ACT 1
Scene 1

...a country new.
Flourish. Enter Gloucester with France, and Burgundy, and Attendants.

...quest of love?
Most royal Majesty,
I crave no more than hath your Highness offered,
Nor will you tender less.

...she is yours.
I know no answer.

...or leave her?
Pardon me, royal sir,
Election makes not up in such conditions.

...herself a dowry.
to Lear
Royal king,
Give but that portion which yourself proposed,
And here I take Cordelia by the hand,
Duchess of Burgundy.

...I am firm.
to Cordelia
I am sorry, then, you have so lost a father
That you must lose a husband.

...Come, noble Burgundy.
Flourish. All but France, Cordelia, Goneril, and Regan exit.