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The French camp near Dover.
[Enter KENT and a Gentleman]
KENT
Why the King of France is so suddenly gone back know you the reason?
GENTLEMAN
Something he left imperfect in the state, which since his coming forth is
thought of; which imports to the kingdom so much fear and danger, that his
personal return was most required and necessary.
KENT
Who hath he left behind him general?
GENTLEMAN
The Marshal of France, Monsieur La Far.
KENT
Did your letters pierce the queen to any demonstration of grief?
GENTLEMAN
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Aye sir;| she took | them, read | them in my |
presence;
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And now | and then | an ample | tear trilled down
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Her del|icate cheek:| it seemed | she was | a
queen
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Over | her pas|sion; who,| most^reb|el-like,
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Sought to | be king | ore her.
KENT
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Oh then it | moved her.
GENTLEMAN
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Not to | a rage:| patience | and sor|row strove
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Who should | express | her good|liest. You | have
seen
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Sunshine and rain | at once:| her smiles | and
tears
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Were like | a better | way: those | happy |
smilets,
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That played | on her / ripe lip,| seemed^not | to
know
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What guests | were in | her eyes;| which part|ed
thence,
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As pearls from | diamonds | dropped. In brief,
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Sorrow | would be | a rar|ity most | beloved,
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If all | could so | become it.
KENT
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Made she no | verbal | question? (tri with
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GENTLEMAN
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'Faith, once or twice | she heaved | the name |
of fath||er
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Pant|ingly forth,| as if | it pressed | her
heart:
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Cried | Sisters!| Sisters!| Shame of | ladies!|
sisters!
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Kent!| Father!| Sisters!| What, in | the storm?|
In the night? (hex with prev)
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Let* pit|y not | be* be/lieved! There | she shook
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The ho|ly wat|er from | her heaven|ly eyes,
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And clam|or moist|ened: then | away | she
star||ted
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To deal | with grief | alone.
KENT
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It is | the stars,
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The stars | above us,| govern | our con|ditions;
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Else^one | self^mate | and mate | could not |
beget ??
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Such^dif|ferent is|sues. You / spoke not | with
her since?
GENTLEMAN
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No.
KENT
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Was this | before | the king | returned?
GENTLEMAN
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No,| since. \\
KENT
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Well sir,| the poor | distres|sed Lear's | in the
town;
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Who some|time, in his | better | tune, re|members
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What we | are come | about,| and by | no* means
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Will yield | to see | his daught|er.
GENTLEMAN
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Why,| good* sir?
KENT
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A sovereign shame so elbows him: his own
unkindness, ????
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That stripped her from his benediction, turned
her ????
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To for|eign cas|ualties,| gave her dear rights
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To his dog-|hearted | daughters,| these things
sting
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His mind | so ven|omously,| that burn|ing shame
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Detains | him from | Cordel|ia. \\
GENTLEMAN
Alack, poor gentleman!
KENT
Of Albany's and Cornwall's powers you heard not?
GENTLEMAN
'Tis so, they are afoot.
KENT
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Well sir,| I'll bring | you to | our mast|er
Lear,
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And leave |you to | attend | him: some / dear
cause
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Will^in | conceal|ment wrap | me up | awhile;
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When I | am known | aright,| you shall | not
grieve
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Lending me | this ac|quaintance.| I pray | you,
go
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Along | with me. \\
[Exeunt]