EDGAR

Yet better thus, and known to be contemn’d,

Than still contemn’d and flatter’d. To be worst,

The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune,

Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear:

The lamentable change is from the best;

The worst returns to laughter. Welcome, then,

Thou unsubstantial air that I embrace!

The wretch that thou hast blown unto the worst

Owes nothing to thy blasts. But who comes here?

[Enter GLOUCESTER, led by an Old Man]

My father, poorly led? World, world, O world!

But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,

Lie would not yield to age.