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Lear.
The King would speake with Cornwall,
The deere Father
Would with his Daughter speake, commands, tends, ser
uice, Are they inform'd of this? My breath and blood:
Fiery? The fiery Duke, tell the hot Duke that ———
No, but not yet, may be he is not well,
Infirmity doth still neglect all
office,
Whereto our health is bound, we are not our selues,
When Nature being opprest, commands the mind
To suffer with the body; Ile forbeare,
And am fallen out with my more headier will,
To take the indispose'd and sickly fit,
For the sound man. Death on my state: wherefore
Should he sit heere? This act perswades me,