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Sure, I shall never marry
like my sisters,
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to love my father all.
:14:10
But goes thy heart with this?
:14:13
Ay, good my lord.
:14:17
So young, and so untender?
:14:21
So young, my lord, and true.
:14:25
Let it be so, -
thy truth, then, be your dower!
:14:29
For, by the sacred
radiance of the sun,
:14:31
here I disclaim all my paternal care,
:14:34
propinquity and property of blood,
and as a stranger to my heart and me
:14:38
hold thee, from this, for ever!
:14:40
Peace, Kent!
:14:42
I loved her most,
:14:44
and thought to set my rest
on her kind nursery.
:14:47
Hence, and avoid my sight!
:14:50
Call France!
Call Burgundy!
:14:55
Cornwall and Albany, with my two
daughters' dowers digest this third.
:14:59
Let pride, which she calls plainness,
marry her.
:15:04
Ourself, by monthly course, with
reservation of an hundred knights,
:15:07
shall our abode make with you
by due turns.
:15:09
We still retain the name, and all
the additions to a king,
:15:13
the sway, revenue, execution
of the rest be yours.
:15:15
Royal Lear, whom I have ever honoured
as my king,
:15:19
as my great patron thought on
in my prayers...
:15:21
The bow is bent and drawn!
:15:22
Make from the shaft!
:15:24
Let it fall rather, though the fork
invade the region of my heart.
:15:29
Be Kent unmannerly,
when Lear is mad.
:15:35
What wouldst thou want?
:15:37
That duty shall have dread to speak,
when power to flattery bows?
:15:40
Answer my life my judgement,
:15:42
thy youngest daughter
does not love thee least.
:15:45
Nor are those empty-hearted
:15:48
whose low sound
reverbs no hollowness.
:15:51
Kent, on thy life, no more.
:15:53
My life I never held but as a pawn
to wage against thy enemies.
:15:56
No fear to lose it,
thy safety being the motive.
:15:58
- Out of my sight!
- See better, Lear.