diff --git a/airflow/contrib/operators/__init__.py b/airflow/contrib/operators/__init__.py
index aa25423f30510..e6d592f653a5d 100644
--- a/airflow/contrib/operators/__init__.py
+++ b/airflow/contrib/operators/__init__.py
@@ -174,6 +174,14 @@
             "airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow.DataflowTemplatedJobStartOperator"
         ),
     },
+    "datapipeline_operator": {
+        "CreateDataPipelineOperator": (
+            "airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.datapipeline.CreateDataPipelineOperator"
+        ),
+        "RunDataPipelineOperator": (
+            "airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.datapipeline.RunDataPipelineOperator"
+        ),
+    },
     "dataproc_operator": {
         "DataprocCreateClusterOperator": (
             "airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataproc.DataprocCreateClusterOperator"
diff --git a/airflow/providers/google/cloud/hooks/dataflow.py b/airflow/providers/google/cloud/hooks/dataflow.py
index 59eee63501864..b8ac8a138093c 100644
--- a/airflow/providers/google/cloud/hooks/dataflow.py
+++ b/airflow/providers/google/cloud/hooks/dataflow.py
@@ -582,6 +582,11 @@ def get_conn(self) -> Resource:
         http_authorized = self._authorize()
         return build("dataflow", "v1b3", http=http_authorized, cache_discovery=False)
 
+    def get_pipelines_conn(self) -> build:
+        """Return a Google Cloud Data Pipelines service object."""
+        http_authorized = self._authorize()
+        return build("datapipelines", "v1", http=http_authorized, cache_discovery=False)
+
     @_fallback_to_location_from_variables
     @_fallback_to_project_id_from_variables
     @GoogleBaseHook.fallback_to_default_project_id
@@ -1351,6 +1356,132 @@ def is_job_done(self, location: str, project_id: str, job_id: str) -> bool:
 
         return job_controller._check_dataflow_job_state(job)
 
+    @GoogleBaseHook.fallback_to_default_project_id
+    def create_data_pipeline(
+        self,
+        body: dict,
+        project_id: str,
+        location: str = DEFAULT_DATAFLOW_LOCATION,
+    ):
+        """
+        Create a new Dataflow Data Pipelines instance.
+
+        :param body: The request body (contains instance of Pipeline). See:
+            https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/reference/data-pipelines/rest/v1/projects.locations.pipelines/create#request-body
+        :param project_id: The ID of the GCP project that owns the job.
+        :param location: The location to direct the Data Pipelines instance to (for example us-central1).
+
+        Returns the created Data Pipelines instance in JSON representation.
+        """
+        parent = self.build_parent_name(project_id, location)
+        service = self.get_pipelines_conn()
+        request = (
+            service.projects()
+            .locations()
+            .pipelines()
+            .create(
+                parent=parent,
+                body=body,
+            )
+        )
+        response = request.execute(num_retries=self.num_retries)
+        return response
+
+    @GoogleBaseHook.fallback_to_default_project_id
+    def get_data_pipeline(
+        self,
+        pipeline_name: str,
+        project_id: str,
+        location: str = DEFAULT_DATAFLOW_LOCATION,
+    ) -> dict:
+        """
+        Retrieve a new Dataflow Data Pipelines instance.
+
+        :param pipeline_name: The display name of the pipeline. In example
+            projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/LOCATION_ID/pipelines/PIPELINE_ID it would be the PIPELINE_ID.
+        :param project_id: The ID of the GCP project that owns the job.
+        :param location: The location to direct the Data Pipelines instance to (for example us-central1).
+
+        Returns the created Data Pipelines instance in JSON representation.
+        """
+        parent = self.build_parent_name(project_id, location)
+        service = self.get_pipelines_conn()
+        request = (
+            service.projects()
+            .locations()
+            .pipelines()
+            .get(
+                name=f"{parent}/pipelines/{pipeline_name}",
+            )
+        )
+        response = request.execute(num_retries=self.num_retries)
+        return response
+
+    @GoogleBaseHook.fallback_to_default_project_id
+    def run_data_pipeline(
+        self,
+        pipeline_name: str,
+        project_id: str,
+        location: str = DEFAULT_DATAFLOW_LOCATION,
+    ) -> dict:
+        """
+        Run a Dataflow Data Pipeline Instance.
+
+        :param pipeline_name: The display name of the pipeline. In example
+            projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/LOCATION_ID/pipelines/PIPELINE_ID it would be the PIPELINE_ID.
+        :param project_id: The ID of the GCP project that owns the job.
+        :param location: The location to direct the Data Pipelines instance to (for example us-central1).
+
+        Returns the created Job in JSON representation.
+        """
+        parent = self.build_parent_name(project_id, location)
+        service = self.get_pipelines_conn()
+        request = (
+            service.projects()
+            .locations()
+            .pipelines()
+            .run(
+                name=f"{parent}/pipelines/{pipeline_name}",
+                body={},
+            )
+        )
+        response = request.execute(num_retries=self.num_retries)
+        return response
+
+    @GoogleBaseHook.fallback_to_default_project_id
+    def delete_data_pipeline(
+        self,
+        pipeline_name: str,
+        project_id: str,
+        location: str = DEFAULT_DATAFLOW_LOCATION,
+    ) -> dict | None:
+        """
+        Delete a Dataflow Data Pipelines Instance.
+
+        :param pipeline_name: The display name of the pipeline. In example
+            projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/LOCATION_ID/pipelines/PIPELINE_ID it would be the PIPELINE_ID.
+        :param project_id: The ID of the GCP project that owns the job.
+        :param location: The location to direct the Data Pipelines instance to (for example us-central1).
+
+        Returns the created Job in JSON representation.
+        """
+        parent = self.build_parent_name(project_id, location)
+        service = self.get_pipelines_conn()
+        request = (
+            service.projects()
+            .locations()
+            .pipelines()
+            .delete(
+                name=f"{parent}/pipelines/{pipeline_name}",
+            )
+        )
+        response = request.execute(num_retries=self.num_retries)
+        return response
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def build_parent_name(project_id: str, location: str):
+        return f"projects/{project_id}/locations/{location}"
+
 
 class AsyncDataflowHook(GoogleBaseAsyncHook):
     """Async hook class for dataflow service."""
diff --git a/airflow/providers/google/cloud/hooks/datapipeline.py b/airflow/providers/google/cloud/hooks/datapipeline.py
index 0e62562484043..0dbc2825d107c 100644
--- a/airflow/providers/google/cloud/hooks/datapipeline.py
+++ b/airflow/providers/google/cloud/hooks/datapipeline.py
@@ -19,40 +19,30 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-from typing import Sequence
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
-from googleapiclient.discovery import build
+from deprecated import deprecated
 
-from airflow.providers.google.common.hooks.base_google import (
-    GoogleBaseHook,
-)
-
-DEFAULT_DATAPIPELINE_LOCATION = "us-central1"
+from airflow.exceptions import AirflowProviderDeprecationWarning
+from airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.dataflow import DataflowHook
+from airflow.providers.google.common.hooks.base_google import GoogleBaseHook
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from googleapiclient.discovery import build
 
-class DataPipelineHook(GoogleBaseHook):
-    """
-    Hook for Google Data Pipelines.
+DEFAULT_DATAPIPELINE_LOCATION = "us-central1"
 
-    All the methods in the hook where project_id is used must be called with
-    keyword arguments rather than positional.
-    """
 
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        gcp_conn_id: str = "google_cloud_default",
-        impersonation_chain: str | Sequence[str] | None = None,
-        **kwargs,
-    ) -> None:
-        super().__init__(
-            gcp_conn_id=gcp_conn_id,
-            impersonation_chain=impersonation_chain,
-        )
+@deprecated(
+    reason="This hook is deprecated and will be removed after 01.12.2024. Please use `DataflowHook`.",
+    category=AirflowProviderDeprecationWarning,
+)
+class DataPipelineHook(DataflowHook):
+    """Hook for Google Data Pipelines."""
 
     def get_conn(self) -> build:
         """Return a Google Cloud Data Pipelines service object."""
-        http_authorized = self._authorize()
-        return build("datapipelines", "v1", http=http_authorized, cache_discovery=False)
+        return super().get_pipelines_conn()
 
     @GoogleBaseHook.fallback_to_default_project_id
     def create_data_pipeline(
@@ -60,31 +50,9 @@ def create_data_pipeline(
         body: dict,
         project_id: str,
         location: str = DEFAULT_DATAPIPELINE_LOCATION,
-    ) -> None:
-        """
-        Create a new Data Pipelines instance from the Data Pipelines API.
-
-        :param body: The request body (contains instance of Pipeline). See:
-            https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/reference/data-pipelines/rest/v1/projects.locations.pipelines/create#request-body
-        :param project_id: The ID of the GCP project that owns the job.
-        :param location: The location to direct the Data Pipelines instance to (for example us-central1).
-
-        Returns the created Data Pipelines instance in JSON representation.
-        """
-        parent = self.build_parent_name(project_id, location)
-        service = self.get_conn()
-        self.log.info(dir(service.projects().locations()))
-        request = (
-            service.projects()
-            .locations()
-            .pipelines()
-            .create(
-                parent=parent,
-                body=body,
-            )
-        )
-        response = request.execute(num_retries=self.num_retries)
-        return response
+    ) -> dict:
+        """Create a new Data Pipelines instance from the Data Pipelines API."""
+        return super().create_data_pipeline(body=body, project_id=project_id, location=location)
 
     @GoogleBaseHook.fallback_to_default_project_id
     def run_data_pipeline(
@@ -92,30 +60,11 @@ def run_data_pipeline(
         data_pipeline_name: str,
         project_id: str,
         location: str = DEFAULT_DATAPIPELINE_LOCATION,
-    ) -> None:
-        """
-        Run a Data Pipelines Instance using the Data Pipelines API.
-
-        :param data_pipeline_name:  The display name of the pipeline. In example
-            projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/LOCATION_ID/pipelines/PIPELINE_ID it would be the PIPELINE_ID.
-        :param project_id: The ID of the GCP project that owns the job.
-        :param location: The location to direct the Data Pipelines instance to (for example us-central1).
-
-        Returns the created Job in JSON representation.
-        """
-        parent = self.build_parent_name(project_id, location)
-        service = self.get_conn()
-        request = (
-            service.projects()
-            .locations()
-            .pipelines()
-            .run(
-                name=f"{parent}/pipelines/{data_pipeline_name}",
-                body={},
-            )
+    ) -> dict:
+        """Run a Data Pipelines Instance using the Data Pipelines API."""
+        return super().run_data_pipeline(
+            pipeline_name=data_pipeline_name, project_id=project_id, location=location
         )
-        response = request.execute(num_retries=self.num_retries)
-        return response
 
     @staticmethod
     def build_parent_name(project_id: str, location: str):
diff --git a/airflow/providers/google/cloud/links/dataflow.py b/airflow/providers/google/cloud/links/dataflow.py
index 54325ee52e0d1..26cc00f8aebe7 100644
--- a/airflow/providers/google/cloud/links/dataflow.py
+++ b/airflow/providers/google/cloud/links/dataflow.py
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@
 DATAFLOW_BASE_LINK = "/dataflow/jobs"
 DATAFLOW_JOB_LINK = DATAFLOW_BASE_LINK + "/{region}/{job_id}?project={project_id}"
 
+DATAFLOW_PIPELINE_BASE_LINK = "/dataflow/pipelines"
+DATAFLOW_PIPELINE_LINK = DATAFLOW_PIPELINE_BASE_LINK + "/{location}/{pipeline_name}?project={project_id}"
+
 
 class DataflowJobLink(BaseGoogleLink):
     """Helper class for constructing Dataflow Job Link."""
@@ -51,3 +54,25 @@ def persist(
             key=DataflowJobLink.key,
             value={"project_id": project_id, "region": region, "job_id": job_id},
         )
+
+
+class DataflowPipelineLink(BaseGoogleLink):
+    """Helper class for constructing Dataflow Pipeline Link."""
+
+    name = "Dataflow Pipeline"
+    key = "dataflow_pipeline_config"
+    format_str = DATAFLOW_PIPELINE_LINK
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def persist(
+        operator_instance: BaseOperator,
+        context: Context,
+        project_id: str | None,
+        location: str | None,
+        pipeline_name: str | None,
+    ):
+        operator_instance.xcom_push(
+            context,
+            key=DataflowPipelineLink.key,
+            value={"project_id": project_id, "location": location, "pipeline_name": pipeline_name},
+        )
diff --git a/airflow/providers/google/cloud/operators/dataflow.py b/airflow/providers/google/cloud/operators/dataflow.py
index 424cb8d805c61..7b6fa5e10a665 100644
--- a/airflow/providers/google/cloud/operators/dataflow.py
+++ b/airflow/providers/google/cloud/operators/dataflow.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Sequence
 
 from deprecated import deprecated
+from googleapiclient.errors import HttpError
 
 from airflow.configuration import conf
 from airflow.exceptions import AirflowException, AirflowProviderDeprecationWarning
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@
     process_line_and_extract_dataflow_job_id_callback,
 )
 from airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.gcs import GCSHook
-from airflow.providers.google.cloud.links.dataflow import DataflowJobLink
+from airflow.providers.google.cloud.links.dataflow import DataflowJobLink, DataflowPipelineLink
 from airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.cloud_base import GoogleCloudBaseOperator
 from airflow.providers.google.cloud.triggers.dataflow import TemplateJobStartTrigger
 from airflow.providers.google.common.consts import GOOGLE_DEFAULT_DEFERRABLE_METHOD_NAME
@@ -1358,3 +1359,235 @@ def execute(self, context: Context) -> None:
             self.log.info("No jobs to stop")
 
         return None
+
+
+class DataflowCreatePipelineOperator(GoogleCloudBaseOperator):
+    """
+    Creates a new Dataflow Data Pipeline instance.
+
+    .. seealso::
+        For more information on how to use this operator, take a look at the guide:
+        :ref:`howto/operator:DataflowCreatePipelineOperator`
+
+    :param body: The request body (contains instance of Pipeline). See:
+        https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/reference/data-pipelines/rest/v1/projects.locations.pipelines/create#request-body
+    :param project_id: The ID of the GCP project that owns the job.
+    :param location: The location to direct the Data Pipelines instance to (for example us-central1).
+    :param gcp_conn_id: The connection ID to connect to the Google Cloud
+        Platform.
+    :param impersonation_chain: Optional service account to impersonate using short-term
+        credentials, or chained list of accounts required to get the access_token
+        of the last account in the list, which will be impersonated in the request.
+        If set as a string, the account must grant the originating account
+        the Service Account Token Creator IAM role.
+        If set as a sequence, the identities from the list must grant
+        Service Account Token Creator IAM role to the directly preceding identity, with first
+        account from the list granting this role to the originating account (templated).
+
+        .. warning::
+            This option requires Apache Beam 2.39.0 or newer.
+
+    Returns the created Dataflow Data Pipeline instance in JSON representation.
+    """
+
+    operator_extra_links = (DataflowPipelineLink(),)
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        *,
+        body: dict,
+        project_id: str = PROVIDE_PROJECT_ID,
+        location: str = DEFAULT_DATAFLOW_LOCATION,
+        gcp_conn_id: str = "google_cloud_default",
+        impersonation_chain: str | Sequence[str] | None = None,
+        **kwargs,
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__(**kwargs)
+
+        self.body = body
+        self.project_id = project_id
+        self.location = location
+        self.gcp_conn_id = gcp_conn_id
+        self.impersonation_chain = impersonation_chain
+        self.dataflow_hook: DataflowHook | None = None
+
+        self.pipeline_name = self.body["name"].split("/")[-1] if self.body else None
+
+    def execute(self, context: Context):
+        if self.body is None:
+            raise AirflowException(
+                "Request Body not given; cannot create a Data Pipeline without the Request Body."
+            )
+        if self.project_id is None:
+            raise AirflowException(
+                "Project ID not given; cannot create a Data Pipeline without the Project ID."
+            )
+        if self.location is None:
+            raise AirflowException("location not given; cannot create a Data Pipeline without the location.")
+
+        self.dataflow_hook = DataflowHook(
+            gcp_conn_id=self.gcp_conn_id,
+            impersonation_chain=self.impersonation_chain,
+        )
+        self.body["pipelineSources"] = {"airflow": "airflow"}
+        try:
+            self.pipeline = self.dataflow_hook.create_data_pipeline(
+                project_id=self.project_id,
+                body=self.body,
+                location=self.location,
+            )
+        except HttpError as e:
+            if e.resp.status == 409:
+                # If the pipeline already exists, retrieve it
+                self.log.info("Pipeline with given name already exists.")
+                self.pipeline = self.dataflow_hook.get_data_pipeline(
+                    project_id=self.project_id,
+                    pipeline_name=self.pipeline_name,
+                    location=self.location,
+                )
+        DataflowPipelineLink.persist(self, context, self.project_id, self.location, self.pipeline_name)
+        self.xcom_push(context, key="pipeline_name", value=self.pipeline_name)
+        if self.pipeline:
+            if "error" in self.pipeline:
+                raise AirflowException(self.pipeline.get("error").get("message"))
+
+        return self.pipeline
+
+
+class DataflowRunPipelineOperator(GoogleCloudBaseOperator):
+    """
+    Runs a Dataflow Data Pipeline.
+
+    .. seealso::
+        For more information on how to use this operator, take a look at the guide:
+        :ref:`howto/operator:DataflowRunPipelineOperator`
+
+    :param pipeline_name:  The display name of the pipeline. In example
+        projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/LOCATION_ID/pipelines/PIPELINE_ID it would be the PIPELINE_ID.
+    :param project_id: The ID of the GCP project that owns the job.
+    :param location: The location to direct the Data Pipelines instance to (for example us-central1).
+    :param gcp_conn_id: The connection ID to connect to the Google Cloud Platform.
+    :param impersonation_chain: Optional service account to impersonate using short-term
+        credentials, or chained list of accounts required to get the access_token
+        of the last account in the list, which will be impersonated in the request.
+        If set as a string, the account must grant the originating account
+        the Service Account Token Creator IAM role.
+        If set as a sequence, the identities from the list must grant
+        Service Account Token Creator IAM role to the directly preceding identity, with first
+        account from the list granting this role to the originating account (templated).
+
+    Returns the created Job in JSON representation.
+    """
+
+    operator_extra_links = (DataflowJobLink(),)
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        pipeline_name: str,
+        project_id: str = PROVIDE_PROJECT_ID,
+        location: str = DEFAULT_DATAFLOW_LOCATION,
+        gcp_conn_id: str = "google_cloud_default",
+        impersonation_chain: str | Sequence[str] | None = None,
+        **kwargs,
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__(**kwargs)
+
+        self.pipeline_name = pipeline_name
+        self.project_id = project_id
+        self.location = location
+        self.gcp_conn_id = gcp_conn_id
+        self.impersonation_chain = impersonation_chain
+        self.dataflow_hook: DataflowHook | None = None
+
+    def execute(self, context: Context):
+        self.dataflow_hook = DataflowHook(
+            gcp_conn_id=self.gcp_conn_id, impersonation_chain=self.impersonation_chain
+        )
+
+        if self.pipeline_name is None:
+            raise AirflowException("Data Pipeline name not given; cannot run unspecified pipeline.")
+        if self.project_id is None:
+            raise AirflowException("Data Pipeline Project ID not given; cannot run pipeline.")
+        if self.location is None:
+            raise AirflowException("Data Pipeline location not given; cannot run pipeline.")
+        try:
+            self.job = self.dataflow_hook.run_data_pipeline(
+                pipeline_name=self.pipeline_name,
+                project_id=self.project_id,
+                location=self.location,
+            )["job"]
+            job_id = self.dataflow_hook.extract_job_id(self.job)
+            self.xcom_push(context, key="job_id", value=job_id)
+            DataflowJobLink.persist(self, context, self.project_id, self.location, job_id)
+        except HttpError as e:
+            if e.resp.status == 404:
+                raise AirflowException("Pipeline with given name was not found.")
+        except Exception as exc:
+            raise AirflowException("Error occurred when running Pipeline: %s", exc)
+
+        return self.job
+
+
+class DataflowDeletePipelineOperator(GoogleCloudBaseOperator):
+    """
+    Deletes a Dataflow Data Pipeline.
+
+    .. seealso::
+        For more information on how to use this operator, take a look at the guide:
+        :ref:`howto/operator:DataflowDeletePipelineOperator`
+
+    :param pipeline_name: The display name of the pipeline. In example
+        projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/LOCATION_ID/pipelines/PIPELINE_ID it would be the PIPELINE_ID.
+    :param project_id: The ID of the GCP project that owns the job.
+    :param location: The location to direct the Data Pipelines instance to (for example us-central1).
+    :param gcp_conn_id: The connection ID to connect to the Google Cloud Platform.
+    :param impersonation_chain: Optional service account to impersonate using short-term
+        credentials, or chained list of accounts required to get the access_token
+        of the last account in the list, which will be impersonated in the request.
+        If set as a string, the account must grant the originating account
+        the Service Account Token Creator IAM role.
+        If set as a sequence, the identities from the list must grant
+        Service Account Token Creator IAM role to the directly preceding identity, with first
+        account from the list granting this role to the originating account (templated).
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        pipeline_name: str,
+        project_id: str = PROVIDE_PROJECT_ID,
+        location: str = DEFAULT_DATAFLOW_LOCATION,
+        gcp_conn_id: str = "google_cloud_default",
+        impersonation_chain: str | Sequence[str] | None = None,
+        **kwargs,
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__(**kwargs)
+
+        self.pipeline_name = pipeline_name
+        self.project_id = project_id
+        self.location = location
+        self.gcp_conn_id = gcp_conn_id
+        self.impersonation_chain = impersonation_chain
+        self.dataflow_hook: DataflowHook | None = None
+
+    def execute(self, context: Context):
+        self.dataflow_hook = DataflowHook(
+            gcp_conn_id=self.gcp_conn_id, impersonation_chain=self.impersonation_chain
+        )
+
+        if self.pipeline_name is None:
+            raise AirflowException("Data Pipeline name not given; cannot run unspecified pipeline.")
+        if self.project_id is None:
+            raise AirflowException("Data Pipeline Project ID not given; cannot run pipeline.")
+        if self.location is None:
+            raise AirflowException("Data Pipeline location not given; cannot run pipeline.")
+
+        self.response = self.dataflow_hook.delete_data_pipeline(
+            pipeline_name=self.pipeline_name,
+            project_id=self.project_id,
+            location=self.location,
+        )
+
+        if self.response:
+            raise AirflowException(self.response.get("error").get("message"))
+
+        return None
diff --git a/airflow/providers/google/cloud/operators/datapipeline.py b/airflow/providers/google/cloud/operators/datapipeline.py
index a864d8794c696..ebe92f648ab28 100644
--- a/airflow/providers/google/cloud/operators/datapipeline.py
+++ b/airflow/providers/google/cloud/operators/datapipeline.py
@@ -19,138 +19,46 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Sequence
-
-from airflow.exceptions import AirflowException
-from airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.datapipeline import DEFAULT_DATAPIPELINE_LOCATION, DataPipelineHook
-from airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.cloud_base import GoogleCloudBaseOperator
+from deprecated import deprecated
+
+from airflow.exceptions import AirflowProviderDeprecationWarning
+from airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.dataflow import DEFAULT_DATAFLOW_LOCATION
+from airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow import (
+    DataflowCreatePipelineOperator,
+    DataflowRunPipelineOperator,
+)
 from airflow.providers.google.common.hooks.base_google import PROVIDE_PROJECT_ID
 
-if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from airflow.utils.context import Context
-
 
-class CreateDataPipelineOperator(GoogleCloudBaseOperator):
-    """
-    Creates a new Data Pipelines instance from the Data Pipelines API.
+@deprecated(
+    reason="This operator is deprecated and will be removed after 01.12.2024. "
+    "Please use `DataflowCreatePipelineOperator`.",
+    category=AirflowProviderDeprecationWarning,
+)
+class CreateDataPipelineOperator(DataflowCreatePipelineOperator):
+    """Creates a new Data Pipelines instance from the Data Pipelines API."""
 
-    :param body: The request body (contains instance of Pipeline). See:
-        https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/reference/data-pipelines/rest/v1/projects.locations.pipelines/create#request-body
-    :param project_id: The ID of the GCP project that owns the job.
-    :param location: The location to direct the Data Pipelines instance to (for example us-central1).
-    :param gcp_conn_id: The connection ID to connect to the Google Cloud
-        Platform.
-    :param impersonation_chain: Optional service account to impersonate using short-term
-        credentials, or chained list of accounts required to get the access_token
-        of the last account in the list, which will be impersonated in the request.
-        If set as a string, the account must grant the originating account
-        the Service Account Token Creator IAM role.
-        If set as a sequence, the identities from the list must grant
-        Service Account Token Creator IAM role to the directly preceding identity, with first
-        account from the list granting this role to the originating account (templated).
 
-        .. warning::
-            This option requires Apache Beam 2.39.0 or newer.
-
-    Returns the created Data Pipelines instance in JSON representation.
-    """
-
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        *,
-        body: dict,
-        project_id: str = PROVIDE_PROJECT_ID,
-        location: str = DEFAULT_DATAPIPELINE_LOCATION,
-        gcp_conn_id: str = "google_cloud_default",
-        impersonation_chain: str | Sequence[str] | None = None,
-        **kwargs,
-    ) -> None:
-        super().__init__(**kwargs)
-
-        self.body = body
-        self.project_id = project_id
-        self.location = location
-        self.gcp_conn_id = gcp_conn_id
-        self.impersonation_chain = impersonation_chain
-        self.datapipeline_hook: DataPipelineHook | None = None
-        self.body["pipelineSources"] = {"airflow": "airflow"}
-
-    def execute(self, context: Context):
-        if self.body is None:
-            raise AirflowException(
-                "Request Body not given; cannot create a Data Pipeline without the Request Body."
-            )
-        if self.project_id is None:
-            raise AirflowException(
-                "Project ID not given; cannot create a Data Pipeline without the Project ID."
-            )
-        if self.location is None:
-            raise AirflowException("location not given; cannot create a Data Pipeline without the location.")
-
-        self.datapipeline_hook = DataPipelineHook(
-            gcp_conn_id=self.gcp_conn_id,
-            impersonation_chain=self.impersonation_chain,
-        )
-
-        self.data_pipeline = self.datapipeline_hook.create_data_pipeline(
-            project_id=self.project_id,
-            body=self.body,
-            location=self.location,
-        )
-        if self.data_pipeline:
-            if "error" in self.data_pipeline:
-                raise AirflowException(self.data_pipeline.get("error").get("message"))
-
-        return self.data_pipeline
-
-
-class RunDataPipelineOperator(GoogleCloudBaseOperator):
-    """
-    Runs a Data Pipelines Instance using the Data Pipelines API.
-
-    :param data_pipeline_name:  The display name of the pipeline. In example
-        projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/LOCATION_ID/pipelines/PIPELINE_ID it would be the PIPELINE_ID.
-    :param project_id: The ID of the GCP project that owns the job.
-    :param location: The location to direct the Data Pipelines instance to (for example us-central1).
-    :param gcp_conn_id: The connection ID to connect to the Google Cloud
-        Platform.
-
-    Returns the created Job in JSON representation.
-    """
+@deprecated(
+    reason="This operator is deprecated and will be removed after 01.12.2024. "
+    "Please use `DataflowRunPipelineOperator`.",
+    category=AirflowProviderDeprecationWarning,
+)
+class RunDataPipelineOperator(DataflowRunPipelineOperator):
+    """Runs a Data Pipelines Instance using the Data Pipelines API."""
 
     def __init__(
         self,
         data_pipeline_name: str,
         project_id: str = PROVIDE_PROJECT_ID,
-        location: str = DEFAULT_DATAPIPELINE_LOCATION,
+        location: str = DEFAULT_DATAFLOW_LOCATION,
         gcp_conn_id: str = "google_cloud_default",
         **kwargs,
     ) -> None:
-        super().__init__(**kwargs)
-
-        self.data_pipeline_name = data_pipeline_name
-        self.project_id = project_id
-        self.location = location
-        self.gcp_conn_id = gcp_conn_id
-
-    def execute(self, context: Context):
-        self.data_pipeline_hook = DataPipelineHook(gcp_conn_id=self.gcp_conn_id)
-
-        if self.data_pipeline_name is None:
-            raise AirflowException("Data Pipeline name not given; cannot run unspecified pipeline.")
-        if self.project_id is None:
-            raise AirflowException("Data Pipeline Project ID not given; cannot run pipeline.")
-        if self.location is None:
-            raise AirflowException("Data Pipeline location not given; cannot run pipeline.")
-
-        self.response = self.data_pipeline_hook.run_data_pipeline(
-            data_pipeline_name=self.data_pipeline_name,
-            project_id=self.project_id,
-            location=self.location,
+        super().__init__(
+            pipeline_name=data_pipeline_name,
+            project_id=project_id,
+            location=location,
+            gcp_conn_id=gcp_conn_id,
+            **kwargs,
         )
-
-        if self.response:
-            if "error" in self.response:
-                raise AirflowException(self.response.get("error").get("message"))
-
-        return self.response
diff --git a/airflow/providers/google/provider.yaml b/airflow/providers/google/provider.yaml
index d5a656a29b401..0b62b1f21f6fd 100644
--- a/airflow/providers/google/provider.yaml
+++ b/airflow/providers/google/provider.yaml
@@ -1221,6 +1221,7 @@ extra-links:
   - airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.cloud_composer.CloudComposerEnvironmentLink
   - airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.cloud_composer.CloudComposerEnvironmentsLink
   - airflow.providers.google.cloud.links.dataflow.DataflowJobLink
+  - airflow.providers.google.cloud.links.dataflow.DataflowPipelineLink
   - airflow.providers.google.cloud.links.datastore.CloudDatastoreImportExportLink
   - airflow.providers.google.cloud.links.datastore.CloudDatastoreEntitiesLink
   - airflow.providers.google.cloud.links.bigtable.BigtableInstanceLink
diff --git a/docs/apache-airflow-providers-google/operators/cloud/dataflow.rst b/docs/apache-airflow-providers-google/operators/cloud/dataflow.rst
index f9302af8c3cde..71fc3275fe99f 100644
--- a/docs/apache-airflow-providers-google/operators/cloud/dataflow.rst
+++ b/docs/apache-airflow-providers-google/operators/cloud/dataflow.rst
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ There are several ways to run a Dataflow pipeline depending on your environment,
   This is the fastest way to start a pipeline, but because of its frequent problems with system dependencies,
   it may cause problems. See: :ref:`howto/operator:DataflowCreateJavaJobOperator`,
   :ref:`howto/operator:DataflowCreatePythonJobOperator` for more detailed information.
+  Developer can also create a pipeline by passing its structure in a JSON format and then run it to create
+  a Job.
+  See: :ref:`howto/operator:DataflowCreatePipelineOperator` and :ref:`howto/operator:DataflowRunPipelineOperator`
+  for more detailed information.
 - **Templated pipeline**: The programmer can make the pipeline independent of the environment by preparing
   a template that will then be run on a machine managed by Google. This way, changes to the environment
   won't affect your pipeline. There are two types of the templates:
@@ -63,6 +67,40 @@ in the Google Cloud documentation.
 Starting Non-templated pipeline
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+.. _howto/operator:DataflowCreatePipelineOperator:
+.. _howto/operator:DataflowRunPipelineOperator:
+
+JSON-formatted pipelines
+""""""""""""""""""""""""
+A new pipeline can be created by passing its structure in a JSON format. See
+:class:`~airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow.DataflowCreatePipelineOperator`
+This will create a new pipeline that will be visible on Dataflow Pipelines UI.
+
+Here is an example of how you can create a Dataflow Pipeline by running DataflowCreatePipelineOperator:
+
+.. exampleinclude:: /../../tests/system/providers/google/cloud/dataflow/example_dataflow_pipeline.py
+   :language: python
+   :dedent: 4
+   :start-after: [START howto_operator_create_dataflow_pipeline]
+   :end-before: [END howto_operator_create_dataflow_pipeline]
+
+To run a newly created pipeline you can use
+:class:`~airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow.DataflowRunPipelineOperator`
+
+.. exampleinclude:: /../../tests/system/providers/google/cloud/dataflow/example_dataflow_pipeline.py
+    :language: python
+    :dedent: 4
+    :start-after: [START howto_operator_run_dataflow_pipeline]
+    :end-before: [END howto_operator_run_dataflow_pipeline]
+
+Once called, the DataflowRunPipelineOperator will return the Google Cloud
+`Dataflow Job <https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/reference/data-pipelines/rest/v1/Job>`__
+created by running the given pipeline.
+
+For further information regarding the API usage, see
+`Data Pipelines API REST Resource <https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/reference/data-pipelines/rest/v1/projects.locations.pipelines#Pipeline>`__
+in the Google Cloud documentation.
+
 To create a new pipeline using the source file (JAR in Java or Python file) use
 the create job operators. The source file can be located on GCS or on the local filesystem.
 :class:`~airflow.providers.apache.beam.operators.beam.BeamRunJavaPipelineOperator`
@@ -286,6 +324,20 @@ Provide ``job_id`` to stop a specific job, or ``job_name_prefix`` to stop all jo
 See: `Stopping a running pipeline
 <https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/guides/stopping-a-pipeline>`_.
 
