As full of grief as age; wretched in both! That all the world fhall-I will do fuch things- - I have full caufe of weeping; m but this heart [Exeunt Lear, Glo'fter, Kent, and Fool. SCEN E XIII. Corn. Let us withdraw, 'twill be a ftorm. [Storm and tempeft. Reg. This houfe is little; the old man and his people Cannot be well beftow'd. The qu's and fo's read firs. The 1ft q. reads to; the 2d too for fo. i The qu's read lamely. k The fo's and R. read and for 0. 1 H. reads though before I have, to make up the omiffion of but in this line, in w ich he had followed R. So all before P. who, with all after, omits but. So all before P. he and all after omit hundred. The qu's read flowes for flaws. The qu's and 1ft f. read Ile for I. Gonz 1 Gon. 'Tis his own blame; he 'ath put himself from reft, And needs must taste his folly. Reg. For his particular, I'll receive him gladly; But not one follower. Gan. So am I purpos'd. Where is my lord of Glofter? Enter Glo'fter. Corn. Follow'd the old man forth. He is return'd. * Corn. Whither is he going? Glo. He calls to horfe; but will I know not whither. Glo. Alack, the night comes on, and the u bleak winds Do forely rufsle, for many miles about W There's not a bush. Reg. O fir, to wilful men, The injuries, that they themselves procure, Must be their schoolmafters. Shut up your doors: He is attended with a desperate train, And what they may incenfe him to, being apt To have his ear abus'd, wisdom bids fear. Corn. Shut up your doors, my lord; 'tis a wild night. My Regan counfels well: come out o'th' form. So H. for he hath; all other editions bath. What is in italic is not in the qu's, P. T. W. and 7 The qu's, P. T. W. and J. read and for but. The qu's read good for best. So the qu's; the rest high for bleak. w The fo's, R. T. W. and J. read ruffle for russle. So the qu's; the reft read fearce for not. [Exeunt. ACT ACT III. SCENE I, A Heath. s c A form is heard, with thunder and lightning. Enter Kent, and a Gentleman, feverally. Kent. WHAT's here, beside foul weather? Gent. One minded like the weather, most unquietly. Kent. I know you. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the fea; Or fwell the curled waters 'bove the moon, a So the qu's; the reft read who's there, befides, &c. The qu's read element. Though all the editions have main, it is very likely Shakespeare wrote moon, which is much better, because it more strongly expreffes (according to Shakespeare's custom) the confusion which Lear in his rage would have introduced into nature; befides main is ambiguous, applicable to fea or land: it is ufed of land only by feamen that I know of: the poets always underftood by this word the main fea. The effect of overflowing the land is not fo great nor fo certain confusion: the fea often does that and returns to his nfual bounds: whereas the fwelling of the waters above the moon is ontirely præternatural, and beft answers the madness of bidding the wind blow the earth into the fea. There is a strong resemblance between this passage in Shakespeare and the following of Æfchylus in hisPrometheus vindus; who talks of fwelling the fea, not above the moon, but above the very stars. · χθόνα δ' ἐκ πυθμένων *Αὐταῖς ῥίζαις πνεῦμα κραδαίνοι, Συγχώσειεν, τῶν τ' ἐρανίων That That things might charge or ceafe; d tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blafts with eyeless rage Catch in their fury, and make nothing of; • Strives in his little world of man t'out-fcorn The to-and-fro conflicting wind and rain. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion, and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry; unbonneted he runs, And bids what will, take all. Kent. But who is with him? Gent. None but the Fool, who labours to out-jeft His heart-ftruck injuries. Kent. Sir, I do know you, And dare upon the warrant of Commend a dear thing to you. (Although as yet the face of it With mutual cunning) 'twixt Albany and Cornwall, *Who have (as who have not, that their great ftars d What is in italic is omitted by the fo's and R. • P. and H. omit the two following lines. f P. and H. read in which for wherein. The qu's read art for note. h So the qu's; the rest is for be. P. and H. read craft for cunning. * What is in italic is omitted in the qu's. 1 So the fo's, and R.'s 8vo; the rest whom for that. m T.'s 12mo, W. and J. read throne. P.'s 12mo reads have for bath. Or the hard rein, which both of them have born -Now to you, "I am a gentleman of blood, and breeding, Gent. "I will talk further with you. Kent. No, do not. For confirmation that I am much more Than my out-wall, open this purfe and take • The ift f. reads bath for have. P Thefe lines with commas prefixed are not in the fo's. For featter'd, H. reads fhatter'd, W. fcathed. So the ad q. and J.; the 1ft feet for fee; P. T. and H. fea; W. feize. P. and H. madding for bemadding. So the qu's; P. and all the rest read Ofer this office. and affurance of you, P. and all after read I'll. "So the qu's and fo's; the rest that for this. * So the fo's. For that the qu's read your; R. and all after this. 7 That |