Upon the dunghill. Regan, I bleed apace:

Untimely comes this hurt. Give me your arm. [Exit CORNWALL, led by

REGAN. Second Serv. I'll never care what wickedness I do

If this man come to good.

Third Serv.

long,

If she live

And in the end meet the old course of death,

Women will all turn mon

sters.

Second Serv. Let's follow the old earl, and get the Bedlam

To lead him where he would: his roguish madness

Allows itself to any thing. Third Serv. Go thou; I'll fetch some flax and white

of eggs

To apply to his bleeding face. Now, heaven help him! [Exeunt severally.

ACT IV.

SCENE I. The Heath.

Enter EDGAR.

Edg. Yet better thus, and known to be contemn'd,

Than still contemn'd and flatter'd. To be worst,

The lowest and most dejected. thing of fortune,

Stands still in esperance, lives

not in fear:

The lamentable change is from the best;

The worst returns to laughter. Welcome, then,

Thou unsubstantial air that I

embrace:

The wretch that thou hast blown unto the worst Owes nothing to thy blasts. But who comes here?

S

Enter GLOUCESTER, led by an old Man..

My father, poorly led? World, world, O world!

But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee

Life would not yield to age.

Old Man.

lord!

O my good

I have been your tenant, and your father's tenant,

These fourscore years.

Glou. Away, get thee away; good friend, be gone:

Thy comforts can do me no good at all;

Thee they may hurt.

Old Man.

You cannot

see your way.

Glou. I have no way, and therefore want no eyes;

I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen,

Our means secure us, and

our mere defects

Prove our commodities. Ah! dear son Edgar,

The food of thy abused father's

wrath;

Might I but live to see thee in my touch,

I'd say I had eyes again.

Who's there?

Old Man.

How now!

Edg. [Aside.]

O gods!