Our sister speaks of. Come, bring away the Corn. I'll answer that. Reg. My sister may receive it much more worse, To have her gentleman abused, assaulted, For following her affairs. Put in his legs. Come, my good lord, away. [Exeunt all but Gloucester and Kent. Glou. I am sorry for thee, friend; 'tis the duke's pleasure, Whose disposition, all the world well knows, Will not be rubb'd nor stopp'd: I'll entreat for thee. Kent. Pray, do not, sir: I have watched and travell❜d hard; Some time I shall sleep out, the rest I'll whistle. Glou. The duke's to blame in this; 'twill be ill taken. [Exit. Kent. Good king, that must approve the common 150 160 tion, etc.; proverbial, for a change from better to worse. Approach, thou beacon to this under globe, Peruse this letter! Nothing almost sees miracles Losses their remedies. All weary and o'erwatch'd, This shameful lodging. Fortune, good night: smile once more; turn thy 170 wheel! [Sleeps. 180 SCENE III. A wood. Enter EDGAR. Edg. I heard myself proclaim'd; Brought near to beast: my face I'll grime with filth; Blanket my loins: elf all my hair in knots; The winds and persecutions of the sky. The country gives me proof and precedent 175. shall find time, etc. The most probable solution of the obscurity of this sentence is that Kent weary and o'erwatch'd' fails to complete it (from this enormous state to deliver us or the like). ΙΟ 176. enormous, abnormal, monstrous. 10. elf. To mat or tangle the hair was a common form of fairy vengeance or malice. Of Bedlam beggars, who with roaring voices [Exit. SCENE IV. Before Gloucester's castle. Kent Enter LEAR, Fool, and Gentleman. Lear. 'Tis strange that they should so depart No, my lord. Makest thou this shame thy pastime? Kent. Fool. Ha, ha! he wears cruel garters. Horses are tied by the heads, dogs and bears by the neck, monkeys by the loins, and men by the legs: when 14. Bedlam beggars; madmen who having 'come to some degree of soberness' were permitted to go out to beg. A sect of the fraternity of vagabonds, called 'Abraham men,' throve by feigning to be of Bedlam. 'Poor Tom' and 'Poor Tom is a-cold' were their cant cries. VOL. IX 65 16. pricks, skewers. 20. Turlygod; perhaps an English variation of Turlupinsthe name of a sect of vagabonds in the fourteenth century. 7. cruel; with a play upon 'crewel,' worsted. F a man's over-lusty at legs, then he wears wooden 10 nether-stocks. Lear. What's he that hath so much thy place They could not, would not do 't; 'tis worse than murder, To do upon respect such violent outrage: Kent. My lord, when at their home Which presently they read: on whose contents, horse; Commanded me to follow, and attend 24. upon respect, deliberately. 28. commend, deliver. 33. spite of intermission, not 20 30 withstanding that they thus put The leisure of their answer; gave me cold looks: Whose welcome, I perceived, had poison'd mine,— Display'd so saucily against your highness,- Fool. Winter's not gone yet, if the wild-geese fly that way. Fathers that wear rags Do make their children blind; Shall see their children kind. Fortune, that arrant whore, Ne'er turns the key to the poor. But, for all this, thou shalt have as many dolours for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year. Lear. O, how this mother swells up toward my heart! Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow, Lear. Stay here. Follow me not; 40 50 [Exit. 60 Gent. Made you no more offence but what you speak of? Kent. None. How chance the king comes with so small a train? Fool. We'll set thee to school to an ant, to 56. this mother; 'the Mother' was a popular, 'hysterica passio' a learned, name for the disease now known as hysteria. |