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A heath.
[Storm still. Enter KENT and a Gentleman, meeting]
KENT
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Who's there | besides foul weath|er?
GENTLEMAN
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One | minded || like the | weather,| most
unqui|etly.
KENT
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I know you:| where's the | king?|
GENTLEMAN
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Contend|ing with | the fret|ful el|ements;
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Bids the winds blow | the earth | into | the sea,
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Or swell | the curl|ed wat|er 'bove | the main,
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That things | might^change,| or cease.| Tears his
white hair,
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Which the | impet|uous blasts | with eye|less
rage,
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Catch in | their fu|ry, and / make noth|ing of;
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Strives in | his little | world of | man to
out-scorn
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The to-|and-fro|-conflic|ting wind | and rain.
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This night | wherein | the cub-drawn bear | would
couch,
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The li|on and | the bel|ly-pinch|ed wolf
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Keep their | fur dry, unbon|neted | he runs,
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And bids | what will | take^all.
KENT
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But who is | with him?
GENTLEMAN
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None but | the fool,| who lab|ors to / out-jest
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His heart-struck in|juries.
KENT
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Sir, I do | know you,
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And dare | upon | the war|rant of | my note
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Commend | a dear | thing to you.| There is
di|vision
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(Although | as yet | the face | of it be |
covered
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With mutual cunning) 'twixt Albany, and Cornwall:
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Who have,| as who | have not,| that their / great
stars
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Throned and set high;| servants,| who seem | no*
less,
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Which^are | to France | the spies | and
spec|ula||tions
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Intel|ligent | of our state.| What hath | been
seen,
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Either | in snuffs,| and pack|ings of | the
dukes.
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Or the / hard rein | which both | of them | have
borne
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Against | the old kind king;| or some|thing
deeper,
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Whereof |(perchance)| these are | but
furn|ishings.
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But true | it is,| from France | there comes | a
power
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Into this | scattered | kingdom,| who al|ready
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Wise in | our neg|ligence,| have sec|ret feet
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In some | of our / best ports,| and are | at
point
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To show | their op|en ban|ner. Now | to you:
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If on | my cred|it you / dare build | so far
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To make | your speed | to Dov|er, you | shall
find
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Some that | will thank | you, mak|ing just |
report
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Of how | unnat/ural and be|madding | sorrow
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The king | hath cause | to plain. \\
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I am a | gentle|man of | blood and | breeding;
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And from | some know|ledge and | assur|ance,
offer
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This of|fice to you. \\
GENTLEMAN
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I will / talk furth|er with | you.
KENT
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No,| do not:
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For con|firma|tion that | I am / much more
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Than my / out-wall;| open | this purse,| and take
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What it | contains.| If you | shall see |
Cordel||ia
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(As fear | not but | you shall)| show her | this
ring,
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And she | will tell | you who | your fel|low is
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That yet | you do | not know.| Fie on | this
storm,
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I will / go seek | the king.
GENTLEMAN
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Give me | your hand,
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Have you | no more | to say? \\
KENT
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Few^words,| but to | effect | more than |
all^yet; ??
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That when | we have found | the king,| in which |
your pain
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That way,| I'll this:| he that | first lights /
on him,
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Holla the | other. \\
[Exeunt severally]