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The heath.
[Enter EDGAR]
EDGAR
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Yet bet|ter thus,| and known | to be | contemned,
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Than still | contemned | and flat|tered, to | be
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The lowest,| and most | dejec|ted thing | of
fortune, ????
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Stands still in esp|erance,| lives not in fear:
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The lamen|table change | is from | the best,|
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The worst | returns | to laugh|ter. Wel|come
then,
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Thou un|substan|tial air | that I | embrace:
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The wretch | that thou | hast blown | unto | the
worst,
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Owes noth/ing to | thy | blasts.|
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But who | comes^here?| My fath|er poor|ly led?
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World,| world,| O | world!|
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But^that | thy strange | muta|tions make us |
hate thee,
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Lie would | not yield to age.
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OLD MAN
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O, my | good* lord,| I have | been your | tenant,
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And your fath|er's ten|ant, these | fourscore
years.
GLOUCESTER
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Away,| get thee | away;| good* friend | be gone,
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Thy com|forts can / do me | no good | at all,
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Thee, they | may hurt.
OLD MAN
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You can|not see | your way.
GLOUCESTER
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I have | no way,| and there|fore want | no eyes:
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I stum|bled when | I saw.| Full^oft |'tis seen,
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Our means | secure us, | and our | mere defects
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Prove our | commo|dities*. Oh | dear son^|Edgar,
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The food | of thy | abu|sed fath|er's wrath:
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Might^I | but live | to see | thee^in | my touch,
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I'd say | I had eyes | again.
OLD MAN
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How* now?| Who's^there?
EDGAR
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O gods!| Who is it | can say | I am at | the
worst?
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I am worse | than ere | I was.
OLD MAN
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'Tis poor mad Tom. ??
EDGAR
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And worse | I may | be yet:| the worst | is not,
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So long | as we | can say | this is | the worst.
OLD MAN
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Fellow,| where goest?
GLOUCESTER
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Is it | a beg|gar man?
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Madman*,| and beg|gar too. \\
GLOUCESTER
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He has / some reas|on, else | he could | not beg.
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In the last night's storm, I such a fellow saw;
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Which made | me think | a man,| a worm.| My son
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Came then | into | my mind,| and yet | my mind
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Was then | scarce friends / with him.| I have
heard | more* since:
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As flies | to want|on boys,| are we | to the
gods.
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They kill | us for | their sport.
EDGAR
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How should | this be?
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Bad is the | trade that | must play | fool to |
sorrow,
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Angering | itself,| and oth|ers. Bless | thee
mas||ter.
GLOUCESTER
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Is that | the nak|ed fel|low?
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Aye,| my lord.
GLOUCESTER
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Get thee | away:| if for | my | sake
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Thou wilt | oretake | us hence | a mile | or
twain
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In the way | toward^Dov|er, do it | for an|cient
love,
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And bring | some cove|ring for | this nak|ed
soul,
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Who I'll | entreat | to lead | me. \\
OLD MAN
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Alack | sir, he | is mad.
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'Tis the | times'| plague,
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When mad|men lead | the blind: (tri with
prev)
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Do as I bid thee, or rather do thy pleasure:
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Above | the rest,| be gone. \\
OLD MAN
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I'll bring | him the / best 'par|el that | I have
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Come on it what | will. \\
[Exit]
GLOUCESTER
Sirrah, naked fellow.
EDGAR
Poor Tom's a-cold. I cannot daub it further.
GLOUCESTER
Come hither fellow.
EDGAR
And yet I must:
Bless thy sweet eyes, they bleed.
GLOUCESTER
Knowst thou the way to Dover?
EDGAR
Both stile, and gate; horse-way, and foot-path: poor Tom hath been scared
out of his good wits. Bless thee good man's son, from the foul fiend. Five
fiends have been in poor Tom at once; of lust, as Obidicut; Hobbididence,
prince of dumbness; Mahu, of stealing; Modo, of murder; Flibbertigibbet, of
mopping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and waiting-women. So
bless thee master.
GLOUCESTER
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Here* take | this purse,| thou whom | the
heav|ens' plagues
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Have hum|bled to all | strokes: that | I am |
wretched
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Makes thee the hap|pier: heavens | deal so still:
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Let the sup|erfluous,| and lust-|diet|ed man,
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That slaves | your ord|inance,| that will | not
see
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Because he doth not feel, feel your power
quickly: ????
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So dis|tribu|tion should | undo | excess,
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And each | man have | enough.| Dost thou know ||
Dover?
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Aye | master. \\
GLOUCESTER
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There is | a cliff,| whose^high | and bend|ing
head
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Looks fear/fully | in the | confin|ed deep:
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Bring me | but to | the ve|ry brim | of it,
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And I'll | repair | the mis|ery thou | dost bear
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With some|thing rich | about | me: from / that
place,
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I shall | no lead|ing need.
EDGAR
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Give me | thy arm;
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Poor Tom shall | lead | thee.|
[Exeunt]