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SCENE IV: A hall in the same. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

{Enter KENT, disguised.}

KENT: If but as well I other accents borrow, That can my speech defuse, my good intent May carry through itself to that full issue For which I razed my likeness. Now, banish'd Kent, If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn' d, So may it come, thy master, whom thou lovest, Shall find thee full of labours.

{Horns within. Enter KING LEAR, ...

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