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Glo. True, uncle.

Car. Are ye advis'd? [Aside to Gloucester.] The east side of the grove.

Glo. [Aside to the Cardinal.] Cardinal, I am with you.

King. Why, how now, uncle Gloucester!

Glo. Talking of hawking; nothing else, my lord.—

[Aside to the Cardinal.] Now, by God's mother, priest, I'll shave your crown

For this, or all my fence shall fail.

Car. [Aside to Gloucester.] Medice, teipsum;

Protector, see to 't well, protect yourself.

King. The winds grow high; so do your stomachs, lords.

How irksome is this music to my heart!

When such strings jar, what hope of harmony?

I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.

Glo. What means this noise?

Fellow, what miracle dost thou proclaim?

One. A miracle! a miracle!

Suf. Come to the king, and tell him what miracle.

One. Forsooth, a blind man at Saint Alban's shrine,

Within this half hour hath receiv'd his sight;

A man that ne'er saw in his life before.

King. Now, God be prais'd, that to believing souls

Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair!

 46-48 Cf. n.

47 advis'd: clearly informed

52 fence: skill in fencing

53 Medice, teipsum: Doctor, cure thyself

55 stomachs: angers

57 jar: sound a discord

58 compound: settle, compose

63 Saint Alban's shrine; cf. n. 