Lear.
You must bear with me:
Pray you now, forget and forgive: I am old and foolish.

[Exeunt Lear, Cordelia, Physician, and Attendants.]

Gent.
Holds it true, sir, that the Duke of Cornwall was so slain?

Kent.
Most certain, sir.

Gent.
Who is conductor of his people?

Kent.
As 'tis said, the bastard son of Gloster.

Gent.
They say Edgar, his banished son, is with the Earl of Kent
in Germany.

Kent.
Report is changeable. 'Tis time to look about; the powers of
the kingdom approach apace.

Gent.
The arbitrement is like to be bloody.
Fare you well, sir.