King Lear

part I understand them, are to blame.

GLOUCESTER. Let’s see, let’s see!

EDMUND. I hope, for my brother’s justification, he wrote this but as an essay, or taste of my virtue.

GLOUCESTER. [_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 f...