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DRAMATIS PERSONE.

LEAR, King of Britain.

KING OF FRANCE.

DUKE OF BURGUNDY.

DUKE OF CORNWALL.

DUKE OF ALBANY.

EARL OF KENT.

EARL OF GLOSTER.

EDGAR, Son to Gloster.

EDMUND, Bastard Son to Gloster.

CURAN, a Courtier.

OSWALD, Steward to Goneril.
Old Man, Tenant to Gloster.
Physician.

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Knights of Lear's train, Officers, Messengers, Soldiers, and

Attendants.

SCENE, Britain.

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STANFORD LIBRARY

SCENE I.

ACT I.

A Room of State in KING LEAR'S Palace."
Enter KENT, GLOSTER, and EDMUND.

Kent. I thought, the king had more affected the duke .of Albany,1 than Cornwall.

Gloster. It did always seem so to us: but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values most; for equalities are so weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice of either's moiety.2

Kent. Is not this your son, my lord?

Glos. His breeding, Sir, hath been at my charge: I have so often blushed to acknowledge him, that now I am brazed 3 to it.

Kent. I cannot conceive you.

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Glos. Sir, this young fellow's mother could; whereupon she grew round- wombed, and had, indeed, Sir, a son for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed. Do you smell a fault?

Kent. I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so proper.

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Glos. But I have a son, Sir, by order of law, some year elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my account:

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