+.. _howto/operator:DataflowDeletePipelineOperator:
+
+Deleting a pipeline
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+To delete a Dataflow pipeline you can use
+:class:`~airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow.DataflowDeletePipelineOperator`.
+Here is an example how you can use this operator:
+
+.. exampleinclude:: /../../tests/system/providers/google/cloud/dataflow/example_dataflow_pipeline.py
+    :language: python
+    :dedent: 4
+    :start-after: [START howto_operator_delete_dataflow_pipeline]
+    :end-before: [END howto_operator_delete_dataflow_pipeline]
+
 .. _howto/operator:DataflowJobStatusSensor:
 .. _howto/operator:DataflowJobMetricsSensor:
 .. _howto/operator:DataflowJobMessagesSensor:
diff --git a/docs/apache-airflow-providers-google/operators/cloud/datapipeline.rst b/docs/apache-airflow-providers-google/operators/cloud/datapipeline.rst
index 4096aa7c9b037..10186138edb25 100644
--- a/docs/apache-airflow-providers-google/operators/cloud/datapipeline.rst
+++ b/docs/apache-airflow-providers-google/operators/cloud/datapipeline.rst
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ Prerequisite Tasks
 Creating a Data Pipeline
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+This operator is deprecated. Please use :class:`~airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow.DataflowCreatePipelineOperator`.
+
 To create a new Data Pipelines instance using a request body and parent name, use :class:`~airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.datapipeline.CreateDataPipelineOperator`.
 The operator accesses Google Cloud's Data Pipelines API and calls upon the
 `create method <https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/reference/data-pipelines/rest/v1/projects.locations.pipelines/create>`__
@@ -58,6 +60,8 @@ Here is an example of how you can create a Data Pipelines instance by running th
 Running a Data Pipeline
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+This operator is deprecated. Please use :class:`~airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow.DataflowRunPipelineOperator`.
+
 To run a Data Pipelines instance, use :class:`~airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.datapipeline.RunDataPipelineOperator`.
 The operator accesses Google Cloud's Data Pipelines API and calls upon the
 `run method <https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/reference/data-pipelines/rest/v1/projects.locations.pipelines/run>`__
diff --git a/tests/always/test_project_structure.py b/tests/always/test_project_structure.py
index ba4a467351532..d344ee4995231 100644
--- a/tests/always/test_project_structure.py
+++ b/tests/always/test_project_structure.py
@@ -365,6 +365,8 @@ class TestGoogleProviderProjectStructure(ExampleCoverageTest, AssetsCoverageTest
         ".CloudDataTransferServiceGCSToGCSOperator",
         "airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.automl.AutoMLTablesUpdateDatasetOperator",
         "airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.automl.AutoMLDeployModelOperator",
+        "airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.datapipeline.CreateDataPipelineOperator",
+        "airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.datapipeline.RunDataPipelineOperator",
         "airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataproc.DataprocSubmitHadoopJobOperator",
         "airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataproc.DataprocScaleClusterOperator",
         "airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataproc.DataprocSubmitSparkJobOperator",
diff --git a/tests/deprecations_ignore.yml b/tests/deprecations_ignore.yml
index d6400074e6567..0bde758f0f3bc 100644
--- a/tests/deprecations_ignore.yml
+++ b/tests/deprecations_ignore.yml
@@ -395,6 +395,9 @@
 - tests/providers/google/cloud/hooks/test_bigquery.py::TestTimePartitioningInRunJob::test_run_query_with_arg
 - tests/providers/google/cloud/hooks/test_bigquery.py::TestTimePartitioningInRunJob::test_run_with_auto_detect
 - tests/providers/google/cloud/hooks/test_cloud_sql.py::TestCloudSqlDatabaseHook::test_cloudsql_database_hook_get_database_hook
+- tests/providers/google/cloud/hooks/test_datapipeline.py::TestDataPipelineHook::test_get_conn
+- tests/providers/google/cloud/hooks/test_datapipeline.py::TestDataPipelineHook::test_create_data_pipeline
+- tests/providers/google/cloud/hooks/test_datapipeline.py::TestDataPipelineHook::test_run_data_pipeline
 - tests/providers/google/cloud/hooks/test_gcs.py::TestGCSHook::test_list__error_match_glob_and_invalid_delimiter
 - tests/providers/google/cloud/hooks/test_kubernetes_engine.py::TestGKECustomResourceHook::test_get_connection_update_hook_with_invalid_token
 - tests/providers/google/cloud/hooks/test_kubernetes_engine.py::TestGKECustomResourceHook::test_get_connection_update_hook_with_valid_token
@@ -456,6 +459,8 @@
 - tests/providers/google/cloud/operators/test_dataflow.py::TestDataflowCreateJavaJobOperatorWithLocal::test_init
 - tests/providers/google/cloud/operators/test_dataflow.py::TestDataflowCreatePythonJobOperator::test_exec
 - tests/providers/google/cloud/operators/test_dataflow.py::TestDataflowCreatePythonJobOperator::test_init
+- tests/providers/google/cloud/operators/test_datapipeline.py::TestCreateDataPipelineOperator::test_execute
+- tests/providers/google/cloud/operators/test_datapipeline.py::TestRunDataPipelineOperator::test_execute
 - tests/providers/google/cloud/operators/test_dataproc.py::TestDataProcHadoopOperator::test_execute
 - tests/providers/google/cloud/operators/test_dataproc.py::TestDataProcHiveOperator::test_builder
 - tests/providers/google/cloud/operators/test_dataproc.py::TestDataProcHiveOperator::test_execute
diff --git a/tests/providers/google/cloud/hooks/test_dataflow.py b/tests/providers/google/cloud/hooks/test_dataflow.py
index 1c8f768ea3aa2..d976580b28164 100644
--- a/tests/providers/google/cloud/hooks/test_dataflow.py
+++ b/tests/providers/google/cloud/hooks/test_dataflow.py
@@ -129,6 +129,28 @@
 """
 TEST_SQL_JOB_ID = "test-job-id"
 
+TEST_PIPELINE_PARENT = f"projects/{TEST_PROJECT}/locations/{TEST_LOCATION}"
+TEST_PIPELINE_NAME = "test-data-pipeline-name"
+TEST_PIPELINE_BODY = {
+    "name": f"{TEST_PIPELINE_PARENT}/pipelines/{TEST_PIPELINE_NAME}",
+    "type": "PIPELINE_TYPE_BATCH",
+    "workload": {
+        "dataflowFlexTemplateRequest": {
+            "launchParameter": {
+                "containerSpecGcsPath": "gs://dataflow-templates-us-central1/latest/Word_Count_metadata",
+                "jobName": "test-job",
+                "environment": {"tempLocation": "test-temp-location"},
+                "parameters": {
+                    "inputFile": "gs://dataflow-samples/shakespeare/kinglear.txt",
+                    "output": "gs://test/output/my_output",
+                },
+            },
+            "projectId": f"{TEST_PROJECT}",
+            "location": f"{TEST_LOCATION}",
+        }
+    },
+}
+
 DEFAULT_CANCEL_TIMEOUT = 5 * 60
 
 
@@ -1854,6 +1876,126 @@ def test_fetch_job_autoscaling_events_by_id(self, mock_fetch_responses):
         assert result == ["event_1", "event_2"]
 
 
+@pytest.mark.db_test
+class TestDataflowPipelineHook:
+    def setup_method(self):
+        self.dataflow_hook = DataflowHook(gcp_conn_id="google_cloud_default")
+
+    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.dataflow.DataflowHook._authorize")
+    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.dataflow.build")
+    def test_get_conn(self, mock_build, mock_authorize):
+        """
+        Test that get_conn is called with the correct params and
+        returns the correct API address
+        """
+        connection = self.dataflow_hook.get_pipelines_conn()
+        mock_build.assert_called_once_with(
+            "datapipelines", "v1", http=mock_authorize.return_value, cache_discovery=False
+        )
+        assert mock_build.return_value == connection
+
+    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.dataflow.DataflowHook.build_parent_name")
+    def test_build_parent_name(self, mock_build_parent_name):
+        """
+        Test that build_parent_name is called with the correct params and
+        returns the correct parent string
+        """
+        result = self.dataflow_hook.build_parent_name(
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT,
+            location=TEST_LOCATION,
+        )
+        mock_build_parent_name.assert_called_with(
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT,
+            location=TEST_LOCATION,
+        )
+        assert mock_build_parent_name.return_value == result
+
+    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.dataflow.DataflowHook.get_pipelines_conn")
+    def test_create_data_pipeline(self, mock_connection):
+        """
+        Test that request are called with the correct params
+        Test that request returns the correct value
+        """
+        mock_locations = mock_connection.return_value.projects.return_value.locations
+        mock_request = mock_locations.return_value.pipelines.return_value.create
+        mock_request.return_value.execute.return_value = TEST_PIPELINE_BODY
+
+        result = self.dataflow_hook.create_data_pipeline(
+            body=TEST_PIPELINE_BODY,
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT,
+            location=TEST_LOCATION,
+        )
+
+        mock_request.assert_called_once_with(
+            parent=TEST_PIPELINE_PARENT,
+            body=TEST_PIPELINE_BODY,
+        )
+        assert result == TEST_PIPELINE_BODY
+
+    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.dataflow.DataflowHook.get_pipelines_conn")
+    def test_run_data_pipeline(self, mock_connection):
+        """
+        Test that run_data_pipeline is called with correct parameters and
+        calls Google Data Pipelines API
+        """
+        mock_request = mock_connection.return_value.projects.return_value.locations.return_value.pipelines.return_value.run
+        mock_request.return_value.execute.return_value = {"job": {"id": TEST_JOB_ID}}
+
+        result = self.dataflow_hook.run_data_pipeline(
+            pipeline_name=TEST_PIPELINE_NAME,
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT,
+            location=TEST_LOCATION,
+        )
+
+        mock_request.assert_called_once_with(
+            name=f"{TEST_PIPELINE_PARENT}/pipelines/{TEST_PIPELINE_NAME}",
+            body={},
+        )
+        assert result == {"job": {"id": TEST_JOB_ID}}
+
+    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.dataflow.DataflowHook.get_pipelines_conn")
+    def test_get_data_pipeline(self, mock_connection):
+        """
+        Test that get_data_pipeline is called with correct parameters and
+        calls Google Data Pipelines API
+        """
+        mock_locations = mock_connection.return_value.projects.return_value.locations
+        mock_request = mock_locations.return_value.pipelines.return_value.get
+        mock_request.return_value.execute.return_value = TEST_PIPELINE_BODY
+
+        result = self.dataflow_hook.get_data_pipeline(
+            pipeline_name=TEST_PIPELINE_NAME,
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT,
+            location=TEST_LOCATION,
+        )
+
+        mock_request.assert_called_once_with(
+            name=f"{TEST_PIPELINE_PARENT}/pipelines/{TEST_PIPELINE_NAME}",
+        )
+        assert result == TEST_PIPELINE_BODY
+
+    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.dataflow.DataflowHook.get_pipelines_conn")
+    def test_delete_data_pipeline(self, mock_connection):
+        """
+        Test that delete_data_pipeline is called with correct parameters and
+        calls Google Data Pipelines API
+        """
+        mock_locations = mock_connection.return_value.projects.return_value.locations
+        mock_request = mock_locations.return_value.pipelines.return_value.delete
+        mock_request.return_value.execute.return_value = None
+
+        result = self.dataflow_hook.delete_data_pipeline(
+            pipeline_name=TEST_PIPELINE_NAME,
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT,
+            location=TEST_LOCATION,
+        )
+
+        mock_request.assert_called_once_with(
+            name=f"{TEST_PIPELINE_PARENT}/pipelines/{TEST_PIPELINE_NAME}",
+        )
+        assert result is None
+
+
 APACHE_BEAM_V_2_14_0_JAVA_SDK_LOG = f""""\
 Dataflow SDK version: 2.14.0
 Jun 15, 2020 2:57:28 PM org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.DataflowRunner run
diff --git a/tests/providers/google/cloud/hooks/test_datapipeline.py b/tests/providers/google/cloud/hooks/test_datapipeline.py
index 4bac7e7847d52..589731719ad0b 100644
--- a/tests/providers/google/cloud/hooks/test_datapipeline.py
+++ b/tests/providers/google/cloud/hooks/test_datapipeline.py
@@ -27,9 +27,13 @@
 
 
 TASK_ID = "test-datapipeline-operators"
-TEST_NAME = "projects/test-project-id/locations/test-location"
+TEST_PARENT_NAME = "projects/test-project-id/locations/test-location"
+TEST_LOCATION = "test-location"
+TEST_PROJECT_ID = "test-project-id"
+TEST_DATA_PIPELINE_NAME = "test-data-pipeline-name"
+TEST_JOB_ID = "test-job-id"
 TEST_BODY = {
-    "name": "projects/test-project-id/locations/test-location/pipelines/test-pipeline",
+    "name": f"{TEST_PARENT_NAME}/pipelines/{TEST_DATA_PIPELINE_NAME}",
     "type": "PIPELINE_TYPE_BATCH",
     "workload": {
         "dataflowFlexTemplateRequest": {
@@ -42,17 +46,11 @@
                     "output": "gs://test/output/my_output",
                 },
             },
-            "projectId": "test-project-id",
-            "location": "test-location",
+            "projectId": TEST_PROJECT_ID,
+            "location": TEST_LOCATION,
         }
     },
 }
-TEST_LOCATION = "test-location"
-TEST_PROJECTID = "test-project-id"
-TEST_DATA_PIPELINE_NAME = "test-data-pipeline-name"
-TEST_PARENT = "projects/test-project-id/locations/test-location"
-TEST_JOB_ID = "test-job-id"
-TEST_NAME = "projects/test-project-id/locations/test-location/pipelines/test-data-pipeline-name"
 
 
 class TestDataPipelineHook:
@@ -63,8 +61,8 @@ class TestDataPipelineHook:
     def setup_method(self):
         self.datapipeline_hook = DataPipelineHook(gcp_conn_id="google_cloud_default")
 
-    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.datapipeline.DataPipelineHook._authorize")
-    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.datapipeline.build")
+    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.dataflow.DataflowHook._authorize")
+    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.dataflow.build")
     def test_get_conn(self, mock_build, mock_authorize):
         """
         Test that get_conn is called with the correct params and
@@ -76,23 +74,7 @@ def test_get_conn(self, mock_build, mock_authorize):
         )
         assert mock_build.return_value == connection
 
-    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.datapipeline.DataPipelineHook.build_parent_name")
-    def test_build_parent_name(self, mock_build_parent_name):
-        """
-        Test that build_parent_name is called with the correct params and
-        returns the correct parent string
-        """
-        result = self.datapipeline_hook.build_parent_name(
-            project_id=TEST_PROJECTID,
-            location=TEST_LOCATION,
-        )
-        mock_build_parent_name.assert_called_with(
-            project_id=TEST_PROJECTID,
-            location=TEST_LOCATION,
-        )
-        assert mock_build_parent_name.return_value == result
-
-    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.datapipeline.DataPipelineHook.get_conn")
+    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.dataflow.DataflowHook.get_pipelines_conn")
     def test_create_data_pipeline(self, mock_connection):
         """
         Test that request are called with the correct params
@@ -100,21 +82,21 @@ def test_create_data_pipeline(self, mock_connection):
         """
         mock_locations = mock_connection.return_value.projects.return_value.locations
         mock_request = mock_locations.return_value.pipelines.return_value.create
-        mock_request.return_value.execute.return_value = {"name": TEST_PARENT}
+        mock_request.return_value.execute.return_value = {"name": TEST_PARENT_NAME}
 
         result = self.datapipeline_hook.create_data_pipeline(
             body=TEST_BODY,
-            project_id=TEST_PROJECTID,
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT_ID,
             location=TEST_LOCATION,
         )
 
         mock_request.assert_called_once_with(
-            parent=TEST_PARENT,
+            parent=TEST_PARENT_NAME,
             body=TEST_BODY,
         )
-        assert result == {"name": TEST_PARENT}
+        assert result == {"name": TEST_PARENT_NAME}
 
-    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.datapipeline.DataPipelineHook.get_conn")
+    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.dataflow.DataflowHook.get_pipelines_conn")
     def test_run_data_pipeline(self, mock_connection):
         """
         Test that run_data_pipeline is called with correct parameters and
@@ -125,12 +107,12 @@ def test_run_data_pipeline(self, mock_connection):
 
         result = self.datapipeline_hook.run_data_pipeline(
             data_pipeline_name=TEST_DATA_PIPELINE_NAME,
-            project_id=TEST_PROJECTID,
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT_ID,
             location=TEST_LOCATION,
         )
 
         mock_request.assert_called_once_with(
-            name=TEST_NAME,
+            name=f"{TEST_PARENT_NAME}/pipelines/{TEST_DATA_PIPELINE_NAME}",
             body={},
         )
         assert result == {"job": {"id": TEST_JOB_ID}}
diff --git a/tests/providers/google/cloud/operators/test_dataflow.py b/tests/providers/google/cloud/operators/test_dataflow.py
index ebbf471383760..7b8aeaf3fd5e5 100644
--- a/tests/providers/google/cloud/operators/test_dataflow.py
+++ b/tests/providers/google/cloud/operators/test_dataflow.py
@@ -21,9 +21,12 @@
 from copy import deepcopy
 from unittest import mock
 
+import httplib2
 import pytest
+from googleapiclient.errors import HttpError
 
 import airflow
+from airflow.exceptions import AirflowException
 from airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.dataflow import (
     DEFAULT_DATAFLOW_LOCATION,
     DataflowJobStatus,
@@ -31,7 +34,10 @@
 from airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow import (
     CheckJobRunning,
     DataflowCreateJavaJobOperator,
+    DataflowCreatePipelineOperator,
     DataflowCreatePythonJobOperator,
+    DataflowDeletePipelineOperator,
+    DataflowRunPipelineOperator,
     DataflowStartFlexTemplateOperator,
     DataflowStartSqlJobOperator,
     DataflowStopJobOperator,
@@ -104,6 +110,27 @@
 CANCEL_TIMEOUT = 10 * 420
 DATAFLOW_PATH = "airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow"
 
+TEST_PIPELINE_NAME = "test_data_pipeline_name"
+TEST_PIPELINE_BODY = {
+    "name": f"projects/test-datapipeline-operators/locations/test-location/pipelines/{TEST_PIPELINE_NAME}",
+    "type": "PIPELINE_TYPE_BATCH",
+    "workload": {
+        "dataflowFlexTemplateRequest": {
+            "launchParameter": {
+                "containerSpecGcsPath": "gs://dataflow-templates-us-central1/latest/Word_Count_metadata",
+                "jobName": "test-job",
+                "environment": {"tempLocation": "test-temp-location"},
+                "parameters": {
+                    "inputFile": "gs://dataflow-samples/shakespeare/kinglear.txt",
+                    "output": "gs://test/output/my_output",
+                },
+            },
+            "projectId": f"{TEST_PROJECT}",
+            "location": f"{TEST_LOCATION}",
+        }
+    },
+}
+
 
 class TestDataflowCreatePythonJobOperator:
     def setup_method(self):
@@ -758,3 +785,310 @@ def test_exec_job_name_prefix(self, dataflow_mock):
             location=TEST_LOCATION,
             job_id=None,
         )
+
+
+class TestDataflowCreatePipelineOperator:
+    @pytest.fixture
+    def create_operator(self):
+        """
+        Creates a mock create datapipeline operator to be used in testing.
+        """
+        return DataflowCreatePipelineOperator(
+            task_id="test_create_datapipeline",
+            body=TEST_PIPELINE_BODY,
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT,
+            location=TEST_LOCATION,
+            gcp_conn_id=GCP_CONN_ID,
+        )
+
+    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow.DataflowHook")
+    def test_execute(self, mock_hook, create_operator):
+        """
+        Test that operator creates and calls the Dataflow Data Pipeline hook with the correct parameters
+        """
+        create_operator.execute(mock.MagicMock())
+        mock_hook.assert_called_once_with(
+            gcp_conn_id="test_gcp_conn_id",
+            impersonation_chain=None,
+        )
+
+        mock_hook.return_value.create_data_pipeline.assert_called_once_with(
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT, body=TEST_PIPELINE_BODY, location=TEST_LOCATION
+        )
+
+    @pytest.mark.db_test
+    def test_body_invalid(self):
+        """
+        Test that if the operator is not passed a Request Body, an AirflowException is raised
+        """
+        init_kwargs = {
+            "task_id": "test_create_datapipeline",
+            "body": {},
+            "project_id": TEST_PROJECT,
+            "location": TEST_LOCATION,
+            "gcp_conn_id": GCP_CONN_ID,
+        }
+        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
+            DataflowCreatePipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock())
+
+    def test_projectid_invalid(self):
+        """
+        Test that if the operator is not passed a Project ID, an AirflowException is raised
+        """
+        init_kwargs = {
+            "task_id": "test_create_datapipeline",
+            "body": TEST_PIPELINE_BODY,
+            "project_id": None,
+            "location": TEST_LOCATION,
+            "gcp_conn_id": GCP_CONN_ID,
+        }
+        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
+            DataflowCreatePipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock())
+
+    def test_location_invalid(self):
+        """
+        Test that if the operator is not passed a location, an AirflowException is raised
+        """
+        init_kwargs = {
+            "task_id": "test_create_datapipeline",
+            "body": TEST_PIPELINE_BODY,
+            "project_id": TEST_PROJECT,
+            "location": None,
+            "gcp_conn_id": GCP_CONN_ID,
+        }
+        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
+            DataflowCreatePipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock())
+
+    @pytest.mark.db_test
+    def test_response_invalid(self):
+        """
+        Test that if the Response Body contains an error message, an AirflowException is raised
+        """
+        init_kwargs = {
+            "task_id": "test_create_datapipeline",
+            "body": {"name": TEST_PIPELINE_NAME, "error": "Testing that AirflowException is raised"},
+            "project_id": TEST_PROJECT,
+            "location": TEST_LOCATION,
+            "gcp_conn_id": GCP_CONN_ID,
+        }
+        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
+            DataflowCreatePipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock())
+
+    @pytest.mark.db_test
+    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow.DataflowHook")
+    def test_response_409(self, mock_hook, create_operator):
+        """
+        Test that if the Pipeline already exists, the operator does not fail and retrieves existed Pipeline
+        """
+        mock_hook.return_value.create_data_pipeline.side_effect = HttpError(
+            resp=httplib2.Response({"status": "409"}), content=b"content"
+        )
+        create_operator.execute(mock.MagicMock())
+        mock_hook.assert_called_once_with(
+            gcp_conn_id="test_gcp_conn_id",
+            impersonation_chain=None,
+        )
+
+        mock_hook.return_value.get_data_pipeline.assert_called_once_with(
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT, pipeline_name=TEST_PIPELINE_NAME, location=TEST_LOCATION
+        )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.db_test
+class TestDataflowRunPipelineOperator:
+    @pytest.fixture
+    def run_operator(self):
+        """
+        Create a DataflowRunPipelineOperator instance with test data
+        """
+        return DataflowRunPipelineOperator(
+            task_id=TASK_ID,
+            pipeline_name=TEST_PIPELINE_NAME,
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT,
+            location=TEST_LOCATION,
+            gcp_conn_id=GCP_CONN_ID,
+        )
+
+    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow.DataflowHook")
+    def test_execute(self, data_pipeline_hook_mock, run_operator):
+        """
+        Test Run Operator execute with correct parameters
+        """
+        run_operator.execute(mock.MagicMock())
+        data_pipeline_hook_mock.assert_called_once_with(
+            gcp_conn_id=GCP_CONN_ID,
+            impersonation_chain=None,
+        )
+
+        data_pipeline_hook_mock.return_value.run_data_pipeline.assert_called_once_with(
+            pipeline_name=TEST_PIPELINE_NAME,
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT,
+            location=TEST_LOCATION,
+        )
+
+    def test_invalid_data_pipeline_name(self):
+        """
+        Test that AirflowException is raised if Run Operator is not given a data pipeline name.
+        """
+        init_kwargs = {
+            "task_id": TASK_ID,
+            "pipeline_name": None,
+            "project_id": TEST_PROJECT,
+            "location": TEST_LOCATION,
+            "gcp_conn_id": GCP_CONN_ID,
+        }
+        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
+            DataflowRunPipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock())
+
+    def test_invalid_project_id(self):
+        """
+        Test that AirflowException is raised if Run Operator is not given a project ID.
+        """
+        init_kwargs = {
+            "task_id": TASK_ID,
+            "pipeline_name": TEST_PIPELINE_NAME,
+            "project_id": None,
+            "location": TEST_LOCATION,
+            "gcp_conn_id": GCP_CONN_ID,
+        }
+        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
+            DataflowRunPipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock())
+
+    def test_invalid_location(self):
+        """
+        Test that AirflowException is raised if Run Operator is not given a location.
+        """
+        init_kwargs = {
+            "task_id": TASK_ID,
+            "pipeline_name": TEST_PIPELINE_NAME,
+            "project_id": TEST_PROJECT,
+            "location": None,
+            "gcp_conn_id": GCP_CONN_ID,
+        }
+        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
+            DataflowRunPipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock())
+
+    def test_invalid_response(self):
+        """
+        Test that AirflowException is raised if Run Operator fails execution and returns error.
+        """
+        init_kwargs = {
+            "task_id": TASK_ID,
+            "data_pipeline_name": TEST_PIPELINE_NAME,
+            "project_id": TEST_PROJECT,
+            "location": TEST_LOCATION,
+            "gcp_conn_id": GCP_CONN_ID,
+        }
+        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
+            DataflowRunPipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock()).return_value = {
+                "error": {"message": "example error"}
+            }
+
+    @pytest.mark.db_test
+    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow.DataflowHook")
+    def test_response_404(self, mock_hook, run_operator):
+        """
+        Test that if the Pipeline does not exist, the operator raise AirflowException
+        """
+        mock_hook.return_value.run_data_pipeline.side_effect = HttpError(
+            resp=httplib2.Response({"status": "404"}), content=b"content"
+        )
+        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
+            run_operator.execute(mock.MagicMock())
+        mock_hook.assert_called_once_with(
+            gcp_conn_id="test_gcp_conn_id",
+            impersonation_chain=None,
+        )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.db_test
+class TestDataflowDeletePipelineOperator:
+    @pytest.fixture
+    def run_operator(self):
+        """
+        Create a DataflowDeletePipelineOperator instance with test data
+        """
+        return DataflowDeletePipelineOperator(
+            task_id=TASK_ID,
+            pipeline_name=TEST_PIPELINE_NAME,
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT,
+            location=TEST_LOCATION,
+            gcp_conn_id=GCP_CONN_ID,
+        )
+
+    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow.DataflowHook")
+    # @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow.DataflowHook.delete_data_pipeline")
+    def test_execute(self, data_pipeline_hook_mock, run_operator):
+        """
+        Test Delete Operator execute with correct parameters
+        """
+        data_pipeline_hook_mock.return_value.delete_data_pipeline.return_value = None
+        run_operator.execute(mock.MagicMock())
+        data_pipeline_hook_mock.assert_called_once_with(
+            gcp_conn_id=GCP_CONN_ID,
+            impersonation_chain=None,
+        )
+
+        data_pipeline_hook_mock.return_value.delete_data_pipeline.assert_called_once_with(
+            pipeline_name=TEST_PIPELINE_NAME,
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT,
+            location=TEST_LOCATION,
+        )
+
+    def test_invalid_data_pipeline_name(self):
+        """
+        Test that AirflowException is raised if Delete Operator is not given a data pipeline name.
+        """
+        init_kwargs = {
+            "task_id": TASK_ID,
+            "pipeline_name": None,
+            "project_id": TEST_PROJECT,
+            "location": TEST_LOCATION,
+            "gcp_conn_id": GCP_CONN_ID,
+        }
+        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
+            DataflowDeletePipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock())
+
+    def test_invalid_project_id(self):
+        """
+        Test that AirflowException is raised if Delete Operator is not given a project ID.
+        """
+        init_kwargs = {
+            "task_id": TASK_ID,
+            "pipeline_name": TEST_PIPELINE_NAME,
+            "project_id": None,
+            "location": TEST_LOCATION,
+            "gcp_conn_id": GCP_CONN_ID,
+        }
+        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
+            DataflowDeletePipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock())
+
+    def test_invalid_location(self):
+        """
+        Test that AirflowException is raised if Delete Operator is not given a location.
+        """
+        init_kwargs = {
+            "task_id": TASK_ID,
+            "pipeline_name": TEST_PIPELINE_NAME,
+            "project_id": TEST_PROJECT,
+            "location": None,
+            "gcp_conn_id": GCP_CONN_ID,
+        }
+        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
+            DataflowDeletePipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock())
+
+    def test_invalid_response(self):
+        """
+        Test that AirflowException is raised if Delete Operator fails execution and returns error.
+        """
+        init_kwargs = {
+            "task_id": TASK_ID,
+            "pipeline_name": TEST_PIPELINE_NAME,
+            "project_id": TEST_PROJECT,
+            "location": TEST_LOCATION,
+            "gcp_conn_id": GCP_CONN_ID,
+        }
+        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
+            DataflowDeletePipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock()).return_value = {
+                "error": {"message": "example error"}
+            }
diff --git a/tests/providers/google/cloud/operators/test_datapipeline.py b/tests/providers/google/cloud/operators/test_datapipeline.py
index 2a948edf781c3..1b403d67fbe6e 100644
--- a/tests/providers/google/cloud/operators/test_datapipeline.py
+++ b/tests/providers/google/cloud/operators/test_datapipeline.py
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 
 import pytest
 
