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ACT I SCENE I . A Room of State in King Lear’s Palace Enter Kent , Gloucester and Edmund . KENT . I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall . GLOUCESTER . It did always seem so to us ; but now , in the division of the kingdom , it appears not which of the Dukes he values most , for qualities are so weighed that curiosity in neither can make choice of either’s moiety . KENT . Is not this your son , my lord ? GLOUCESTER . His breeding , sir , hath been at my charge : I have so often blush’d to acknowledge him that now I am braz’d to’t . KENT . I cannot conceive you . GLOUCESTER . Sir , this young fellow’s mother could ; whereupon she grew round - wombed , and had indeed , sir , a son for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed . Do you smell a fault ? KENT . I cannot wish the fault undone , the issue of it being so proper . GLOUCESTER . But I have a son , sir , by order of law , some year elder than this , who yet is no dearer in my account : though this knave came something saucily to the world before he was sent for , yet was his mother fair ; there was good sport at his making , and the whoreson must be acknowledged . Do you know this noble gentleman , Edmund ? EDMUND . No , my lord . GLOUCESTER . My Lord of Kent : remember him hereafter as my honourable friend . EDMUND . My services to your lordship . KENT . I must love you , and sue to know you better . EDMUND . Sir , I shall study deserving . GLOUCESTER . He hath been out nine years , and away he shall again . The King is coming . [ Sennet within . ] Enter Lear , Cornwall , Albany , Goneril , Regan , Cordelia and Attendants . LEAR . Attend the lords of France and Burgundy , Gloucester . GLOUCESTER . I shall , my lord . [ Exeunt Gloucester and Edmund . ] LEAR . Meantime we shall express our darker purpose . Give me the map there . Know that we have divided In three our kingdom : and ’ tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age ; Conferring them on younger strengths , while we Unburden’d crawl toward death . Our son of Cornwall , And you , our no less loving son of Albany , We have this hour a constant will to publish Our daughters ’ several dowers , that future strife May be prevented now . The princes , France and Burgundy , Great rivals in our youngest daughter’s love , Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn , And here are to be answer’d . Tell me , my daughters , — Since now we will divest us both of rule , Interest of territory , cares of state , — Which of you shall we say doth love us most ? That we our largest bounty may extend Where nature doth with merit challenge . — Goneril , Our eldest born , speak first . GONERIL . Sir , I love you more than word can wield the matter ; Dearer than eyesight , space , and liberty ; Beyond what can be valu’d , rich or rare ; No less than life , with grace , health , beauty , honour ; As much as child e’er lov’d , or father found ; A love that makes breath poor and speech unable ; Beyond all manner of so much I love you .
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