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74 KING LEAR 3.6.99
Stand in hard cure. [To the Fool] Come, help to
bear thy master;
100 Thou must not stay behind.
Gloucester. Come, come, away I
[Gloucester, Kent, and the Fool leave,
carrying Lear
Edgar. When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
Who alone suffers, suffers most i'th'mind,
Leaving free things and happy shows behind.
But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip
When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.
How light and portable my pain seems now,
When that which makes me bend makes the
King bow.
He childed as I fathered! Tom, away!
110 Mark the high noises, and thyself bewray
When false opinion, whose wrong thoughts
defile thee,
In thy just proof repeals and reconciles thee.
What will hap more tonight, safe scape the King!
Lurk, lurk. [he goes

[3. 7.] A room in Gloucester's castle

Enter CORNWALL, REGAN, GONERIL, EDMUND
and SERVANTS
Cornwall. [To Goneril] Post speedily to my lord your
husband; show him this letter: the army of France is
landed. Seek out the traitor Gloucester.
Regan. Hang him instantly.
Goneril. Pluck out his eyes.