-from airflow.exceptions import AirflowException
 from airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.datapipeline import (
     CreateDataPipelineOperator,
     RunDataPipelineOperator,
@@ -48,7 +47,7 @@
     },
 }
 TEST_LOCATION = "test-location"
-TEST_PROJECTID = "test-project-id"
+TEST_PROJECT_ID = "test-project-id"
 TEST_GCP_CONN_ID = "test_gcp_conn_id"
 TEST_DATA_PIPELINE_NAME = "test_data_pipeline_name"
 
@@ -62,12 +61,12 @@ def create_operator(self):
         return CreateDataPipelineOperator(
             task_id="test_create_datapipeline",
             body=TEST_BODY,
-            project_id=TEST_PROJECTID,
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT_ID,
             location=TEST_LOCATION,
             gcp_conn_id=TEST_GCP_CONN_ID,
         )
 
-    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.datapipeline.DataPipelineHook")
+    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow.DataflowHook")
     def test_execute(self, mock_hook, create_operator):
         """
         Test that the execute function creates and calls the DataPipeline hook with the correct parameters
@@ -79,67 +78,11 @@ def test_execute(self, mock_hook, create_operator):
         )
 
         mock_hook.return_value.create_data_pipeline.assert_called_once_with(
-            project_id=TEST_PROJECTID, body=TEST_BODY, location=TEST_LOCATION
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT_ID,
+            body=TEST_BODY,
+            location=TEST_LOCATION,
         )
 
-    @pytest.mark.db_test
-    def test_body_invalid(self):
-        """
-        Test that if the operator is not passed a Request Body, an AirflowException is raised
-        """
-        init_kwargs = {
-            "task_id": "test_create_datapipeline",
-            "body": {},
-            "project_id": TEST_PROJECTID,
-            "location": TEST_LOCATION,
-            "gcp_conn_id": TEST_GCP_CONN_ID,
-        }
-        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
-            CreateDataPipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock())
-
-    def test_projectid_invalid(self):
-        """
-        Test that if the operator is not passed a Project ID, an AirflowException is raised
-        """
-        init_kwargs = {
-            "task_id": "test_create_datapipeline",
-            "body": TEST_BODY,
-            "project_id": None,
-            "location": TEST_LOCATION,
-            "gcp_conn_id": TEST_GCP_CONN_ID,
-        }
-        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
-            CreateDataPipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock())
-
-    def test_location_invalid(self):
-        """
-        Test that if the operator is not passed a location, an AirflowException is raised
-        """
-        init_kwargs = {
-            "task_id": "test_create_datapipeline",
-            "body": TEST_BODY,
-            "project_id": TEST_PROJECTID,
-            "location": None,
-            "gcp_conn_id": TEST_GCP_CONN_ID,
-        }
-        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
-            CreateDataPipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock())
-
-    @pytest.mark.db_test
-    def test_response_invalid(self):
-        """
-        Test that if the Response Body contains an error message, an AirflowException is raised
-        """
-        init_kwargs = {
-            "task_id": "test_create_datapipeline",
-            "body": {"error": "Testing that AirflowException is raised"},
-            "project_id": TEST_PROJECTID,
-            "location": TEST_LOCATION,
-            "gcp_conn_id": TEST_GCP_CONN_ID,
-        }
-        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
-            CreateDataPipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock())
-
 
 @pytest.mark.db_test
 class TestRunDataPipelineOperator:
@@ -151,12 +94,12 @@ def run_operator(self):
         return RunDataPipelineOperator(
             task_id=TASK_ID,
             data_pipeline_name=TEST_DATA_PIPELINE_NAME,
-            project_id=TEST_PROJECTID,
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT_ID,
             location=TEST_LOCATION,
             gcp_conn_id=TEST_GCP_CONN_ID,
         )
 
-    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.datapipeline.DataPipelineHook")
+    @mock.patch("airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow.DataflowHook")
     def test_execute(self, data_pipeline_hook_mock, run_operator):
         """
         Test Run Operator execute with correct parameters
@@ -164,68 +107,11 @@ def test_execute(self, data_pipeline_hook_mock, run_operator):
         run_operator.execute(mock.MagicMock())
         data_pipeline_hook_mock.assert_called_once_with(
             gcp_conn_id=TEST_GCP_CONN_ID,
+            impersonation_chain=None,
         )
 
         data_pipeline_hook_mock.return_value.run_data_pipeline.assert_called_once_with(
-            data_pipeline_name=TEST_DATA_PIPELINE_NAME,
-            project_id=TEST_PROJECTID,
+            pipeline_name=TEST_DATA_PIPELINE_NAME,
+            project_id=TEST_PROJECT_ID,
             location=TEST_LOCATION,
         )
-
-    def test_invalid_data_pipeline_name(self):
-        """
-        Test that AirflowException is raised if Run Operator is not given a data pipeline name.
-        """
-        init_kwargs = {
-            "task_id": TASK_ID,
-            "data_pipeline_name": None,
-            "project_id": TEST_PROJECTID,
-            "location": TEST_LOCATION,
-            "gcp_conn_id": TEST_GCP_CONN_ID,
-        }
-        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
-            RunDataPipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock())
-
-    def test_invalid_project_id(self):
-        """
-        Test that AirflowException is raised if Run Operator is not given a project ID.
-        """
-        init_kwargs = {
-            "task_id": TASK_ID,
-            "data_pipeline_name": TEST_DATA_PIPELINE_NAME,
-            "project_id": None,
-            "location": TEST_LOCATION,
-            "gcp_conn_id": TEST_GCP_CONN_ID,
-        }
-        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
-            RunDataPipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock())
-
-    def test_invalid_location(self):
-        """
-        Test that AirflowException is raised if Run Operator is not given a location.
-        """
-        init_kwargs = {
-            "task_id": TASK_ID,
-            "data_pipeline_name": TEST_DATA_PIPELINE_NAME,
-            "project_id": TEST_PROJECTID,
-            "location": None,
-            "gcp_conn_id": TEST_GCP_CONN_ID,
-        }
-        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
-            RunDataPipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock())
-
-    def test_invalid_response(self):
-        """
-        Test that AirflowException is raised if Run Operator fails execution and returns error.
-        """
-        init_kwargs = {
-            "task_id": TASK_ID,
-            "data_pipeline_name": TEST_DATA_PIPELINE_NAME,
-            "project_id": TEST_PROJECTID,
-            "location": TEST_LOCATION,
-            "gcp_conn_id": TEST_GCP_CONN_ID,
-        }
-        with pytest.raises(AirflowException):
-            RunDataPipelineOperator(**init_kwargs).execute(mock.MagicMock()).return_value = {
-                "error": {"message": "example error"}
-            }
diff --git a/tests/system/providers/google/cloud/dataflow/example_dataflow_pipeline.py b/tests/system/providers/google/cloud/dataflow/example_dataflow_pipeline.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8f41b3ed7fb2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/system/providers/google/cloud/dataflow/example_dataflow_pipeline.py
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+"""
+Example Airflow DAG for testing Google Dataflow to create pipelines.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+from datetime import datetime
+
+from airflow.models.dag import DAG
+from airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow import (
+    DataflowCreatePipelineOperator,
+    DataflowDeletePipelineOperator,
+    DataflowRunPipelineOperator,
+)
+from airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.gcs import (
+    GCSCreateBucketOperator,
+    GCSDeleteBucketOperator,
+    GCSSynchronizeBucketsOperator,
+)
+from airflow.utils.trigger_rule import TriggerRule
+
+DAG_ID = "dataflow_pipeline"
+ENV_ID = os.environ.get("SYSTEM_TESTS_ENV_ID", "default")
+GCP_PROJECT_ID = os.environ.get("SYSTEM_TESTS_GCP_PROJECT", "default")
+GCP_LOCATION = "us-central1"
+
+PIPELINE_NAME = f"{DAG_ID}-{ENV_ID}".replace("_", "-")
+PIPELINE_JOB_NAME = f"{DAG_ID}-{ENV_ID}-job".replace("_", "-")
+PIPELINE_TYPE = "PIPELINE_TYPE_BATCH"
+
+RESOURCE_DATA_BUCKET = "airflow-system-tests-resources"
+BUCKET_NAME = f"bucket_{DAG_ID}_{ENV_ID}".replace("-", "_")
+
+FILE_NAME = "kinglear.txt"
+TEMPLATE_FILE = "word-count.json"
+
+TEMP_LOCATION = f"gs://{BUCKET_NAME}/temp"
+
+GCS_PATH = f"gs://{BUCKET_NAME}/dataflow/{TEMPLATE_FILE}"
+INPUT_FILE = f"gs://{BUCKET_NAME}/dataflow/{FILE_NAME}"
+OUTPUT = f"gs://{BUCKET_NAME}/results/hello"
+
+with DAG(
+    DAG_ID,
+    schedule="@once",
+    start_date=datetime(2021, 1, 1),
+    catchup=False,
+    tags=["example", "dataflow", "pipelines"],
+) as dag:
+    create_bucket = GCSCreateBucketOperator(task_id="create_bucket", bucket_name=BUCKET_NAME)
+
+    move_files_to_bucket = GCSSynchronizeBucketsOperator(
+        task_id="move_files_to_bucket",
+        source_bucket=RESOURCE_DATA_BUCKET,
+        source_object="dataflow/pipelines",
+        destination_bucket=BUCKET_NAME,
+        destination_object="dataflow",
+        recursive=True,
+    )
+
+    # [START howto_operator_create_dataflow_pipeline]
+    create_pipeline = DataflowCreatePipelineOperator(
+        task_id="create_pipeline",
+        project_id=GCP_PROJECT_ID,
+        location=GCP_LOCATION,
+        body={
+            "name": f"projects/{GCP_PROJECT_ID}/locations/{GCP_LOCATION}/pipelines/{PIPELINE_NAME}",
+            "type": PIPELINE_TYPE,
+            "workload": {
+                "dataflowFlexTemplateRequest": {
+                    "launchParameter": {
+                        "containerSpecGcsPath": GCS_PATH,
+                        "jobName": PIPELINE_JOB_NAME,
+                        "environment": {"tempLocation": TEMP_LOCATION},
+                        "parameters": {
+                            "inputFile": INPUT_FILE,
+                            "output": OUTPUT,
+                        },
+                    },
+                    "projectId": GCP_PROJECT_ID,
+                    "location": GCP_LOCATION,
+                }
+            },
+        },
+    )
+    # [END howto_operator_create_dataflow_pipeline]
+
+    # [START howto_operator_run_dataflow_pipeline]
+    run_pipeline = DataflowRunPipelineOperator(
+        task_id="run_pipeline",
+        pipeline_name=PIPELINE_NAME,
+        project_id=GCP_PROJECT_ID,
+    )
+    # [END howto_operator_run_dataflow_pipeline]
+
+    # [START howto_operator_delete_dataflow_pipeline]
+    delete_pipeline = DataflowDeletePipelineOperator(
+        task_id="delete_pipeline",
+        pipeline_name=PIPELINE_NAME,
+        project_id=GCP_PROJECT_ID,
+        trigger_rule=TriggerRule.ALL_DONE,
+    )
+    # [END howto_operator_delete_dataflow_pipeline]
+
+    delete_bucket = GCSDeleteBucketOperator(
+        task_id="delete_bucket", bucket_name=BUCKET_NAME, trigger_rule=TriggerRule.ALL_DONE
+    )
+
+    (
+        # TEST SETUP
+        create_bucket
+        >> move_files_to_bucket
+        # TEST BODY
+        >> create_pipeline
+        >> run_pipeline
+        # TEST TEARDOWN
+        >> delete_pipeline
+        >> delete_bucket
+    )
+
+    from tests.system.utils.watcher import watcher
+
+    # This test needs watcher in order to properly mark success/failure
+    # when "teardown" task with trigger rule is part of the DAG
+    list(dag.tasks) >> watcher()
+
+
+from tests.system.utils import get_test_run  # noqa: E402
+
+# Needed to run the example DAG with pytest (see: tests/system/README.md#run_via_pytest)
+test_run = get_test_run(dag)
diff --git a/tests/system/providers/google/cloud/datapipelines/example_datapipeline.py b/tests/system/providers/google/cloud/datapipelines/example_datapipeline.py
index 2b84be9013359..cd3538de0e8d5 100644
--- a/tests/system/providers/google/cloud/datapipelines/example_datapipeline.py
+++ b/tests/system/providers/google/cloud/datapipelines/example_datapipeline.py
@@ -24,39 +24,40 @@
 
 import os
 from datetime import datetime
-from pathlib import Path
 
 from airflow.models.dag import DAG
+from airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow import DataflowDeletePipelineOperator
 from airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.datapipeline import (
     CreateDataPipelineOperator,
     RunDataPipelineOperator,
 )
-from airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.gcs import GCSCreateBucketOperator, GCSDeleteBucketOperator
-from airflow.providers.google.cloud.transfers.local_to_gcs import LocalFilesystemToGCSOperator
+from airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.gcs import (
+    GCSCreateBucketOperator,
+    GCSDeleteBucketOperator,
+    GCSSynchronizeBucketsOperator,
+)
 from airflow.utils.trigger_rule import TriggerRule
 
-DAG_ID = "google-datapipeline"
-ENV_ID = os.environ.get("SYSTEM_TESTS_ENV_ID")
-GCP_PROJECT_ID = os.environ.get("SYSTEM_TESTS_GCP_PROJECT")
-GCP_LOCATION = os.environ.get("location", "us-central1")
+DAG_ID = "datapipeline"
+ENV_ID = os.environ.get("SYSTEM_TESTS_ENV_ID", "default")
+GCP_PROJECT_ID = os.environ.get("SYSTEM_TESTS_GCP_PROJECT", "default")
+GCP_LOCATION = "us-central1"
 
-PIPELINE_NAME = os.environ.get("DATA_PIPELINE_NAME", "defualt-pipeline-name")
+PIPELINE_NAME = f"{DAG_ID}-{ENV_ID}".replace("_", "-")
+PIPELINE_JOB_NAME = f"{DAG_ID}-{ENV_ID}-job".replace("_", "-")
 PIPELINE_TYPE = "PIPELINE_TYPE_BATCH"
 
-BUCKET_NAME = f"bucket_{DAG_ID}_{ENV_ID}"
+RESOURCE_DATA_BUCKET = "airflow-system-tests-resources"
+BUCKET_NAME = f"bucket_{DAG_ID}_{ENV_ID}".replace("-", "_")
 
 FILE_NAME = "kinglear.txt"
 TEMPLATE_FILE = "word-count.json"
-DATAPIPELINES_JOB_NAME = "test-job-name"
 TEMP_LOCATION = f"gs://{BUCKET_NAME}/temp"
 
-GCS_PATH = f"gs://{BUCKET_NAME}/templates/{TEMPLATE_FILE}"
-INPUT_FILE = f"gs://{BUCKET_NAME}/examples/{FILE_NAME}"
+GCS_PATH = f"gs://{BUCKET_NAME}/dataflow/{TEMPLATE_FILE}"
+INPUT_FILE = f"gs://{BUCKET_NAME}/dataflow/{FILE_NAME}"
 OUTPUT = f"gs://{BUCKET_NAME}/results/hello"
 
-FILE_LOCAL_PATH = str(Path(__file__).parent / "resources" / FILE_NAME)
-TEMPLATE_LOCAL_PATH = str(Path(__file__).parent / "resources" / TEMPLATE_FILE)
-
 with DAG(
     DAG_ID,
     schedule="@once",
@@ -66,18 +67,13 @@
 ) as dag:
     create_bucket = GCSCreateBucketOperator(task_id="create_bucket", bucket_name=BUCKET_NAME)
 
-    upload_file = LocalFilesystemToGCSOperator(
-        task_id="upload_file_to_bucket",
-        src=FILE_LOCAL_PATH,
-        dst=FILE_NAME,
-        bucket=BUCKET_NAME,
-    )
-
-    upload_template = LocalFilesystemToGCSOperator(
-        task_id="upload_template_to_bucket",
-        src=TEMPLATE_LOCAL_PATH,
-        dst=TEMPLATE_FILE,
-        bucket=BUCKET_NAME,
+    move_files_to_bucket = GCSSynchronizeBucketsOperator(
+        task_id="move_files_to_bucket",
+        source_bucket=RESOURCE_DATA_BUCKET,
+        source_object="dataflow/pipelines",
+        destination_bucket=BUCKET_NAME,
+        destination_object="dataflow",
+        recursive=True,
     )
 
     # [START howto_operator_create_data_pipeline]
@@ -92,7 +88,7 @@
                 "dataflowFlexTemplateRequest": {
                     "launchParameter": {
                         "containerSpecGcsPath": GCS_PATH,
-                        "jobName": DATAPIPELINES_JOB_NAME,
+                        "jobName": PIPELINE_JOB_NAME,
                         "environment": {"tempLocation": TEMP_LOCATION},
                         "parameters": {
                             "inputFile": INPUT_FILE,
@@ -107,11 +103,38 @@
     )
     # [END howto_operator_create_data_pipeline]
 
+    # [START howto_operator_run_data_pipeline]
+    run_data_pipeline = RunDataPipelineOperator(
+        task_id="run_data_pipeline",
+        data_pipeline_name=PIPELINE_NAME,
+        project_id=GCP_PROJECT_ID,
+    )
+    # [END howto_operator_run_data_pipeline]
+
+    # [START howto_operator_delete_dataflow_pipeline]
+    delete_pipeline = DataflowDeletePipelineOperator(
+        task_id="delete_data_pipeline",
+        pipeline_name=PIPELINE_NAME,
+        project_id=GCP_PROJECT_ID,
+        trigger_rule=TriggerRule.ALL_DONE,
+    )
+    # [END howto_operator_delete_dataflow_pipeline]
+
     delete_bucket = GCSDeleteBucketOperator(
         task_id="delete_bucket", bucket_name=BUCKET_NAME, trigger_rule=TriggerRule.ALL_DONE
     )
 
-    (create_bucket >> upload_file >> upload_template >> create_data_pipeline >> delete_bucket)
+    (
+        # TEST SETUP
+        create_bucket
+        >> move_files_to_bucket
+        # TEST BODY
+        >> create_data_pipeline
+        >> run_data_pipeline
+        # TEST TEARDOWN
+        >> delete_pipeline
+        >> delete_bucket
+    )
 
     from tests.system.utils.watcher import watcher
 
@@ -119,13 +142,6 @@
     # when "teardown" task with trigger rule is part of the DAG
     list(dag.tasks) >> watcher()
 
-    # [START howto_operator_run_data_pipeline]
-    run_data_pipeline = RunDataPipelineOperator(
-        task_id="run_data_pipeline",
-        data_pipeline_name=PIPELINE_NAME,
-        project_id=GCP_PROJECT_ID,
-    )
-    # [END howto_operator_run_data_pipeline]
 
