THE PLAY S O F WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. VOLUME the SIXTH, CONTAINING, The LIFE and DEATH of KING LEAR. TIMON of ATHENS. TITUS ANDRONICUS. The TRAGEDY of MACBETH. CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLANUS. LONDON: Printed for J. and R. TONSON, C. CORBET, H. WOODFALI, M,DCC.LXV. ACT I. SCENE I. The KING's PALACE. Enter Kent, Glo'fter, and Edmund the Baftard. I ΚΕΝΤ. Thought, the King had more affected the Duke of 2 Glo. It did always feem fo to us, but now, ' in the Divifion of the Kingdom, it appears not, which of the dukes he values moft; for qualities are fo weigh'd, that curiofity in neither can make choice of either's moiety. Kent. Is not this your fon, my Lord? Glo. His Breeding, Sir, hath been at my charge. I in the divifion of the kingdom] There is fomething of obfcurity or inaccuracy in this preparatory fcene. The King has already divided his kingdom, and yet when he enters he examines his daughters, to difcover in what proportions he should divide it. Perhaps Kent and Gloucefter only were privy to his defign, which he ftill kept in his own hands, to be changed or performed as fubfequent reasons 3 that curiofity in neither] Cu riofity, for exacteft fcrutiny. The fenfe of the whole fentence is, The qualities and properties of the feveral divifions are fo weighed and balanced against one another, that the exacteft fcrutiny could not determine in preferring one share to the other. WARBURTON. B 2 have |