And prize me at her worth, in my true heart. [sesses; Which the most precious square of sense posAnd find I am alone felicitate In your dear Highness' love. Cor. Then poor Cordelia! And yet not so, since I am sure my love's [Aside. Lear. To thee and thine, hereditary ever, Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom; No less in space, validity, and pleasure, Than that conferr'd on Goneril.--Now our joy, Although our last, not least; in whose young love, The vines of France, and milk of Burgundy, Strive to be int' rest'd; what say you to draw A third, more opulent than your sisters? speak. Cor. Nothing, my Lord. Lear. Nothing? Cor. Nothing. [again. Lear. Nothing can come of nothing; speak. Cor. Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth: I love your Majesty According to my bond, no more nor less. Lear. How, how, Cordelia? mend Lest you may mar your fortunes. Cor. Good my Lord, your speech [a little, You have begot me, bred me, lov'd me. I Half my love with him, half my care and duty. To love my father all. Lear. But goes thy heart with this? Cor. Aye, my good Lord, Lear. So young, and so untender? Cor. So young my Lord, and true. [dower: Lear. Let it be so, thy truth then be thy For by the sacred radiance of the sun, The mysteries of Hecate, and the night, From whom we do exist, and cease to be; Propinquity, and property of blood, And as a stranger to my heart and me, [Scythian, Kent. Good my liege VOL, II, Lear. Peace, Kent! Come not between the dragon and his wrath. [To Cor. (13) Cornwall has the same prototype as Ralph in Hudibras (fig. 2); but as he too is in a more exalted station, an attempt is made so to represent him in figure 81, without departing too much from the original. Fig. 81. Pre-eminence and all the large effects By you to be sustain'd, shall our abode (14) [Giving the crown. (14) Our abode by turns. This relates to the alternate, librations of the moon. (15) This coronet part between you. There may be seen in fact, in the moon, the likeness of a coronet, as drawn in Kent. Royal Lear, Whom I have ever honour'd as my King; Kent. Let it fall rather, though the fork invade The region of my heart; be Kent unmannerly, When Lear is mad: what wouldst thou do old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak, When power to flatt'ry bows? to plainness honour Is bound, when Majesty to folly falls. Reserve thy state; with better judgment check This hideous rashness; with my life I answer, Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; Nor are those empty-hearted, whose low sound Reverbs no hollowness. Lear. Kent, on thy life no more. Kent. My life I never held but as a pawn To wage against thy foes; nor fear to lose it, Thy safety being the motive. Lear. Out of my sight! Kent. See better, Lear, and let me still remain The true blank of thine eye. situate about the center, and comprizing the light intercepted between the prototypes of Albany and Cornwall, as above drawn or pointed out. |