will do 't. There's my gauntlet; I'll prove</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">it on a giant. Bring up the brown bills. O, well</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">flown, bird! i' the clout, i' the clout: hewgh!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Give the word.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sweet marjoram.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pass.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I know that voice.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ha! Goneril, with a white beard! They flattered</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">me like a dog; and told me I had white hairs in my</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">beard ere the black ones were there. To say 'ay'</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">and 'no' to every thing that I said!--'Ay' and 'no'</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">too was no good divinity. When the rain came to</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">wet me once, and the wind to make me chatter; when</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the thunder would not peace at my bidding; there I</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">found 'em, there I smelt 'em out. Go to, they are</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">not men o' their words: they told me I was every</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">thing; 'tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The trick of that voice I do well remember:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is 't not the king?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ay, every inch a king:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When I do stare, see how the subject quakes.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause? Adultery?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou shalt not die: die for adultery! No:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The wren goes to 't, and the small gilded fly</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Does lecher in my sight.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester's bastard son</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Was kinder to his father than my daughters</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Got 'tween the lawful sheets.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To 't, luxury, pell-mell! for I lack soldiers.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Behold yond simpering dame,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Whose face between her forks presages snow;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That minces virtue, and does shake the head</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To hear of pleasure's name;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to 't</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With a more riotous appetite.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Down from the waist they are Centaurs,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Though women all above:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But to the girdle do the gods inherit,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Beneath is all the fiends';</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">There's hell, there's darkness, there's the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">sulphurous pit,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Burning, scalding, stench, consumption; fie,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">fie, fie! pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">there's money for thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, let me kiss that hand!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O ruin'd piece of nature! This great world</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shall so wear out to nought. Dost thou know me?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou squiny</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">at me? No, do thy worst, blind Cupid! I'll not</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">love. Read thou this challenge; mark but the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">penning of it.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Were all the letters suns, I could not see one.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I would not take this from report; it is,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And my heart breaks at it.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Read.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What, with the case of eyes?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, ho, are you there with me? No eyes in your</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">head, nor no money in your purse? Your eyes are in</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">a heavy case, your purse in a light; yet you see how</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">this world goes.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I see it feelingly.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What, art mad? A man may see how this world goes</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">is the justice, which is the thief? Thou hast seen</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">a farmer's dog bark at a beggar?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ay, sir.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">And the creature run from the cur? There thou</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">mightst behold the great image of authority: a</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">dog's obeyed in office.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For which thou whipp'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">None does offend, none, I say, none; I'll able 'em:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Take that of me, my friend, who have the power</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To seal the accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And like a scurvy politician, seem</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To see the things thou dost not. Now, now, now, now:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pull off my boots: harder, harder: so.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, matter and impertinency mix'd! Reason in madness!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I know thee well enough; thy name is Gloucester:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou must be patient; we came crying hither:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">We wawl and cry. I will preach to thee: mark.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Alack, alack the day!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">When we are born, we cry that we are come</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To this great stage of fools: this a good block;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">It were a delicate stratagem, to shoe</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A troop of horse with felt: I'll put 't in proof;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And when I have stol'n upon these sons-in-law,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Then, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter a Gentleman, with Attendants</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, here he is: lay hand upon him. Sir,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Your most dear daughter--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No rescue? What, a prisoner? I am even</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The natural fool of fortune. Use me well;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You shall have ransom. Let me have surgeons;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am cut to the brains.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">You shall have any thing.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No seconds? all myself?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, this would make a man a man of salt,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To use his eyes for garden water-pots,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ay, and laying autumn's dust.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Good sir,--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will die bravely, like a bridegroom. What!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will be jovial: come, come; I am a king,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My masters, know you that.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">You are a royal one, and we obey you.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Then there's life in't. Nay, if you get it, you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">shall get it with running. Sa, sa, sa, sa.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit running; Attendants follow</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">A sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Past speaking of in a king! Thou hast one daughter,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who redeems nature from the general curse</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which twain have brought her to.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hail, gentle sir.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sir, speed you: what's your will?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Most sure and vulgar: every one hears that,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which can distinguish sound.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">But, by your favour,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">How near's the other army?