Edg. Away, old man; give me thy hand; away! 5
King Lear hath lost, he and his daughter ta'en:
Give me thy hand; come on.
Glou. No farther, sir; a man may rot even here.[4595]
Edg. What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure[4596]
Their going hence, even as their coming hither: 10
Ripeness is all: come on.
Glou. And that's true too. [Exeunt.[4597]
Scene III. The British camp near Dover.
Enter, in conquest, with drum and colours, Edmund; Lear and Cordelia, as prisoners; Captain, Soldiers, &c.[4598]
Edm. Some officers take them away: good guard,
Until their greater pleasures first be known[4599]
That are to censure them.
Cor. We are not the first[4600][4601]
Who with best meaning have incurr'd the worst.[4600]
For thee, oppressed king, am I cast down;[4600][4602] 5
Myself could else out-frown false fortune's frown.[4603]
Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?
Lear. No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison:[4604]
We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down 10
And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh[4605]
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,[4606]
Who loses and who wins, who's in, who's out;[4607] 15
And take upon's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out,
In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones[4608]
That ebb and flow by the moon.