Lear. You are welcome hither.[4840] 290
Kent. Nor no man else: all's cheerless, dark and deadly.[4841]
Your eldest daughters have fordone themselves.[4842]
And desperately are dead.
Lear. Ay, so I think.[4843]
Alb. He knows not what he says, and vain is it[4794][4844]
That we present us to him.
Edg. Very bootless. 295
Enter a Captain.[4845]
Capt. Edmund is dead, my lord.[4846]
Alb. That's but a trifle here.[4847][4848]
You lords and noble friends, know our intent.[4847]
What comfort to this great decay may come[4847][4849]
Shall be applied: for us, we will resign,[4847]
During the life of this old majesty,[4847] 300
To him our absolute power: [To Edgar and Kent] you, to your rights;[4847][4850]
With boot, and such addition as your honours[4847][4851]
Have more than merited. All friends shall taste[4847][4852]
The wages of their virtue, and all foes[4852]
The cup of their deservings. O, see, see![4852][4853] 305
Lear. And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life![4854][4855]
Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,[4854][4856]
And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more,[4854][4857]
Never, never, never, never, never![4854][4858]
Pray you, undo this button: thank you, sir.[4854][4859][4860] 310
Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips,[4860][4861]
Look there, look there! [Dies.[4860]
Edg. He faints. My lord, my lord![4862]