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Near and on speedy foot; the main descry</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Stands on the hourly thought.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I thank you, sir: that's all.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Though that the queen on special cause is here,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Her army is moved on.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I thank you, sir.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit Gentleman</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let not my worser spirit tempt me again</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To die before you please!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Well pray you, father.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Now, good sir, what are you?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Am pregnant to good pity. Give me your hand,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'll lead you to some biding.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hearty thanks:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The bounty and the benison of heaven</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To boot, and boot!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter OSWALD</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">A proclaim'd prize! Most happy!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That eyeless head of thine was first framed flesh</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To raise my fortunes. Thou old unhappy traitor,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Briefly thyself remember: the sword is out</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That must destroy thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Now let thy friendly hand</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Put strength enough to't.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">EDGAR interposes</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Wherefore, bold peasant,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Darest thou support a publish'd traitor? Hence;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Lest that the infection of his fortune take</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Like hold on thee. Let go his arm.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ch'ill not let go, zir, without vurther 'casion.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let go, slave, or thou diest!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor volk</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">pass. An chud ha' bin zwaggered out of my life,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'twould not ha' bin zo long as 'tis by a vortnight.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nay, come not near th' old man; keep out, che vor</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">ye, or ise try whether your costard or my ballow be</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the harder: ch'ill be plain with you.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Out, dunghill!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ch'ill pick your teeth, zir: come; no matter vor</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">your foins.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">They fight, and EDGAR knocks him down</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">OSWALD</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Slave, thou hast slain me: villain, take my purse:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And give the letters which thou find'st about me</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To Edmund earl of Gloucester; seek him out</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Upon the British party: O, untimely death!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Dies</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I know thee well: a serviceable villain;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As duteous to the vices of thy mistress</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As badness would desire.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What, is he dead?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sit you down, father; rest you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let's see these pockets: the letters that he speaks of</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">May be my friends. He's dead; I am only sorry</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He had no other death's-man. Let us see:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Leave, gentle wax; and, manners, blame us not:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To know our enemies' minds, we'ld rip their hearts;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Their papers, is more lawful.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Reads</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Let our reciprocal vows be remembered. You have</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">many opportunities to cut him off: if your will</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">want not, time and place will be fruitfully offered.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">There is nothing done, if he return the conqueror:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">then am I the prisoner, and his bed my goal; from</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the loathed warmth whereof deliver me, and supply</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the place for your labour.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Your--wife, so I would say--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Affectionate servant,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'GONERIL.'</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">O undistinguish'd space of woman's will!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A plot upon her virtuous husband's life;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And the exchange my brother! Here, in the sands,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thee I'll rake up, the post unsanctified</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of murderous lechers: and in the mature time</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With this ungracious paper strike the sight</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of the death practised duke: for him 'tis well</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That of thy death and business I can tell.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The king is mad: how stiff is my vile sense,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That I stand up, and have ingenious feeling</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of my huge sorrows! Better I were distract:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">So should my thoughts be sever'd from my griefs,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And woes by wrong imaginations lose</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The knowledge of themselves.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Give me your hand:</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Drum afar off</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Far off, methinks, I hear the beaten drum:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come, father, I'll bestow you with a friend.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE VII. A tent in the French camp. LEAR on a bed asleep, soft
+ music playing; Gentleman, and others attending.</title>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter CORDELIA, KENT, and Doctor</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To match thy goodness? My life will be too short,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And every measure fail me.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">To be acknowledged, madam, is o'erpaid.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">All my reports go with the modest truth;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nor more nor clipp'd, but so.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Be better suited:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">These weeds are memories of those worser hours:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I prithee, put them off.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pardon me, dear madam;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yet to be known shortens my made intent:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My boon I make it, that you know me not</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Till time and I think meet.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Then be't so, my good lord.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To the Doctor</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">How does the king?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Doctor</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Madam, sleeps still.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O you kind gods,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Cure this great breach in his abused nature!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The untuned and jarring senses, O, wind up</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of this child-changed father!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Doctor</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">So please your majesty</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That we may wake the king: he hath slept long.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Be govern'd by your knowledge, and proceed</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I' the sway of your own will. Is he array'd?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ay, madam; in the heaviness of his sleep</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">We put fresh garments on him.