_Fort._ I haue some rights of memory to this kingdome, Which now to claime my leisure doth inuite mee: Let foure of our chiefest Captaines 125 Beare _Hamlet_ like a souldier to his graue: For he was likely, had he liued, To a prou'd most royall. Take vp the bodie, such a fight as this Becomes the fieldes, but here doth much amisse. 130 _Finis._ FOOTNOTES: [2422] Leartes] Leartes, B. Mus. copy. _newes_] _news_ B. Mus. copy. [2423] _God_] _God_, B. Mus. copy. _moneths_] _months_ B. Mus. copy. _maried,_] _married_ B. Mus. copy. KING LEAR. DRAMATIS PERSONÆ[C]. LEAR, king of Britain. KING OF FRANCE. DUKE OF BURGUNDY. DUKE OF CORNWALL. DUKE OF ALBANY. EARL OF KENT. EARL OF GLOUCESTER. EDGAR, son to Gloucester. EDMUND, bastard son to Gloucester. CURAN, a courtier. Old Man, tenant to Gloucester. Doctor. Fool. OSWALD, steward to Goneril. A captain employed by Edmund. Gentleman attendant on Cordelia. Herald. Servants to Cornwall. GONERIL, } REGAN, } daughters to Lear. CORDELIA, } Knights of Lear's train, Captains, Messengers, Soldiers, and Attendants. SCENE: _Britain_. [C] DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. First given by Rowe. THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR. ACT I. SCENE I. _King Lear's palace._ _Enter_ KENT, GLOUCESTER, _and_ EDMUND.[2424] _Kent._ I thought the king had more affected the Duke[2425][2426] of Albany than Cornwall.[2425][2426] _Glou._ It did always seem so to us: but now, in the[2425][2426][2427] division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes[2425][2426][2428] he values most; for equalities are so weighed that curiosity[2425][2426][2429] 5 in neither can make choice of either's moiety.[2425][2426] _Kent._ Is not this your son, my lord?[2425] _Glou._ His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge: I[2425] have so often blushed to acknowledge him that now I am[2425] brazed to it.[2425][2430] 10 _Kent._ I cannot conceive you.[2425] _Glou._ Sir, this young fellow's mother could: whereupon[2425] she grew round-wombed, and had indeed, sir, a son for her[2425] cradle ere she had a husband for her bed. Do you smell a[2425] fault?[2425] 15 _Kent._ I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it[2425] being so proper.[2425]