Kent. I have a journey, fir, fhortly to gỗ; My mafter calls, and I muft not fay, noi.

Alb. The weight of this fad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to fay. 1 The oldeft hath born moft; we that are young,

m

Shall never fee fo much, nor live fo long.

"[Exeunt with a dead march,

h So the qu's; the rest calls me, I must not, &c.

i Here all but the qu's and H. make Kent die. But this direction is jufily Jeft out; for Kent only declines the share in the government offered him by Albany, on account of his age: how unexpectedly and aukwardly would he die, after faying only, he had a journey shortly to go, and without bidding farewel, or difcovering any fymptoms of death.

k The fo's and R. give this fpeech to Edgar.

1 The two last lines, as they stand, are filly and false; and are only in ferted that any one may alter them for the better if he can. H. has not made them a jot better by the following alteration,

The oldeft hath born moft; we that are young

Shall never see so much, live e'er so long.

The qu's read have for hath.

This direction is not in the qu's.

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