Plays of Edwin Booth - 1 Author:Edwin Booth Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: The Penn publishing company Subjects: Drama / General Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Drama Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or miss... more »ing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: KING LEAR. ( A ROOM OF STATE IN KlNG LEAR'S Skrnr . first. Palace. Throne c. Kent L., Glos- ( Ter c. And Edmund R. c., Discovered. Kent. [l. I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall. Glos. [c. It did always seem so to us: but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values most; for qualities are so weighed that curiosity in neither can make choice of cither's moiety. Kent. Is not this your son, my lord ? Glos. His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge. I have so often blushed to acknowledge him, that now I am brazed to it. Do you know this noble gentleman, Edmund ? Edm. [r. No, my lord. Glos. My lord of Kent: remember him hereafter as my honourable friend. Edm. [To Kent. My services to your lordship. Kent. I must love you, and sue to know you better. Edm. Sir, I shall study deserving. Glos. He hath been out nine years, and away he shall again. [Music : A March. The king is coming. [Enter Lear, Cornwall, Albany, Goneril, Regan, Cordelia, and attendants. Lear. Gloster, attend the lords of France and Burgundy. Glos. I shall, my liege. [Exeunt Gloster and Edmund R. u. E. Lear. Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there. -- Know that we have divided, In three, our kingdom: and 't is our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death. -- Ou...« less