[2435] noble gentleman] Q1 Q2 F1. nobleman F2 F3 F4. noble gentlemen Q3.

[2436] Edm.] Ff. Bast. Qq. (and throughout).

[2437] My ... friend.] Prose in Q1 Q2. Two lines, the first ending Kent, in Ff. See note ([II]).

[2438] deserving] your deserving Pope.

[2439] again.] again. [Trumpets sound, within. Theobald.

[2440] Sennet.] Ff. Sound a Sennet, Q1 Q2. Sunday a Cornet, Q3.

Enter one bearing a coronet, King ... Attendants.] Enter King ... Attendants. Ff. Enter one bearing a Coronet, then Lear, then the Dukes of Albany and Cornwall, next Gonorill, Regan, Cordelia, with followers. Qq.

[2441] Scene ii. Pope.

the lords] Ff. my lords Qq.

Gloucester] om. Pope.