 from tests.system.utils import get_test_run  # noqa: E402
 
diff --git a/tests/system/providers/google/cloud/datapipelines/resources/__init__.py b/tests/system/providers/google/cloud/datapipelines/resources/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 13a83393a9124..0000000000000
--- a/tests/system/providers/google/cloud/datapipelines/resources/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-# specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
diff --git a/tests/system/providers/google/cloud/datapipelines/resources/kinglear.txt b/tests/system/providers/google/cloud/datapipelines/resources/kinglear.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index a863ef33d227e..0000000000000
--- a/tests/system/providers/google/cloud/datapipelines/resources/kinglear.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4273 +0,0 @@
-1606
-THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR
-
-by William Shakespeare
-
-
-
-
-Dramatis Personae
-
-      Lear, King of Britain.
-      King of France.
-      Duke of Burgundy.
-      Duke of Cornwall.
-      Duke of Albany.
-      Earl of Kent.
-      Earl of Gloucester.
-      Edgar, son of Gloucester.
-      Edmund, bastard son to Gloucester.
-      Curan, a courtier.
-      Old Man, tenant to Gloucester.
-      Doctor.
-      Lear's Fool.
-      Oswald, steward to Goneril.
-      A Captain under Edmund's command.
-      Gentlemen.
-      A Herald.
-      Servants to Cornwall.
-
-      Goneril, daughter to Lear.
-      Regan, daughter to Lear.
-      Cordelia, daughter to Lear.
-
-      Knights attending on Lear, Officers, Messengers, Soldiers,
-        Attendants.
-
-
-
-
-<<THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION OF THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM
-SHAKESPEARE IS COPYRIGHT 1990-1993 BY WORLD LIBRARY, INC., AND IS
-PROVIDED BY PROJECT GUTENBERG ETEXT OF CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
-WITH PERMISSION.  ELECTRONIC AND MACHINE READABLE COPIES MAY BE
-DISTRIBUTED SO LONG AS SUCH COPIES (1) ARE FOR YOUR OR OTHERS
-PERSONAL USE ONLY, AND (2) ARE NOT DISTRIBUTED OR USED
-COMMERCIALLY.  PROHIBITED COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION INCLUDES BY ANY
-SERVICE THAT CHARGES FOR DOWNLOAD TIME OR FOR MEMBERSHIP.>>
-
-
-
-Scene: - Britain.
-
-
-ACT I. Scene I.
-[King Lear's Palace.]
-
-Enter Kent, Gloucester, and Edmund. [Kent and Glouceste converse.
-Edmund stands back.]
-
-  Kent. I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany
-than
-     Cornwall.
-  Glou. 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 weigh'd that curiosity in neither can make
-     choice of either's moiety.
-  Kent. Is not this your son, my lord?
-  Glou. His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge. I have so
-often
-     blush'd to acknowledge him that now I am braz'd to't.
-  Kent. I cannot conceive you.
-  Glou. Sir, this young fellow's mother could; whereupon she grew
-     round-womb'd, and had indeed, sir, a son for her cradle ere
-she
-     had a husband for her bed. Do you smell a fault?
-  Kent. I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so
-     proper.
-  Glou. But I have, sir, a son 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 fair, there was good sport at his making, and the
-     whoreson must be acknowledged.- Do you know this noble
-gentleman,
-     Edmund?
-  Edm. [comes forward] No, my lord.
-  Glou. My Lord of Kent. Remember him hereafter as my honourable
-     friend.
-  Edm. My services to your lordship.
-  Kent. I must love you, and sue to know you better.
-  Edm. Sir, I shall study deserving.
-  Glou. He hath been out nine years, and away he shall again.
-                                                 Sound a sennet.
-     The King is coming.
-
-      Enter one bearing a coronet; then Lear; then the Dukes of
-      Albany and Cornwall; next, Goneril, Regan, Cordelia, with
-                              Followers.
-
-  Lear. Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester.
-  Glou. I shall, my liege.
-                                 Exeunt [Gloucester and Edmund].
-  Lear. Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.
-     Give me the map there. Know we have divided
-     In three our kingdom; and 'tis our fast intent
-     To shake all cares and business from our age,
-     Conferring them on younger strengths while we
-     Unburthen'd crawl toward death. Our son of Cornwall,
-     And you, our no less loving son of Albany,
-     We have this hour a constant will to publish
-     Our daughters' several dowers, that future strife
-     May be prevented now. The princes, France and Burgundy,
-     Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love,
-     Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn,
-     And here are to be answer'd. Tell me, my daughters
-     (Since now we will divest us both of rule,
-     Interest of territory, cares of state),
-     Which of you shall we say doth love us most?
-     That we our largest bounty may extend
-     Where nature doth with merit challenge. Goneril,
-     Our eldest-born, speak first.
-  Gon. Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter;
-     Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty;
-     Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare;
-     No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour;
-     As much as child e'er lov'd, or father found;
-     A love that makes breath poor, and speech unable.
-     Beyond all manner of so much I love you.
-  Cor. [aside] What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent.
-  Lear. Of all these bounds, even from this line to this,
-     With shadowy forests and with champains rich'd,
-     With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads,
-     We make thee lady. To thine and Albany's issue
-     Be this perpetual.- What says our second daughter,
-     Our dearest Regan, wife to Cornwall? Speak.
-  Reg. Sir, I am made
-     Of the selfsame metal that my sister is,
-     And prize me at her worth. In my true heart
-     I find she names my very deed of love;
-     Only she comes too short, that I profess
-     Myself an enemy to all other joys
-     Which the most precious square of sense possesses,
-     And find I am alone felicitate
-     In your dear Highness' love.
-  Cor. [aside] Then poor Cordelia!
-     And yet not so; since I am sure my love's
-     More richer than my tongue.
-  Lear. To thee and thine hereditary ever
-     Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom,
-     No less in space, validity, and pleasure
-     Than that conferr'd on Goneril.- Now, our joy,
-     Although the last, not least; to whose young love
-     The vines of France and milk of Burgundy
-     Strive to be interest; what can you say to draw
-     A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak.
-  Cor. Nothing, my lord.
-  Lear. Nothing?
-  Cor. Nothing.
-  Lear. Nothing can come of nothing. Speak again.
-  Cor. Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
-     My heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty
-     According to my bond; no more nor less.
-  Lear. How, how, Cordelia? Mend your speech a little,
-     Lest it may mar your fortunes.
-  Cor. Good my lord,
-     You have begot me, bred me, lov'd me; I
-     Return those duties back as are right fit,
-     Obey you, love you, and most honour you.
-     Why have my sisters husbands, if they say
-     They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed,
-     That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
-     Half my love with him, half my care and duty.
-     Sure I shall never marry like my sisters,
-     To love my father all.
-  Lear. But goes thy heart with this?
-  Cor. Ay, good my lord.
-  Lear. So young, and so untender?
-  Cor. So young, my lord, and true.
-  Lear. Let it be so! thy truth then be thy dower!
-     For, by the sacred radiance of the sun,
-     The mysteries of Hecate and the night;
-     By all the operation of the orbs
-     From whom we do exist and cease to be;
-     Here I disclaim all my paternal care,
-     Propinquity and property of blood,
-     And as a stranger to my heart and me
-     Hold thee from this for ever. The barbarous Scythian,
-     Or he that makes his generation messes
-     To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom
-     Be as well neighbour'd, pitied, and reliev'd,
-     As thou my sometime daughter.
-  Kent. Good my liege-
-  Lear. Peace, Kent!
-     Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
-     I lov'd her most, and thought to set my rest
-     On her kind nursery.- Hence and avoid my sight!-
-     So be my grave my peace as here I give
-     Her father's heart from her! Call France! Who stirs?
-     Call Burgundy! Cornwall and Albany,
-     With my two daughters' dowers digest this third;
-     Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her.
-     I do invest you jointly in my power,
-     Preeminence, and all the large effects
-     That troop with majesty. Ourself, by monthly course,
-     With reservation of an hundred knights,
-     By you to be sustain'd, shall our abode
-     Make with you by due turns. Only we still retain
-     The name, and all th' additions to a king. The sway,
-     Revenue, execution of the rest,
-     Beloved sons, be yours; which to confirm,
-     This coronet part betwixt you.
-  Kent. Royal Lear,
-     Whom I have ever honour'd as my king,
-     Lov'd as my father, as my master follow'd,
-     As my great patron thought on in my prayers-
-  Lear. The bow is bent and drawn; make from the shaft.
-  Kent. Let it fall rather, though the fork invade
-     The region of my heart! Be Kent unmannerly
-     When Lear is mad. What wouldst thou do, old man?
-     Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
-     When power to flattery bows? To plainness honour's bound
-     When majesty falls to folly. Reverse thy doom;
-     And in thy best consideration check
-     This hideous rashness. Answer my life my judgment,
-     Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least,
-     Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound
-     Reverbs no hollowness.
-  Lear. Kent, on thy life, no more!
-  Kent. My life I never held but as a pawn
-     To wage against thine enemies; nor fear to lose it,
-     Thy safety being the motive.
-  Lear. Out of my sight!
-  Kent. See better, Lear, and let me still remain
-     The true blank of thine eye.
-  Lear. Now by Apollo-
-  Kent. Now by Apollo, King,
-     Thou swear'st thy gods in vain.
-  Lear. O vassal! miscreant!
-                                   [Lays his hand on his sword.]
-  Alb., Corn. Dear sir, forbear!
-  Kent. Do!
-     Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow
-     Upon the foul disease. Revoke thy gift,
-     Or, whilst I can vent clamour from my throat,
-     I'll tell thee thou dost evil.
-  Lear. Hear me, recreant!
-     On thine allegiance, hear me!
-     Since thou hast sought to make us break our vow-
-     Which we durst never yet- and with strain'd pride
-     To come between our sentence and our power,-
-     Which nor our nature nor our place can bear,-
-     Our potency made good, take thy reward.
-     Five days we do allot thee for provision
-     To shield thee from diseases of the world,
-     And on the sixth to turn thy hated back
-     Upon our kingdom. If, on the tenth day following,
-     Thy banish'd trunk be found in our dominions,
-     The moment is thy death. Away! By Jupiter,
-     This shall not be revok'd.
-  Kent. Fare thee well, King. Since thus thou wilt appear,
-     Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.
-     [To Cordelia] The gods to their dear shelter take thee,
-maid,
-     That justly think'st and hast most rightly said!
-     [To Regan and Goneril] And your large speeches may your
-deeds
-        approve,
-     That good effects may spring from words of love.
-     Thus Kent, O princes, bids you all adieu;
-     He'll shape his old course in a country new.
-Exit.
-
-  Flourish. Enter Gloucester, with France and Burgundy;
-Attendants.
-
-  Glou. Here's France and Burgundy, my noble lord.
-  Lear. My Lord of Burgundy,
-     We first address toward you, who with this king
-     Hath rivall'd for our daughter. What in the least
-     Will you require in present dower with her,
-     Or cease your quest of love?
-  Bur. Most royal Majesty,
-     I crave no more than hath your Highness offer'd,
-     Nor will you tender less.
-  Lear. Right noble Burgundy,
-     When she was dear to us, we did hold her so;
-     But now her price is fall'n. Sir, there she stands.
-     If aught within that little seeming substance,
-     Or all of it, with our displeasure piec'd,
-     And nothing more, may fitly like your Grace,
-     She's there, and she is yours.
-  Bur. I know no answer.
-  Lear. Will you, with those infirmities she owes,
-     Unfriended, new adopted to our hate,
-     Dow'r'd with our curse, and stranger'd with our oath,
-     Take her, or leave her?
-  Bur. Pardon me, royal sir.
-     Election makes not up on such conditions.
-  Lear. Then leave her, sir; for, by the pow'r that made me,
-     I tell you all her wealth. [To France] For you, great King,
-     I would not from your love make such a stray
-     To match you where I hate; therefore beseech you
-     T' avert your liking a more worthier way
-     Than on a wretch whom nature is asham'd
-     Almost t' acknowledge hers.
-  France. This is most strange,
-     That she that even but now was your best object,
-     The argument of your praise, balm of your age,
-     Most best, most dearest, should in this trice of time
-     Commit a thing so monstrous to dismantle
-     So many folds of favour. Sure her offence
-     Must be of such unnatural degree
-     That monsters it, or your fore-vouch'd affection
-     Fall'n into taint; which to believe of her
-     Must be a faith that reason without miracle
-     Should never plant in me.
-  Cor. I yet beseech your Majesty,
-     If for I want that glib and oily art
-     To speak and purpose not, since what I well intend,
-     I'll do't before I speak- that you make known
-     It is no vicious blot, murther, or foulness,
-     No unchaste action or dishonoured step,
-     That hath depriv'd me of your grace and favour;
-     But even for want of that for which I am richer-
-     A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue
-     As I am glad I have not, though not to have it
-     Hath lost me in your liking.
-  Lear. Better thou
-     Hadst not been born than not t' have pleas'd me better.
-  France. Is it but this- a tardiness in nature
-     Which often leaves the history unspoke
-     That it intends to do? My Lord of Burgundy,
-     What say you to the lady? Love's not love
-     When it is mingled with regards that stands
-     Aloof from th' entire point. Will you have her?
-     She is herself a dowry.
-  Bur. Royal Lear,
-     Give but that portion which yourself propos'd,
-     And here I take Cordelia by the hand,
-     Duchess of Burgundy.
-  Lear. Nothing! I have sworn; I am firm.
-  Bur. I am sorry then you have so lost a father
-     That you must lose a husband.
-  Cor. Peace be with Burgundy!
-     Since that respects of fortune are his love,
-     I shall not be his wife.
-  France. Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor;
-     Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd!
-     Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.
-     Be it lawful I take up what's cast away.
-     Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect
-     My love should kindle to inflam'd respect.
-     Thy dow'rless daughter, King, thrown to my chance,
-     Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France.
-     Not all the dukes in wat'rish Burgundy
-     Can buy this unpriz'd precious maid of me.
-     Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind.
-     Thou losest here, a better where to find.
-  Lear. Thou hast her, France; let her be thine; for we
-     Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see
-     That face of hers again. Therefore be gone
-     Without our grace, our love, our benison.
-     Come, noble Burgundy.
-             Flourish. Exeunt Lear, Burgundy, [Cornwall, Albany,
-                                    Gloucester, and Attendants].
-  France. Bid farewell to your sisters.
-  Cor. The jewels of our father, with wash'd eyes
-     Cordelia leaves you. I know you what you are;
-     And, like a sister, am most loath to call
-     Your faults as they are nam'd. Use well our father.
-     To your professed bosoms I commit him;
-     But yet, alas, stood I within his grace,
-     I would prefer him to a better place!
-     So farewell to you both.
-  Gon. Prescribe not us our duties.
-  Reg. Let your study
-     Be to content your lord, who hath receiv'd you
-     At fortune's alms. You have obedience scanted,
-     And well are worth the want that you have wanted.
-  Cor. Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides.
-     Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
-     Well may you prosper!
-  France. Come, my fair Cordelia.
-                                     Exeunt France and Cordelia.
-  Gon. Sister, it is not little I have to say of what most nearly
-     appertains to us both. I think our father will hence
-to-night.
-  Reg. That's most certain, and with you; next month with us.
-  Gon. You see how full of changes his age is. The observation we
-     have made of it hath not been little. He always lov'd our
-     sister most, and with what poor judgment he hath now cast
-her
-     off appears too grossly.
-  Reg. 'Tis the infirmity of his age; yet he hath ever but
-slenderly
-     known himself.
-  Gon. The best and soundest of his time hath been but rash; then
-     must we look to receive from his age, not alone the
-     imperfections of long-ingraffed condition, but therewithal
-     the unruly waywardness that infirm and choleric years bring
-with
-     them.
-  Reg. Such unconstant starts are we like to have from him as
-this
-     of Kent's banishment.
-  Gon. There is further compliment of leave-taking between France
-and
-     him. Pray you let's hit together. If our father carry
-authority
-     with such dispositions as he bears, this last surrender of
-his
-     will but offend us.
-  Reg. We shall further think on't.
-  Gon. We must do something, and i' th' heat.
-                                                         Exeunt.
-
-
-
-
-Scene II.
-The Earl of Gloucester's Castle.
-
-Enter [Edmund the] Bastard solus, [with a letter].
-
-  Edm. Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law
-     My services are bound. Wherefore should I
-     Stand in the plague of custom, and permit
-     The curiosity of nations to deprive me,
-     For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines
-     Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?
-     When my dimensions are as well compact,
-     My mind as generous, and my shape as true,
-     As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us
-     With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?
-     Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take
-     More composition and fierce quality
-     Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,
-     Go to th' creating a whole tribe of fops
-     Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well then,
-     Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land.
-     Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund
-     As to th' legitimate. Fine word- 'legitimate'!
-     Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,
-     And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
-     Shall top th' legitimate. I grow; I prosper.
-     Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
-
-                          Enter Gloucester.
-
-  Glou. Kent banish'd thus? and France in choler parted?
-     And the King gone to-night? subscrib'd his pow'r?
-     Confin'd to exhibition? All this done
-     Upon the gad? Edmund, how now? What news?
-  Edm. So please your lordship, none.
-                                           [Puts up the letter.]
-  Glou. Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter?
-  Edm. I know no news, my lord.
-  Glou. What paper were you reading?
-  Edm. Nothing, my lord.
-  Glou. No? What needed then that terrible dispatch of it into
-your
-     pocket? The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide
-     itself. Let's see. Come, if it be nothing, I shall not need
-     spectacles.
-  Edm. I beseech you, sir, pardon me. It is a letter from my
-brother
-     that I have not all o'er-read; and for so much as I have
-     perus'd, I find it not fit for your o'erlooking.
-  Glou. Give me the letter, sir.
-  Edm. I shall offend, either to detain or give it. The contents,
-as
-     in part I understand them, are to blame.
-  Glou. Let's see, let's see!
-  Edm. I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but
-as
-     an essay or taste of my virtue.
-
-  Glou. (reads) 'This policy and reverence of age makes the world
-     bitter to the best of our times; keeps our fortunes from us
-     till our oldness cannot relish them. I begin to find an idle
-     and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who
-sways,
-     not as it hath power, but as it is suffer'd. Come to me,
-that
-     of this I may speak more. If our father would sleep till I
-     wak'd him, you should enjoy half his revenue for ever, and
-live
-     the beloved of your brother,
-                                                        'EDGAR.'
-
-     Hum! Conspiracy? 'Sleep till I wak'd him, you should enjoy
-half
-     his revenue.' My son Edgar! Had he a hand to write this? a
-heart
-     and brain to breed it in? When came this to you? Who brought
-it?
-  Edm. It was not brought me, my lord: there's the cunning of it.
-I
-     found it thrown in at the casement of my closet.
-  Glou. You know the character to be your brother's?
-  Edm. If the matter were good, my lord, I durst swear it were
-his;
-     but in respect of that, I would fain think it were not.
-  Glou. It is his.
-  Edm. It is his hand, my lord; but I hope his heart is not in
-the
-     contents.
-  Glou. Hath he never before sounded you in this business?
-  Edm. Never, my lord. But I have heard him oft maintain it to be
-fit
-     that, sons at perfect age, and fathers declining, the father
-     should be as ward to the son, and the son manage his
-revenue.
-  Glou. O villain, villain! His very opinion in the letter!
-Abhorred
-     villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish villain! worse than
-     brutish! Go, sirrah, seek him. I'll apprehend him.
-Abominable
-     villain! Where is he?
-  Edm. I do not well know, my lord. If it shall please you to
-suspend
-     your indignation against my brother till you can derive from
-him
-     better testimony of his intent, you should run a certain
-course;
-     where, if you violently proceed against him, mistaking his
-     purpose, it would make a great gap in your own honour and
-shake
-     in pieces the heart of his obedience. I dare pawn down my
-life
-     for him that he hath writ this to feel my affection to your
-     honour, and to no other pretence of danger.
-  Glou. Think you so?
-  Edm. If your honour judge it meet, I will place you where you
-shall
-     hear us confer of this and by an auricular assurance have
-your
-     satisfaction, and that without any further delay than this
-very
-     evening.
-  Glou. He cannot be such a monster.
-  Edm. Nor is not, sure.
-  Glou. To his father, that so tenderly and entirely loves him.
-     Heaven and earth! Edmund, seek him out; wind me into him, I
-pray
-     you; frame the business after your own wisdom. I would
-unstate
-     myself to be in a due resolution.
-  Edm. I will seek him, sir, presently; convey the business as I
-     shall find means, and acquaint you withal.
-  Glou. These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good
-to
-     us. Though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus,
-yet
-     nature finds itself scourg'd by the sequent effects. Love
-cools,
-     friendship falls off, brothers divide. In cities, mutinies;
-in
-     countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond
-crack'd
-     'twixt son and father. This villain of mine comes under the
-     prediction; there's son against father: the King falls from
-bias
-     of nature; there's father against child. We have seen the
-best
-     of our time. Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all
-     ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves. Find
-out
-     this villain, Edmund; it shall lose thee nothing; do it
-     carefully. And the noble and true-hearted Kent banish'd! his
-     offence, honesty! 'Tis strange.                       Exit.
-  Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we
-are
-     sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we
-make
-     guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as
-if
-     we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion;
-     knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical pre-dominance;
-     drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of
-     planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a
-divine
-     thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to
-lay
-     his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father
-     compounded with my mother under the Dragon's Tail, and my
-     nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough
-and
-     lecherous. Fut! I should have been that I am, had the
-     maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my
-bastardizing.
-     Edgar-
-
-                             Enter Edgar.
-
-     and pat! he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy.
-My
-     cue is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o'
-Bedlam.
-     O, these eclipses do portend these divisions! Fa, sol, la,
-mi.
-  Edg. How now, brother Edmund? What serious contemplation are
-you
-     in?
-  Edm. I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read this other
-day,
-     what should follow these eclipses.
-  Edg. Do you busy yourself with that?
-  Edm. I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily:
-as
-     of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death,
-     dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state,
-     menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless
-     diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts,
-     nuptial breaches, and I know not what.
-  Edg. How long have you been a sectary astronomical?
-  Edm. Come, come! When saw you my father last?
-  Edg. The night gone by.
-  Edm. Spake you with him?
-  Edg. Ay, two hours together.
-  Edm. Parted you in good terms? Found you no displeasure in him
-by
-     word or countenance
-  Edg. None at all.
-  Edm. Bethink yourself wherein you may have offended him; and at
-my
-     entreaty forbear his presence until some little time hath
-     qualified the heat of his displeasure, which at this instant
-so
-     rageth in him that with the mischief of your person it would
-     scarcely allay.
-  Edg. Some villain hath done me wrong.
-  Edm. That's my fear. I pray you have a continent forbearance
-till
-     the speed of his rage goes slower; and, as I say, retire
-with me
-     to my lodging, from whence I will fitly bring you to hear my
-     lord speak. Pray ye, go! There's my key. If you do stir
-abroad,
-     go arm'd.
-  Edg. Arm'd, brother?
-  Edm. Brother, I advise you to the best. Go arm'd. I am no
-honest man
-     if there be any good meaning toward you. I have told you
-what I
-     have seen and heard; but faintly, nothing like the image and
-     horror of it. Pray you, away!
-  Edg. Shall I hear from you anon?
-  Edm. I do serve you in this business.
-                                                     Exit Edgar.
-     A credulous father! and a brother noble,
-     Whose nature is so far from doing harms
-     That he suspects none; on whose foolish honesty
-     My practices ride easy! I see the business.
-     Let me, if not by birth, have lands by with;
-     All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.
-Exit.
-
-
-
-
-Scene III.
-The Duke of Albany's Palace.
-
-Enter Goneril and [her] Steward [Oswald].
-
-  Gon. Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool?
-  Osw. Ay, madam.
-  Gon. By day and night, he wrongs me! Every hour
-     He flashes into one gross crime or other
-     That sets us all at odds. I'll not endure it.
-     His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us
-     On every trifle. When he returns from hunting,
-     I will not speak with him. Say I am sick.
-     If you come slack of former services,
-     You shall do well; the fault of it I'll answer.
-                                                 [Horns within.]
-  Osw. He's coming, madam; I hear him.
-  Gon. Put on what weary negligence you please,
-     You and your fellows. I'd have it come to question.
-     If he distaste it, let him to our sister,
-     Whose mind and mine I know in that are one,
-     Not to be overrul'd. Idle old man,
-     That still would manage those authorities
-     That he hath given away! Now, by my life,
-     Old fools are babes again, and must be us'd
-     With checks as flatteries, when they are seen abus'd.
-     Remember what I have said.
-  Osw. Very well, madam.
-  Gon. And let his knights have colder looks among you.
-     What grows of it, no matter. Advise your fellows so.
-     I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall,
-     That I may speak. I'll write straight to my sister
-     To hold my very course. Prepare for dinner.
-                                                         Exeunt.
-
-
-
-
-Scene IV.
-The Duke of Albany's Palace.
-
-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 raz'd my likeness. Now, banish'd Kent,
-     If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd,
-     So may it come, thy master, whom thou lov'st,
-     Shall find thee full of labours.
-
-         Horns within. Enter Lear, [Knights,] and Attendants.
-
-  Lear. Let me not stay a jot for dinner; go get it ready. [Exit
-     an Attendant.] How now? What art thou?
-  Kent. A man, sir.
-  Lear. What dost thou profess? What wouldst thou with us?
-  Kent. I do profess to be no less than I seem, to serve him
-truly
-     that will put me in trust, to love him that is honest, to
-     converse with him that is wise and says little, to fear
-     judgment, to fight when I cannot choose, and to eat no fish.
-  Lear. What art thou?
-  Kent. A very honest-hearted fellow, and as poor as the King.
-  Lear. If thou be'st as poor for a subject as he's for a king,
-thou
-     art poor enough. What wouldst thou?
-  Kent. Service.
-  Lear. Who wouldst thou serve?
-  Kent. You.
-  Lear. Dost thou know me, fellow?
-  Kent. No, sir; but you have that in your countenance which I
-would
-     fain call master.
-  Lear. What's that?
-  Kent. Authority.
-  Lear. What services canst thou do?
-  Kent. I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a curious tale
-in
-     telling it and deliver a plain message bluntly. That which
-     ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of
-me
-     is diligence.
-  Lear. How old art thou?
-  Kent. Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing, nor so
-old to
-     dote on her for anything. I have years on my back
-forty-eight.
-  Lear. Follow me; thou shalt serve me. If I like thee no worse
-after
-     dinner, I will not part from thee yet. Dinner, ho, dinner!
-     Where's my knave? my fool? Go you and call my fool hither.
-
-                                            [Exit an attendant.]
-
-                     Enter [Oswald the] Steward.
-
-     You, you, sirrah, where's my daughter?
-  Osw. So please you-                                      Exit.
-  Lear. What says the fellow there? Call the clotpoll back.
-     [Exit a Knight.] Where's my fool, ho? I think the world's
-     asleep.
-
-                            [Enter Knight]
-
-     How now? Where's that mongrel?
-  Knight. He says, my lord, your daughter is not well.
-  Lear. Why came not the slave back to me when I call'd him?
-  Knight. Sir, he answered me in the roundest manner, he would
-not.
-  Lear. He would not?
-  Knight. My lord, I know not what the matter is; but to my
-judgment
-     your Highness is not entertain'd with that ceremonious
-affection
-     as you were won't. There's a great abatement of kindness
-appears
-     as well in the general dependants as in the Duke himself
-also
-     and your daughter.
-  Lear. Ha! say'st thou so?
-  Knight. I beseech you pardon me, my lord, if I be mistaken; for
-     my duty cannot be silent when I think your Highness wrong'd.
-  Lear. Thou but rememb'rest me of mine own conception. I have
-     perceived a most faint neglect of late, which I have rather
-     blamed as mine own jealous curiosity than as a very pretence
-     and purpose of unkindness. I will look further into't. But
-     where's my fool? I have not seen him this two days.
-  Knight. Since my young lady's going into France, sir, the fool
-     hath much pined away.
-  Lear. No more of that; I have noted it well. Go you and tell my
-     daughter I would speak with her. [Exit Knight.] Go you, call
-     hither my fool.
-                                            [Exit an Attendant.]
-
-                     Enter [Oswald the] Steward.
-
-     O, you, sir, you! Come you hither, sir. Who am I, sir?
-  Osw. My lady's father.
-  Lear. 'My lady's father'? My lord's knave! You whoreson dog!
-you
-     slave! you cur!
-  Osw. I am none of these, my lord; I beseech your pardon.
-  Lear. Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal?
-                                                  [Strikes him.]
-  Osw. I'll not be strucken, my lord.
-  Kent. Nor tripp'd neither, you base football player?
-                                            [Trips up his heels.
-  Lear. I thank thee, fellow. Thou serv'st me, and I'll love
-thee.
-  Kent. Come, sir, arise, away! I'll teach you differences. Away,
-     away! If you will measure your lubber's length again, tarry;
-but
-     away! Go to! Have you wisdom? So.
-                                               [Pushes him out.]
-  Lear. Now, my friendly knave, I thank thee. There's earnest of
-thy
-     service.                                     [Gives money.]
-
-                             Enter Fool.
-
-  Fool. Let me hire him too. Here's my coxcomb.
-                                          [Offers Kent his cap.]
-  Lear. How now, my pretty knave? How dost thou?
-  Fool. Sirrah, you were best take my coxcomb.
-  Kent. Why, fool?
-  Fool. Why? For taking one's part that's out of favour. Nay, an
-thou
-     canst not smile as the wind sits, thou'lt catch cold
-shortly.
-     There, take my coxcomb! Why, this fellow hath banish'd two
-on's
-     daughters, and did the third a blessing against his will. If
-     thou follow him, thou must needs wear my coxcomb.- How now,
-     nuncle? Would I had two coxcombs and two daughters!
-  Lear. Why, my boy?
-  Fool. If I gave them all my living, I'ld keep my coxcombs
-myself.
-     There's mine! beg another of thy daughters.
-  Lear. Take heed, sirrah- the whip.
-  Fool. Truth's a dog must to kennel; he must be whipp'd out,
-when
-     Lady the branch may stand by th' fire and stink.
-  Lear. A pestilent gall to me!
