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King Lear

Act IV, Scene 4

The same. A tent.
 
[Enter, with drum and colors, CORDELIA, Doctor, and Soldiers]
 
CORDELIA
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      Alack,| 'tis he:| why, he was | met even now
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      As mad | as the / vexed sea,| singing | aloud,
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      Crowned with | rank fum/iter,| and fur|row-weeds,
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      With har|dokes,^hem|lock, nettles, cuck|oo-flowers,
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      Darnel,| and all | the id|le weeds | that grow
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      In our | sustain|ing corn.| A cen|tury send^forth;  ????
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      Search^eve|ry ac|re in the // high-grown field,
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      And bring | him to | our eye.| What can man's | wisdom
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      In the restor|ing his be/reaved sense;| he that | helps him,
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      Take^all | my out|ward worth.
 
DOCTOR
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                                    There is means | madam:
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      Our fos|ter nurse | of na|ture, is | repose,
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      The which | he lacks:| that to | provoke | in him
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      Are man|y simp|les ope|rative,| whose power
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      Will close | the eye | of ang|uish.
 
CORDELIA
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                                         All^blest | secrets,
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      All you | unpub|lished vir|tues of | the earth
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      Spring with | my tears;| be ai/dant, and re|mediate
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      In the good | man's de|sires: Seek, seek | for him,
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      Lest his | ungov|erned rage,| dissolve | the life
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      That wants | the means | to lead | it.
 
[Enter a Messenger]
 
MESSENGER
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                                             News | madam,
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      The Brit|ish powers | are march|ing hith|erward.
 
CORDELIA
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      'Tis known | before.| Our prep|ara|tion stands
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      In ex|pecta|tion of them.| O* dear | father,
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      It is thy business that I go about: Therefore great France  ????
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      My mourn|ing, and^im|portuned | tears hath | pitied:
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      No blown | ambi|tion doth | our arms | incite,
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      But love, dear love,| and our ag|ed fath|er's rite:
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      Soon may I | hear, and | see him.|
 
[Exeunt]

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