Act 5 EDGAR Here comes Kent. Enter KENT (no longer in disguise).
ALBANY Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead. Exit a GENTLEMAN.
145. This judgement … pity: This evidence of the gods’ justice makes us tremble with fear but it is just and we do not feel pity.
146. The time … urges: The situation in which we find ourselves does not allow for the formal greeting which good manners demand.
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This judgement of the heavens, that makes us tremble, Touches us not with pity.145 [To KENT] O, is this he? The time will not allow the compliment Which very manners urges.146
KENT I am come
To bid my King and master aye good night. Is he not here?
ALBANY Great thing of us forgot! 147. object: spectacle 240
Speak, Edmund, where’s the King? And where’s Cordelia? The bodies of GONERIL and REGAN are brought in. See’st thou this object,147 Kent?
KENT Alack, why thus? EDMUND
Yet Edmund was beloved. 148. slew: killed
The one the other poisoned for my sake, And after slew148 herself.
ALBANY Even so. Cover their faces.
149. I pant for life: I struggle to breathe as I near death.
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EDMUND I pant for life.149 Some good I mean to do Despite of mine own nature. Quickly send –
