And these fame croffes fpoil me.-Who are you? Lear. This is a dull fight: Are you not Kent? Lear. He's a good fellow, I can tell you that; Kent. That, from your first of difference and decay, Lear. You are welcome hither. Kent. Nor no man elfe; all's cheerlefs, dark, and deadly.Your eldest daughters have foredoom'd themselves, And defperately are dead. Lear. Ay, fo I think. Alb. He knows not what he says; and vain it is That we prefent us to him. Edg. Very bootlefs. Enter an Officer. Of. Edmund is dead, my lord. Alb. That's but a trifle here. You lords, and noble friends, know our intent. During the life of this old majesty, To him our abfolute power:-You, to your rights; [To EDGAR and KENT. With boot, and fuch addition as your honours The wages of their virtue, and all foes The cup of their defervings.-O, see, see ! Lear. And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life: And thou no breath at all? O, thou wilt come no more, Pray you, undo this button: Thank you, fir.- Edg. [He dies. He faints! My lord, my lord,Kent. Break, heart; I pr'ythee, break! Edg. Look up, my lord. Kent. Vex not his ghoft: O, let him pass! he hates him, That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. Edg. O, he is gone, indeed. Alb. Bear them from hence.-Our present business [To KENT and EDGAR. Rule in this realm, and the gor'd state sustain. Kent. I have a journey, fir, shortly to go; My mafter calls, and I must not say, no. Alb. The weight of this fad time we must obey; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldeft hath borne moft: we, that are young, Shall never see so much, nor live so long. [Exeunt, with a dead march. |