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Edg. How should this be? |
Bad is the Trade that must play Foole to sorrow, |
Ang'ring it selfe, and others. Blesse thee Master |
Glou. Is that the naked Fellow? |
Oldm. I, my Lord |
Glou. Get thee away: If for my sake |
Thou wilt ore-take vs hence a mile or twaine |
I'th' way toward Douer, do it for ancient loue, |
And bring some couering for this naked Soule, |
Which Ile intreate to leade me |
Old. Alacke sir, he is mad |
Glou. 'Tis the times plague, |
When Madmen leade the blinde: |
Do as I bid thee, or rather do thy pleasure: |
Aboue the rest, be gone |
Oldm. Ile bring him the best Parrell that I haue |
Come on't what will. |
Exit |
Glou. Sirrah, naked fellow |
Edg. Poore Tom's a cold. I cannot daub it further |
Glou. Come hither fellow |
Edg. And yet I must: |
Blesse thy sweete eyes, they bleede |
Glou. Know'st thou the way to Douer? |
Edg. Both style, and gate; Horseway, and foot-path: |
poore Tom hath bin scarr'd out of his good wits. Blesse |
thee good mans sonne, from the foule Fiend |
Glou. Here take this purse, y whom the heau'ns plagues |
Haue humbled to all strokes: that I am wretched |
Makes thee the happier: Heauens deale so still: |
Let the superfluous, and Lust-dieted man, |
That slaues your ordinance, that will not see |
Because he do's not feele, feele your powre quickly: |
So distribution should vndoo excesse, |
And each man haue enough. Dost thou know Douer? |
Edg. I Master |
Glou. There is a Cliffe, whose high and bending head |
Lookes fearfully in the confined Deepe: |
Bring me but to the very brimme of it, |
And Ile repayre the misery thou do'st beare |
With something rich about me: from that place, |
I shall no leading neede |
Edg. Giue me thy arme; |
Poore Tom shall leade thee. |
Exeunt. |
Scena Secunda. |
Enter Gonerill, Bastard, and Steward. |
Gon. Welcome my Lord. I meruell our mild husband |
Not met vs on the way. Now, where's your Master? |
Stew. Madam within, but neuer man so chang'd: |
I told him of the Army that was Landed: |
He smil'd at it. I told him you were comming, |
His answer was, the worse. Of Glosters Treachery, |
And of the loyall Seruice of his Sonne |
When I inform'd him, then he call'd me Sot, |
And told me I had turn'd the wrong side out: |
What most he should dislike, seemes pleasant to him; |
What like, offensiue |
Gon. Then shall you go no further. |
It is the Cowish terror of his spirit |
That dares not vndertake: Hee'l not feele wrongs |
Which tye him to an answer: our wishes on the way |
May proue effects. Backe Edmond to my Brother, |
Hasten his Musters, and conduct his powres. |
I must change names at home, and giue the Distaffe |
Into my Husbands hands. This trustie Seruant |
Shall passe betweene vs: ere long you are like to heare |
(If you dare venture in your owne behalfe) |
A Mistresses command. Weare this; spare speech, |
Decline your head. This kisse, if it durst speake |
Would stretch thy Spirits vp into the ayre: |
Conceiue, and fare thee well |
Bast. Yours in the rankes of death. |
Enter. |
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