" Ripeness is all "

" Ripeness is all. "

" Maturità è tutto. "

" Maturidade é tudo . "

Shakespeare,
King Lear, atto V, scena II.

King Lear

Act V. Scene II.

A Field between the two Camps.

Alarum within.  Enter, with drum and colours, LEAR,CORDELIA, and their Forces; and exeunt.  Enter EDGAR andGLOUCESTER.

  Edg.  Here, father, take the shadow of this tree

For your good host; pray that the right may thrive.

If ever I return to you again,

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I’ll bring you comfort.

  Glo.        Grace go with you, sir!  [Exit EDGAR.

Alarum; afterwards a retreat.  Re-enter EDGAR.

  Edg.  Away, old man! give me thy hand: away!

King Lear hath lost, he and his daughter ta’en.

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Give me thy hand; come on.

  Glo.  No further, sir; a man may rot even here.

  Edg.  What. in ill thoughts again? Men must endure

Their going hence, even as their coming hither:

Ripeness is all. Come on.

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  Glo.        And that’s true too.  [Exeunt.