b I'm sure of that: and at her late being here REG. I speak in understanding; you are, I know 't; Therefore I do advise you, take this note: If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor, Preferment falls on him that cuts him off. Osw. Would I could meet him,† madam! I would show What party I do follow. Fare thee well. [Exeunt. GLO. * And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! GLO. EDG. Give me your hand:-you are now within a foot Set me where you stand. Of the extreme verge for all beneath the moon GLO. Well worth a poor man's taking fairies and gods, Prosper it with thee! Go thou further off; Bid me farewell, and let me hear thee going. [Seems to go. GLO. With all my heart. EDG. Why I do trifle thus with his despair Is done to cure it. GLO. O, you mighty gods! This world I do renounce; and, in your sights, Shake patiently my great affliction off": If I could bear it longer, and not fall To quarrel with your great opposeless wills, EDG. Gone, sir :-farewell.-[GLOUCESTER leaps, and falls along. And yet I know not how conceit may rob The treasury of life, when life itself Yields to the theft: had he been where he thought, By this, had thought been past.—Alive or dead? Ho, you sir! friend !—Hear you, sir?—speak !Thus might he pass indeed :-yet he revives.-What are you, sir? GLO. Away, and let me die. EDG. Hadst thou been aught but gossamer, Thou'd'st shiver'd like an egg: but thou dost breathe; Hast heavy substance; bleed'st not; speak'st; art sound! Ten masts at each make not the altitude, EDG. From the dread summit of this chalky bourn! a Look up a-height;-the shrill-gorg'd lark so far Cannot be seen or heard: do but look up. GLO. Alack, I have no eyes. Is wretchedness depriv'd that benefit, To end itself by death? 'Twas yet some comfort, EDG. Give me your arm : Up-so.--How is 't? Feel you your legs? You stand. eyes * Were two full moons; he had a thousand noses, Horns whelk'd and wav'd like the enridged sea: It was some fiend; therefore, thou happy father, Think that the clearest gods, who make them honours Of men's impossibilities, have preserv'd thee. GLO. I do remember now: henceforth I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, Enough, enough, and die. That thing you speak of, I took it for a man ; often 't would say, The fiend, the find! he led me to that place. EDG. Bear free and patient thoughts. But who comes here? |