-  Fool. Sirrah, I'll teach thee a speech.
-  Lear. Do.
-  Fool. Mark it, nuncle.
-          Have more than thou showest,
-          Speak less than thou knowest,
-          Lend less than thou owest,
-          Ride more than thou goest,
-          Learn more than thou trowest,
-          Set less than thou throwest;
-          Leave thy drink and thy whore,
-          And keep in-a-door,
-          And thou shalt have more
-          Than two tens to a score.
-  Kent. This is nothing, fool.
-  Fool. Then 'tis like the breath of an unfeed lawyer- you gave
-me
-     nothing for't. Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle?
-  Lear. Why, no, boy. Nothing can be made out of nothing.
-  Fool. [to Kent] Prithee tell him, so much the rent of his land
-     comes to. He will not believe a fool.
-  Lear. A bitter fool!
-  Fool. Dost thou know the difference, my boy, between a bitter
-     fool and a sweet fool?
-  Lear. No, lad; teach me.
-  Fool.   That lord that counsell'd thee
-            To give away thy land,
-          Come place him here by me-
-            Do thou for him stand.
-          The sweet and bitter fool
-            Will presently appear;
-          The one in motley here,
-            The other found out there.
-  Lear. Dost thou call me fool, boy?
-  Fool. All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast
-     born with.
-  Kent. This is not altogether fool, my lord.
-  Fool. No, faith; lords and great men will not let me. If I had
-a
-     monopoly out, they would have part on't. And ladies too,
-they
-     will not let me have all the fool to myself; they'll be
-     snatching. Give me an egg, nuncle, and I'll give thee two
-     crowns.
-  Lear. What two crowns shall they be?
-  Fool. Why, after I have cut the egg i' th' middle and eat up
-the
-     meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou clovest thy crown
-i'
-     th' middle and gav'st away both parts, thou bor'st thine ass
-on
-     thy back o'er the dirt. Thou hadst little with in thy bald
-crown
-     when thou gav'st thy golden one away. If I speak like myself
-in
-     this, let him be whipp'd that first finds it so.
-
-     [Sings]    Fools had ne'er less grace in a year,
-                  For wise men are grown foppish;
-                They know not how their wits to wear,
-                  Their manners are so apish.
-
-  Lear. When were you won't to be so full of songs, sirrah?
-  Fool. I have us'd it, nuncle, ever since thou mad'st thy
-daughters
-     thy mother; for when thou gav'st them the rod, and put'st
-down
-     thine own breeches,
-
-     [Sings]    Then they for sudden joy did weep,
-                  And I for sorrow sung,
-                That such a king should play bo-peep
-                  And go the fools among.
-
-     Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach thy fool
-to
-     lie. I would fain learn to lie.
-  Lear. An you lie, sirrah, we'll have you whipp'd.
-  Fool. I marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are. They'll
-have me
-     whipp'd for speaking true; thou'lt have me whipp'd for
-lying;
-     and sometimes I am whipp'd for holding my peace. I had
-rather be
-     any kind o' thing than a fool! And yet I would not be thee,
-     nuncle. Thou hast pared thy with o' both sides and left
-nothing
-     i' th' middle. Here comes one o' the parings.
-
-                            Enter Goneril.
-
-  Lear. How now, daughter? What makes that frontlet on? Methinks
-you
-     are too much o' late i' th' frown.
-  Fool. Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to care
-for
-     her frowning. Now thou art an O without a figure. I am
-better
-     than thou art now: I am a fool, thou art nothing.
-     [To Goneril] Yes, forsooth, I will hold my tongue. So your
-face
-     bids me, though you say nothing. Mum, mum!
-
-            He that keeps nor crust nor crum,
-            Weary of all, shall want some.-
-
-     [Points at Lear] That's a sheal'd peascod.
-  Gon. Not only, sir, this your all-licens'd fool,
-     But other of your insolent retinue
-     Do hourly carp and quarrel, breaking forth
-     In rank and not-to-be-endured riots. Sir,
-     I had thought, by making this well known unto you,
-     To have found a safe redress, but now grow fearful,
-     By what yourself, too, late have spoke and done,
-     That you protect this course, and put it on
-     By your allowance; which if you should, the fault
-     Would not scape censure, nor the redresses sleep,
-     Which, in the tender of a wholesome weal,
-     Might in their working do you that offence
-     Which else were shame, that then necessity
-     Must call discrete proceeding.
-  Fool. For you know, nuncle,
-
-          The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long
-          That it had it head bit off by it young.
-
-     So out went the candle, and we were left darkling.
-  Lear. Are you our daughter?
-  Gon. Come, sir,
-     I would you would make use of that good wisdom
-     Whereof I know you are fraught, and put away
-     These dispositions that of late transform you
-     From what you rightly are.
-  Fool. May not an ass know when the cart draws the horse?
-     Whoop, Jug, I love thee!
-  Lear. Doth any here know me? This is not Lear.
-     Doth Lear walk thus? speak thus? Where are his eyes?
-     Either his notion weakens, his discernings
-     Are lethargied- Ha! waking? 'Tis not so!
-     Who is it that can tell me who I am?
-  Fool. Lear's shadow.
-  Lear. I would learn that; for, by the marks of sovereignty,
-     Knowledge, and reason, I should be false persuaded
-     I had daughters.
-  Fool. Which they will make an obedient father.
-  Lear. Your name, fair gentlewoman?
-  Gon. This admiration, sir, is much o' th' savour
-     Of other your new pranks. I do beseech you
-     To understand my purposes aright.
-     As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.
-     Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires;
-     Men so disorder'd, so debosh'd, and bold
-     That this our court, infected with their manners,
-     Shows like a riotous inn. Epicurism and lust
-     Make it more like a tavern or a brothel
-     Than a grac'd palace. The shame itself doth speak
-     For instant remedy. Be then desir'd
-     By her that else will take the thing she begs
-     A little to disquantity your train,
-     And the remainder that shall still depend
-     To be such men as may besort your age,
-     Which know themselves, and you.
-  Lear. Darkness and devils!
-     Saddle my horses! Call my train together!
-     Degenerate bastard, I'll not trouble thee;
-     Yet have I left a daughter.
-  Gon. You strike my people, and your disorder'd rabble
-     Make servants of their betters.
-
-                            Enter Albany.
-
-  Lear. Woe that too late repents!- O, sir, are you come?
-     Is it your will? Speak, sir!- Prepare my horses.
-     Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,
-     More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child
-     Than the sea-monster!
-  Alb. Pray, sir, be patient.
-  Lear. [to Goneril] Detested kite, thou liest!
-     My train are men of choice and rarest parts,
-     That all particulars of duty know
-     And in the most exact regard support
-     The worships of their name.- O most small fault,
-     How ugly didst thou in Cordelia show!
-     Which, like an engine, wrench'd my frame of nature
-     From the fix'd place; drew from my heart all love
-     And added to the gall. O Lear, Lear, Lear!
-     Beat at this gate that let thy folly in  [Strikes his head.]
-     And thy dear judgment out! Go, go, my people.
-  Alb. My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant
-     Of what hath mov'd you.
-  Lear. It may be so, my lord.
-     Hear, Nature, hear! dear goddess, hear!
-     Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend
-     To make this creature fruitful.
-     Into her womb convey sterility;
-     Dry up in her the organs of increase;
-     And from her derogate body never spring
-     A babe to honour her! If she must teem,
-     Create her child of spleen, that it may live
-     And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her.
-     Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth,
-     With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks,
-     Turn all her mother's pains and benefits
-     To laughter and contempt, that she may feel
-     How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
-     To have a thankless child! Away, away!                Exit.
-  Alb. Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?
-  Gon. Never afflict yourself to know the cause;
-     But let his disposition have that scope
-     That dotage gives it.
-
-                             Enter Lear.
-
-  Lear. What, fifty of my followers at a clap?
-     Within a fortnight?
-  Alb. What's the matter, sir?
-  Lear. I'll tell thee. [To Goneril] Life and death! I am asham'd
-     That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus;
-     That these hot tears, which break from me perforce,
-     Should make thee worth them. Blasts and fogs upon thee!
-     Th' untented woundings of a father's curse
-     Pierce every sense about thee!- Old fond eyes,
-     Beweep this cause again, I'll pluck ye out,
-     And cast you, with the waters that you lose,
-     To temper clay. Yea, is it come to this?
-     Let it be so. Yet have I left a daughter,
-     Who I am sure is kind and comfortable.
-     When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails
-     She'll flay thy wolvish visage. Thou shalt find
-     That I'll resume the shape which thou dost think
-     I have cast off for ever; thou shalt, I warrant thee.
-                            Exeunt [Lear, Kent, and Attendants].
-  Gon. Do you mark that, my lord?
-  Alb. I cannot be so partial, Goneril,
-     To the great love I bear you -
-  Gon. Pray you, content.- What, Oswald, ho!
-     [To the Fool] You, sir, more knave than fool, after your
-master!
-  Fool. Nuncle Lear, nuncle Lear, tarry! Take the fool with thee.
-
-
-          A fox when one has caught her,
-          And such a daughter,
-          Should sure to the slaughter,
-          If my cap would buy a halter.
-          So the fool follows after.                       Exit.
-  Gon. This man hath had good counsel! A hundred knights?
-     'Tis politic and safe to let him keep
-     At point a hundred knights; yes, that on every dream,
-     Each buzz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike,
-     He may enguard his dotage with their pow'rs
-     And hold our lives in mercy.- Oswald, I say!
-  Alb. Well, you may fear too far.
-  Gon. Safer than trust too far.
-     Let me still take away the harms I fear,
-     Not fear still to be taken. I know his heart.
-     What he hath utter'd I have writ my sister.
-     If she sustain him and his hundred knights,
-     When I have show'd th' unfitness-
-
-                     Enter [Oswald the] Steward.
-
-     How now, Oswald?
-     What, have you writ that letter to my sister?
-  Osw. Yes, madam.
-  Gon. Take you some company, and away to horse!
-     Inform her full of my particular fear,
-     And thereto add such reasons of your own
-     As may compact it more. Get you gone,
-     And hasten your return. [Exit Oswald.] No, no, my lord!
-     This milky gentleness and course of yours,
-     Though I condemn it not, yet, under pardon,
-     You are much more at task for want of wisdom
-     Than prais'd for harmful mildness.
-  Alb. How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell.
-     Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
-  Gon. Nay then-
-  Alb. Well, well; th' event.                            Exeunt.
-
-
-
-
-Scene V.
-Court before the Duke of Albany's Palace.
-
-Enter Lear, Kent, and Fool.
-
-  Lear. Go you before to Gloucester with these letters. Acquaint
-my
-     daughter no further with anything you know than comes from
-her
-     demand out of the letter. If your diligence be not speedy, I
-     shall be there afore you.
-  Kent. I will not sleep, my lord, till I have delivered your
-letter.
-Exit.
-  Fool. If a man's brains were in's heels, were't not in danger
-of
-     kibes?
-  Lear. Ay, boy.
-  Fool. Then I prithee be merry. Thy with shall ne'er go
-slip-shod.
-  Lear. Ha, ha, ha!
-  Fool. Shalt see thy other daughter will use thee kindly; for
-though
-     she's as like this as a crab's like an apple, yet I can tell
-     what I can tell.
-  Lear. What canst tell, boy?
-  Fool. She'll taste as like this as a crab does to a crab. Thou
-     canst tell why one's nose stands i' th' middle on's face?
-  Lear. No.
-  Fool. Why, to keep one's eyes of either side's nose, that what
-a
-     man cannot smell out, 'a may spy into.
-  Lear. I did her wrong.
-  Fool. Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell?
-  Lear. No.
-  Fool. Nor I neither; but I can tell why a snail has a house.
-  Lear. Why?
-  Fool. Why, to put's head in; not to give it away to his
-daughters,
-     and leave his horns without a case.
-  Lear. I will forget my nature. So kind a father!- Be my horses
-     ready?
-  Fool. Thy asses are gone about 'em. The reason why the seven
-stars
-     are no moe than seven is a pretty reason.
-  Lear. Because they are not eight?
-  Fool. Yes indeed. Thou wouldst make a good fool.
-  Lear. To tak't again perforce! Monster ingratitude!
-  Fool. If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten for
-being
-     old before thy time.
-  Lear. How's that?
-  Fool. Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been
-wise.
-  Lear. O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!
-     Keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
-
-                         [Enter a Gentleman.]
-
-     How now? Are the horses ready?
-  Gent. Ready, my lord.
-  Lear. Come, boy.
-  Fool. She that's a maid now, and laughs at my departure,
-     Shall not be a maid long, unless things be cut shorter
-                                                         Exeunt.
-
-
-
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-ACT II. Scene I.
-A court within the Castle of the Earl of Gloucester.
-
-Enter [Edmund the] Bastard and Curan, meeting.
-
-  Edm. Save thee, Curan.
-  Cur. And you, sir. I have been with your father, and given him
-     notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his Duchess will
-be
-     here with him this night.
-  Edm. How comes that?
-  Cur. Nay, I know not. You have heard of the news abroad- I mean
-the
-     whisper'd ones, for they are yet but ear-kissing arguments?
-  Edm. Not I. Pray you, what are they?
-  Cur. Have you heard of no likely wars toward 'twixt the two
-Dukes
-     of Cornwall and Albany?
-  Edm. Not a word.
-  Cur. You may do, then, in time. Fare you well, sir.      Exit.
-  Edm. The Duke be here to-night? The better! best!
-     This weaves itself perforce into my business.
-     My father hath set guard to take my brother;
-     And I have one thing, of a queasy question,
-     Which I must act. Briefness and fortune, work!
-     Brother, a word! Descend! Brother, I say!
-
-                             Enter Edgar.
-
-     My father watches. O sir, fly this place!
-     Intelligence is given where you are hid.
-     You have now the good advantage of the night.
-     Have you not spoken 'gainst the Duke of Cornwall?
-     He's coming hither; now, i' th' night, i' th' haste,
-     And Regan with him. Have you nothing said
-     Upon his party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?
-     Advise yourself.
-  Edg. I am sure on't, not a word.
-  Edm. I hear my father coming. Pardon me!
-     In cunning I must draw my sword upon you.
-     Draw, seem to defend yourself; now quit you well.-
-     Yield! Come before my father. Light, ho, here!
-     Fly, brother.- Torches, torches!- So farewell.
-                                                     Exit Edgar.
-     Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion
-     Of my more fierce endeavour. [Stabs his arm.] I have seen
-        drunkards
-     Do more than this in sport.- Father, father!-
-     Stop, stop! No help?
-
-             Enter Gloucester, and Servants with torches.
-
-  Glou. Now, Edmund, where's the villain?
-  Edm. Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out,
-     Mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon
-     To stand 's auspicious mistress.
-  Glou. But where is he?
-  Edm. Look, sir, I bleed.
-  Glou. Where is the villain, Edmund?
-  Edm. Fled this way, sir. When by no means he could-
-  Glou. Pursue him, ho! Go after.        [Exeunt some Servants].
-     By no means what?
-  Edm. Persuade me to the murther of your lordship;
-     But that I told him the revenging gods
-     'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend;
-     Spoke with how manifold and strong a bond
-     The child was bound to th' father- sir, in fine,
-     Seeing how loathly opposite I stood
-     To his unnatural purpose, in fell motion
-     With his prepared sword he charges home
-     My unprovided body, lanch'd mine arm;
-     But when he saw my best alarum'd spirits,
-     Bold in the quarrel's right, rous'd to th' encounter,
-     Or whether gasted by the noise I made,
-     Full suddenly he fled.
-  Glou. Let him fly far.
-     Not in this land shall he remain uncaught;
-     And found- dispatch. The noble Duke my master,
-     My worthy arch and patron, comes to-night.
-     By his authority I will proclaim it
-     That he which find, him shall deserve our thanks,
-     Bringing the murderous caitiff to the stake;
-     He that conceals him, death.
-  Edm. When I dissuaded him from his intent
-     And found him pight to do it, with curst speech
-     I threaten'd to discover him. He replied,
-     'Thou unpossessing bastard, dost thou think,
-     If I would stand against thee, would the reposal
-     Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee
-     Make thy words faith'd? No. What I should deny
-     (As this I would; ay, though thou didst produce
-     My very character), I'ld turn it all
-     To thy suggestion, plot, and damned practice;
-     And thou must make a dullard of the world,
-     If they not thought the profits of my death
-     Were very pregnant and potential spurs
-     To make thee seek it.'
-  Glou. Strong and fast'ned villain!
-     Would he deny his letter? I never got him.
-                                                  Tucket within.
-     Hark, the Duke's trumpets! I know not why he comes.
-     All ports I'll bar; the villain shall not scape;
-     The Duke must grant me that. Besides, his picture
-     I will send far and near, that all the kingdom
-     May have due note of him, and of my land,
-     Loyal and natural boy, I'll work the means
-     To make thee capable.
-
-                Enter Cornwall, Regan, and Attendants.
-
-  Corn. How now, my noble friend? Since I came hither
-     (Which I can call but now) I have heard strange news.
-  Reg. If it be true, all vengeance comes too short
-     Which can pursue th' offender. How dost, my lord?
-  Glou. O madam, my old heart is crack'd, it's crack'd!
-  Reg. What, did my father's godson seek your life?
-     He whom my father nam'd? Your Edgar?
-  Glou. O lady, lady, shame would have it hid!
-  Reg. Was he not companion with the riotous knights
-     That tend upon my father?
-  Glou. I know not, madam. 'Tis too bad, too bad!
-  Edm. Yes, madam, he was of that consort.
-  Reg. No marvel then though he were ill affected.
-     'Tis they have put him on the old man's death,
-     To have th' expense and waste of his revenues.
-     I have this present evening from my sister
-     Been well inform'd of them, and with such cautions
-     That, if they come to sojourn at my house,
-     I'll not be there.
-  Corn. Nor I, assure thee, Regan.
-     Edmund, I hear that you have shown your father
-     A childlike office.
-  Edm. 'Twas my duty, sir.
-  Glou. He did bewray his practice, and receiv'd
-     This hurt you see, striving to apprehend him.
-  Corn. Is he pursued?
-  Glou. Ay, my good lord.
-  Corn. If he be taken, he shall never more
-     Be fear'd of doing harm. Make your own purpose,
-     How in my strength you please. For you, Edmund,
-     Whose virtue and obedience doth this instant
-     So much command itself, you shall be ours.
-     Natures of such deep trust we shall much need;
-     You we first seize on.
-  Edm. I shall serve you, sir,
-     Truly, however else.
-  Glou. For him I thank your Grace.
-  Corn. You know not why we came to visit you-
-  Reg. Thus out of season, threading dark-ey'd night.
-     Occasions, noble Gloucester, of some poise,
-     Wherein we must have use of your advice.
-     Our father he hath writ, so hath our sister,
-     Of differences, which I best thought it fit
-     To answer from our home. The several messengers
-     From hence attend dispatch. Our good old friend,
-     Lay comforts to your bosom, and bestow
-     Your needful counsel to our business,
-     Which craves the instant use.
-  Glou. I serve you, madam.
-     Your Graces are right welcome.
-                                               Exeunt. Flourish.
-
-
-
-
-Scene II.
-Before Gloucester's Castle.
-
-Enter Kent and [Oswald the] Steward, severally.
-
-  Osw. Good dawning to thee, friend. Art of this house?
-  Kent. Ay.
-  Osw. Where may we set our horses?
-  Kent. I' th' mire.
-  Osw. Prithee, if thou lov'st me, tell me.
-  Kent. I love thee not.
-  Osw. Why then, I care not for thee.
-  Kent. If I had thee in Lipsbury Pinfold, I would make thee care
-for
-     me.
-  Osw. Why dost thou use me thus? I know thee not.
-  Kent. Fellow, I know thee.
-  Osw. What dost thou know me for?
-  Kent. A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base,
-proud,
-     shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy,
-     worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver'd, action-taking,
-whoreson,
-     glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue;
-     one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in
-way of
-     good service, and art nothing but the composition of a
-knave,
-     beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel
-bitch;
-     one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deny
-the
-     least syllable of thy addition.
-  Osw. Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to rail on one
-     that's neither known of thee nor knows thee!
-  Kent. What a brazen-fac'd varlet art thou, to deny thou knowest
-me!
-     Is it two days ago since I beat thee and tripp'd up thy
-heels
-     before the King? [Draws his sword.] Draw, you rogue! for,
-though
-     it be night, yet the moon shines. I'll make a sop o' th'
-     moonshine o' you. Draw, you whoreson cullionly barbermonger!
-     draw!
-  Osw. Away! I have nothing to do with thee.
-  Kent. Draw, you rascal! You come with letters against the King,
-and
-     take Vanity the puppet's part against the royalty of her
-father.
-     Draw, you rogue, or I'll so carbonado your shanks! Draw, you
-     rascal! Come your ways!
-  Osw. Help, ho! murther! help!
-  Kent. Strike, you slave! Stand, rogue! Stand, you neat slave!
-     Strike!                                        [Beats him.]
-  Osw. Help, ho! murther! murther!
-
-      Enter Edmund, with his rapier drawn, Gloucester, Cornwall,
-                           Regan, Servants.
-
-  Edm. How now? What's the matter?                 Parts [them].
-  Kent. With you, goodman boy, an you please! Come, I'll flesh
-ye!
-     Come on, young master!
-  Glou. Weapons? arms? What's the matter here?
-  Corn. Keep peace, upon your lives!
-     He dies that strikes again. What is the matter?
-  Reg. The messengers from our sister and the King
-  Corn. What is your difference? Speak.
-  Osw. I am scarce in breath, my lord.
-  Kent. No marvel, you have so bestirr'd your valour. You
-cowardly
-     rascal, nature disclaims in thee; a tailor made thee.
-  Corn. Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man?
-  Kent. Ay, a tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter could not
-have
-     made him so ill, though he had been but two hours at the
-trade.
-  Corn. Speak yet, how grew your quarrel?
-  Osw. This ancient ruffian, sir, whose life I have spar'd
-     At suit of his grey beard-
-  Kent. Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if
-     you'll give me leave, I will thread this unbolted villain
-into
-     mortar and daub the walls of a jakes with him. 'Spare my
-grey
-     beard,' you wagtail?
-  Corn. Peace, sirrah!
-     You beastly knave, know you no reverence?
-  Kent. Yes, sir, but anger hath a privilege.
-  Corn. Why art thou angry?
-  Kent. That such a slave as this should wear a sword,
-     Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,
-     Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain
-     Which are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passion
-     That in the natures of their lords rebel,
-     Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods;
-     Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks
-     With every gale and vary of their masters,
-     Knowing naught (like dogs) but following.
-     A plague upon your epileptic visage!
-     Smile you my speeches, as I were a fool?
-     Goose, an I had you upon Sarum Plain,
-     I'ld drive ye cackling home to Camelot.
-  Corn. What, art thou mad, old fellow?
-  Glou. How fell you out? Say that.
-  Kent. No contraries hold more antipathy
-     Than I and such a knave.
-  Corn. Why dost thou call him knave? What is his fault?
-  Kent. His countenance likes me not.
-  Corn. No more perchance does mine, or his, or hers.
-  Kent. Sir, 'tis my occupation to be plain.
-     I have seen better faces in my time
-     Than stands on any shoulder that I see
-     Before me at this instant.
-  Corn. This is some fellow
-     Who, having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect
-     A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb
-     Quite from his nature. He cannot flatter, he!
-     An honest mind and plain- he must speak truth!
-     An they will take it, so; if not, he's plain.
-     These kind of knaves I know which in this plainness
-     Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends
-     Than twenty silly-ducking observants
-     That stretch their duties nicely.
-  Kent. Sir, in good faith, in sincere verity,
-     Under th' allowance of your great aspect,
-     Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire
-     On flickering Phoebus' front-
-  Corn. What mean'st by this?
-  Kent. To go out of my dialect, which you discommend so much. I
-     know, sir, I am no flatterer. He that beguil'd you in a
-plain
-     accent was a plain knave, which, for my part, I will not be,
-     though I should win your displeasure to entreat me to't.
-  Corn. What was th' offence you gave him?
-  Osw. I never gave him any.
-     It pleas'd the King his master very late
-     To strike at me, upon his misconstruction;
-     When he, conjunct, and flattering his displeasure,
-     Tripp'd me behind; being down, insulted, rail'd
-     And put upon him such a deal of man
-     That worthied him, got praises of the King
-     For him attempting who was self-subdu'd;
-     And, in the fleshment of this dread exploit,
-     Drew on me here again.
-  Kent. None of these rogues and cowards
-     But Ajax is their fool.
-  Corn. Fetch forth the stocks!
-     You stubborn ancient knave, you reverent braggart,
-     We'll teach you-
-  Kent. Sir, I am too old to learn.
-     Call not your stocks for me. I serve the King;
-     On whose employment I was sent to you.
-     You shall do small respect, show too bold malice
-     Against the grace and person of my master,
-     Stocking his messenger.
-  Corn. Fetch forth the stocks! As I have life and honour,
-     There shall he sit till noon.
-  Reg. Till noon? Till night, my lord, and all night too!
-  Kent. Why, madam, if I were your father's dog,
-     You should not use me so.
-  Reg. Sir, being his knave, I will.
-  Corn. This is a fellow of the selfsame colour
-     Our sister speaks of. Come, bring away the stocks!
-                                             Stocks brought out.
-  Glou. Let me beseech your Grace not to do so.
-     His fault is much, and the good King his master
-     Will check him for't. Your purpos'd low correction
-     Is such as basest and contemn'dest wretches
-     For pilf'rings and most common trespasses
-     Are punish'd with. The King must take it ill
-     That he, so slightly valued in his messenger,
-     Should have him thus restrain'd.
-  Corn. I'll answer that.
-  Reg. My sister may receive it much more worse,
-     To have her gentleman abus'd, assaulted,
-     For following her affairs. Put in his legs.-
-                                    [Kent is put in the stocks.]
-     Come, my good lord, away.
-                           Exeunt [all but Gloucester and Kent].
-  Glou. I am sorry for thee, friend. 'Tis the Duke's pleasure,
-     Whose disposition, all the world well knows,
-     Will not be rubb'd nor stopp'd. I'll entreat for thee.
-  Kent. Pray do not, sir. I have watch'd and travell'd hard.
-     Some time I shall sleep out, the rest I'll whistle.
-     A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.
-     Give you good morrow!
-  Glou. The Duke 's to blame in this; 'twill be ill taken.
-Exit.
-  Kent. Good King, that must approve the common saw,
-     Thou out of heaven's benediction com'st
-     To the warm sun!
-     Approach, thou beacon to this under globe,
-     That by thy comfortable beams I may
-     Peruse this letter. Nothing almost sees miracles
-     But misery. I know 'tis from Cordelia,
-     Who hath most fortunately been inform'd
-     Of my obscured course- and [reads] 'shall find time
-     From this enormous state, seeking to give
-     Losses their remedies'- All weary and o'erwatch'd,
-     Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold
-     This shameful lodging.
-     Fortune, good night; smile once more, turn thy wheel.
-                                                         Sleeps.
-
-
-
-
-Scene III.
-The open country.
-
-Enter Edgar.
-
-  Edg. I heard myself proclaim'd,
-     And by the happy hollow of a tree
-     Escap'd the hunt. No port is free, no place
-     That guard and most unusual vigilance
-     Does not attend my taking. Whiles I may scape,
-     I will preserve myself; and am bethought
-     To take the basest and most poorest shape
-     That ever penury, in contempt of man,
-     Brought near to beast. My face I'll grime with filth,
-     Blanket my loins, elf all my hair in knots,
-     And with presented nakedness outface
-     The winds and persecutions of the sky.
-     The country gives me proof and precedent
-     Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices,
-     Strike in their numb'd and mortified bare arms
-     Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary;
-     And with this horrible object, from low farms,
-     Poor pelting villages, sheepcotes, and mills,
-     Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers,
-     Enforce their charity. 'Poor Turlygod! poor Tom!'
-     That's something yet! Edgar I nothing am.             Exit.
-
-
-
-
-Scene IV.
-Before Gloucester's Castle; Kent in the stocks.
-
-Enter Lear, Fool, and Gentleman.
-
-  Lear. 'Tis strange that they should so depart from home,
-     And not send back my messenger.
-  Gent. As I learn'd,
-     The night before there was no purpose in them
-     Of this remove.
-  Kent. Hail to thee, noble master!
-  Lear. Ha!
-     Mak'st thou this shame thy pastime?
-  Kent. No, my lord.
-  Fool. Ha, ha! look! he wears cruel garters. Horses are tied by
-the
-     head, dogs and bears by th' neck, monkeys by th' loins, and
-men
-     by th' legs. When a man's over-lusty at legs, then he wears
-     wooden nether-stocks.
-  Lear. What's he that hath so much thy place mistook
-     To set thee here?
-  Kent. It is both he and she-
-     Your son and daughter.
-  Lear. No.
-  Kent. Yes.
-  Lear. No, I say.
-  Kent. I say yea.
-  Lear. No, no, they would not!
-  Kent. Yes, they have.
-  Lear. By Jupiter, I swear no!
-  Kent. By Juno, I swear ay!
-  Lear. They durst not do't;
-     They would not, could not do't. 'Tis worse than murther
-     To do upon respect such violent outrage.
-     Resolve me with all modest haste which way
-     Thou mightst deserve or they impose this usage,
-     Coming from us.
-  Kent. My lord, when at their home
-     I did command your Highness' letters to them,
-     Ere I was risen from the place that show'd
-     My duty kneeling, came there a reeking post,
-     Stew'd in his haste, half breathless, painting forth
-     From Goneril his mistress salutations;
-     Deliver'd letters, spite of intermission,
-     Which presently they read; on whose contents,
-     They summon'd up their meiny, straight took horse,
-     Commanded me to follow and attend
-     The leisure of their answer, gave me cold looks,
-     And meeting here the other messenger,
-     Whose welcome I perceiv'd had poison'd mine-
-     Being the very fellow which of late
-     Display'd so saucily against your Highness-
-     Having more man than with about me, drew.
-     He rais'd the house with loud and coward cries.
-     Your son and daughter found this trespass worth
-     The shame which here it suffers.
-  Fool. Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.
-
-          Fathers that wear rags
-            Do make their children blind;
-          But fathers that bear bags
-            Shall see their children kind.
-          Fortune, that arrant whore,
-          Ne'er turns the key to th' poor.
-
-     But for all this, thou shalt have as many dolours for thy
-     daughters as thou canst tell in a year.
-  Lear. O, how this mother swells up toward my heart!
-     Hysterica passio! Down, thou climbing sorrow!
-     Thy element's below! Where is this daughter?
-  Kent. With the Earl, sir, here within.
-  Lear. Follow me not;
-     Stay here.                                            Exit.
-  Gent. Made you no more offence but what you speak of?
-  Kent. None.
-     How chance the King comes with so small a number?
-  Fool. An thou hadst been set i' th' stocks for that question,
-     thou'dst well deserv'd it.
-  Kent. Why, fool?
-  Fool. We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's
-no
-     labouring i' th' winter. All that follow their noses are led
-by
-     their eyes but blind men, and there's not a nose among
-twenty
-     but can smell him that's stinking. Let go thy hold when a
-great
-     wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with
-following
-     it; but the great one that goes upward, let him draw thee
-after.
-     When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine
-again. I
-     would have none but knaves follow it, since a fool gives it.
-          That sir which serves and seeks for gain,
-            And follows but for form,
-          Will pack when it begins to rain
-            And leave thee in the storm.
-          But I will tarry; the fool will stay,
-            And let the wise man fly.
-          The knave turns fool that runs away;
-            The fool no knave, perdy.
-  Kent. Where learn'd you this, fool?
-  Fool. Not i' th' stocks, fool.
-
-                      Enter Lear and Gloucester
-
-  Lear. Deny to speak with me? They are sick? they are weary?
-     They have travell'd all the night? Mere fetches-