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Doctor</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Be by, good madam, when we do awake him;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I doubt not of his temperance.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Very well.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Doctor</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Please you, draw near. Louder the music there!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O my dear father! Restoration hang</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy medicine on my lips; and let this kiss</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Repair those violent harms that my two sisters</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Have in thy reverence made!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Kind and dear princess!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Had you not been their father, these white flakes</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Had challenged pity of them. Was this a face</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To be opposed against the warring winds?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In the most terrible and nimble stroke</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of quick, cross lightning? to watch--poor perdu!--</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With this thin helm? Mine enemy's dog,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Though he had bit me, should have stood that night</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Against my fire; and wast thou fain, poor father,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In short and musty straw? Alack, alack!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Had not concluded all. He wakes; speak to him.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Doctor</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Madam, do you; 'tis fittest.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do scald like moulten lead.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sir, do you know me?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">You are a spirit, I know: when did you die?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Still, still, far wide!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Doctor</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He's scarce awake: let him alone awhile.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Where have I been? Where am I? Fair daylight?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am mightily abused. I should e'en die with pity,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To see another thus. I know not what to say.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I will not swear these are my hands: let's see;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I feel this pin prick. Would I were assured</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Of my condition!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, look upon me, sir,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And hold your hands in benediction o'er me:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, sir, you must not kneel.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pray, do not mock me:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am a very foolish fond old man,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And, to deal plainly,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I fear I am not in my perfect mind.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Methinks I should know you, and know this man;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yet I am doubtful for I am mainly ignorant</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What place this is; and all the skill I have</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Remembers not these garments; nor I know not</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For, as I am a man, I think this lady</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To be my child Cordelia.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">And so I am, I am.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Be your tears wet? yes, 'faith. I pray, weep not:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If you have poison for me, I will drink it.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I know you do not love me; for your sisters</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Have, as I do remember, done me wrong:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You have some cause, they have not.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No cause, no cause.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Am I in France?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">In your own kingdom, sir.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do not abuse me.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Doctor</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Be comforted, good madam: the great rage,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You see, is kill'd in him: and yet it is danger</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To make him even o'er the time he has lost.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Desire him to go in; trouble him no more</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Till further settling.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Will't please your highness walk?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">You must bear with me:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pray you now, forget and forgive: I am old and
+ foolish.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt all but KENT and Gentleman</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Holds it true, sir, that the Duke of Cornwall was so
+ slain?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Most certain, sir.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who is conductor of his people?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">As 'tis said, the bastard son of Gloucester.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">They say Edgar, his banished son, is with the Earl</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">of Kent in Germany.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Report is changeable. 'Tis time to look about; the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">powers of the kingdom approach apace.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The arbitrement is like to be bloody. Fare you</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">well, sir.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">My point and period will be throughly wrought,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Or well or ill, as this day's battle's fought.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+ </section>
+
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter remap="ACT">
+ <title remap="TITLE">ACT V</title>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE I. The British camp, near Dover.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter, with drum and colours, EDMUND, REGAN, Gentlemen, and
+ Soldiers. EDMUND Know of the duke if his last purpose hold, Or whether since he is
+ advised by aught To change the course: he's full of alteration And self-reproving:
+ bring his constant pleasure. [To a Gentleman, who goes out</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Our sister's man is certainly miscarried.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis to be doubted, madam.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Now, sweet lord,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You know the goodness I intend upon you:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Tell me--but truly--but then speak the truth,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do you not love my sister?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">In honour'd love.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">But have you never found my brother's way</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To the forfended place?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">That thought abuses you.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am doubtful that you have been conjunct</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And bosom'd with her, as far as we call hers.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, by mine honour, madam.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I never shall endure her: dear my lord,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Be not familiar with her.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fear me not:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">She and the duke her husband!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter, with drum and colours, ALBANY, GONERIL, and Soldiers</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> I had rather lose the
+ battle than that sister</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Should loosen him and me.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Our very loving sister, well be-met.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sir, this I hear; the king is come to his daughter,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With others whom the rigor of our state</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Forced to cry out. Where I could not be honest,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I never yet was valiant: for this business,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">It toucheth us, as France invades our land,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Not bolds the king, with others, whom, I fear,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Most just and heavy causes make oppose.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sir, you speak nobly.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why is this reason'd?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Combine together 'gainst the enemy;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For these domestic and particular broils</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Are not the question here.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let's then determine</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With the ancient of war on our proceedings.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I shall attend you presently at your tent.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sister, you'll go with us?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis most convenient; pray you, go with us.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> O, ho, I know the
