Re-enter Lear.

Lear. What, fifty of my followers at a clap!

Within a fortnight!

Albany. What’s the matter, sir?

Lear. I’ll tell thee; life and death! I am asham’d

That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus: |[To Gonerill.|

That these hot tears, which break from me perforce,

Should make thee worth them.——Blasts and fogs upon thee!

The untented woundings of a father’s curse

Pierce every sense about thee!——Old fond eyes