King Lear
Act V, Scene 2
The battlefield between the two camps.
From: King Lear, costume sketches
John Seymour Lucas, 19th cent.
- Alarum within. Enter, with Drum and Colors, the Powers of
- France over the stage, Cordelia with her Father in her hand,
- and exeunt.
- Enter Edgar and Gloucester.
Edgar
1 - 4- 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.
Gloucester
5- Grace go with you, sir!
- Exit Edgar.
- Alarum and retreat within.
- Enter Edgar.
Edgar
6 - 8- Away, old man, give me thy hand, away!
- King Lear hath lost, he and his daughter ta’en.
- Give me thy hand; come on.
Gloucester
9- No further, sir, a man may rot even here.
Edgar
10 - 12- What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure
- Their going hence even as their coming hither,
- Ripeness is all. Come on.
Gloucester
13- And that’s true too.
- Exeunt.
Julia Marlowe as Cordelia and E. H. Sothern as King Lear
Dana, 19th century