+ riddle.--I will go.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">As they are going out, enter EDGAR disguised</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">If e'er your grace had speech with man so poor,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hear me one word.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'll overtake you. Speak.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt all but ALBANY and EDGAR</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Before you fight the battle, ope this letter.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If you have victory, let the trumpet sound</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For him that brought it: wretched though I seem,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I can produce a champion that will prove</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What is avouched there. If you miscarry,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Your business of the world hath so an end,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And machination ceases. Fortune love you.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Stay till I have read the letter.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I was forbid it.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When time shall serve, let but the herald cry,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And I'll appear again.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, fare thee well: I will o'erlook thy paper.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit EDGAR</para>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Re-enter EDMUND</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The enemy's in view; draw up your powers.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Here is the guess of their true strength and forces</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">By diligent discovery; but your haste</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is now urged on you.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">We will greet the time.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">To both these sisters have I sworn my love;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Each jealous of the other, as the stung</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Are of the adder. Which of them shall I take?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Both? one? or neither? Neither can be enjoy'd,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If both remain alive: to take the widow</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And hardly shall I carry out my side,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Her husband being alive. Now then we'll use</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">His countenance for the battle; which being done,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let her who would be rid of him devise</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">His speedy taking off. As for the mercy</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which he intends to Lear and to Cordelia,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The battle done, and they within our power,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shall never see his pardon; for my state</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Stands on me to defend, not to debate.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE II. A field between the two camps.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Alarum within. Enter, with drum and colours, KING LEAR, CORDELIA,
+ and Soldiers, over the stage; and exeunt</para>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDGAR and GLOUCESTER</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Here, father, take the shadow of this tree</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For your good host; pray that the right may thrive:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If ever I return to you again,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'll bring you comfort.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Grace go with you, sir!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit EDGAR</para>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Alarum and retreat within. Re-enter EDGAR</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Away, old man; give me thy hand; away!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">King Lear hath lost, he and his daughter ta'en:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Give me thy hand; come on.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No farther, sir; a man may rot even here.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Their going hence, even as their coming hither;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ripeness is all: come on.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GLOUCESTER</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">And that's true too.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section remap="SCENE">
+ <title remap="TITLE">SCENE III. The British camp near Dover.</title>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter, in conquest, with drum and colours, EDMUND, KING LEAR and
+ CORDELIA, prisoners; Captain, Soldiers, &c</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Some officers take them away: good guard,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Until their greater pleasures first be known</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That are to censure them.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">CORDELIA</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">We are not the first</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who, with best meaning, have incurr'd the worst.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For thee, oppressed king, am I cast down;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Myself could else out-frown false fortune's frown.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And take upon's the mystery of things,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That ebb and flow by the moon.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Take them away.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The gods themselves throw incense. Have I caught thee?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And fire us hence like foxes. Wipe thine eyes;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The good-years shall devour them, flesh and fell,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ere they shall make us weep: we'll see 'em starve</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">first. Come.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt KING LEAR and CORDELIA, guarded</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come hither, captain; hark.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Take thou this note;</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Giving a paper</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">go follow them to prison:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">One step I have advanced thee; if thou dost</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As this instructs thee, thou dost make thy way</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To noble fortunes: know thou this, that men</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Are as the time is: to be tender-minded</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Does not become a sword: thy great employment</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Will not bear question; either say thou'lt do 't,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Or thrive by other means.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Captain</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'll do 't, my lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">About it; and write happy when thou hast done.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Mark, I say, instantly; and carry it so</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As I have set it down.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Captain</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If it be man's work, I'll do 't.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Flourish. Enter ALBANY, GONERIL, REGAN, another Captain, and