-     The images of revolt and flying off!
-     Fetch me a better answer.
-  Glou. My dear lord,
-     You know the fiery quality of the Duke,
-     How unremovable and fix'd he is
-     In his own course.
-  Lear. Vengeance! plague! death! confusion!
-     Fiery? What quality? Why, Gloucester, Gloucester,
-     I'ld speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife.
-  Glou. Well, my good lord, I have inform'd them so.
-  Lear. Inform'd them? Dost thou understand me, man?
-  Glou. Ay, my good lord.
-  Lear. The King would speak with Cornwall; the dear father
-     Would with his daughter speak, commands her service.
-     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 ourselves
-     When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind
-     To suffer with the body. I'll forbear;
-     And am fallen out with my more headier will,
-     To take the indispos'd and sickly fit
-     For the sound man.- Death on my state! Wherefore
-     Should be sit here? This act persuades me
-     That this remotion of the Duke and her
-     Is practice only. Give me my servant forth.
-     Go tell the Duke and 's wife I'ld speak with them-
-     Now, presently. Bid them come forth and hear me,
-     Or at their chamber door I'll beat the drum
-     Till it cry sleep to death.
-  Glou. I would have all well betwixt you.                 Exit.
-  Lear. O me, my heart, my rising heart! But down!
-  Fool. Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels when
-she
-     put 'em i' th' paste alive. She knapp'd 'em o' th' coxcombs
-with
-     a stick and cried 'Down, wantons, down!' 'Twas her brother
-that,
-     in pure kindness to his horse, buttered his hay.
-
-             Enter Cornwall, Regan, Gloucester, Servants.
-
-  Lear. Good morrow to you both.
-  Corn. Hail to your Grace!
-                                       Kent here set at liberty.
-  Reg. I am glad to see your Highness.
-  Lear. Regan, I think you are; I know what reason
-     I have to think so. If thou shouldst not be glad,
-     I would divorce me from thy mother's tomb,
-     Sepulchring an adultress. [To Kent] O, are you free?
-     Some other time for that.- Beloved Regan,
-     Thy sister's naught. O Regan, she hath tied
-     Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture, here!
-                                   [Lays his hand on his heart.]
-     I can scarce speak to thee. Thou'lt not believe
-     With how deprav'd a quality- O Regan!
-  Reg. I pray you, sir, take patience. I have hope
-     You less know how to value her desert
-     Than she to scant her duty.
-  Lear. Say, how is that?
-  Reg. I cannot think my sister in the least
-     Would fail her obligation. If, sir, perchance
-     She have restrain'd the riots of your followers,
-     'Tis on such ground, and to such wholesome end,
-     As clears her from all blame.
-  Lear. My curses on her!
-  Reg. O, sir, you are old!
-     Nature in you stands on the very verge
-     Of her confine. You should be rul'd, and led
-     By some discretion that discerns your state
-     Better than you yourself. Therefore I pray you
-     That to our sister you do make return;
-     Say you have wrong'd her, sir.
-  Lear. Ask her forgiveness?
-     Do you but mark how this becomes the house:
-     'Dear daughter, I confess that I am old.          [Kneels.]
-     Age is unnecessary. On my knees I beg
-     That you'll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food.'
-  Reg. Good sir, no more! These are unsightly tricks.
-     Return you to my sister.
-  Lear. [rises] Never, Regan!
-     She hath abated me of half my train;
-     Look'd black upon me; struck me with her tongue,
-     Most serpent-like, upon the very heart.
-     All the stor'd vengeances of heaven fall
-     On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones,
-     You taking airs, with lameness!
-  Corn. Fie, sir, fie!
-  Lear. You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames
-     Into her scornful eyes! Infect her beauty,
-     You fen-suck'd fogs, drawn by the pow'rful sun,
-     To fall and blast her pride!
-  Reg. O the blest gods! so will you wish on me
-     When the rash mood is on.
-  Lear. No, Regan, thou shalt never have my curse.
-     Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give
-     Thee o'er to harshness. Her eyes are fierce; but thine
-     Do comfort, and not burn. 'Tis not in thee
-     To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train,
-     To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes,
-     And, in conclusion, to oppose the bolt
-     Against my coming in. Thou better know'st
-     The offices of nature, bond of childhood,
-     Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude.
-     Thy half o' th' kingdom hast thou not forgot,
-     Wherein I thee endow'd.
-  Reg. Good sir, to th' purpose.
-                                                  Tucket within.
-  Lear. Who put my man i' th' stocks?
-  Corn. What trumpet's that?
-  Reg. I know't- my sister's. This approves her letter,
-     That she would soon be here.
-
-                     Enter [Oswald the] Steward.
-
-     Is your lady come?
-  Lear. This is a slave, whose easy-borrowed pride
-     Dwells in the fickle grace of her he follows.
-     Out, varlet, from my sight!
-  Corn. What means your Grace?
-
-                            Enter Goneril.
-
-  Lear. Who stock'd my servant? Regan, I have good hope
-     Thou didst not know on't.- Who comes here? O heavens!
-     If you do love old men, if your sweet sway
-     Allow obedience- if yourselves are old,
-     Make it your cause! Send down, and take my part!
-     [To Goneril] Art not asham'd to look upon this beard?-
-     O Regan, wilt thou take her by the hand?
-  Gon. Why not by th' hand, sir? How have I offended?
-     All's not offence that indiscretion finds
-     And dotage terms so.
-  Lear. O sides, you are too tough!
-     Will you yet hold? How came my man i' th' stocks?
-  Corn. I set him there, sir; but his own disorders
-     Deserv'd much less advancement.
-  Lear. You? Did you?
-  Reg. I pray you, father, being weak, seem so.
-     If, till the expiration of your month,
-     You will return and sojourn with my sister,
-     Dismissing half your train, come then to me.
-     I am now from home, and out of that provision
-     Which shall be needful for your entertainment.
-  Lear. Return to her, and fifty men dismiss'd?
-     No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
-     To wage against the enmity o' th' air,
-     To be a comrade with the wolf and owl-
-     Necessity's sharp pinch! Return with her?
-     Why, the hot-blooded France, that dowerless took
-     Our youngest born, I could as well be brought
-     To knee his throne, and, squire-like, pension beg
-     To keep base life afoot. Return with her?
-     Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter
-     To this detested groom.                 [Points at Oswald.]
-  Gon. At your choice, sir.
-  Lear. I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad.
-     I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell.
-     We'll no more meet, no more see one another.
-     But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter;
-     Or rather a disease that's in my flesh,
-     Which I must needs call mine. Thou art a boil,
-     A plague sore, an embossed carbuncle
-     In my corrupted blood. But I'll not chide thee.
-     Let shame come when it will, I do not call it.
-     I do not bid the Thunder-bearer shoot
-     Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove.
-     Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure;
-     I can be patient, I can stay with Regan,
-     I and my hundred knights.
-  Reg. Not altogether so.
-     I look'd not for you yet, nor am provided
-     For your fit welcome. Give ear, sir, to my sister;
-     For those that mingle reason with your passion
-     Must be content to think you old, and so-
-     But she knows what she does.
-  Lear. Is this well spoken?
-  Reg. I dare avouch it, sir. What, fifty followers?
-     Is it not well? What should you need of more?
-     Yea, or so many, sith that both charge and danger
-     Speak 'gainst so great a number? How in one house
-     Should many people, under two commands,
-     Hold amity? 'Tis hard; almost impossible.
-  Gon. Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance
-     From those that she calls servants, or from mine?
-  Reg. Why not, my lord? If then they chanc'd to slack ye,
-     We could control them. If you will come to me
-     (For now I spy a danger), I entreat you
-     To bring but five-and-twenty. To no more
-     Will I give place or notice.
-  Lear. I gave you all-
-  Reg. And in good time you gave it!
-  Lear. Made you my guardians, my depositaries;
-     But kept a reservation to be followed
-     With such a number. What, must I come to you
-     With five-and-twenty, Regan? Said you so?
-  Reg. And speak't again my lord. No more with me.
-  Lear. Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd
-     When others are more wicked; not being the worst
-     Stands in some rank of praise. [To Goneril] I'll go with
-thee.
-     Thy fifty yet doth double five-and-twenty,
-     And thou art twice her love.
-  Gon. Hear, me, my lord.
-     What need you five-and-twenty, ten, or five,
-     To follow in a house where twice so many
-     Have a command to tend you?
-  Reg. What need one?
-  Lear. O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars
-     Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
-     Allow not nature more than nature needs,
-     Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady:
-     If only to go warm were gorgeous,
-     Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st
-     Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need-
-     You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!
-     You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,
-     As full of grief as age; wretched in both.
-     If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts
-     Against their father, fool me not so much
-     To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
-     And let not women's weapons, water drops,
-     Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags!
-     I will have such revenges on you both
-     That all the world shall- I will do such things-
-     What they are yet, I know not; but they shall be
-     The terrors of the earth! You think I'll weep.
-     No, I'll not weep.
-     I have full cause of weeping, but this heart
-     Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws
-     Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!
-              Exeunt Lear, Gloucester, Kent, and Fool. Storm and
-                                                        tempest.
-  Corn. Let us withdraw; 'twill be a storm.
-  Reg. This house is little; the old man and 's people
-     Cannot be well bestow'd.
-  Gon. 'Tis his own blame; hath put himself from rest
-     And must needs taste his folly.
-  Reg. For his particular, I'll receive him gladly,
-     But not one follower.
-  Gon. So am I purpos'd.
-     Where is my Lord of Gloucester?
-  Corn. Followed the old man forth.
-
-                          Enter Gloucester.
-
-     He is return'd.
-  Glou. The King is in high rage.
-  Corn. Whither is he going?
-  Glou. He calls to horse, but will I know not whither.
-  Corn. 'Tis best to give him way; he leads himself.
-  Gon. My lord, entreat him by no means to stay.
-  Glou. Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds
-     Do sorely ruffle. For many miles about
-     There's scarce a bush.
-  Reg. O, sir, to wilful men
-     The injuries that they themselves procure
-     Must be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors.
-     He is attended with a desperate train,
-     And what they may incense him to, being apt
-     To have his ear abus'd, wisdom bids fear.
-  Corn. Shut up your doors, my lord: 'tis a wild night.
-     My Regan counsels well. Come out o' th' storm.
-[Exeunt.]
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-ACT III. Scene I.
-A heath.
-
-Storm still. Enter Kent and a Gentleman at several doors.
-
-  Kent. Who's there, besides foul weather?
-  Gent. One minded like the weather, most unquietly.
-  Kent. I know you. Where's the King?
-  Gent. Contending with the fretful elements;
-     Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea,
-     Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main,
-     That things might change or cease; tears his white hair,
-     Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage,
-     Catch in their fury and make nothing of;
-     Strives in his little world of man to outscorn
-     The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain.
-     This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,
-     The lion and the belly-pinched wolf
-     Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs,
-     And bids what will take all.
-  Kent. But who is with him?
-  Gent. None but the fool, who labours to outjest
-     His heart-struck injuries.
-  Kent. Sir, I do know you,
-     And dare upon the warrant of my note
-     Command a dear thing to you. There is division
-     (Although as yet the face of it be cover'd
-     With mutual cunning) 'twixt Albany and Cornwall;
-     Who have (as who have not, that their great stars
-     Thron'd and set high?) servants, who seem no less,
-     Which are to France the spies and speculations
-     Intelligent of our state. What hath been seen,
-     Either in snuffs and packings of the Dukes,
-     Or the hard rein which both of them have borne
-     Against the old kind King, or something deeper,
-     Whereof, perchance, these are but furnishings-
-     But, true it is, from France there comes a power
-     Into this scattered kingdom, who already,
-     Wise in our negligence, have secret feet
-     In some of our best ports and are at point
-     To show their open banner. Now to you:
-     If on my credit you dare build so far
-     To make your speed to Dover, you shall find
-     Some that will thank you, making just report
-     Of how unnatural and bemadding sorrow
-     The King hath cause to plain.
-     I am a gentleman of blood and breeding,
-     And from some knowledge and assurance offer
-     This office to you.
-  Gent. I will talk further with you.
-  Kent. No, do not.
-     For confirmation that I am much more
-     Than my out-wall, open this purse and take
-     What it contains. If you shall see Cordelia
-     (As fear not but you shall), show her this ring,
-     And she will tell you who your fellow is
-     That yet you do not know. Fie on this storm!
-     I will go seek the King.
-  Gent. Give me your hand. Have you no more to say?
-  Kent. Few words, but, to effect, more than all yet:
-     That, when we have found the King (in which your pain
-     That way, I'll this), he that first lights on him
-     Holla the other.
-                                             Exeunt [severally].
-
-
-
-
-Scene II.
-Another part of the heath.
-
-Storm still. Enter Lear and Fool.
-
-  Lear. Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
-     You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
-     Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!
-     You sulph'rous and thought-executing fires,
-     Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
-     Single my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
-     Strike flat the thick rotundity o' th' world,
-     Crack Nature's moulds, all germains spill at once,
-     That makes ingrateful man!
-  Fool. O nuncle, court holy water in a dry house is better than
-this
-     rain water out o' door. Good nuncle, in, and ask thy
-daughters
-     blessing! Here's a night pities nether wise men nor fools.
-  Lear. Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!
-     Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters.
-     I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness.
-     I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,
-     You owe me no subscription. Then let fall
-     Your horrible pleasure. Here I stand your slave,
-     A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
-     But yet I call you servile ministers,
-     That will with two pernicious daughters join
-     Your high-engender'd battles 'gainst a head
-     So old and white as this! O! O! 'tis foul!
-  Fool. He that has a house to put 's head in has a good
-head-piece.
-          The codpiece that will house
-            Before the head has any,
-          The head and he shall louse:
-            So beggars marry many.
-          The man that makes his toe
-            What he his heart should make
-          Shall of a corn cry woe,
-            And turn his sleep to wake.
-     For there was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a
-     glass.
-
-                             Enter Kent.
-
-  Lear. No, I will be the pattern of all patience;
-     I will say nothing.
-  Kent. Who's there?
-  Fool. Marry, here's grace and a codpiece; that's a wise man and
-a
-     fool.
-  Kent. Alas, sir, are you here? Things that love night
-     Love not such nights as these. The wrathful skies
-     Gallow the very wanderers of the dark
-     And make them keep their caves. Since I was man,
-     Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,
-     Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never
-     Remember to have heard. Man's nature cannot carry
-     Th' affliction nor the fear.
-  Lear. Let the great gods,
-     That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads,
-     Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch,
-     That hast within thee undivulged crimes
-     Unwhipp'd of justice. Hide thee, thou bloody hand;
-     Thou perjur'd, and thou simular man of virtue
-     That art incestuous. Caitiff, in pieces shake
-     That under convert and convenient seeming
-     Hast practis'd on man's life. Close pent-up guilts,
-     Rive your concealing continents, and cry
-     These dreadful summoners grace. I am a man
-     More sinn'd against than sinning.
-  Kent. Alack, bareheaded?
-     Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel;
-     Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest.
-     Repose you there, whilst I to this hard house
-     (More harder than the stones whereof 'tis rais'd,
-     Which even but now, demanding after you,
-     Denied me to come in) return, and force
-     Their scanted courtesy.
-  Lear. My wits begin to turn.
-     Come on, my boy. How dost, my boy? Art cold?
-     I am cold myself. Where is this straw, my fellow?
-     The art of our necessities is strange,
-     That can make vile things precious. Come, your hovel.
-     Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart
-     That's sorry yet for thee.
-  Fool. [sings]
-
-          He that has and a little tiny wit-
-            With hey, ho, the wind and the rain-
-          Must make content with his fortunes fit,
-             For the rain it raineth every day.
-
-  Lear. True, my good boy. Come, bring us to this hovel.
-                                         Exeunt [Lear and Kent].
-  Fool. This is a brave night to cool a courtesan. I'll speak a
-     prophecy ere I go:
-          When priests are more in word than matter;
-          When brewers mar their malt with water;
-          When nobles are their tailors' tutors,
-          No heretics burn'd, but wenches' suitors;
-          When every case in law is right,
-          No squire in debt nor no poor knight;
-          When slanders do not live in tongues,
-          Nor cutpurses come not to throngs;
-          When usurers tell their gold i' th' field,
-          And bawds and whores do churches build:
-          Then shall the realm of Albion
-          Come to great confusion.
-          Then comes the time, who lives to see't,
-          That going shall be us'd with feet.
-     This prophecy Merlin shall make, for I live before his time.
-Exit.
-
-
-
-
-Scene III.
-Gloucester's Castle.
-
-Enter Gloucester and Edmund.
-
-  Glou. Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural dealing!
-When
-     I desir'd their leave that I might pity him, they took from
-me
-     the use of mine own house, charg'd me on pain of perpetual
-     displeasure neither to speak of him, entreat for him, nor
-any
-     way sustain him.
-  Edm. Most savage and unnatural!
-  Glou. Go to; say you nothing. There is division betwixt the
-Dukes,
-     and a worse matter than that. I have received a letter this
-     night- 'tis dangerous to be spoken- I have lock'd the letter
-in
-     my closet. These injuries the King now bears will be
-revenged
-     home; there's part of a power already footed; we must
-incline to
-     the King. I will seek him and privily relieve him. Go you
-and
-     maintain talk with the Duke, that my charity be not of him
-     perceived. If he ask for me, I am ill and gone to bed.
-Though I
-     die for't, as no less is threat'ned me, the King my old
-master
-     must be relieved. There is some strange thing toward,
-Edmund.
-     Pray you be careful.                                  Exit.
-  Edm. This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the Duke
-     Instantly know, and of that letter too.
-     This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me
-     That which my father loses- no less than all.
-     The younger rises when the old doth fall.             Exit.
-
-
-
-
-Scene IV.
-The heath. Before a hovel.
-
-Storm still. Enter Lear, Kent, and Fool.
-
-  Kent. Here is the place, my lord. Good my lord, enter.
-     The tyranny of the open night 's too rough
-     For nature to endure.
-  Lear. Let me alone.
-  Kent. Good my lord, enter here.
-  Lear. Wilt break my heart?
-  Kent. I had rather break mine own. Good my lord, enter.
-  Lear. Thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm
-     Invades us to the skin. So 'tis to thee;
-     But where the greater malady is fix'd,
-     The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'dst shun a bear;
-     But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea,
-     Thou'dst meet the bear i' th' mouth. When the mind's free,
-     The body's delicate. The tempest in my mind
-     Doth from my senses take all feeling else
-     Save what beats there. Filial ingratitude!
-     Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand
-     For lifting food to't? But I will punish home!
-     No, I will weep no more. In such a night
-     'To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure.
-     In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril!
-     Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all!
-     O, that way madness lies; let me shun that!
-     No more of that.
-  Kent. Good my lord, enter here.
-  Lear. Prithee go in thyself; seek thine own ease.
-     This tempest will not give me leave to ponder
-     On things would hurt me more. But I'll go in.
-     [To the Fool] In, boy; go first.- You houseless poverty-
-     Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.
-                                                    Exit [Fool].
-     Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are,
-     That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
-     How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
-     Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you
-     From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en
-     Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp;
-     Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,
-     That thou mayst shake the superflux to them
-     And show the heavens more just.
-  Edg. [within] Fathom and half, fathom and half! Poor Tom!
-
-                     Enter Fool [from the hovel].
-
-  Fool. Come not in here, nuncle, here's a spirit. Help me, help
-me!
-  Kent. Give me thy hand. Who's there?
-  Fool. A spirit, a spirit! He says his name's poor Tom.
-  Kent. What art thou that dost grumble there i' th' straw?
-     Come forth.
-
-                 Enter Edgar [disguised as a madman].
-
-  Edg. Away! the foul fiend follows me! Through the sharp
-hawthorn
-     blows the cold wind. Humh! go to thy cold bed, and warm
-thee.
-  Lear. Hast thou given all to thy two daughters, and art thou
-come
-     to this?
-  Edg. Who gives anything to poor Tom? whom the foul fiend hath
-led
-     through fire and through flame, through ford and whirlpool,
-o'er
-     bog and quagmire; that hath laid knives under his pillow and
-     halters in his pew, set ratsbane by his porridge, made him
-proud
-     of heart, to ride on a bay trotting horse over four-inch'd
-     bridges, to course his own shadow for a traitor. Bless thy
-five
-     wits! Tom 's acold. O, do de, do de, do de. Bless thee from
-     whirlwinds, star-blasting, and taking! Do poor Tom some
-charity,
-     whom the foul fiend vexes. There could I have him now- and
-there-
-     and there again- and there!
-                                                    Storm still.
-  Lear. What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?
-     Couldst thou save nothing? Didst thou give 'em all?
-  Fool. Nay, he reserv'd a blanket, else we had been all sham'd.
-  Lear. Now all the plagues that in the pendulous air
-     Hang fated o'er men's faults light on thy daughters!
-  Kent. He hath no daughters, sir.
-  Lear. Death, traitor! nothing could have subdu'd nature
-     To such a lowness but his unkind daughters.
-     Is it the fashion that discarded fathers
-     Should have thus little mercy on their flesh?
-     Judicious punishment! 'Twas this flesh begot
-     Those pelican daughters.
-  Edg. Pillicock sat on Pillicock's Hill. 'Allow, 'allow, loo,
-loo!
-  Fool. This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
-  Edg. Take heed o' th' foul fiend; obey thy parents: keep thy
-word
-     justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set
-not
-     thy sweet heart on proud array. Tom 's acold.
-  Lear. What hast thou been?
-  Edg. A servingman, proud in heart and mind; that curl'd my
-hair,
-     wore gloves in my cap; serv'd the lust of my mistress' heart
-and
-     did the act of darkness with her; swore as many oaths as I
-spake
-     words, and broke them in the sweet face of heaven; one that
-     slept in the contriving of lust, and wak'd to do it. Wine
-lov'd
-     I deeply, dice dearly; and in woman out-paramour'd the Turk.
-     False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth,
-fox
-     in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in
-prey.
-     Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks
-betray
-     thy poor heart to woman. Keep thy foot out of brothel, thy
-hand
-     out of placket, thy pen from lender's book, and defy the
-foul
-     fiend. Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind; says
-     suum, mun, hey, no, nonny. Dolphin my boy, my boy, sessa!
-let
-     him trot by.
-                                                    Storm still.
-  Lear. Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with
-thy
-     uncover'd body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more
-than
-     this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the
-beast
-     no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! Here's
-three
-     on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself;
-     unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked
-     animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! Come, unbutton
-     here.
-                                         [Tears at his clothes.]
-  Fool. Prithee, nuncle, be contented! 'Tis a naughty night to
-swim
-     in. Now a little fire in a wild field were like an old
-lecher's
-     heart- a small spark, all the rest on's body cold. Look,
-here
-     comes a walking fire.
-
-                    Enter Gloucester with a torch.
-
-  Edg. This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet. He begins at
-curfew,
-     and walks till the first cock. He gives the web and the pin,
-     squints the eye, and makes the harelip; mildews the white
-wheat,
-     and hurts the poor creature of earth.
-
-           Saint Withhold footed thrice the 'old;
-           He met the nightmare, and her nine fold;
-              Bid her alight
-              And her troth plight,
-           And aroint thee, witch, aroint thee!
-
-  Kent. How fares your Grace?
-  Lear. What's he?
-  Kent. Who's there? What is't you seek?
-  Glou. What are you there? Your names?
-  Edg. Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the
-todpole,
-     the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart,
-when
-     the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets, swallows
-the
-     old rat and the ditch-dog, drinks the green mantle of the
-     standing pool; who is whipp'd from tithing to tithing, and
-     stock-punish'd and imprison'd; who hath had three suits to
-his
-     back, six shirts to his body, horse to ride, and weapons to
-     wear;
-
-          But mice and rats, and such small deer,
-          Have been Tom's food for seven long year.
-
-     Beware my follower. Peace, Smulkin! peace, thou fiend!
-  Glou. What, hath your Grace no better company?
-  Edg. The prince of darkness is a gentleman!
-     Modo he's call'd, and Mahu.
-  Glou. Our flesh and blood is grown so vile, my lord,
-     That it doth hate what gets it.
-  Edg. Poor Tom 's acold.
-  Glou. Go in with me. My duty cannot suffer
-     T' obey in all your daughters' hard commands.
-     Though their injunction be to bar my doors
-     And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you,
-     Yet have I ventur'd to come seek you out
-     And bring you where both fire and food is ready.
-  Lear. First let me talk with this philosopher.
-     What is the cause of thunder?
-  Kent. Good my lord, take his offer; go into th' house.
-  Lear. I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
-     What is your study?
-  Edg. How to prevent the fiend and to kill vermin.
-  Lear. Let me ask you one word in private.
-  Kent. Importune him once more to go, my lord.
-     His wits begin t' unsettle.
-  Glou. Canst thou blame him?
-                                                    Storm still.
-     His daughters seek his death. Ah, that good Kent!
-     He said it would be thus- poor banish'd man!
-     Thou say'st the King grows mad: I'll tell thee, friend,
-     I am almost mad myself. I had a son,
-     Now outlaw'd from my blood. He sought my life
-     But lately, very late. I lov'd him, friend-
-     No father his son dearer. True to tell thee,
-     The grief hath craz'd my wits. What a night 's this!
-     I do beseech your Grace-
-  Lear. O, cry you mercy, sir.
-     Noble philosopher, your company.
-  Edg. Tom's acold.
-  Glou. In, fellow, there, into th' hovel; keep thee warm.
-  Lear. Come, let's in all.
-  Kent. This way, my lord.
-  Lear. With him!
-     I will keep still with my philosopher.
-  Kent. Good my lord, soothe him; let him take the fellow.
-  Glou. Take him you on.
-  Kent. Sirrah, come on; go along with us.
-  Lear. Come, good Athenian.
-  Glou. No words, no words! hush.
-  Edg. Child Rowland to the dark tower came;
-     His word was still
-
-          Fie, foh, and fum!
-          I smell the blood of a British man.
-                                                         Exeunt.
-
-Scene V.
-Gloucester's Castle.
-
-Enter Cornwall and Edmund.
-
-  Corn. I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.
-  Edm. How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus gives
-way to
-     loyalty, something fears me to think of.
-  Corn. I now perceive it was not altogether your brother's evil
-     disposition made him seek his death; but a provoking merit,
-set
-     awork by a reproveable badness in himself.
-  Edm. How malicious is my fortune that I must repent to be just!
-     This is the letter he spoke of, which approves him an
-     intelligent party to the advantages of France. O heavens!
-that
-     this treason were not- or not I the detector!
-  Corn. Go with me to the Duchess.
-  Edm. If the matter of this paper be certain, you have mighty
-     business in hand.
-  Corn. True or false, it hath made thee Earl of Gloucester.
-     Seek out where thy father is, that he may be ready for our
-     apprehension.
-  Edm. [aside] If I find him comforting the King, it will stuff
-his
-     suspicion more fully.- I will persever in my course of
-loyalty,
-     though the conflict be sore between that and my blood.
-  Corn. I will lay trust upon thee, and thou shalt find a dearer
-     father in my love.
-                                                         Exeunt.
-
-
-
-
-Scene VI.
-A farmhouse near Gloucester's Castle.
-
-Enter Gloucester, Lear, Kent, Fool, and Edgar.
-
-  Glou. Here is better than the open air; take it thankfully. I
-will
-     piece out the comfort with what addition I can. I will not
-be
-     long from you.
-  Kent. All the power of his wits have given way to his
-impatience.
-     The gods reward your kindness!
-                                              Exit [Gloucester].
-  Edg. Frateretto calls me, and tells me Nero is an angler in the
-     lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend.
-  Fool. Prithee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a gentleman
-or a
-     yeoman.
-  Lear. A king, a king!
-  Fool. No, he's a yeoman that has a gentleman to his son; for
-he's a
-     mad yeoman that sees his son a gentleman before him.
-  Lear. To have a thousand with red burning spits
-     Come hizzing in upon 'em-
-  Edg. The foul fiend bites my back.
-  Fool. He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's
-     health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.
-  Lear. It shall be done; I will arraign them straight.
-     [To Edgar] Come, sit thou here, most learned justicer.
-     [To the Fool] Thou, sapient sir, sit here. Now, you
-she-foxes!
-  Edg. Look, where he stands and glares! Want'st thou eyes at
-trial,
-     madam?
-
-             Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me.
-
-  Fool.      Her boat hath a leak,
-             And she must not speak
-           Why she dares not come over to thee.
-
-  Edg. The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of a
-nightingale.
-     Hoppedance cries in Tom's belly for two white herring. Croak
-     not, black angel; I have no food for thee.
-  Kent. How do you, sir? Stand you not so amaz'd.
-     Will you lie down and rest upon the cushions?
-  Lear. I'll see their trial first. Bring in their evidence.
-     [To Edgar] Thou, robed man of justice, take thy place.
-     [To the Fool] And thou, his yokefellow of equity,
-     Bench by his side. [To Kent] You are o' th' commission,
-     Sit you too.
-  Edg. Let us deal justly.
-
-          Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd?
-            Thy sheep be in the corn;
-          And for one blast of thy minikin mouth
-            Thy sheep shall take no harm.
-
-     Purr! the cat is gray.
-  Lear. Arraign her first. 'Tis Goneril. I here take my oath
-before
-     this honourable assembly, she kicked the poor King her
-father.
-  Fool. Come hither, mistress. Is your name Goneril?
-  Lear. She cannot deny it.
-  Fool. Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool.
-  Lear. And here's another, whose warp'd looks proclaim
-     What store her heart is made on. Stop her there!
-     Arms, arms! sword! fire! Corruption in the place!
