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Enter, with drum and colors, CORDELIA , DOCTOR , and soldiers
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Enter, with drum and colors, CORDELIA , DOCTOR , and soldiers
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CORDELIA Alack, ’tis he. Why, he was met even now
As mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud,
Crowned with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,
With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,
5 Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
In our sustaining corn.—A century send forth.
Search every acre in the high-grown field,
And bring him to our eye.
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CORDELIA Alack, ’tis he. Why, he was met even now
As mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud,
Crowned with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,
With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,
Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
In our sustaining corn.—A century send forth.
Search every acre in the high-grown field,
And bring him to our eye.
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Exit some soldiers
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Exit some soldiers
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What can man’s wisdom
In the restoring his bereavèd sense?
10 He that helps him take all my outward worth.
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What can man’s wisdom
In the restoring his bereavèd sense?
He that helps him take all my outward worth.
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DOCTOR There is means, madam.
Our foster nurse of nature is repose,
The which he lacks—that to provoke in him
Are many simples operative, whose power
15 Will close the eye of anguish.
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DOCTOR There is means, madam.
Our foster nurse of nature is repose,
The which he lacks—that to provoke in him
Are many simples operative, whose power
Will close the eye of anguish.
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CORDELIA All blessed secrets,
All you unpublished virtues of the earth,
Spring with my tears. Be aidant and remediate
In the good man’s distress. Seek, seek for him,
Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life
20 That wants the means to lead it.
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CORDELIA All blessed secrets,
All you unpublished virtues of the earth,
Spring with my tears. Be aidant and remediate
In the good man’s distress. Seek, seek for him,
Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life
That wants the means to lead it.
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Enter SECOND MESSENGER
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Enter SECOND MESSENGER
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SECOND MESSENGER News, madam.
The British powers are marching hitherward.
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SECOND MESSENGER News, madam.
The British powers are marching hitherward.
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CORDELIA 'Tis known before. Our preparation stands
In expectation of them. O dear father,
It is thy business that I go about.
25 Therefore great France
My mourning and importuned tears hath pitied.
No blown ambition doth our arms incite,
But love—dear love!—and our aged father’s right.
Soon may I hear and see him.
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CORDELIA 'Tis known before. Our preparation stands
In expectation of them. O dear father,
It is thy business that I go about.
Therefore great France
My mourning and importuned tears hath pitied.
No blown ambition doth our arms incite,
But love—dear love!—and our aged father’s right.
Soon may I hear and see him.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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Original Text |
Modern Text |
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Enter, with drum and colors, CORDELIA , DOCTOR , and soldiers
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Enter, with drum and colors, CORDELIA , DOCTOR , and soldiers
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CORDELIA Alack, ’tis he. Why, he was met even now
As mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud,
Crowned with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,
With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,
5 Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
In our sustaining corn.—A century send forth.
Search every acre in the high-grown field,
And bring him to our eye.
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CORDELIA Alack, ’tis he. Why, he was met even now
As mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud,
Crowned with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,
With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,
Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
In our sustaining corn.—A century send forth.
Search every acre in the high-grown field,
And bring him to our eye.
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Exit some soldiers
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Exit some soldiers
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What can man’s wisdom
In the restoring his bereavèd sense?
10 He that helps him take all my outward worth.
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What can man’s wisdom
In the restoring his bereavèd sense?
He that helps him take all my outward worth.
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DOCTOR There is means, madam.
Our foster nurse of nature is repose,
The which he lacks—that to provoke in him
Are many simples operative, whose power
15 Will close the eye of anguish.
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DOCTOR There is means, madam.
Our foster nurse of nature is repose,
The which he lacks—that to provoke in him
Are many simples operative, whose power
Will close the eye of anguish.
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CORDELIA All blessed secrets,
All you unpublished virtues of the earth,
Spring with my tears. Be aidant and remediate
In the good man’s distress. Seek, seek for him,
Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life
20 That wants the means to lead it.
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CORDELIA All blessed secrets,
All you unpublished virtues of the earth,
Spring with my tears. Be aidant and remediate
In the good man’s distress. Seek, seek for him,
Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life
That wants the means to lead it.
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Enter SECOND MESSENGER
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Enter SECOND MESSENGER
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SECOND MESSENGER News, madam.
The British powers are marching hitherward.
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SECOND MESSENGER News, madam.
The British powers are marching hitherward.
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CORDELIA 'Tis known before. Our preparation stands
In expectation of them. O dear father,
It is thy business that I go about.
25 Therefore great France
My mourning and importuned tears hath pitied.
No blown ambition doth our arms incite,
But love—dear love!—and our aged father’s right.
Soon may I hear and see him.
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CORDELIA 'Tis known before. Our preparation stands
In expectation of them. O dear father,
It is thy business that I go about.
Therefore great France
My mourning and importuned tears hath pitied.
No blown ambition doth our arms incite,
But love—dear love!—and our aged father’s right.
Soon may I hear and see him.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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