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Do you not love my sister?

EDMUND In honoured 11love.

REGAN But have you never found my brother’s way

To the forfended place 13?

EDMUND No, by mine honour, madam.

REGAN I never shall endure her 15: dear my lord,

Be not familiar 16with her.

EDMUND Fear not. She and the duke her husband!

Enter with Drum and Colours Albany, Goneril, Soldiers

ALBANY Our very loving sister, well be-met.

Sir, this I heard: the king is come to his daughter,

With others whom the rigour of our state 20

Forced to cry out 21.

REGAN Why is this reasoned 22?

GONERIL Combine together 23gainst the enemy,

For these domestic and particular broils 24

Are not the question here.

ALBANY Let’s then determine

With th’ancient of war 27on our proceeding.

REGAN Sister, you’ll go with us?

GONERIL No.

REGAN ’Tis most convenient 30: pray, go with us.

Aside

GONERIL O, ho, I know the riddle 31.— I will go.

Exeunt both the armies. [Albany remains]

Enter Edgar

Disguised

EDGAR If e’er your grace had speech with man so poor,

Hear me one word.

ALBANY I’ll overtake you 34.— Speak.

EDGAR Before you fight the battle, ope this letter 35:

Gives a letter

If you have victory, let the trumpet sound 36

For him that brought it. Wretched though I seem,

I can produce a champion 38that will prove

What is avouchèd there. If you miscarry 39,

Your business of the world hath so an end,

And machination 41ceases. Fortune loves you.

ALBANY Stay till I have read the letter.

EDGAR I was forbid it.

When time shall serve, let but the herald cry 44

And I’ll appear again.

Exit

ALBANY Why, fare thee well: I will o’erlook 46thy paper.

Enter Edmund

EDMUND The enemy’s in view: draw up your powers 47.

Offers a paper

Here is the guess of their true strength and forces

By diligent discovery 49, but your haste

Is now urged on you.

ALBANY We will greet the time 51.

Exit

EDMUND To both these sisters have I sworn my love,

Each jealous 53of the other, as the stung

Are of the adder. Which of them shall I take?

Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed

If both remain alive. To take the widow

Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril,

And hardly shall I carry out my side 58,

Her husband being alive. Now then, we’ll use

His countenance 60for the battle, which being done,

Let her who would be rid of him devise

His speedy taking off 62. As for the mercy

Which he intends to Lear and to Cordelia,

The battle done and they within our power,

Shall never see his pardon, for my state 65

Stands on me to defend, not to debate.

Exit

Act 5 Scene 2

running scene 19

Alarum within. Enter, with Drum and Colours, Lear, Cordelia and Soldiers over the stage and exeunt. Enter Edgar and Gloucester

EDGAR Here, father 1, take the shadow of this tree

For your good host 2. Pray that the right may thrive.

If ever I return to you again,

I’ll bring you comfort.

GLOUCESTER Grace go with you, sir!

Exit [Edgar]

Alarum and retreat within

Enter Edgar

EDGAR Away, old man! Give me thy hand, away!

King Lear hath lost, he and his daughter ta’en 7:

Give me thy hand, come on.

GLOUCESTER No further, sir: a man may rot even here.

EDGAR What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure

Their going hence, even as their coming hither:

Ripeness 12is all: come on.

GLOUCESTER And that’s true too.

Exeunt

Act 5 Scene 3

running scene 20

Enter in conquest, with Drum and Colours, Edmund, Lear and Cordelia as prisoners, Soldiers, Captain

EDMUND Some officers take them away: good guard 1,

Until their greater pleasures 2first be known

That are to censure 3them.

To Lear

CORDELIA We are not the first

Who with best meaning 5have incurred the worst.

For thee, oppressèd king, I am cast down 6:

Myself could else out-frown false fortune’s frown.

Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?

LEAR No, no, no, no! Come, let’s away to prison.

We two alone will sing like birds i’th’cage:

When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down

And ask of thee forgiveness: so we’ll live,

And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh

At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues 14

Talk of court news, and we’ll talk with them too —

Who loses and who wins, who’s in, who’s out —

And take upon’s the mystery of things 17,

As if we were God’s spies: and we’ll wear out 18

In a walled prison packs and sects 19of great ones

That ebb and flow by th’moon 20.

EDMUND Take them away.

LEAR Upon such sacrifices 22, my Cordelia,

The gods themselves throw incense 23. Have I caught thee?

He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven 24

And fire us hence like foxes. Wipe thine eyes:

The good years shall devour them, flesh and fell 26,

Ere they shall make us weep: We’ll see ’em starved 27first. Come.

Exeunt [Lear and Cordelia, guarded]

EDMUND Come hither, captain, hark.

Gives a paper

Take thou this note, go follow them to prison.

One step I have advanced thee: if thou dost

As this instructs thee, thou dost make thy way

To noble fortunes. Know thou this: that men

Are as the time is; to be tender-minded 33

Does not become 34a sword. Thy great employment

Will not bear question 35: either say thou’lt do’t

Or thrive by other means.

CAPTAIN I’ll do’t, my lord.

EDMUND About it, and write happy 38when th’hast done.

Mark, I say, instantly, and carry 39it so

As I have set it down.

Exit Captain

Flourish. Enter Albany, Goneril, Regan, Soldiers

ALBANY Sir, you have showed today your valiant strain 41,

And fortune led you well. You have the captives

Who were the opposites 43of this day’s strife:

I do require them of you, so to use 44them

As we shall find their merits and our safety

May equally determine.

EDMUND Sir, I thought it fit

To send the old and miserable king to some retention 48

Whose age had charms in it, whose title 49more,

To pluck the common bosom 50on his side

And turn our impressed lances in our eyes 51

Which do command them. With him I sent the queen 52,

My reason all the same, and they are ready

Tomorrow, or at further space, t’appear

Where you shall hold your session 55.

ALBANY Sir, by your patience 56,

I hold you but a subject of 57this war,

Not as a brother.

REGAN That’s as we list 59to grace him.

Methinks our pleasure might have been demanded 60

Ere you had spoke so far. He led our powers,

Bore the commission 62of my place and person,

The which immediacy 63may well stand up

And call itself your brother.

GONERIL Not so hot:

In his own grace 66he doth exalt himself

More than in your addition 67.

REGAN In my rights,

By me invested, he compeers 69the best.

ALBANY That were the most 70if he should husband you.

REGAN Jesters do oft prove prophets.

GONERIL Holla 72, holla!

That eye that told you so looked but asquint 73.

REGAN Lady, I am not well, else I should answer

To Edmund

From a full-flowing stomach 75.— General,