King-Lear-李尔王英文版

King Lear Shakespeare homepage | King Lear | Entire play ACT ISCENE I. King Lear's palace.Enter KE

King Lear Shakespeare homepage |King Lear |Entire play ACT I SCENE I. King Lear's palace. Enter KENT, GLOUCESTER, and EDMUND KENT Ithought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall. GLOUCESTER It did always seem so to us: but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values most; for equalities are so weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice of either's moiety. KENT Is not this your son, my lord? GLOUCESTER His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge: Ihave so often blushed to acknowledge him, that now Iam brazed to it. KENT Icannot conceive you. GLOUCESTER Sir, this young fellow's mother could: whereupon she grew round-wombed, and had, indeed, sir, ason for her cradle ere she had ahusband for her bed. Do you smell afault? KENT Icannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so proper. GLOUCESTER But Ihave, sir, ason by order of law, some year elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my account: though this knave came something saucily into the world before he was sent for, yet was his mother