<p>Act 1</p> <p>"scene" 1</p> <p>Scene 1</p> <p>[King Lear's palace.]</p> <p>[Enter KENT, GLOUCESTER, and EDMUND]</p> <p>KENT</p> <p>I thought the king had more affected the Duke of<br />Albany than Cornwall.</p> <p>GLOUCESTER</p> <p>It did always seem so to us: but now, in the<br />division of the kingdom, it appears not which of<br />the dukes he values most; for equalities are so<br />weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice<br />of either's moiety.</p> <p>KENT</p> <p>Is not this your son, my lord?</p> <p>GLOUCESTER</p> <p>His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge: I have<br />so often blushed to acknowledge him, that now I am<br />brazed to it.</p> <p>KENT</p> <p>I cannot conceive you.</p> <p>GLOUCESTER</p> <p>Sir, this young fellow's mother could: whereupon<br />she grew round-wombed, and had, indeed, sir, a son<br />for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed.<br />Do you smell a fault?</p> <p>KENT</p> <p>I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it<br />being so proper.</p> <p>GLOUCESTER</p> <p>But I have, sir, a son by order of law, some year<br />elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my account:<br />though this knave came something saucily into the<br />world before he was sent for, yet was his mother<br />fair; there was good sport at his making, and the<br />whoreson must be acknowledged. Do you know this<br />noble gentleman, Edmund?</p> <p>EDMUND</p> <p>No, my lord.</p> <p>GLOUCESTER</p> <p>My lord of Kent: remember