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| Enter CORDELIA, KENT disguised, GENTLEMAN, and DOCTOR
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CORDELIA enters with KENT in disguise, the GENTLEMAN, and the DOCTOR. |
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O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work |
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To match thy goodness? My life will be too short, |
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And every measure fail me. |
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| CORDELIA |
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Oh, Kent, what could I ever do to become as good as you are? I won't live long enough, and all my efforts will fail me. |
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| | KENT |
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To be acknowledged, madam, is o'erpaid. |
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All my reports go with the modest truth, |
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Nor more, nor clipped, but so. |
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| KENT |
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Just being thanked is more than enough for me, madam. I hope all reports about me simply tell the truth, no more or less. |
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| | CORDELIA |
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Be better suited. |
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These weeds are memories of those worser hours. |
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I prithee, put them off. |
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| CORDELIA |
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Change into better clothes. These rags will just remind us of those bad times when you had to wear a disguise. Please take them off. |
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| | KENT |
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Pardon, dear madam. |
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Yet to be known shortens my made intent. |
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My boon I make it that you know me not |
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Till time and I think meet. |
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I'm sorry, madam, but I can't do that yet. If people recognize me now, I won't be able to carry out my plans. I have to ask you, as a favor, not to let on that you recognize me until the time is right. |
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Then be 't so, my good lord.— |
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How does the king? |
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| CORDELIA |
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All right, my lord.—How's the king doing? |
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| | DOCTOR |
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Madam, sleeps still. |
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| DOCTOR |
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He's still sleeping, ma'am. |
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| | CORDELIA |
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O you kind gods, |
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Cure this great breach in his abusèd nature, |
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Th' untuned and jarring senses, O, wind up, |
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Of this child-changèd father! |
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| CORDELIA |
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Kind gods, heal the wounds that he's wrongly suffered! Restore the sanity of this father whose children have driven him mad and changed him into a child again! |
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So please your majesty |
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That we may wake the king? He hath slept long. |
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| DOCTOR |
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Would you mind if we woke up the king? He's slept a long time. |
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