SCENE V.—A Prison. Enter Lear, through opening in r.h. with Cordelia, dead, in his arms.—Officer enters, l.h.u.e., as on guard—he remains at back, l.h. Lear. (Advancing, c.) Howl, howl, howl, howl! Oh, ye are men of stones! Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack.—Oh, she is gone forever! (Lear kneels on right knee, and places Cordei across his left, her feet towards r.h.) I know when one is dead, and when one lives; Enter Edgar, Albany, Kent, OFFICER, and Soldiers, r.h., Kent. Is this the promised end? Edg. Or image of that horror? (Crosses behind Lear.) Alb. Fall, and cease! Lear. This feather stirs ; she lives!—If it be so, It is a chance that does redeem all sorrows That ever I have felt. Kent. (r.h.C., kneeling.) Oh, my good master! Edg. (l.h.C.) 'Tis noble Kent, your friend. Lear. A plague upon you, murderers, traitors, all! I might have saved her ; now she's gone forever! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft, That was a-hanging thee ! Offi. (l.h., Advancing a little.) 'Tis true, my lords, he did. I have seen the day, with my good biting faulchion, And these same crosses spoil me. Who are you? Kent, (r.h.c.) If fortune brag of two she loved and hated. One of them we behold. Lear. This is a dull sight.—Are you not Kent? Your servant Kent.—Where is your servant Caius? Kent. That, from your first of deference and decay, Lear. You are welcome hither. Kent. Nor no man else; all's cheerless, dark and deadly Your eldest daughters have foredoomed themselves, And desperately are dead. Lear. Ay, so I think. Kent. He knows not what he says; and vain it is That we present us to him. Oh, see ! see! Lear. And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life : Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? (Laying Cordelia on the ground, and kneeling on both knees.) Oh, thou wilt come no more! Never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button. (Placin h s and on hi throat, as f ch ki g.) Thank you, sir, (Kisses her.) Do you see this? Look on her—look—her lips Look there—look there! Edg. Break heart, I pr'ythee break! (Lear gives a convulsive gasp, and falls back. He is supported on the r.h. by Kent, and on the l.h. by Edgar.—Curtain falls to slow music.) 2 FOR THE TRANSACTION OF, (AND TO FACILITATE,) ALL BUSINESS CONNECTED WITH THE SAID PROFESSIONS. 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