+ Soldiers</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sir, you have shown to-day your valiant strain,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And fortune led you well: you have the captives</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That were the opposites of this day's strife:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">We do require them of you, so to use them</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As we shall find their merits and our safety</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">May equally determine.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sir, I thought it fit</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To send the old and miserable king</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To some retention and appointed guard;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Whose age has charms in it, whose title more,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To pluck the common bosom on his side,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">An turn our impress'd lances in our eyes</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which do command them. With him I sent the queen;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My reason all the same; and they are ready</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To-morrow, or at further space, to appear</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Where you shall hold your session. At this time</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">We sweat and bleed: the friend hath lost his friend;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And the best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">By those that feel their sharpness:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The question of Cordelia and her father</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Requires a fitter place.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sir, by your patience,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I hold you but a subject of this war,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Not as a brother.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">That's as we list to grace him.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Methinks our pleasure might have been demanded,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ere you had spoke so far. He led our powers;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Bore the commission of my place and person;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The which immediacy may well stand up,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And call itself your brother.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Not so hot:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">In his own grace he doth exalt himself,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">More than in your addition.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">In my rights,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">By me invested, he compeers the best.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">That were the most, if he should husband you.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Jesters do oft prove prophets.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Holla, holla!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That eye that told you so look'd but a-squint.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Lady, I am not well; else I should answer</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">From a full-flowing stomach. General,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Take thou my soldiers, prisoners, patrimony;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Dispose of them, of me; the walls are thine:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Witness the world, that I create thee here</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My lord and master.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Mean you to enjoy him?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The let-alone lies not in your good will.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nor in thine, lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Half-blooded fellow, yes.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">To EDMUND</phrase> Let the drum
+ strike, and prove my title thine.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Stay yet; hear reason. Edmund, I arrest thee</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">On capital treason; and, in thine attaint,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This gilded serpent</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Pointing to Goneril</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">For your claim, fair sister,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I bar it in the interest of my wife:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis she is sub-contracted to this lord,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And I, her husband, contradict your bans.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If you will marry, make your loves to me,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My lady is bespoke.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">An interlude!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou art arm'd, Gloucester: let the trumpet sound:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If none appear to prove upon thy head</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy heinous, manifest, and many treasons,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">There is my pledge;</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Throwing down a glove</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'll prove it on thy heart,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ere I taste bread, thou art in nothing less</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Than I have here proclaim'd thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sick, O, sick!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Aside</phrase> If not, I'll ne'er
+ trust medicine.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">There's my exchange:</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Throwing down a glove</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">what in the world he is</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That names me traitor, villain-like he lies:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Call by thy trumpet: he that dares approach,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">On him, on you, who not? I will maintain</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My truth and honour firmly.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">A herald, ho!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">A herald, ho, a herald!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Trust to thy single virtue; for thy soldiers,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">All levied in my name, have in my name</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Took their discharge.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">REGAN</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">My sickness grows upon me.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">She is not well; convey her to my tent.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit Regan, led</para>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter a Herald</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Come hither, herald,--Let the trumpet sound,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And read out this.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Captain</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sound, trumpet!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">A trumpet sounds</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Herald</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Reads</phrase> 'If any man of
+ quality or degree within</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">the lists of the army will maintain upon Edmund,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">supposed Earl of Gloucester, that he is a manifold</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">traitor, let him appear by the third sound of the</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">trumpet: he is bold in his defence.'</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Sound!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">First trumpet</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Herald</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Again!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Second trumpet</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Herald</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Again!</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Third trumpet</para>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Trumpet answers within</para>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter EDGAR, at the third sound, armed, with a trumpet before him</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ask him his purposes, why he appears</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Upon this call o' the trumpet.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Herald</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What are you?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Your name, your quality? and why you answer</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This present summons?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Know, my name is lost;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yet am I noble as the adversary</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I come to cope.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which is that adversary?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What's he that speaks for Edmund Earl of Gloucester?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Himself: what say'st thou to him?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Draw thy sword,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That, if my speech offend a noble heart,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy arm may do thee justice: here is mine.