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Edg. What kind of help?

Alb. Speak, man.

Edg. What means that bloody knife?

Gent. 'Tis hot, it smokes;

It came even from the heart of—O! she's dead.

Alb. Who dead? speak, man.

Gent. Your lady, sir, your lady: and her sister

By her is poison'd; she confesses it.

Edm. I was contracted to them both: all three

Now marry in an instant.

Edg. Here comes Kent.

Alb. Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead:

This judgment of the heavens, that makes us tremble,

Touches us not with pity.

O! is this he?

The time will not allow the compliment

Which very manners urges.

Kent. I am come

To bid my king and master aye good-night;

Is he not here?

Alb. Great thing of us forgot!

Speak, Edmund, where's the king? and where's Cordelia?

Seest thou this object, Kent?

Goneril and Regan's bodies brought out.

Kent. Alack! why thus?

Edm. Yet Edmund was belov'd:

The one the other poison'd for my sake,

And after slew herself.

Alb. Even so. Cover their faces.

Edm. I pant for life: some good I mean to do

Despite of mine own nature. Quickly send,

