Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Glo. and Cordelia, as prisoners, Souldiers, Captaine.
Bast. Bast.
Bast. Some Officers take them away: good guard,
Bast. Vntill their greater pleasures first be knowne
Bast. That are to censure them.
Cor. Cor.
Cor. We are not the first,
Cor. Who with best meaning haue incur'd the worst:
Cor. For thee oppressed King I am cast downe,
Cor. My selfe could else out‐frowne false Fortunes frowne.
Cor. Shall we not see these Daughters, and these Sisters?
Lear. Lear.
Lear. No, no, no, no: come let's away to prison,
Lear. We two alone will sing like Birds i'th' Cage:
Lear. When thou dost aske me blessing, Ile kneele downe
Lear. And aske of thee forgiuenesse: So wee'l liue,
Lear. And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
Lear. At gilded Butterflies: and heere (poore Rogues)
Lear. Talke of Court newes, and wee'l talke with them too,
Lear. Who looses, and who wins; who's in, who's out;