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Behold, it is the privilege of mine honours,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My oath, and my profession: I protest,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Maugre thy strength, youth, place, and eminence,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Despite thy victor sword and fire-new fortune,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy valour and thy heart, thou art a traitor;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Conspirant 'gainst this high-illustrious prince;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And, from the extremest upward of thy head</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To the descent and dust below thy foot,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A most toad-spotted traitor. Say thou 'No,'</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This sword, this arm, and my best spirits, are bent</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To prove upon thy heart, whereto I speak,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou liest.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">In wisdom I should ask thy name;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But, since thy outside looks so fair and warlike,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And that thy tongue some say of breeding breathes,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What safe and nicely I might well delay</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Back do I toss these treasons to thy head;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With the hell-hated lie o'erwhelm thy heart;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which, for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This sword of mine shall give them instant way,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Where they shall rest for ever. Trumpets, speak!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Alarums. They fight. EDMUND falls</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Save him, save him!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This is practise, Gloucester:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">By the law of arms thou wast not bound to answer</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">An unknown opposite; thou art not vanquish'd,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">But cozen'd and beguiled.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shut your mouth, dame,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Or with this paper shall I stop it: Hold, sir:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou worse than any name, read thine own evil:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">No tearing, lady: I perceive you know it.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Gives the letter to EDMUND</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Say, if I do, the laws are mine, not thine:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who can arraign me for't.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Most monstrous! oh!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Know'st thou this paper?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">GONERIL</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ask me not what I know.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Go after her: she's desperate; govern her.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What you have charged me with, that have I done;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And more, much more; the time will bring it out:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis past, and so am I. But what art thou</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That hast this fortune on me? If thou'rt noble,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I do forgive thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let's exchange charity.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am no less in blood than thou art, Edmund;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If more, the more thou hast wrong'd me.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My name is Edgar, and thy father's son.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Make instruments to plague us:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The dark and vicious place where thee he got</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Cost him his eyes.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thou hast spoken right, 'tis true;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The wheel is come full circle: I am here.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Methought thy very gait did prophesy</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">A royal nobleness: I must embrace thee:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Let sorrow split my heart, if ever I</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Did hate thee or thy father!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Worthy prince, I know't.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Where have you hid yourself?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">How have you known the miseries of your father?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">By nursing them, my lord. List a brief tale;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And when 'tis told, O, that my heart would burst!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The bloody proclamation to escape,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That follow'd me so near,--O, our lives' sweetness!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That we the pain of death would hourly die</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Rather than die at once!--taught me to shift</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Into a madman's rags; to assume a semblance</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That very dogs disdain'd: and in this habit</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Met I my father with his bleeding rings,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Their precious stones new lost: became his guide,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Led him, begg'd for him, saved him from despair;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Never,--O fault!--reveal'd myself unto him,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Until some half-hour past, when I was arm'd:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Not sure, though hoping, of this good success,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I ask'd his blessing, and from first to last</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Told him my pilgrimage: but his flaw'd heart,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Alack, too weak the conflict to support!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Burst smilingly.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This speech of yours hath moved me,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And shall perchance do good: but speak you on;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You look as you had something more to say.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">If there be more, more woeful, hold it in;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">For I am almost ready to dissolve,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Hearing of this.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This would have seem'd a period</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To such as love not sorrow; but another,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To amplify too much, would make much more,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And top extremity.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Whilst I was big in clamour came there in a man,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who, having seen me in my worst estate,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shunn'd my abhorr'd society; but then, finding</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who 'twas that so endured, with his strong arms</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He fastened on my neck, and bellow'd out</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">As he'ld burst heaven; threw him on my father;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Told the most piteous tale of Lear and him</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That ever ear received: which in recounting</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">His grief grew puissant and the strings of life</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Began to crack: twice then the trumpets sounded,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And there I left him tranced.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">But who was this?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Kent, sir, the banish'd Kent; who in disguise</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Improper for a slave.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter a Gentleman, with a bloody knife</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Help, help, O, help!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What kind of help?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Speak, man.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">What means that bloody knife?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis hot, it smokes;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">It came even from the heart of--O, she's dead!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Who dead? speak, man.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Gentleman</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Your lady, sir, your lady: and her sister</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">By her is poisoned; she hath confess'd it.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I was contracted to them both: all three</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Now marry in an instant.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Here comes Kent.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Produce their bodies, be they alive or dead:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">This judgment of the heavens, that makes us tremble,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Touches us not with pity.