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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9]

Note 4512 — Scene VII. A tent in the French camp. Lear on a bed asleep, soft music playing; Gentleman, and others attending.

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Fourscore ... less;] One line in Knight. Two, the first ending upward, in Ff. Capell ends the lines upward ... plainly, reading with Ff.

Fourscore] Fourscore years Keightley, reading the rest as Qq.

not ... less;] Omitted in Qq, which read Fourscore ... plainly as one line.

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