William Shakespeare: King Lear

EDGARGive me your arm:Up: so. How is 't? Feel you your legs? You stand.GLOUCESTERToo well, too well.EDGARThis is above all strangeness.Upon the crown o' the cliff, what thing was thatWhich parted from you?GLOUCESTERA poor unfortunate beggar.EDGARAs I stood here below, methought his eyesWere two full moons; he had a thousand noses,Horns whelk'd and waved like the enridged sea:It was some fiend; therefore, thou happy father,Think that the clearest gods, who make them honoursOf men's impossibilities, have preserved thee.GLOUCESTERI do remember now: henceforth I'll bearAffliction till it do cry out itself'Enough, enough,' and die. That thing you speak of,I took it for a man; often 'twould say'The fiend, the fiend:' he led me to that place.EDGARBear free and patient thoughts. But who comes here?Enter KING LEAR, fantastically dressed with wild flowersGLOUCESTERO, let me kiss that hand!KING LEARLet me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.GLOUCESTERO ruin'd piece of nature! This great worldShall so wear out to nought. Dost thou know me?KING LEARI remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou squiny at me? No, do thy worst, blind Cupid! I'll notlove. Read thou this challenge; mark but the penning of it.GLOUCESTERWere all the letters suns, I could not see one.EDGARI would not take this from report; it is,And my heart breaks at it.KING LEARRead.GLOUCESTERWhat, with the case of eyes?KING LEARO, ho, are you there with me? No eyes in your head, nor no money in your purse? Your eyes are ina heavy case, your purse in a light; yet you see how this world goes.GLOUCESTER30