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Alb. If there be more, more woful, hold it in ; For I am almost ready to dissolve,

Hearing of this.

Edg.

This would have seem'd a period

To such as love not sorrow; but another,
To amplify too much, would make much more,
And top extremity.

Whilst I was big in clamor, came there a man,
Who having seen me in my worst estate,
Shunn'd my abhorr'd society; but then, finding
Who 'twas that so endured, with his strong arms
He fasten'd on my neck, and bellow'd out
As he 'd burst heaven; threw me on my father;
Told the most piteous tale of Lear and him,
That ever ear received; which in recounting,
His grief grew puissant, and the strings of life
Began to crack: twice then the trumpet sounded,
And there I left him tranced.

Alb.

But who was this?

Edg. Kent, sir, the banish'd Kent; who in dis

guise

Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service
Improper for a slave.

Enter GENTLEMAN hastily, with a bloody knife.

Gen. Help! help! O, help!

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It came even from the heart of

Alb.

Who, man? speak.

Gen. Your lady, sir, your lady: and her sister By her is poison'd; she hath confess'd it.

Edm. I was contracted to them both; all three Now marry in an instant.

Alb. Produce their bodies, be they alive or dead! This judgment of the Heavens, that makes

tremble,

Touches us not with pity.

us

[Exit Gen.

Enter KENT.

Edg.

Here comes Kent, sir.

Alb. O it is he.

The time will not allow the compliment,

Which very manners urges.

Kent.

I am come

To bid my king and master aye1 good night:

Is he not here?

Alb.

Great thing of us forgot!

Speak, Edmund, where's the king, and where 's Cordelia?

Seest thou this object, Kent?

[the bodies of Goneril and Regan are brought in. Kent. Alack, why thus ?

Edm.

Yet Edmund was beloved:

The one the other poison'd for my sake,

1 For ever.

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