Her husband being alive. Now then, we'll use SCENE IV. [Exit. [Alarum within.] Enter with Drum and Colours, LEAR, CORDELIA, and Soldiers over the Stage, and Exeunt. Enter EDGAR and GLO'STER. Edg. Here, father, take the shadow of this tree For your good host; pray, that the right may thrive. If ever I return to you again, Glo. Grace be with you, Sir! [Exit Edgar. [Alarum and retreat within. Re-enter EDGAR. Edg. Away, old man; give me thy hand, away. King Lear hath lost, he and his daughter ta'en;' Give me thy hand. Come on. Glo. No further, Sir; a man may rot even here. endure Y2 Their going hence, ev'n as their coming hither. Ripeness is all; come on. Glo. And that's true too. SCENE V. [Exeunt. Enter in Conquest, with Drum and Colours, EDMUND; LEAR, and CORDELIA, as Prisoners; Soldiers, Captain. Edm. Some officers take them away: good guard Until their greater pleasures first be known, That are to censure them. Cor. We're not the first, Who with best meaning have incurr'd the worst. For thee, oppressed King, am I cast down; Myself could else outfrown false Fortune's frown. Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters? Lear. No, no, no, no; come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage. When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies; and hear poor rogues Talk of court-news, and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out: And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies. And we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by th' moon.” Edm. Take them away. Lear. Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, The gods themselves throw incense. Have I caught thee? He that parts us shall bring a brand from heav'n, Come. first. [Exeunt Lear and Cordelia, guarded. Edm. Come hither, Captain, hark. (78) [Whispering. (78) Figure 96 gives a view of the Captain employed by Edmund to murder Lear and Cordelia. The north side of the moon being placed uppermost, he may be seen, in pale light, near her center, just under the breast of Lear, and with his head in a line parallel to that of Edmund. Fig. 96. Take thou this note; go, follow them to prison. Does not become a sword; thy great employment Capt. I'll do't, my Lord. [thou'st done. Edm. About it, and write Happy (79) when Mark I say, instantly; and carry it so As I have set it down. SCENE VI. [Exit Captain. Flourish. Enter ALBANY, GONERIL, REGAN, and Soldiers. Alb. Sir, you have shew'd to-day your valiant strain, And fortune led you well. You have the captives, Edm. Sir, I thought it fit (79) This most singular expression proves that the prototype of the Captain was correctly pointed out in the last note; for the outlines and other marks within the field of To send the old and miserable King his person, as above designated in the moon, form the two letters A P, as drawn in Fig. 97; and I conceive it to be a pun upon these letters, which that expression has in view. |