The wages

Shall be applied: For us, we will resign,
During the life of this old majesty,
To him our absolute power:-You, to your rights;

[To Edgar and Kent. With boot, and such addition as your

honours Have more than merited.-All friends shall taste

of their virtue, and all foes The

cup of their deservings.-0, see, see! Lear. And my poor fool is hang’d! No, no,

no life:
Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,
And thou no breath at all? O, thou wilt come no

more,
Never, never, never, never, never!--
Pray you, undo this button : Thank you, sir. -
Do you see this? Look on her,—look,- her lips,–
Look there, look there!

[He dies. Edg

He faints!—My lord, my lord, -
Kent. Break, heart; I pr’ythee, break !
Edg.

Look up, my lord.
Kent. Vex not his ghost: 0, let him pass! he

hates him,
That would upon the rack of this tough world
Stretch him out longer.
Edg.

O, he is

gone,

indeed. Kent. The wonder is, he hath endur'd so long: He but usurp'd his life.

Alb. Bear them from hence.-Our present busi

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ness

Is general woe.

Friends of

my soul, you twain

[to Kent and Edgar. Rule in this realm, and the gor'd state sustain.

Kent. I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; My master calls, and I must not say, no.

Alb. The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we, that are young, Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

[Exeunt, with a dead march.

Jul. What if it le a poison, which the friar Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead.