21791960Edg. Yet better thus, and knowne to be contemn'd,
21801961Then
still contemn'd and
flattered to be wor
st,
21811962The lowe
st and mo
st deie
cted thing of Fortune
21821963Stands
still in experience, liues not in feare,
21831964The lamentable change is from the be
st,
21891966Who's here, my father poorely led, world, world, ô world!
21911967But that thy
strange mutations make vs hate thee,
21881969Enter Gloster led by an olde man. 21931970Old man. O my good Lord, I haue bene your tenant, & your
21941971fathers tenant this foure
score -------
21951972Glost. Away, get thee away, good friend be gone,
21961973Thy comforts can do me no good at all,
21981975Old man. Alacke
sir, you cannot
see your way.
21991976Glost. I haue no way, and therefore want no eies,
22001977I
stumbled when I
saw, full oft tis
seene
22011978Our meanes
secure vs, and our meere defe
cts
22021979Prooue our commodities; ah deare
sonne
Edgar,
22031980The food of thy abu
sed fathers wrath,
22041981Might I but liue to
see thee in my tuch,
22071984Edg. O Gods, who i
st can
say I am at the wor
st,
22101987Edg. And wor
se I may be yet, the wor
st is not,
22111988As long as we can
say, this is the wor
st.
22141991Old man. Mad man, and begger too.
22151992Glost. He has
some rea
son, el
se he could not beg,
22161993In the la
st nights
storme I
such a fellow
saw,
22171994Which made me think a man a worme, my
sonne
22181995Came then into my minde, and yet my minde
22191996Was then
scar
se friends with him, I haue heard more
since,
22211997As
flyes are to'th wanton boyes, are we to'th Gods,
22231999Edg. How
should this be? bad is the trade that mu
st play the
22242000foole to
sorrow, angring it
selfe and others; ble
sse thee ma
ster.
22262001Glost. Is that the naked fellow
? 22282003Glost. Then prethee get thee gone, if for my
sake
22292004Thou wilt ore-take vs here a mile or twaine
22302005I'th way to Douer, do it for ancient loue,
22312006And bring
some couering for this naked
soule,
22342009Glost. Tis the times plague, when madmen leade the blinde,
22362010Do as I bid thee, or rather do thy plea
sure,
22382012Old man. Ile bring him the be
st parrell that I haue,
22412015Edg. Poore
Toms a cold, I cannot dance it farther.
22442017Edg. Ble
sse thy
sweete eyes, they bleed.
22452018Glo. Know
st thou the way to
Douer?
22462019Edg. Both
stile and gate, hor
se-way, and foot-path,
2020Poore
Tom hath beene
scard out of his good wits,
22472021Ble
sse the good man from the foule
fiend,
2248.12022Fiue
fiends haue beene in poore
Tom at once,
2248.22023Of lu
st, as
Obidicut, Hobbididence Prince of dumbne
sse,
2248.32024Mahu of
stealing,
Modo of murder,
Stiberdigebit of Mobing,
2248.42025And
Mohing who
since po
sse
sses chambermaids
2248.52026And waiting women,
so, ble
sse thee ma
ster.
22492027Glo. Here take this pur
se, thou whom the heauens plagues
22502028Haue humbled to all
strokes, that I am wretched, makes thee
22512029The happier, heauens deale
so
still,
22522030Let the
super
fluous and lu
st-dieted man
22532031That
stands your ordinance, that will not
see
22542032Becau
se he doth not feele, feele your power quickly,
22552033So di
stribution
should vnder exce
sse,
22562034And each man haue enough
: do
st thou know Douer?
22582036Glo. There is a cli
ffe, who
se high and bending head
22592037Lookes
firmely in the con
fined deepe,
22602038Bring me but to the very brim of it,
22612039And ile repaire the mi
sery thou do
st beare,
22632041From that place
shall I no leading need.
22642042Edg. Giue me thy arme, poore Tom
shall lead thee.