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O cruel! O you gods!
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Oh, so cruel! Oh dear gods!
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REGAN
70One side will mock another—th' other too.
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REGAN Now he’s a little crooked. Gouge out the other eye too.
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CORNWALL If you see vengeance—
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CORNWALL If you see vengeance—
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FIRST SERVANT Hold your hand, my lord!
I have served you ever since I was a child.
But better service have I never done you
75Than now to bid you hold.
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FIRST SERVANT Stop, my lord! I’ve served you since childhood, but I’ve never done you a better service than telling you to stop.
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REGAN How now, you dog?
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REGAN What’s this, you dog?
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FIRST SERVANT If you did wear a beard upon your chin,
I’d shake it on this quarrel. What do you mean?
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FIRST SERVANT I am willing to fight you if I must. What do you mean by all this?
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CORNWALL My villein!
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CORNWALL My peasant, acting like this?
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FIRST SERVANT Nay then, come on, and take the chance of anger.
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FIRST SERVANT Come on then. Over my dead body.
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FIRST SERVANT and CORNWALL draw and fight CORNWALL is wounded
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The FIRST SERVANT and CORNWALL draw swords and fight. CORNWALL is wounded.
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REGAN
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(to another servant)
Give me thy sword.—A peasant stand up thus?
(takes a sword, runs at FIRST SERVANT behind, and kills him)
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REGAN
(to another servant) Give me your sword.—A lowly peasant defying his lord like this?
She takes a sword and stabs the FIRST SERVANT from behind, killing him.
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FIRST SERVANT Oh, I am slain!—My lord, you have one eye left
To see some mischief on him. Oh!
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(dies)
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FIRST SERVANT I am dying!—My lord, you still have one eye left to see Cornwall punished. Oh!(he dies)
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CORNWALL Lest it see more, prevent it.—Out, vile jelly!
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CORNWALL We’ll just have to stop him from seeing ever again. Out, vile jelly, pop out of your eye sockets!
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