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King Lear Stocks brought out.

Glo. Let me beseech your Grace not to do so.

[His fault is much, and the good king his master

Will check him for 't: your purpos'd low correction

Is such as basest and contemned'st wretches

For pilferings and most common trespasses

Are punish'd with:] the king must take it ill,

That he, so slightly valu'd in his messenger,

Should have him thus restrain'd.

Corn. I'll answer that.

Reg. My sister may receive it much more worse

To have her gentleman abus'd, assaulted,

For following her affairs. Put in his legs.

Come, my good lord, away.

[Exeunt all but Gloucester and Kent.]

Glo. I am sorry for thee, friend; 'tis the duke's pleasure,

Whose disposition, all the world well knows,

Will not be rubb'd nor stopp'd: I'll entreat for thee.

Kent. Pray, do not, sir. I have watch'd and travell'd hard;

Some time I shall sleep out, the rest I'll whistle.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels:

Give you good morrow!

Glo. The duke's to blame in this; 'twill be ill taken.

Exit.

Kent. Good king, that must approve the common saw,

Thou out of heaven's benediction com'st

To the warm sun.

Approach, thou beacon to this under globe,

That by thy comfortable beams I may

 149 check: reprimand

167 approve: illustrate

169 sun; cf. n.

