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But where the greater malady is fixt, |
The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'dst shun a Beare, |
But if thy flight lay toward the roaring sea, |
Thou'dst meete the Beare i'th' mouth, when the mind's free, |
The bodies delicate: the tempest in my mind, |
Doth from my sences take all feeling else, |
Saue what beates there, Filliall ingratitude, |
Is it not as this mouth should teare this hand |
For lifting food too't? But I will punish home; |
No, I will weepe no more; in such a night, |
To shut me out? Poure on, I will endure: |
In such a night as this? O Regan, Gonerill, |
Your old kind Father, whose franke heart gaue all, |
O that way madnesse lies, let me shun that: |
No more of that |
Kent. Good my Lord enter here |
Lear. Prythee go in thy selfe, seeke thine owne ease, |
This tempest will not giue me leaue to ponder |
On things would hurt me more, but Ile goe in, |
In Boy, go first. You houselesse pouertie, |
Enter. |
Nay get thee in; Ile pray, and then Ile sleepe. |
Poore naked wretches, where so ere you are |
That bide the pelting of this pittilesse storme, |
How shall your House-lesse heads, and vnfed sides, |
Your lop'd, and window'd raggednesse defend you |
From seasons such as these? O I haue tane |
Too little care of this: Take Physicke, Pompe, |
Expose thy selfe to feele what wretches feele, |
That thou maist shake the superflux to them, |
And shew the Heauens more iust. |
Enter Edgar, and Foole. |
Edg. Fathom, and halfe, Fathom and halfe; poore Tom |
Foole. Come not in heere Nuncle, here's a spirit, helpe |
me, helpe me |
Kent. Giue my thy hand, who's there? |
Foole. A spirite, a spirite, he sayes his name's poore |
Tom |
Kent. What art thou that dost grumble there i'th' |
straw? Come forth |
Edg. Away, the foule Fiend followes me, through the |
sharpe Hauthorne blow the windes. Humh, goe to thy |
bed and warme thee |
Lear. Did'st thou giue all to thy Daughters? And art |
thou come to this? |
Edgar. Who giues any thing to poore Tom? Whom |
the foule fiend hath led through Fire, and through Flame, |
through Sword, and Whirle-Poole, o're Bog, and Quagmire, |
that hath laid Kniues vnder his Pillow, and Halters |
in his Pue, set Rats-bane by his Porredge, made him |
Proud of heart, to ride on a Bay trotting Horse, ouer foure |
incht Bridges, to course his owne shadow for a Traitor. |
Blisse thy fiue Wits, Toms a cold. O do, de, do, de, do, de, |
blisse thee from Whirle-Windes, Starre-blasting, and taking, |
do poore Tom some charitie, whom the foule Fiend |
vexes. There could I haue him now, and there, and there |
againe, and there. |
Storme still. |
Lear. Ha's his Daughters brought him to this passe? |
Could'st thou saue nothing? Would'st thou giue 'em all? |
Foole. Nay, he reseru'd a Blanket, else we had bin all |
sham'd |
Lea. Now all the plagues that in the pendulous ayre |
Hang fated o're mens faults, light on thy Daughters |
Kent. He hath no Daughters Sir |
Lear. Death Traitor, nothing could haue subdu'd Nature |
To such a lownesse, but his vnkind Daughters. |
Is it the fashion, that discarded Fathers, |
Should haue thus little mercy on their flesh: |
Iudicious punishment, 'twas this flesh begot |
Those Pelicane Daughters |
Edg. Pillicock sat on Pillicock hill, alow: alow, loo, loo |
Foole. This cold night will turne vs all to Fooles, and |
Madmen |
Edgar. Take heed o'th' foule Fiend, obey thy Parents, |
keepe thy words Iustice, sweare not, commit not, |
with mans sworne Spouse: set not thy Sweet-heart on |
proud array. Tom's a cold |
Lear. What hast thou bin? |
Edg. A Seruingman? Proud in heart, and minde; that |
curl'd my haire, wore Gloues in my cap; seru'd the Lust |
of my Mistris heart, and did the acte of darkenesse with |
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