SCENE II. A field between the two Camps

ACT V

[Alarum within. Enter with drum and colours, Lear, Cordelia and their Forces, and exeunt.]

[Enter Edgar and Gloucester.]

EDGAR

Here, father, take the shadow of this tree

For your good host; pray that the right may thrive:

If ever I return to you again,

I’ll bring you comfort.

GLOUCESTER

Grace go with you, sir!

[Exit Edgar.]

[Alarum and retreat within. Enter Edgar.]

EDGAR

Away, old man, give me thy hand, away!

King Lear hath lost, he and his daughter ta’en:

Give me thy hand; come on!

GLOUCESTER

No further, sir; a man may rot even here.

EDGAR

What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure

Their going hence, even as their coming hither;

Ripeness is all. Come on.

GLOUCESTER

And that’s true too.

[Exeunt.]