Make inftruments to k fcourge us : The dark and vicious place, where thee he got, Coft him his eyes. The wheel is come full m circle; I am here. Alb. Methought thy very gait did prophefy [To Edgar. A royal nobleness. I must embrace thee: Let forrow fplit my heart, n if ever I Did hate thee or thy father! Edg. Worthy prince, I know't. Alb. Where have you hid yourself? How have you known the miseries of your father? Edg. By nurfing them, my lord. List a brief tale, And when 'tis told, O that my heart would burst! The bloody proclamation to escape г That follow'd me fo near (O our lives' sweetness ! t Their precious stones new loft; became his guide, So the qu's, W. and J.; the rest plague for scourge; H. reads plagu end punish us, to complete the verse. . 1 The qu's read thou haft spoken truth, the wheel, &c. The qu's read circled. n The qu's read if I did ever hate, &c. • H. reads I know it well. P So the qu's; all the reft we for with. q All editions read would for we'd: but this feems to be a neceffary emen dation, if we read with for we, with the qu's. r All before P. who alters die to bear; followed by the rest. So all before P. who alters that to the; followed by the rest. So all before P. who alters ftones to gems; followed by the rest. Led Led him, begg'd for him, fav'd him from despair; w Told him my pilgrimage: but his flaw'd heart, Edm. This fpeech of yours hath mov'd me, Alb. If there be more, more woful, hold it in, y Edg. This would have feem'd a period, To fuch as love not forrow: but another To amplify too much, would make much, more, And top extremity. Whilft I was big in clamour, came there a in a man, b Who having feen me in my worst estate, The qu's read (0 father.) w The fo's and R. read our for my, * The 4th f. reads this for his. y The remaining part of this fcene is omitted in all but the qu's, T. W. and J. 2 W. reads This would have feem'd a period. But fuch, As love to amplify another's forrow, To much, would make much more, and top extremity, See Heath in loc. a So the qu's; the rest omit in. So the qu's; the reft worfer fiate, Shunn'd Shunn'd my abhorr'd fociety; but then finding с As he'd burft heaven; threw him on my father; Alb. But who was this? Edg. Kent, fir, the banish'd Kent, who in disguise Follow'd his enemy king, and did him fervice Improper for a slave. SCENE IX. h Enter a Gentleman, with a bloody knife. Gent. Help, help, iO help! k Alb. What kind of help? 1 fpeak, man, that bloody knife? What means So the qu's; the rest now for then. So the qu's; the reft had for that. e The qu's read me for him. f The 2d q. reads and told the piteous tale, &e. All but . read trumpets. h The qu's read enter one with a bloody knife; the fo's and all after only enter a Gentleman. iSo the fo's and R.; the reft omit 0 help. So the qu's; all the reft divide this fpeech thus, Edg. What kind of help? Alb, Speak, man. Edg. What means this bloody knife? The qu's omit fpeak, men. So the qu's; the rest this for that. Genti Gent. Tis hot, it fmoaks; it came even from the heart n Of "O! fhe's dead. Alb. Who dead? speak man. Gent. Your lady, fir, your lady; and her fifter By her is P poisoned; 9 fher hath confest it. Edm. I was contracted to them both: all three Now marry in an inftants. Alb. Produce their bodies, be they alive or dead, The justice of the heavens that makes us tremble, Touches us not with pity. Edg. Here comes Kent, sir, n The qu's omit O! fhe's dead. Speak. The 4th f. and all after read who's for who; the qu's read who man P So the ft q.; the reft poifon'd. So the qu's; the rest he confeffes it. The 2d q. reads has for bath. So the qu's the fo's and the reft read Edg. Here comes Kent. -inftant. Enter Kent. Alb. Produce the bodies be they alive or dead. [Gonerill and Regan's bodies brought out. The judgment of the heavens that makes us tremble, Touches us not with pity. O! is this he? [the 2d, 3d, and 4th fo's, R. and P. fhe for he] the time will not allow The compliment which very manners urge. Kent. I am come To bid my king and mafter aye good night. Is he not here? Alb. Great thing of us forgot! Speak, Edmund, where's the King? and where's Cordelia? Seeft thou this object, Kent? Kent. Alack, why thus? &c. &c. Enter Enter Kent. Alb. O, is this he? The time will not allow u The compliment " which very manners w urge. Kent. I am come to bid my king and mafter ay good night. Is he not here? Alb. Great thing of us forgot! Speak, Edmund, where's the King? and where's Cordelia? See'ft thou this object, Kent? Y [The bodies of Gonerill and Regan are brought in. Kent. Alack, why thus? Edm. Yet Edmund was belov'd: The one the other poifon'd for my fake, And after flew herself. Alb. Even fo. Cover their faces. Edm. I pant for life; fome good I mean to do, Defpight of mine own nature. Quickly fend, (Be brief-) into the caftle; for my writ Is on the life of Lear and a Cordelia : Nay, fend in time. Alb. Run, run, O run b Edg. To whom, my lord? Who has the office? Send Thy token of reprieve. The qu's read O'tis he. The qu's read that for which. w The qu's and three first fo's read urges. The 2d q. reads things. y Here H. (who, with all but the qu's, brings in the bodies before) has this direction, Pointing to the dead bodies. 2 The fo's and R. read (be brief in it) to th' cafile, &c. a After and, all but H. infert on. After run, H. inferts make hafte, Edm |