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit Gentleman</para>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter KENT</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">O, is this he?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The time will not allow the compliment</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Which very manners urges.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I am come</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To bid my king and master aye good night:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is he not here?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Great thing of us forgot!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Speak, Edmund, where's the king? and where's Cordelia?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">See'st thou this object, Kent?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">The bodies of GONERIL and REGAN are brought in</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Alack, why thus?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Yet Edmund was beloved:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The one the other poison'd for my sake,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And after slew herself.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Even so. Cover their faces.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I pant for life: some good I mean to do,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Despite of mine own nature. Quickly send,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Be brief in it, to the castle; for my writ</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is on the life of Lear and on Cordelia:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nay, send in time.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Run, run, O, run!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">To who, my lord? Who hath the office? send</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Thy token of reprieve.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Well thought on: take my sword,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Give it the captain.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Haste thee, for thy life.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exit EDGAR</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDMUND</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He hath commission from thy wife and me</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To hang Cordelia in the prison, and</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To lay the blame upon her own despair,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That she fordid herself.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The gods defend her! Bear him hence awhile.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">EDMUND is borne off</para>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Re-enter KING LEAR, with CORDELIA dead in his arms; EDGAR,
+ Captain, and others following</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Had I your tongues and eyes, I'ld use them so</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I know when one is dead, and when one lives;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why, then she lives.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is this the promised end</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Or image of that horror?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Fall, and cease!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That ever I have felt.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE"><phrase remap="STAGEDIR">Kneeling</phrase> O my good
+ master!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Prithee, away.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis noble Kent, your friend.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">A plague upon you, murderers, traitors all!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I might have saved her; now she's gone for ever!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Cordelia, Cordelia! stay a little. Ha!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I kill'd the slave that was a-hanging thee.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Captain</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">'Tis true, my lords, he did.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Did I not, fellow?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I have seen the day, with my good biting falchion</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">I would have made them skip: I am old now,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And these same crosses spoil me. Who are you?</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Mine eyes are not o' the best: I'll tell you straight.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">If fortune brag of two she loved and hated,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">One of them we behold.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The same,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Your servant Kent: Where is your servant Caius?</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He's a good fellow, I can tell you that;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He'll strike, and quickly too: he's dead and rotten.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">No, my good lord; I am the very man,--</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I'll see that straight.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">That, from your first of difference and decay,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Have follow'd your sad steps.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">You are welcome hither.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Nor no man else: all's cheerless, dark, and deadly.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Your eldest daughters have fordone them selves,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And desperately are dead.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Ay, so I think.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He knows not what he says: and vain it is</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That we present us to him.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Very bootless.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Enter a Captain</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">Captain</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Edmund is dead, my lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">That's but a trifle here.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">You lords and noble friends, know our intent.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">What comfort to this great decay may come</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shall be applied: for us we will resign,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">During the life of this old majesty,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">To him our absolute power:</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To EDGAR and KENT</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">you, to your rights:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">With boot, and such addition as your honours</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Have more than merited. All friends shall taste</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The wages of their virtue, and all foes</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The cup of their deservings. O, see, see!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KING LEAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Never, never, never, never, never!</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Pray you, undo this button: thank you, sir.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips,</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Look there, look there!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Dies</para>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He faints! My lord, my lord!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Break, heart; I prithee, break!</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Look up, my lord.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him much</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">That would upon the rack of this tough world</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Stretch him out longer.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">EDGAR</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">He is gone, indeed.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The wonder is, he hath endured so long:</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">He but usurp'd his life.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">Bear them from hence. Our present business</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Is general woe.</line>
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">To KENT and EDGAR</para>
+ <line remap="LINE">Friends of my soul, you twain</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Rule in this realm, and the gored state sustain.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">KENT</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">I have a journey, sir, shortly to go;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">My master calls me, I must not say no.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <dialogue remap="SPEECH">
+ <linegroup>
+ <speaker remap="SPEAKER">ALBANY</speaker>
+ <line remap="LINE">The weight of this sad time we must obey;</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">The oldest hath borne most: we that are young</line>
+ <line remap="LINE">Shall never see so much, nor live so long.</line>
+ </linegroup>
+ </dialogue>
+
+ <para remap="STAGEDIR">Exeunt, with a dead march</para>
+ </section>
+ </chapter>
+</book>
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