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and thy virtues here I seize upon. Thy dowerless daughter, King, is
(Queen of us—of ours, and our fair France.”

“Take her, take her,” said the King ; ‘‘for [ have no such daughter,
and will never see that face of hers again.” .

So Cordelia became Queen of France, and the Earl of Kent, for
having ventured to take her part, was banished from the Kine’s Court
and from the kingdom. The King now went to stay with his daughter
Goneril, and very soon began to find out how much fair words were
worth. She had got everything from her father that he had to give,
aud she began to grudge even the hundred knights that he had reserved
for himself. She frowned at him whenever she met him; she herself
was harsh and undutiful to him, and her servants treated him with neglect,
and either refused to obey his orders or pretended that they did not hear

them.
Now the Earl of Kent, when he was banished, made as though

he would go into another country, but instead he came back in the
disguise of a serving-man and took service with the King, who never
suspected him to be that Earl of Kent whom he himself had banished.
The very same day that Lear engaged him as. his servant, Goneril’s