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Scene IVThe same. A tentEnter, with drum and colours, Cordelia, Doctor, and SoldiersCordeliaAlack, ’tis he: why, he was met even now As mad as the vex’d sea; singing aloud; Crown’d with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn. A century send forth; Search every acre in the high-grown field, And bring him to our eye.Exit an OfficerWhat can man’s wisdom In the restoring his bereaved sense? He that helps him take all my outward worth.DoctorThere is means, madam: Our foster-nurse of nature is repose, The which he lacks; that to provoke in him, Are many simples operative, whose power Will close the eye of anguish.CordeliaAll blest secrets, All you unpublish’d virtues of the earth, Spring with my tears! be aidant and remediate In the good man’s distress! Seek, seek for him; Lest his ungovern’d rage dissolve the life That wants the means to lead it.Enter a MessengerMessengerNews, madam; The British powers are marching hitherward.Cordelia’Tis known before; our preparation stands In expectation of them. O dear father, It is thy business that I go about; Therefore great France My mourning and important tears hath pitied. No blown ambition doth our arms incite, But love, dear love, and our aged father’s right: Soon may I hear and see him!Exeunt
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William Shakespeare: King Lear, Act IV, Scene VII
- William Shakespeare: King Lear, Act IV, Scene VII
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- Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
- The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
