【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 ry unspoke That it intends to do? My lord of Burgundy, What say you to the lady? Love39。s not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from the entire point. Will you have her? She is herself a dowry. BURGUNDY Royal Lear, Give but that portion which yourself proposed, And here I take Cordelia by the hand, Duchess of Burgundy. KING LEAR Nothing: I have sworn。 I am firm. BURGUNDY I am sorry, then, you have so lost a father That you must lose a husband. CORDELIA Peace be with Burgundy! Since that respects of fortune are his love, I shall not be his wife. KING OF FRANCE Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor。 Most choice, forsaken。 and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: Be it lawful I take up what39。s cast away. Gods, gods! 39。tis strange that from their cold39。st neglect My love should kindle to inflamed respect. Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance, Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France: Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy Can buy this unprized precious maid of me. Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind: Thou losest here, a better where to find. KING LEAR Thou hast her, France: let her be thine。 for we Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see That face of hers again. Therefore be gone Without our grace, our love, our benison. Come, noble Burgundy. Flourish. Exeunt all but KING OF FRANCE, GONERIL, REGAN, and CORDELIA KING OF FRANCE Bid farewell to your sisters. CORDELIA The jewels of our father, with wash39。d eyes Cordelia leaves you: I know you what you are。 And like a sister am most loath to call Your faults as they are named. Use well our father: To your professed bosoms I mit him But yet, alas, stood I within his grace, I would prefer him to a better place. So, farewell to you both. REGAN Prescribe not us our duties. GONERIL Let your study Be to content your lord, who hath received you At fortune39。s alms. You have obedience scanted, And well are worth the want that you have wanted. CORDELIA Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides. Well may you prosper! KING OF FRANCE Come, my fair Cordelia. Exeunt KING OF FRANCE and CORDELIA GONERIL Sister, it is not a little I have to say of what most nearly appertains to us both. I think our father will hence tonight. REGAN That39。s most certain, and with you。 next month with us. GONERIL You see how full of changes his age is。 the observation we have made of it hath not been little: he always loved our sister most。 and with what poor judgment he hath now cast her off appears too grossly. REGAN 39。Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself. GONERIL The best and soundest of his time hath been but rash。 then must we look to receive from his age, not alone the imperfections of longengraffed condition, but therewithal the unruly waywardness that infirm and choleric years bring with them. REGAN Such unconstant starts are we like to have from him as this of Kent39。s banishment. GONERIL There is further pliment of leavetaking between France and him. Pray you, let39。s hit together: if our father carry authority with such dispositions as he bears, this last surrender of his will but offend us. REGAN We shall further think on39。t. GONERIL We must do something, and i39。 the heat. Exeunt SCENE II. The Earl of Gloucester39。s castle. Enter EDMUND, with a letter EDMUND Thou, nature, art my goddess。 to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well pact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam39。s issue? Why brand they us With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base? Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take More position and fierce quality Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed, Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops, Got 39。tween asleep and wake? Well, then, Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land: Our father39。s love is to the bastard Edmund As to the legitimate: fine word,legitimate! Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed, And my invention thrive, Edmund the base Shall top the legitimate. I grow。 I prosper: Now, gods, stand up for bastards! Enter GLOUCESTER GLOUCESTER Kent banish39。d thus! and France in choler parted! And the king gone tonight! subscribed his power! Confined to exhibition! All this done Upon the gad! Edmund, how now! what news? EDMUND So please your lordship, none. Putting up the letter GLOUCESTER Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter? EDMUND I know no news, my lord. GLOUCESTER What paper were you reading? EDMUND Nothing, my lord. GLOUCESTER No? What needed, then, that terrible dispatch of it into your pocket? the quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself. Let39。s see: e, if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles. EDMUND I beseech you, sir, pardon me: it is a letter from my brother, that I have not all o39。erread。 and for so much as I have perused, I find it not fit for your o39。erlooking. GLOUCESTER Give me the letter, sir. EDMUND I shall offend, either to detain or give it. The contents, as in part I understand them, are to blame. GLOUCESTER Let39。s see, let39。s see. EDMUND I hope, for my brother39。s justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue. GLOUCESTER [Reads] 39。This policy and reverence of age makes the world bitter to the best of our times。 keeps our fortunes from us till our old