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Kent. How fares your grace?

Kent. How fares your grace?

Enter GLOSTER, with a torch.

Lear. What's he?

Kent. Who's there? What is 't you seek?

Glos. What are you there? Your names?

Edg. Poor Tom; that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole, the wall-newt, and the water; 1 that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat, and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stocked, punished, and imprisoned; who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, horse to ride, and weapon to wear

'But mice, and rats, and such small deer,
Have been Tom's food for seven long year.'

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Beware my follower :-peace, Smolkin; 3 peace, thou fiend!

Glos. What, hath your grace no better company?

Edg. The prince of darkness is a gentleman;

Modo he's call'd, and Mahu.4

Glos. Our flesh and blood, my lord, is grown so vile,

1 i. e. the water-newt.

2 A tithing is a division of a county.

3 Name of a spirit.

4 The chief devil.

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