-     False justicer, why hast thou let her scape?
-  Edg. Bless thy five wits!
-  Kent. O pity! Sir, where is the patience now
-     That you so oft have boasted to retain?
-  Edg. [aside] My tears begin to take his part so much
-     They'll mar my counterfeiting.
-  Lear. The little dogs and all,
-     Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.
-  Edg. Tom will throw his head at them. Avaunt, you curs!
-           Be thy mouth or black or white,
-           Tooth that poisons if it bite;
-           Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim,
-           Hound or spaniel, branch or lym,
-           Bobtail tyke or trundle-tall-
-           Tom will make them weep and wail;
-           For, with throwing thus my head,
-           Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled.
-     Do de, de, de. Sessa! Come, march to wakes and fairs and
-market
-     towns. Poor Tom, thy horn is dry.
-  Lear. Then let them anatomize Regan. See what breeds about her
-     heart. Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard
-     hearts? [To Edgar] You, sir- I entertain you for one of my
-     hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments.
-You'll
-     say they are Persian attire; but let them be chang'd.
-  Kent. Now, good my lord, lie here and rest awhile.
-  Lear. Make no noise, make no noise; draw the curtains.
-     So, so, so. We'll go to supper i' th' morning. So, so, so.
-  Fool. And I'll go to bed at noon.
-
-                          Enter Gloucester.
-
-  Glou. Come hither, friend. Where is the King my master?
-  Kent. Here, sir; but trouble him not; his wits are gone.
-  Glou. Good friend, I prithee take him in thy arms.
-     I have o'erheard a plot of death upon him.
-     There is a litter ready; lay him in't
-     And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet
-     Both welcome and protection. Take up thy master.
-     If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life,
-     With thine, and all that offer to defend him,
-     Stand in assured loss. Take up, take up!
-     And follow me, that will to some provision
-     Give thee quick conduct.
-  Kent. Oppressed nature sleeps.
-     This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses,
-     Which, if convenience will not allow,
-     Stand in hard cure. [To the Fool] Come, help to bear thy
-master.
-     Thou must not stay behind.
-  Glou. Come, come, away!
-                                         Exeunt [all but Edgar].
-  Edg. When we our betters see bearing our woes,
-     We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
-     Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind,
-     Leaving free things and happy shows behind;
-     But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip
-     When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.
-     How light and portable my pain seems now,
-     When that which makes me bend makes the King bow,
-     He childed as I fathered! Tom, away!
-     Mark the high noises, and thyself bewray
-     When false opinion, whose wrong thought defiles thee,
-     In thy just proof repeals and reconciles thee.
-     What will hap more to-night, safe scape the King!
-     Lurk, lurk.                                         [Exit.]
-
-
-
-
-Scene VII.
-Gloucester's Castle.
-
-Enter Cornwall, Regan, Goneril, [Edmund the] Bastard, and
-Servants.
-
-  Corn. [to Goneril] Post speedily to my lord your husband, show
-him
-     this letter. The army of France is landed.- Seek out the
-traitor
-     Gloucester.
-                                  [Exeunt some of the Servants.]
-  Reg. Hang him instantly.
-  Gon. Pluck out his eyes.
-  Corn. Leave him to my displeasure. Edmund, keep you our sister
-     company. The revenges we are bound to take upon your
-traitorous
-     father are not fit for your beholding. Advise the Duke where
-you
-     are going, to a most festinate preparation. We are bound to
-the
-     like. Our posts shall be swift and intelligent betwixt us.
-     Farewell, dear sister; farewell, my Lord of Gloucester.
-
-                     Enter [Oswald the] Steward.
-
-     How now? Where's the King?
-  Osw. My Lord of Gloucester hath convey'd him hence.
-     Some five or six and thirty of his knights,
-     Hot questrists after him, met him at gate;
-     Who, with some other of the lord's dependants,
-     Are gone with him towards Dover, where they boast
-     To have well-armed friends.
-  Corn. Get horses for your mistress.
-  Gon. Farewell, sweet lord, and sister.
-  Corn. Edmund, farewell.
-                           Exeunt Goneril, [Edmund, and Oswald].
-     Go seek the traitor Gloucester,
-     Pinion him like a thief, bring him before us.
-                                        [Exeunt other Servants.]
-     Though well we may not pass upon his life
-     Without the form of justice, yet our power
-     Shall do a court'sy to our wrath, which men
-     May blame, but not control.
-
-            Enter Gloucester, brought in by two or three.
-
-     Who's there? the traitor?
-  Reg. Ingrateful fox! 'tis he.
-  Corn. Bind fast his corky arms.
-  Glou. What mean, your Graces? Good my friends, consider
-     You are my guests. Do me no foul play, friends.
-  Corn. Bind him, I say.
-                                            [Servants bind him.]
-  Reg. Hard, hard. O filthy traitor!
-  Glou. Unmerciful lady as you are, I am none.
-  Corn. To this chair bind him. Villain, thou shalt find-
-                                       [Regan plucks his beard.]
-  Glou. By the kind gods, 'tis most ignobly done
-     To pluck me by the beard.
-  Reg. So white, and such a traitor!
-  Glou. Naughty lady,
-     These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin
-     Will quicken, and accuse thee. I am your host.
-     With robber's hands my hospitable favours
-     You should not ruffle thus. What will you do?
-  Corn. Come, sir, what letters had you late from France?
-  Reg. Be simple-answer'd, for we know the truth.
-  Corn. And what confederacy have you with the traitors
-     Late footed in the kingdom?
-  Reg. To whose hands have you sent the lunatic King?
-     Speak.
-  Glou. I have a letter guessingly set down,
-     Which came from one that's of a neutral heart,
-     And not from one oppos'd.
-  Corn. Cunning.
-  Reg. And false.
-  Corn. Where hast thou sent the King?
-  Glou. To Dover.
-  Reg. Wherefore to Dover? Wast thou not charg'd at peril-
-  Corn. Wherefore to Dover? Let him first answer that.
-  Glou. I am tied to th' stake, and I must stand the course.
-  Reg. Wherefore to Dover, sir?
-  Glou. Because I would not see thy cruel nails
-     Pluck out his poor old eyes; nor thy fierce sister
-     In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs.
-     The sea, with such a storm as his bare head
-     In hell-black night endur'd, would have buoy'd up
-     And quench'd the steeled fires.
-     Yet, poor old heart, he holp the heavens to rain.
-     If wolves had at thy gate howl'd that stern time,
-     Thou shouldst have said, 'Good porter, turn the key.'
-     All cruels else subscrib'd. But I shall see
-     The winged vengeance overtake such children.
-  Corn. See't shalt thou never. Fellows, hold the chair.
-     Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot.
-  Glou. He that will think to live till he be old,
-     Give me some help!- O cruel! O ye gods!
-  Reg. One side will mock another. Th' other too!
-  Corn. If you see vengeance-
-  1. Serv. Hold your hand, my lord!
-     I have serv'd you ever since I was a child;
-     But better service have I never done you
-     Than now to bid you hold.
-  Reg. How now, you dog?
-  1. Serv. If you did wear a beard upon your chin,
-     I'ld shake it on this quarrel.
-  Reg. What do you mean?
-  Corn. My villain!                               Draw and fight.
-  1. Serv. Nay, then, come on, and take the chance of anger.
-  Reg. Give me thy sword. A peasant stand up thus?
-                        She takes a sword and runs at him behind.
-  1. Serv. O, I am slain! My lord, you have one eye left
-     To see some mischief on him. O!                     He dies.
-  Corn. Lest it see more, prevent it. Out, vile jelly!
-     Where is thy lustre now?
-  Glou. All dark and comfortless! Where's my son Edmund?
-     Edmund, enkindle all the sparks of nature
-     To quit this horrid act.
-  Reg. Out, treacherous villain!
-     Thou call'st on him that hates thee. It was he
-     That made the overture of thy treasons to us;
-     Who is too good to pity thee.
-  Glou. O my follies! Then Edgar was abus'd.
-     Kind gods, forgive me that, and prosper him!
-  Reg. Go thrust him out at gates, and let him smell
-     His way to Dover.
-                                     Exit [one] with Gloucester.
-     How is't, my lord? How look you?
-  Corn. I have receiv'd a hurt. Follow me, lady.
-     Turn out that eyeless villain. Throw this slave
-     Upon the dunghill. Regan, I bleed apace.
-     Untimely comes this hurt. Give me your arm.
-                                  Exit [Cornwall, led by Regan].
-  2. Serv. I'll never care what wickedness I do,
-     If this man come to good.
-  3. Serv. If she live long,
-     And in the end meet the old course of death,
-     Women will all turn monsters.
-  2. Serv. Let's follow the old Earl, and get the bedlam
-     To lead him where he would. His roguish madness
-     Allows itself to anything.
-  3. Serv. Go thou. I'll fetch some flax and whites of eggs
-     To apply to his bleeding face. Now heaven help him!
-                                                         Exeunt.
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-ACT IV. Scene I.
-The heath.
-
-Enter Edgar.
-
-  Edg. Yet better thus, and known to be contemn'd,
-     Than still contemn'd and flatter'd. To be worst,
-     The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune,
-     Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear.
-     The lamentable change is from the best;
-     The worst returns to laughter. Welcome then,
-     Thou unsubstantial air that I embrace!
-     The wretch that thou hast blown unto the worst
-     Owes nothing to thy blasts.
-
-                 Enter Gloucester, led by an Old Man.
-
-     But who comes here?
-     My father, poorly led? World, world, O world!
-     But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,
-     Life would not yield to age.
-  Old Man. O my good lord,
-     I have been your tenant, and your father's tenant,
-     These fourscore years.
-  Glou. Away, get thee away! Good friend, be gone.
-     Thy comforts can do me no good at all;
-     Thee they may hurt.
-  Old Man. You cannot see your way.
-  Glou. I have no way, and therefore want no eyes;
-     I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen
-     Our means secure us, and our mere defects
-     Prove our commodities. Ah dear son Edgar,
-     The food of thy abused father's wrath!
-     Might I but live to see thee in my touch,
-     I'ld say I had eyes again!
-  Old Man. How now? Who's there?
-  Edg. [aside] O gods! Who is't can say 'I am at the worst'?
-     I am worse than e'er I was.
-  Old Man. 'Tis poor mad Tom.
-  Edg. [aside] And worse I may be yet. The worst is not
-     So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'
-  Old Man. Fellow, where goest?
-  Glou. Is it a beggarman?
-  Old Man. Madman and beggar too.
-  Glou. He has some reason, else he could not beg.
-     I' th' last night's storm I such a fellow saw,
-     Which made me think a man a worm. My son
-     Came then into my mind, and yet my mind
-     Was then scarce friends with him. I have heard more since.
-     As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods.
-     They kill us for their sport.
-  Edg. [aside] How should this be?
-     Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,
-     Ang'ring itself and others.- Bless thee, master!
-  Glou. Is that the naked fellow?
-  Old Man. Ay, my lord.
-  Glou. Then prithee get thee gone. If for my sake
-     Thou wilt o'ertake us hence a mile or twain
-     I' th' way toward Dover, do it for ancient love;
-     And bring some covering for this naked soul,
-     Who I'll entreat to lead me.
-  Old Man. Alack, sir, he is mad!
-  Glou. 'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind.
-     Do as I bid thee, or rather do thy pleasure.
-     Above the rest, be gone.
-  Old Man. I'll bring him the best 'parel that I have,
-     Come on't what will.                                  Exit.
-  Glou. Sirrah naked fellow-
-  Edg. Poor Tom's acold. [Aside] I cannot daub it further.
-  Glou. Come hither, fellow.
-  Edg. [aside] And yet I must.- Bless thy sweet eyes, they bleed.
-  Glou. Know'st thou the way to Dover?
-  Edg. Both stile and gate, horseway and footpath. Poor Tom hath
-been
-     scar'd out of his good wits. Bless thee, good man's son,
-from
-     the foul fiend! Five fiends have been in poor Tom at once:
-of
-     lust, as Obidicut; Hobbididence, prince of dumbness; Mahu,
-of
-     stealing; Modo, of murder; Flibbertigibbet, of mopping and
-     mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and waiting women.
-So,
-     bless thee, master!
-  Glou. Here, take this Purse, thou whom the heavens' plagues
-     Have humbled to all strokes. That I am wretched
-     Makes thee the happier. Heavens, deal so still!
-     Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man,
-     That slaves your ordinance, that will not see
-     Because he does not feel, feel your pow'r quickly;
-     So distribution should undo excess,
-     And each man have enough. Dost thou know Dover?
-  Edg. Ay, master.
-  Glou. There is a cliff, whose high and bending head
-     Looks fearfully in the confined deep.
-     Bring me but to the very brim of it,
-     And I'll repair the misery thou dost bear
-     With something rich about me. From that place
-     I shall no leading need.
-  Edg. Give me thy arm.
-     Poor Tom shall lead thee.
-                                                         Exeunt.
-
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-
-
-Scene II.
-Before the Duke of Albany's Palace.
-
-Enter Goneril and [Edmund the] Bastard.
-
-  Gon. Welcome, my lord. I marvel our mild husband
-     Not met us on the way.
-
-                     Enter [Oswald the] Steward.
-
-     Now, where's your master?
-  Osw. Madam, within, but never man so chang'd.
-     I told him of the army that was landed:
-     He smil'd at it. I told him you were coming:
-     His answer was, 'The worse.' Of Gloucester's treachery
-     And of the loyal service of his son
-     When I inform'd him, then he call'd me sot
-     And told me I had turn'd the wrong side out.
-     What most he should dislike seems pleasant to him;
-     What like, offensive.
-  Gon. [to Edmund] Then shall you go no further.
-     It is the cowish terror of his spirit,
-     That dares not undertake. He'll not feel wrongs
-     Which tie him to an answer. Our wishes on the way
-     May prove effects. Back, Edmund, to my brother.
-     Hasten his musters and conduct his pow'rs.
-     I must change arms at home and give the distaff
-     Into my husband's hands. This trusty servant
-     Shall pass between us. Ere long you are like to hear
-     (If you dare venture in your own behalf)
-     A mistress's command. Wear this.          [Gives a favour.]
-     Spare speech.
-     Decline your head. This kiss, if it durst speak,
-     Would stretch thy spirits up into the air.
-     Conceive, and fare thee well.
-  Edm. Yours in the ranks of death!                        Exit.
-  Gon. My most dear Gloucester!
-     O, the difference of man and man!
-     To thee a woman's services are due;
-     My fool usurps my body.
-  Osw. Madam, here comes my lord.                          Exit.
-
-                            Enter Albany.
-
-  Gon. I have been worth the whistle.
-  Alb. O Goneril,
-     You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
-     Blows in your face! I fear your disposition.
-     That nature which contemns it origin
-     Cannot be bordered certain in itself.
-     She that herself will sliver and disbranch
-     From her material sap, perforce must whether
-     And come to deadly use.
-  Gon. No more! The text is foolish.
-  Alb. Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;
-     Filths savour but themselves. What have you done?
-     Tigers, not daughters, what have you perform'd?
-     A father, and a gracious aged man,
-     Whose reverence even the head-lugg'd bear would lick,
-     Most barbarous, most degenerate, have you madded.
-     Could my good brother suffer you to do it?
-     A man, a prince, by him so benefited!
-     If that the heavens do not their visible spirits
-     Send quickly down to tame these vile offences,
-     It will come,
-     Humanity must perforce prey on itself,
-     Like monsters of the deep.
-  Gon. Milk-liver'd man!
-     That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;
-     Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning
-     Thine honour from thy suffering; that not know'st
-     Fools do those villains pity who are punish'd
-     Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?
-     France spreads his banners in our noiseless land,
-     With plumed helm thy state begins to threat,
-     Whiles thou, a moral fool, sit'st still, and criest
-     'Alack, why does he so?'
-  Alb. See thyself, devil!
-     Proper deformity seems not in the fiend
-     So horrid as in woman.
-  Gon. O vain fool!
-  Alb. Thou changed and self-cover'd thing, for shame!
-     Bemonster not thy feature! Were't my fitness
-     To let these hands obey my blood,
-     They are apt enough to dislocate and tear
-     Thy flesh and bones. Howe'er thou art a fiend,
-     A woman's shape doth shield thee.
-  Gon. Marry, your manhood mew!
-
-                          Enter a Gentleman.
-
-  Alb. What news?
-  Gent. O, my good lord, the Duke of Cornwall 's dead,
-     Slain by his servant, going to put out
-     The other eye of Gloucester.
-  Alb. Gloucester's eyes?
-  Gent. A servant that he bred, thrill'd with remorse,
-     Oppos'd against the act, bending his sword
-     To his great master; who, thereat enrag'd,
-     Flew on him, and amongst them fell'd him dead;
-     But not without that harmful stroke which since
-     Hath pluck'd him after.
-  Alb. This shows you are above,
-     You justicers, that these our nether crimes
-     So speedily can venge! But O poor Gloucester!
-     Lose he his other eye?
-  Gent. Both, both, my lord.
-     This letter, madam, craves a speedy answer.
-     'Tis from your sister.
-  Gon. [aside] One way I like this well;
-     But being widow, and my Gloucester with her,
-     May all the building in my fancy pluck
-     Upon my hateful life. Another way
-     The news is not so tart.- I'll read, and answer.
-Exit.
-  Alb. Where was his son when they did take his eyes?
-  Gent. Come with my lady hither.
-  Alb. He is not here.
-  Gent. No, my good lord; I met him back again.
-  Alb. Knows he the wickedness?
-  Gent. Ay, my good lord. 'Twas he inform'd against him,
-     And quit the house on purpose, that their punishment
-     Might have the freer course.
-  Alb. Gloucester, I live
-     To thank thee for the love thou show'dst the King,
-     And to revenge thine eyes. Come hither, friend.
-     Tell me what more thou know'st.
-                                                         Exeunt.
-
-
-
-
-Scene III.
-The French camp near Dover.
-
-Enter Kent and a Gentleman.
-
-  Kent. Why the King of France is so suddenly gone back know you
-the
-     reason?
-  Gent. Something he left imperfect in the state, which since his
-     coming forth is thought of, which imports to the kingdom so
-much
-     fear and danger that his personal return was most required
-and
-     necessary.
-  Kent. Who hath he left behind him general?
-  Gent. The Marshal of France, Monsieur La Far.
-  Kent. Did your letters pierce the Queen to any demonstration of
-     grief?
-  Gent. Ay, sir. She took them, read them in my presence,
-     And now and then an ample tear trill'd down
-     Her delicate cheek. It seem'd she was a queen
-     Over her passion, who, most rebel-like,
-     Sought to be king o'er her.
-  Kent. O, then it mov'd her?
-  Gent. Not to a rage. Patience and sorrow strove
-     Who should express her goodliest. You have seen
-     Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears
-     Were like, a better way. Those happy smilets
-     That play'd on her ripe lip seem'd not to know
-     What guests were in her eyes, which parted thence
-     As pearls from diamonds dropp'd. In brief,
-     Sorrow would be a rarity most belov'd,
-     If all could so become it.
-  Kent. Made she no verbal question?
-  Gent. Faith, once or twice she heav'd the name of father
-     Pantingly forth, as if it press'd her heart;
-     Cried 'Sisters, sisters! Shame of ladies! Sisters!
-     Kent! father! sisters! What, i' th' storm? i' th' night?
-     Let pity not be believ'd!' There she shook
-     The holy water from her heavenly eyes,
-     And clamour moisten'd. Then away she started
-     To deal with grief alone.
-  Kent. It is the stars,
-     The stars above us, govern our conditions;
-     Else one self mate and mate could not beget
-     Such different issues. You spoke not with her since?
-  Gent. No.
-  Kent. Was this before the King return'd?
-  Gent. No, since.
-  Kent. Well, sir, the poor distressed Lear's i' th' town;
-     Who sometime, in his better tune, remembers
-     What we are come about, and by no means
-     Will yield to see his daughter.
-  Gent. Why, good sir?
-  Kent. A sovereign shame so elbows him; his own unkindness,
-     That stripp'd her from his benediction, turn'd her
-     To foreign casualties, gave her dear rights
-     To his dog-hearted daughters- these things string
-     His mind so venomously that burning shame
-     Detains him from Cordelia.
-  Gent. Alack, poor gentleman!
-  Kent. Of Albany's and Cornwall's powers you heard not?
-  Gent. 'Tis so; they are afoot.
-  Kent. Well, sir, I'll bring you to our master Lear
-     And leave you to attend him. Some dear cause
-     Will in concealment wrap me up awhile.
-     When I am known aright, you shall not grieve
-     Lending me this acquaintance. I pray you go
-     Along with me.                                      Exeunt.
-
-
-
-
-Scene IV.
-The French camp.
-
-Enter, with Drum and Colours, Cordelia, Doctor, and Soldiers.
-
-  Cor. Alack, 'tis he! Why, he was met even now
-     As mad as the vex'd sea, singing aloud,
-     Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow weeds,
-     With hardocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo flow'rs,
-     Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
-     In our sustaining corn. A century send forth.
-     Search every acre in the high-grown field
-     And bring him to our eye. [Exit an Officer.] What can man's
-        wisdom
-     In the restoring his bereaved sense?
-     He that helps him take all my outward worth.
-  Doct. There is means, madam.
-     Our foster nurse of nature is repose,
-     The which he lacks. That to provoke in him
-     Are many simples operative, whose power
-     Will close the eye of anguish.
-  Cor. All blest secrets,
-     All you unpublish'd virtues of the earth,
-     Spring with my tears! be aidant and remediate
-     In the good man's distress! Seek, seek for him!
-     Lest his ungovern'd rage dissolve the life
-     That wants the means to lead it.
-
-                           Enter Messenger.
-
-  Mess. News, madam.
-     The British pow'rs are marching hitherward.
-  Cor. 'Tis known before. Our preparation stands
-     In expectation of them. O dear father,
-     It is thy business that I go about.
-     Therefore great France
-     My mourning and important tears hath pitied.
-     No blown ambition doth our arms incite,
-     But love, dear love, and our ag'd father's right.
-     Soon may I hear and see him!
-                                                         Exeunt.
-
-
-
-
-Scene V.
-Gloucester's Castle.
-
-Enter Regan and [Oswald the] Steward.
-
-  Reg. But are my brother's pow'rs set forth?
-  Osw. Ay, madam.
-  Reg. Himself in person there?
-  Osw. Madam, with much ado.
-     Your sister is the better soldier.
-  Reg. Lord Edmund spake not with your lord at home?
-  Osw. No, madam.
-  Reg. What might import my sister's letter to him?
-  Osw. I know not, lady.
-  Reg. Faith, he is posted hence on serious matter.
-     It was great ignorance, Gloucester's eyes being out,
-     To let him live. Where he arrives he moves
-     All hearts against us. Edmund, I think, is gone,
-     In pity of his misery, to dispatch
-     His nighted life; moreover, to descry
-     The strength o' th' enemy.
-  Osw. I must needs after him, madam, with my letter.
-  Reg. Our troops set forth to-morrow. Stay with us.
-     The ways are dangerous.
-  Osw. I may not, madam.
-     My lady charg'd my duty in this business.
-  Reg. Why should she write to Edmund? Might not you
-     Transport her purposes by word? Belike,
-     Something- I know not what- I'll love thee much-
-     Let me unseal the letter.
-  Osw. Madam, I had rather-
-  Reg. I know your lady does not love her husband;
-     I am sure of that; and at her late being here
-     She gave strange eliads and most speaking looks
-     To noble Edmund. I know you are of her bosom.
-  Osw. I, madam?
-  Reg. I speak in understanding. Y'are! I know't.
-     Therefore I do advise you take this note.
-     My lord is dead; Edmund and I have talk'd,
-     And more convenient is he for my hand
-     Than for your lady's. You may gather more.
-     If you do find him, pray you give him this;
-     And when your mistress hears thus much from you,
-     I pray desire her call her wisdom to her.
-     So farewell.
-     If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor,
-     Preferment falls on him that cuts him off.
-  Osw. Would I could meet him, madam! I should show
-     What party I do follow.
-  Reg. Fare thee well.                                   Exeunt.
-
-
-
-
-Scene VI.
-The country near Dover.
-
-Enter Gloucester, and Edgar [like a Peasant].
-
-  Glou. When shall I come to th' top of that same hill?
-  Edg. You do climb up it now. Look how we labour.
-  Glou. Methinks the ground is even.
-  Edg. Horrible steep.
-     Hark, do you hear the sea?
-  Glou. No, truly.
-  Edg. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect
-     By your eyes' anguish.
-  Glou. So may it be indeed.
-     Methinks thy voice is alter'd, and thou speak'st
-     In better phrase and matter than thou didst.
-  Edg. Y'are much deceiv'd. In nothing am I chang'd
-     But in my garments.
-  Glou. Methinks y'are better spoken.
-  Edg. Come on, sir; here's the place. Stand still. How fearful
-     And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!
-     The crows and choughs that wing the midway air
-     Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down
-     Hangs one that gathers sampire- dreadful trade!
-     Methinks he seems no bigger than his head.
-     The fishermen that walk upon the beach
-     Appear like mice; and yond tall anchoring bark,
-     Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy
-     Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge
-     That on th' unnumb'red idle pebble chafes
-     Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,
-     Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight
-     Topple down headlong.
-  Glou. Set me where you stand.
-  Edg. Give me your hand. You are now within a foot
-     Of th' extreme verge. For all beneath the moon
-     Would I not leap upright.
-  Glou. Let go my hand.
-     Here, friend, is another purse; in it a jewel
-     Well worth a poor man's taking. Fairies and gods
-     Prosper it with thee! Go thou further off;
-     Bid me farewell, and let me hear thee going.
-  Edg. Now fare ye well, good sir.
-  Glou. With all my heart.
-  Edg. [aside]. Why I do trifle thus with his despair
-     Is done to cure it.
-  Glou. O you mighty gods!                            He kneels.
-     This world I do renounce, and, in your sights,
-     Shake patiently my great affliction off.
-     If I could bear it longer and not fall
-     To quarrel with your great opposeless wills,
-     My snuff and loathed part of nature should
-     Burn itself out. If Edgar live, O, bless him!
-     Now, fellow, fare thee well.
-                                  He falls [forward and swoons].
-  Edg. Gone, sir, farewell.-
-     And yet I know not how conceit may rob
-     The treasury of life when life itself
-     Yields to the theft. Had he been where he thought,
-     By this had thought been past.- Alive or dead?
-     Ho you, sir! friend! Hear you, sir? Speak!-
-     Thus might he pass indeed. Yet he revives.
-     What are you, sir?
-  Glou. Away, and let me die.
-  Edg. Hadst thou been aught but gossamer, feathers, air,
-     So many fadom down precipitating,
-     Thou'dst shiver'd like an egg; but thou dost breathe;
-     Hast heavy substance; bleed'st not; speak'st; art sound.
-     Ten masts at each make not the altitude
-     Which thou hast perpendicularly fell.
-     Thy life is a miracle. Speak yet again.
-  Glou. But have I fall'n, or no?
-  Edg. From the dread summit of this chalky bourn.
-     Look up a-height. The shrill-gorg'd lark so far
-     Cannot be seen or heard. Do but look up.
-  Glou. Alack, I have no eyes!
-     Is wretchedness depriv'd that benefit
-     To end itself by death? 'Twas yet some comfort
-     When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage
-     And frustrate his proud will.
-  Edg. Give me your arm.
-     Up- so. How is't? Feel you your legs? You stand.
-  Glou. Too well, too well.
-  Edg. This is above all strangeness.
-     Upon the crown o' th' cliff what thing was that
-     Which parted from you?
-  Glou. A poor unfortunate beggar.
-  Edg. As I stood here below, methought his eyes
-     Were two full moons; he had a thousand noses,
-     Horns whelk'd and wav'd like the enridged sea.
-     It was some fiend. Therefore, thou happy father,
-     Think that the clearest gods, who make them honours
-     Of men's impossibility, have preserv'd thee.
-  Glou. I do remember now. Henceforth I'll bear
-     Affliction 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.
-  Edg. Bear free and patient thoughts.
-
-         Enter Lear, mad, [fantastically dressed with weeds].
-
-     But who comes here?
-     The safer sense will ne'er accommodate
-     His master thus.
-  Lear. No, they cannot touch me for coming;
-     I am the King himself.
-  Edg. O thou side-piercing sight!
-  Lear. Nature 's above art in that respect. There's your press
-     money. That fellow handles his bow like a crow-keeper. Draw
-me
-     a clothier's yard. Look, look, a mouse! Peace, peace; this
-piece
-     of toasted cheese will do't. There's my gauntlet; I'll prove
-it
-     on a giant. Bring up the brown bills. O, well flown, bird!
-i'
-     th' clout, i' th' clout! Hewgh! Give the word.
-  Edg. Sweet marjoram.
-  Lear. Pass.
-  Glou. I know that voice.
-  Lear. Ha! Goneril with a white beard? They flatter'd me like a
-dog,
-     and told me I had white hairs in my beard ere the black ones
-     were there. To say 'ay' and 'no' to everything I said! 'Ay'
-and
-     'no' too was no good divinity. When the rain came to wet me
-     once, and the wind to make me chatter; when the thunder
-would
-     not peace at my bidding; there I found 'em, there I smelt
-'em
-     out. Go to, they are not men o' their words! They told me I
-was
-     everything. 'Tis a lie- I am not ague-proof.
-  Glou. The trick of that voice I do well remember.
-     Is't not the King?
-  Lear. Ay, every inch a king!
-     When I do stare, see how the subject quakes.
-     I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause?
-     Adultery?
-     Thou shalt not die. Die for adultery? No.
-     The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly
-     Does lecher in my sight.
-     Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester's bastard son
-     Was kinder to his father than my daughters
-     Got 'tween the lawful sheets.
-     To't, luxury, pell-mell! for I lack soldiers.
-     Behold yond simp'ring dame,
-     Whose face between her forks presageth snow,
-     That minces virtue, and does shake the head
-     To hear of pleasure's name.
-     The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't
-     With a more riotous appetite.
-     Down from the waist they are Centaurs,
-     Though women all above.
-     But to the girdle do the gods inherit,
-     Beneath is all the fiend's.
-     There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit;
-     burning, scalding, stench, consumption. Fie, fie, fie! pah,
-pah!
-     Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my
-     imagination. There's money for thee.
-  Glou. O, let me kiss that hand!
-  Lear. Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.
-  Glou. O ruin'd piece of nature! This great world
-     Shall so wear out to naught. Dost thou know me?
-  Lear. I remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou squiny at
-me?
-     No, do thy worst, blind Cupid! I'll not love. Read thou this
-     challenge; mark but the penning of it.
-  Glou. Were all the letters suns, I could not see one.
-  Edg. [aside] I would not take this from report. It is,
-     And my heart breaks at it.
-  Lear. Read.
-  Glou. What, with the case of eyes?
-  Lear. O, ho, are you there with me? No eyes in your head, nor
-no
-     money in your purse? Your eyes are in a heavy case, your
-purse
-     in a light. Yet you see how this world goes.
-  Glou. I see it feelingly.
-  Lear. What, art mad? A man may see how the world goes with no
-eyes.
-     Look with thine ears. See how yond justice rails upon yond
-     simple thief. Hark in thine ear. Change places and,
-handy-dandy,
-     which is the justice, which is the thief? Thou hast seen a
-     farmer's dog bark at a beggar?
-  Glou. Ay, sir.
-  Lear. And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst
-behold
-     the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office.
-     Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!
-     Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back.
-     Thou hotly lusts to use her in that kind
-     For which thou whip'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener.
-     Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;
-     Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
-     And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
-     Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it.
-     None does offend, none- I say none! I'll able 'em.
-     Take that of me, my friend, who have the power
-     To seal th' accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes
-     And, like a scurvy politician, seem
-     To see the things thou dost not. Now, now, now, now!
-     Pull off my boots. Harder, harder! So.
-  Edg. O, matter and impertinency mix'd!
-     Reason, in madness!
-  Lear. If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes.
-     I know thee well enough; thy name is Gloucester.
-     Thou must be patient. We came crying hither;
-     Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air
-     We wawl and cry. I will preach to thee. Mark.
-  Glou. Alack, alack the day!
-  Lear. When we are born, we cry that we are come
-     To this great stage of fools. This' a good block.
-     It were a delicate stratagem to shoe
