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What eye but drops the pitying Tear | What eye but drops the pitying Tear | ||
When poor abandoned Royal | When poor abandoned Royal Lear | ||
Exclaims in accents wild | Exclaims in accents wild- | ||
"Unlookid for, melancholy truth! | "Unlookid for, melancholy truth! | ||
"O! how much sharper than | "O! how much sharper than a serpents tooth, | ||
"it is to love a thankless Child! | "it is to love a thankless Child! | ||
Thus spoke the King, his beams of glory shorn, | Thus spoke the King, his beams of glory shorn, | ||
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Deserted in his utmost need | Deserted in his utmost need | ||
By those his former bounty fed. | By those his former bounty fed. | ||
The striking portrait | The striking portrait Shakespear drew-Not I- | ||
[Omund?], do thou, and thy [compreers?]apply. | |||
Ye who abuse the noblest gifts of God | |||
Who strain your [powers?] to him from virtues's road | |||
A Prines, whose unsuspecting mind | |||
Vainly in you would kindred likeness find; | |||
O may the Royal Youth, unmasked, behold | |||
Those Venal flatt'rers for expectant Gold! | |||
Torn with remorse he'd quit the devious way, | |||
And curse those [arts?] that led his youth astray; | |||
Onse more a nation's confidence enjoy, | |||
A Father's and a peoples Joy; | |||
And give new force unto the grateful [chain?] | |||
Which says,"Old Lear shall be King again | |||
{Five flourishes] | |||
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A Truth 113 [five flourishes]
What eye but drops the pitying Tear When poor abandoned Royal Lear Exclaims in accents wild- "Unlookid for, melancholy truth! "O! how much sharper than a serpents tooth, "it is to love a thankless Child! Thus spoke the King, his beams of glory shorn, An helpless outcast, destitute, forlorn; Deserted in his utmost need By those his former bounty fed. The striking portrait Shakespear drew-Not I- [Omund?], do thou, and thy [compreers?]apply.
Ye who abuse the noblest gifts of God
Who strain your [powers?] to him from virtues's road A Prines, whose unsuspecting mind Vainly in you would kindred likeness find; O may the Royal Youth, unmasked, behold Those Venal flatt'rers for expectant Gold! Torn with remorse he'd quit the devious way, And curse those [arts?] that led his youth astray;
Onse more a nation's confidence enjoy,
A Father's and a peoples Joy;
And give new force unto the grateful [chain?] Which says,"Old Lear shall be King again
{Five flourishes]