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• King Lear: Dramatis Personæ.
• Act I.
• Scene I.—: a Room of State Inking Lear’spalace.
• Scene Ii.—: a Hall In Theearl of Gloucester’scastle.
• Scene Iii.—: a Room In Theduke of Albany’spalace.
• Scene Iv.—: a Hall In the Same.
• Scene V.—: Court Before the Same.
• Act II.
• Scene I.—: a Court Within the Castle of Theearl of Gloucester.
• Scene Ii.—: Beforegloucester’scastle.
• Scene Iii.—: a Part of the Heath.
• Scene Iv.—: Beforegloucester’scastle.kentin the Stocks.
• Act III.
• Scene I.—: a Heath.
• Scene Ii.—: Another Part of the Heath. Storm Still.
• Scene Iii.—: a Room Ingloucester’scastle.
• Scene Iv.—: the Heath. Before a Hovel.
• Scene V.—: a Room Ingloucester’scastle.
• Scene Vi.—: a Chamber In a Farmhouse Adjoining the Castle.
• Scene Vii.—: a Room Ingloucester’scastle.
• Act IV.
• Scene I.—: the Heath.
• Scene Ii.—: Before Theduke of Albany’spalace.
• Scene Iii.—: the French Camp, Near Dover.
• Scene Iv.—: the Same. a Tent.
• Scene V.—: a Room Ingloucester’scastle.
• Scene Vi.—: the Country Near Dover.
• Scene Vii.—: a Tent In the French Camp.
• Act V.
• Scene I.—: the British Camp Near Dover.
• Scene Ii.—: a Field Between the Two Camps.
• Scene Iii.—: the British Camp, Near Dover.

Scene II.—

A Field between the two Camps.

Alarum within. Enter, with drum and colours,Lear, Cordelia,and their Forces; and exeunt. EnterEdgarandGloucester.

Edg.

Here, father, take the shadow of this tree

For your good host; pray that the right may thrive.

If ever I return to you again,

I’ll bring you comfort.

Glo.

Grace go with you, sir!

[ExitEdgar.

Alarum; afterwards a retreat. Re-enterEdgar.

Edg.

Away, old man! give me thy hand: away!

King Lear hath lost, he and his daughter ta’en.

Give me thy hand; come on.

Glo.

No further, sir; a man may rot even here.

Edg.

What! in ill thoughts again? Men must endure

Their going hence, even as their coming hither:

Ripeness is all. Come on.

Glo.

And that’s true too.

[Exeunt.