-     A troop of horse with felt. I'll put't in proof,
-     And when I have stol'n upon these sons-in-law,
-     Then kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!
-
-                 Enter a Gentleman [with Attendants].
-
-  Gent. O, here he is! Lay hand upon him.- Sir,
-     Your most dear daughter-
-  Lear. No rescue? What, a prisoner? I am even
-     The natural fool of fortune. Use me well;
-     You shall have ransom. Let me have a surgeon;
-     I am cut to th' brains.
-  Gent. You shall have anything.
-  Lear. No seconds? All myself?
-     Why, this would make a man a man of salt,
-     To use his eyes for garden waterpots,
-     Ay, and laying autumn's dust.
-  Gent. Good sir-
-  Lear. I will die bravely, like a smug bridegroom. What!
-     I will be jovial. Come, come, I am a king;
-     My masters, know you that?
-  Gent. You are a royal one, and we obey you.
-  Lear. Then there's life in't. Nay, an you get it, you shall get
-it
-     by running. Sa, sa, sa, sa!
-                              Exit running. [Attendants follow.]
-  Gent. A sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch,
-     Past speaking of in a king! Thou hast one daughter
-     Who redeems nature from the general curse
-     Which twain have brought her to.
-  Edg. Hail, gentle sir.
-  Gent. Sir, speed you. What's your will?
-  Edg. Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward?
-  Gent. Most sure and vulgar. Every one hears that
-     Which can distinguish sound.
-  Edg. But, by your favour,
-     How near's the other army?
-  Gent. Near and on speedy foot. The main descry
-     Stands on the hourly thought.
-  Edg. I thank you sir. That's all.
-  Gent. Though that the Queen on special cause is here,
-     Her army is mov'd on.
-  Edg. I thank you, sir
-                                               Exit [Gentleman].
-  Glou. You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me;
-     Let not my worse spirit tempt me again
-     To die before you please!
-  Edg. Well pray you, father.
-  Glou. Now, good sir, what are you?
-  Edg. A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows,
-     Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows,
-     Am pregnant to good pity. Give me your hand;
-     I'll lead you to some biding.
-  Glou. Hearty thanks.
-     The bounty and the benison of heaven
-     To boot, and boot!
-
-                     Enter [Oswald the] Steward.
-
-  Osw. A proclaim'd prize! Most happy!
-     That eyeless head of thine was first fram'd flesh
-     To raise my fortunes. Thou old unhappy traitor,
-     Briefly thyself remember. The sword is out
-     That must destroy thee.
-  Glou. Now let thy friendly hand
-     Put strength enough to't.
-                                             [Edgar interposes.]
-  Osw. Wherefore, bold peasant,
-     Dar'st thou support a publish'd traitor? Hence!
-     Lest that th' infection of his fortune take
-     Like hold on thee. Let go his arm.
-  Edg. Chill not let go, zir, without vurther 'cagion.
-  Osw. Let go, slave, or thou diest!
-  Edg. Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor voke pass. An
-chud
-     ha' bin zwagger'd out of my life, 'twould not ha' bin zo
-long as
-     'tis by a vortnight. Nay, come not near th' old man. Keep
-out,
-     che vore ye, or Ise try whether your costard or my ballow be
-the
-     harder. Chill be plain with you.
-  Osw. Out, dunghill!
-                                                     They fight.
-  Edg. Chill pick your teeth, zir. Come! No matter vor your
-foins.
-                                                 [Oswald falls.]
-  Osw. Slave, thou hast slain me. Villain, take my purse.
-     If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body,
-     And give the letters which thou find'st about me
-     To Edmund Earl of Gloucester. Seek him out
-     Upon the British party. O, untimely death! Death!
-                                                        He dies.
-  Edg. I know thee well. A serviceable villain,
-     As duteous to the vices of thy mistress
-     As badness would desire.
-  Glou. What, is he dead?
-  Edg. Sit you down, father; rest you.
-     Let's see his pockets; these letters that he speaks of
-     May be my friends. He's dead. I am only sorry
-     He had no other deathsman. Let us see.
-     Leave, gentle wax; and, manners, blame us not.
-     To know our enemies' minds, we'ld rip their hearts;
-     Their papers, is more lawful.             Reads the letter.
-
-       'Let our reciprocal vows be rememb'red. You have many
-     opportunities to cut him off. If your will want not, time
-and
-     place will be fruitfully offer'd. There is nothing done, if
-he
-     return the conqueror. Then am I the prisoner, and his bed my
-     jail; from the loathed warmth whereof deliver me, and supply
-the
-     place for your labour.
-           'Your (wife, so I would say) affectionate servant,
-
-'Goneril.'
-
-     O indistinguish'd space of woman's will!
-     A plot upon her virtuous husband's life,
-     And the exchange my brother! Here in the sands
-     Thee I'll rake up, the post unsanctified
-     Of murtherous lechers; and in the mature time
-     With this ungracious paper strike the sight
-     Of the death-practis'd Duke, For him 'tis well
-     That of thy death and business I can tell.
-  Glou. The King is mad. How stiff is my vile sense,
-     That I stand up, and have ingenious feeling
-     Of my huge sorrows! Better I were distract.
-     So should my thoughts be sever'd from my griefs,
-     And woes by wrong imaginations lose
-     The knowledge of themselves.
-                                                A drum afar off.
-  Edg. Give me your hand.
-     Far off methinks I hear the beaten drum.
-     Come, father, I'll bestow you with a friend.        Exeunt.
-
-
-
-
-Scene VII.
-A tent in the French camp.
-
-Enter Cordelia, Kent, Doctor, and Gentleman.
-
-  Cor. O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work
-     To match thy goodness? My life will be too short
-     And every measure fail me.
-  Kent. To be acknowledg'd, madam, is o'erpaid.
-     All my reports go with the modest truth;
-     Nor more nor clipp'd, but so.
-  Cor. Be better suited.
-     These weeds are memories of those worse hours.
-     I prithee put them off.
-  Kent. Pardon, dear madam.
-     Yet to be known shortens my made intent.
-     My boon I make it that you know me not
-     Till time and I think meet.
-  Cor. Then be't so, my good lord. [To the Doctor] How, does the
-King?
-  Doct. Madam, sleeps still.
-  Cor. O you kind gods,
-     Cure this great breach in his abused nature!
-     Th' untun'd and jarring senses, O, wind up
-     Of this child-changed father!
-  Doct. So please your Majesty
-     That we may wake the King? He hath slept long.
-  Cor. Be govern'd by your knowledge, and proceed
-     I' th' sway of your own will. Is he array'd?
-
-              Enter Lear in a chair carried by Servants.
-
-  Gent. Ay, madam. In the heaviness of sleep
-     We put fresh garments on him.
-  Doct. Be by, good madam, when we do awake him.
-     I doubt not of his temperance.
-  Cor. Very well.
-                                                          Music.
-  Doct. Please you draw near. Louder the music there!
-  Cor. O my dear father, restoration hang
-     Thy medicine on my lips, and let this kiss
-     Repair those violent harms that my two sisters
-     Have in thy reverence made!
-  Kent. Kind and dear princess!
-  Cor. Had you not been their father, these white flakes
-     Had challeng'd pity of them. Was this a face
-     To be oppos'd against the warring winds?
-     To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?
-     In the most terrible and nimble stroke
-     Of quick cross lightning? to watch- poor perdu!-
-     With this thin helm? Mine enemy's dog,
-     Though he had bit me, should have stood that night
-     Against my fire; and wast thou fain, poor father,
-     To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn,
-     In short and musty straw? Alack, alack!
-     'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once
-     Had not concluded all.- He wakes. Speak to him.
-  Doct. Madam, do you; 'tis fittest.
-  Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your Majesty?
-  Lear. You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave.
-     Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
-     Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
-     Do scald like molten lead.
-  Cor. Sir, do you know me?
-  Lear. You are a spirit, I know. When did you die?
-  Cor. Still, still, far wide!
-  Doct. He's scarce awake. Let him alone awhile.
-  Lear. Where have I been? Where am I? Fair daylight,
-     I am mightily abus'd. I should e'en die with pity,
-     To see another thus. I know not what to say.
-     I will not swear these are my hands. Let's see.
-     I feel this pin prick. Would I were assur'd
-     Of my condition!
-  Cor. O, look upon me, sir,
-     And hold your hands in benediction o'er me.
-     No, sir, you must not kneel.
-  Lear. Pray, do not mock me.
-     I am a very foolish fond old man,
-     Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;
-     And, to deal plainly,
-     I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
-     Methinks I should know you, and know this man;
-     Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant
-     What place this is; and all the skill I have
-     Remembers not these garments; nor I know not
-     Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me;
-     For (as I am a man) I think this lady
-     To be my child Cordelia.
-  Cor. And so I am! I am!
-  Lear. Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray weep not.
-     If you have poison for me, I will drink it.
-     I know you do not love me; for your sisters
-     Have, as I do remember, done me wrong.
-     You have some cause, they have not.
-  Cor. No cause, no cause.
-  Lear. Am I in France?
-  Kent. In your own kingdom, sir.
-  Lear. Do not abuse me.
-  Doct. Be comforted, good madam. The great rage
-     You see is kill'd in him; and yet it is danger
-     To make him even o'er the time he has lost.
-     Desire him to go in. Trouble him no more
-     Till further settling.
-  Cor. Will't please your Highness walk?
-  Lear. You must bear with me.
-     Pray you now, forget and forgive. I am old and foolish.
-                              Exeunt. Manent Kent and Gentleman.
-  Gent. Holds it true, sir, that the Duke of Cornwall was so
-slain?
-  Kent. Most certain, sir.
-  Gent. Who is conductor of his people?
-  Kent. As 'tis said, the bastard son of Gloucester.
-  Gent. They say Edgar, his banish'd son, is with the Earl of
-Kent
-     in Germany.
-  Kent. Report is changeable. 'Tis time to look about; the powers
-of
-     the kingdom approach apace.
-  Gent. The arbitrement is like to be bloody.
-     Fare you well, sir.                                 [Exit.]
-  Kent. My point and period will be thoroughly wrought,
-     Or well or ill, as this day's battle's fought.        Exit.
-
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-ACT V. Scene I.
-The British camp near Dover.
-
-Enter, with Drum and Colours, Edmund, Regan, Gentleman, and
-Soldiers.
-
-  Edm. Know of the Duke if his last purpose hold,
-     Or whether since he is advis'd by aught
-     To change the course. He's full of alteration
-     And self-reproving. Bring his constant pleasure.
-                                              [Exit an Officer.]
-  Reg. Our sister's man is certainly miscarried.
-  Edm. Tis to be doubted, madam.
-  Reg. Now, sweet lord,
-     You know the goodness I intend upon you.
-     Tell me- but truly- but then speak the truth-
-     Do you not love my sister?
-  Edm. In honour'd love.
-  Reg. But have you never found my brother's way
-     To the forfended place?
-  Edm. That thought abuses you.
-  Reg. I am doubtful that you have been conjunct
-     And bosom'd with her, as far as we call hers.
-  Edm. No, by mine honour, madam.
-  Reg. I never shall endure her. Dear my lord,
-     Be not familiar with her.
-  Edm. Fear me not.
-     She and the Duke her husband!
-
-       Enter, with Drum and Colours, Albany, Goneril, Soldiers.
-
-  Gon. [aside] I had rather lose the battle than that sister
-     Should loosen him and me.
-  Alb. Our very loving sister, well bemet.
-     Sir, this I hear: the King is come to his daughter,
-     With others whom the rigour of our state
-     Forc'd to cry out. Where I could not be honest,
-     I never yet was valiant. For this business,
-     It toucheth us as France invades our land,
-     Not bolds the King, with others whom, I fear,
-     Most just and heavy causes make oppose.
-  Edm. Sir, you speak nobly.
-  Reg. Why is this reason'd?
-  Gon. Combine together 'gainst the enemy;
-     For these domestic and particular broils
-     Are not the question here.
-  Alb. Let's then determine
-     With th' ancient of war on our proceeding.
-  Edm. I shall attend you presently at your tent.
-  Reg. Sister, you'll go with us?
-  Gon. No.
-  Reg. 'Tis most convenient. Pray you go with us.
-  Gon. [aside] O, ho, I know the riddle.- I will go.
-
-          [As they are going out,] enter Edgar [disguised].
-
-  Edg. If e'er your Grace had speech with man so poor,
-     Hear me one word.
-  Alb. I'll overtake you.- Speak.
-                              Exeunt [all but Albany and Edgar].
-  Edg. Before you fight the battle, ope this letter.
-     If you have victory, let the trumpet sound
-     For him that brought it. Wretched though I seem,
-     I can produce a champion that will prove
-     What is avouched there. If you miscarry,
-     Your business of the world hath so an end,
-     And machination ceases. Fortune love you!
-  Alb. Stay till I have read the letter.
-  Edg. I was forbid it.
-     When time shall serve, let but the herald cry,
-     And I'll appear again.
-  Alb. Why, fare thee well. I will o'erlook thy paper.
-                                                   Exit [Edgar].
-
-                            Enter Edmund.
-
-  Edm. The enemy 's in view; draw up your powers.
-     Here is the guess of their true strength and forces
-     By diligent discovery; but your haste
-     Is now urg'd on you.
-  Alb. We will greet the time.                             Exit.
-  Edm. To both these sisters have I sworn my love;
-     Each jealous of the other, as the stung
-     Are of the adder. Which of them shall I take?
-     Both? one? or neither? Neither can be enjoy'd,
-     If both remain alive. To take the widow
-     Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril;
-     And hardly shall I carry out my side,
-     Her husband being alive. Now then, we'll use
-     His countenance for the battle, which being done,
-     Let her who would be rid of him devise
-     His speedy taking off. As for the mercy
-     Which he intends to Lear and to Cordelia-
-     The battle done, and they within our power,
-     Shall never see his pardon; for my state
-     Stands on me to defend, not to debate.                Exit.
-
-
-
-
-Scene II.
-A field between the two camps.
-
-Alarum within. Enter, with Drum and Colours, the Powers of France
-over the stage, Cordelia with her Father in her hand, and exeunt.
-
-Enter Edgar and Gloucester.
-
-  Edg. 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.
-  Glou. Grace go with you, sir!
-                                                   Exit [Edgar].
-
-               Alarum and retreat within. Enter Edgar,
-
-  Edg. Away, old man! give me thy hand! away!
-     King Lear hath lost, he and his daughter ta'en.
-     Give me thy hand! come on!
-  Glou. No further, sir. A man may rot even here.
-  Edg. What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure
-     Their going hence, even as their coming hither;
-     Ripeness is all. Come on.
-  Glou. And that's true too.                             Exeunt.
-
-
-
-
-Scene III.
-The British camp, near Dover.
-
-Enter, in conquest, with Drum and Colours, Edmund; Lear and
-Cordelia
-as prisoners; Soldiers, Captain.
-
-  Edm. Some officers take them away. Good guard
-     Until their greater pleasures first be known
-     That are to censure them.
-  Cor. We are not the first
-     Who with best meaning have incurr'd the worst.
-     For thee, oppressed king, am I cast down;
-     Myself could else outfrown false Fortune's frown.
-     Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?
-  Lear. No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison.
-     We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage.
-     When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down
-     And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live,
-     And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
-     At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
-     Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too-
-     Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out-
-     And take upon 's the mystery of things,
-     As if we were God's spies; and we'll wear out,
-     In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones
-     That ebb and flow by th' moon.
-  Edm. Take them away.
-  Lear. Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia,
-     The gods themselves throw incense. Have I caught thee?
-     He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven
-     And fire us hence like foxes. Wipe thine eyes.
-     The goodyears shall devour 'em, flesh and fell,
-     Ere they shall make us weep! We'll see 'em starv'd first.
-     Come.                  Exeunt [Lear and Cordelia, guarded].
-  Edm. Come hither, Captain; hark.
-     Take thou this note [gives a paper]. Go follow them to
-prison.
-     One step I have advanc'd thee. If thou dost
-     As this instructs thee, thou dost make thy way
-     To noble fortunes. Know thou this, that men
-     Are as the time is. To be tender-minded
-     Does not become a sword. Thy great employment
-     Will not bear question. Either say thou'lt do't,
-     Or thrive by other means.
-  Capt. I'll do't, my lord.
-  Edm. About it! and write happy when th' hast done.
-     Mark- I say, instantly; and carry it so
-     As I have set it down.
-  Capt. I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats;
-     If it be man's work, I'll do't.                       Exit.
-
-          Flourish. Enter Albany, Goneril, Regan, Soldiers.
-
-  Alb. Sir, you have show'd to-day your valiant strain,
-     And fortune led you well. You have the captives
-     Who were the opposites of this day's strife.
-     We do require them of you, so to use them
-     As we shall find their merits and our safety
-     May equally determine.
-  Edm. Sir, I thought it fit
-     To send the old and miserable King
-     To some retention and appointed guard;
-     Whose age has charms in it, whose title more,
-     To pluck the common bosom on his side
-     And turn our impress'd lances in our eyes
-     Which do command them. With him I sent the Queen,
-     My reason all the same; and they are ready
-     To-morrow, or at further space, t' appear
-     Where you shall hold your session. At this time
-     We sweat and bleed: the friend hath lost his friend;
-     And the best quarrels, in the heat, are curs'd
-     By those that feel their sharpness.
-     The question of Cordelia and her father
-     Requires a fitter place.
-  Alb. Sir, by your patience,
-     I hold you but a subject of this war,
-     Not as a brother.
-  Reg. That's as we list to grace him.
-     Methinks our pleasure might have been demanded
-     Ere you had spoke so far. He led our powers,
-     Bore the commission of my place and person,
-     The which immediacy may well stand up
-     And call itself your brother.
-  Gon. Not so hot!
-     In his own grace he doth exalt himself
-     More than in your addition.
-  Reg. In my rights
-     By me invested, he compeers the best.
-  Gon. That were the most if he should husband you.
-  Reg. Jesters do oft prove prophets.
-  Gon. Holla, holla!
-     That eye that told you so look'd but asquint.
-  Reg. Lady, I am not well; else I should answer
-     From a full-flowing stomach. General,
-     Take thou my soldiers, prisoners, patrimony;
-     Dispose of them, of me; the walls are thine.
-     Witness the world that I create thee here
-     My lord and master.
-  Gon. Mean you to enjoy him?
-  Alb. The let-alone lies not in your good will.
-  Edm. Nor in thine, lord.
-  Alb. Half-blooded fellow, yes.
-  Reg. [to Edmund] Let the drum strike, and prove my title thine.
-
-  Alb. Stay yet; hear reason. Edmund, I arrest thee
-     On capital treason; and, in thine attaint,
-     This gilded serpent [points to Goneril]. For your claim,
-fair
-        sister,
-     I bar it in the interest of my wife.
-     'Tis she is subcontracted to this lord,
-     And I, her husband, contradict your banes.
-     If you will marry, make your loves to me;
-     My lady is bespoke.
-  Gon. An interlude!
-  Alb. Thou art arm'd, Gloucester. Let the trumpet sound.
-     If none appear to prove upon thy person
-     Thy heinous, manifest, and many treasons,
-     There is my pledge [throws down a glove]! I'll prove it on
-thy
-        heart,
-     Ere I taste bread, thou art in nothing less
-     Than I have here proclaim'd thee.
-  Reg. Sick, O, sick!
-  Gon. [aside] If not, I'll ne'er trust medicine.
-  Edm. There's my exchange [throws down a glove]. What in the
-world
-        he is
-     That names me traitor, villain-like he lies.
-     Call by thy trumpet. He that dares approach,
-     On him, on you, who not? I will maintain
-     My truth and honour firmly.
-  Alb. A herald, ho!
-  Edm. A herald, ho, a herald!
-  Alb. Trust to thy single virtue; for thy soldiers,
-     All levied in my name, have in my name
-     Took their discharge.
-  Reg. My sickness grows upon me.
-  Alb. She is not well. Convey her to my tent.
-                                              [Exit Regan, led.]
-
-                           Enter a Herald.
-
-     Come hither, herald. Let the trumpet sound,
-     And read out this.
-  Capt. Sound, trumpet!                        A trumpet sounds.
-
-  Her. (reads) 'If any man of quality or degree within the lists
-of
-     the army will maintain upon Edmund, supposed Earl of
-Gloucester,
-     that he is a manifold traitor, let him appear by the third
-sound
-     of the trumpet. He is bold in his defence.'
-
-  Edm. Sound!                                     First trumpet.
-  Her. Again!                                    Second trumpet.
-  Her. Again!                                     Third trumpet.
-                                         Trumpet answers within.
-
-    Enter Edgar, armed, at the third sound, a Trumpet before him.
-
-  Alb. Ask him his purposes, why he appears
-     Upon this call o' th' trumpet.
-  Her. What are you?
-     Your name, your quality? and why you answer
-     This present summons?
-  Edg. Know my name is lost;
-     By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit.
-     Yet am I noble as the adversary
-     I come to cope.
-  Alb. Which is that adversary?
-  Edg. What's he that speaks for Edmund Earl of Gloucester?
-  Edm. Himself. What say'st thou to him?
-  Edg. Draw thy sword,
-     That, if my speech offend a noble heart,
-     Thy arm may do thee justice. Here is mine.
-     Behold, it is the privilege of mine honours,
-     My oath, and my profession. I protest-
-     Maugre thy strength, youth, place, and eminence,
-     Despite thy victor sword and fire-new fortune,
-     Thy valour and thy heart- thou art a traitor;
-     False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father;
-     Conspirant 'gainst this high illustrious prince;
-     And from th' extremest upward of thy head
-     To the descent and dust beneath thy foot,
-     A most toad-spotted traitor. Say thou 'no,'
-     This sword, this arm, and my best spirits are bent
-     To prove upon thy heart, whereto I speak,
-     Thou liest.
-  Edm. In wisdom I should ask thy name;
-     But since thy outside looks so fair and warlike,
-     And that thy tongue some say of breeding breathes,
-     What safe and nicely I might well delay
-     By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.
-     Back do I toss those treasons to thy head;
-     With the hell-hated lie o'erwhelm thy heart;
-     Which- for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise-
-     This sword of mine shall give them instant way
-     Where they shall rest for ever. Trumpets, speak!
-                                 Alarums. Fight. [Edmund falls.]
-  Alb. Save him, save him!
-  Gon. This is mere practice, Gloucester.
-     By th' law of arms thou wast not bound to answer
-     An unknown opposite. Thou art not vanquish'd,
-     But cozen'd and beguil'd.
-  Alb. Shut your mouth, dame,
-     Or with this paper shall I stop it. [Shows her letter to
-     Edmund.]- [To Edmund]. Hold, sir.
-     [To Goneril] Thou worse than any name, read thine own evil.
-     No tearing, lady! I perceive you know it.
-  Gon. Say if I do- the laws are mine, not thine.
-     Who can arraign me for't?
-  Alb. Most monstrous!
-     Know'st thou this paper?
-  Gon. Ask me not what I know.                             Exit.
-  Alb. Go after her. She's desperate; govern her.
-                                              [Exit an Officer.]
-  Edm. What, you have charg'd me with, that have I done,
-     And more, much more. The time will bring it out.
-     'Tis past, and so am I.- But what art thou
-     That hast this fortune on me? If thou'rt noble,
-     I do forgive thee.
-  Edg. Let's exchange charity.
-     I am no less in blood than thou art, Edmund;
-     If more, the more th' hast wrong'd me.
-     My name is Edgar and thy father's son.
-     The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
-     Make instruments to scourge us.
-     The dark and vicious place where thee he got
-     Cost him his eyes.
-  Edm. Th' hast spoken right; 'tis true.
-     The wheel is come full circle; I am here.
-  Alb. Methought thy very gait did prophesy
-     A royal nobleness. I must embrace thee.
-     Let sorrow split my heart if ever I
-     Did hate thee, or thy father!
-  Edg. Worthy prince, I know't.
-  Alb. Where have you hid yourself?
-     How have you known the miseries of your father?
-  Edg. By nursing them, my lord. List a brief tale;
-     And when 'tis told, O that my heart would burst!
-     The bloody proclamation to escape
-     That follow'd me so near (O, our lives' sweetness!
-     That with the pain of death would hourly die
-     Rather than die at once!) taught me to shift
-     Into a madman's rags, t' assume a semblance
-     That very dogs disdain'd; and in this habit
-     Met I my father with his bleeding rings,
-     Their precious stones new lost; became his guide,
-     Led him, begg'd for him, sav'd him from despair;
-     Never (O fault!) reveal'd myself unto him
-     Until some half hour past, when I was arm'd,
-     Not sure, though hoping of this good success,
-     I ask'd his blessing, and from first to last
-     Told him my pilgrimage. But his flaw'd heart
-     (Alack, too weak the conflict to support!)
-     'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,
-     Burst smilingly.
-  Edm. This speech of yours hath mov'd me,
-     And shall perchance do good; but speak you on;
-     You look as you had something more to say.
-  Alb. If there be more, more woful, hold it in;
-     For I am almost ready to dissolve,
-     Hearing of this.
-  Edg. This would have seem'd a period
-     To such as love not sorrow; but another,
-     To amplify too much, would make much more,
-     And top extremity.
-     Whilst I was big in clamour, came there a man,
-     Who, having seen me in my worst estate,
-     Shunn'd my abhorr'd society; but then, finding
-     Who 'twas that so endur'd, with his strong arms
-     He fastened on my neck, and bellowed out
-     As he'd burst heaven; threw him on my father;
-     Told the most piteous tale of Lear and him
-     That ever ear receiv'd; which in recounting
-     His grief grew puissant, and the strings of life
-     Began to crack. Twice then the trumpets sounded,
-     And there I left him tranc'd.
-  Alb. But who was this?
-  Edg. Kent, sir, the banish'd Kent; who in disguise
-     Followed his enemy king and did him service
-     Improper for a slave.
-
-                Enter a Gentleman with a bloody knife.
-
-  Gent. Help, help! O, help!
-  Edg. What kind of help?
-  Alb. Speak, man.
-  Edg. What means that bloody knife?
-  Gent. 'Tis hot, it smokes.
-     It came even from the heart of- O! she's dead!
-  Alb. Who dead? Speak, man.
-  Gent. Your lady, sir, your lady! and her sister
-     By her is poisoned; she hath confess'd it.
-  Edm. I was contracted to them both. All three
-     Now marry in an instant.
-
-                             Enter Kent.
-
-  Edg. Here comes Kent.
-  Alb. Produce their bodies, be they alive or dead.
-                                               [Exit Gentleman.]
-     This judgement of the heavens, that makes us tremble
-     Touches us not with pity. O, is this he?
-     The time will not allow the compliment
-     That very manners urges.
-  Kent. I am come
-     To bid my king and master aye good night.
-     Is he not here?
-  Alb. Great thing of us forgot!
-     Speak, Edmund, where's the King? and where's Cordelia?
-                 The bodies of Goneril and Regan are brought in.
-     Seest thou this object, Kent?
-  Kent. Alack, why thus?
-  Edm. Yet Edmund was belov'd.
-     The one the other poisoned for my sake,
-     And after slew herself.
-  Alb. Even so. Cover their faces.
-  Edm. I pant for life. Some good I mean to do,
-     Despite of mine own nature. Quickly send
-     (Be brief in't) to the castle; for my writ
-     Is on the life of Lear and on Cordelia.
-     Nay, send in time.
-  Alb. Run, run, O, run!
-  Edg. To who, my lord? Who has the office? Send
-     Thy token of reprieve.
-  Edm. Well thought on. Take my sword;
-     Give it the Captain.
-  Alb. Haste thee for thy life.                    [Exit Edgar.]
-  Edm. He hath commission from thy wife and me
-     To hang Cordelia in the prison and
-     To lay the blame upon her own despair
-     That she fordid herself.
-  Alb. The gods defend her! Bear him hence awhile.
-                                          [Edmund is borne off.]
-
-    Enter Lear, with Cordelia [dead] in his arms, [Edgar,
-Captain,
-                        and others following].
-
-  Lear. Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stone.
-     Had I your tongues and eyes, I'ld use them so
-     That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever!
-     I know when one is dead, and when one lives.
-     She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking glass.
-     If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,
-     Why, then she lives.
-  Kent. Is this the promis'd end?
-  Edg. Or image of that horror?
-  Alb. Fall and cease!
-  Lear. This feather stirs; she lives! If it be so,
-     It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows
-     That ever I have felt.
-  Kent. O my good master!
-  Lear. Prithee away!
-  Edg. 'Tis noble Kent, your friend.
-  Lear. A plague upon you, murderers, traitors all!
-     I might have sav'd her; now she's gone for ever!
-     Cordelia, Cordelia! stay a little. Ha!
-     What is't thou say'st, Her voice was ever soft,
-     Gentle, and low- an excellent thing in woman.
-     I kill'd the slave that was a-hanging thee.
-  Capt. 'Tis true, my lords, he did.
-  Lear. Did I not, fellow?
-     I have seen the day, with my good biting falchion
-     I would have made them skip. I am old now,
-     And these same crosses spoil me. Who are you?
-     Mine eyes are not o' th' best. I'll tell you straight.
-  Kent. If fortune brag of two she lov'd and hated,
-     One of them we behold.
-  Lear. This' a dull sight. Are you not Kent?
-  Kent. The same-
-     Your servant Kent. Where is your servant Caius?
-  Lear. He's a good fellow, I can tell you that.
-     He'll strike, and quickly too. He's dead and rotten.
-  Kent. No, my good lord; I am the very man-
-  Lear. I'll see that straight.
-  Kent. That from your first of difference and decay
-     Have followed your sad steps.
-  Lear. You're welcome hither.
-  Kent. Nor no man else! All's cheerless, dark, and deadly.
-     Your eldest daughters have fordone themselves,
-     And desperately are dead.
-  Lear. Ay, so I think.
-  Alb. He knows not what he says; and vain is it
-     That we present us to him.
-  Edg. Very bootless.
-
-                           Enter a Captain.
-
-  Capt. Edmund is dead, my lord.
-  Alb. That's but a trifle here.
-     You lords and noble friends, know our intent.
-     What comfort to this great decay may come
-     Shall be applied. For us, we will resign,
-     During the life of this old Majesty,
-     To him our absolute power; [to Edgar and Kent] you to your
-        rights;
-     With boot, and Such addition as your honours
-     Have more than merited.- All friends shall taste
-     The wages of their virtue, and all foes
-     The cup of their deservings.- O, see, see!
-  Lear. And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life!
-     Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,
-     And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more,
-     Never, never, never, never, never!
-     Pray you undo this button. Thank you, sir.
-     Do you see this? Look on her! look! her lips!
-     Look there, look there!                            He dies.
-  Edg. He faints! My lord, my lord!
-  Kent. Break, heart; I prithee break!
-  Edg. Look up, my lord.
-  Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him
-     That would upon the rack of this tough world
-     Stretch him out longer.
-  Edg. He is gone indeed.
-  Kent. The wonder is, he hath endur'd so long.
-     He but usurp'd his life.
-  Alb. Bear them from hence. Our present business
-     Is general woe. [To Kent and Edgar] Friends of my soul, you
-        twain
-     Rule in this realm, and the gor'd state sustain.
-  Kent. I have a journey, sir, shortly to go.
-     My master calls me; I must not say no.
-  Alb. The weight of this sad time we must obey,
-     Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
-     The oldest have borne most; we that are young
-     Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
-                                       Exeunt with a dead march.
-
-
-THE END
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-{
-    "defaultEnvironment": {},
-    "image": "gcr.io/dataflow-interns/wordcount-template:latest",
-    "metadata": {
-        "description": "An example pipeline that counts words in the input file.",
-        "name": "Word Count",
-        "parameters": [
-            {
-                "helpText": "Path of the file pattern glob to read from - for example, gs://dataflow-samples/shakespeare/kinglear.txt",
-                "label": "Input Cloud Storage file(s)",
-                "name": "inputFile",
-                "regexes": [
-                    "^gs:\\/\\/[^\\n\\r]+$"
-                ]
-            },
-            {
-                "helpText": "Path and filename prefix for writing output files - for example, gs://MyBucket/counts",
-                "label": "Output Cloud Storage file(s)",
-                "name": "output",
-                "regexes": [
-                    "^gs:\\/\\/[^\\n\\r]+$"
-                ]
-            }
-        ]
-    },
-    "sdkInfo": {
-        "language": "JAVA"
-    }
-}