Is general woe. Friends of my soul, you twain Rule in this realm, and the gorg'd state sustain. Kent. I have a journey, Sir, shortly to go; My master calls me, I must not say, No.

[Dies. Alb. The weight of this sad time we must obey; (S4)

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say, The oldest hath borne most; we that are young, Shall never see so much, live e'er so long.

[Exeunt, with a dead march.

(84) The meaning implied by almost all the characters of this play being either killed or dying at its close, would seem to be, that the moon in the end is supposed to be obscured, as intimated by the terms general woe and sad time.

END OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

That we the pain of death would hourly bear.
Rather than die at once,) taught me to shift

Into a madman's

rags; t' assume a semblance The very dogs disdain'd; and in this habit Met I my father with his bleeding rings, Their precious gems new lost; became his guide, Led him, begg'd for him; sav'd him from despair; Never (O fault!) reveal'd myself unto him, Until some half hour past, when I was arm'd, Not sure, though hoping of this good success, I ask'd his blessing, and from first to last Told him my pilgrimage. But his flaw'd heart, Alack, too weak the conflict to support, 'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy, and grief, Burst smilingly.

Edm. This speech of your's hath mov'd me, And shall, perchance, do good; but speak you on. You look as you had something more to say.

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

Hearing of this.

SCENE IX.

Enter a Gentleman.

Gent. Help! help!

Edg. What kind of help?

Alb. Speak, man.

Edg. What means this bloody knife?