Dowerless Daughter

1)

Kent he stood up

Voiced the neglect

Lear he roared

At his loyal subject

2)

The noble Kent disowned and banned

Upon his life to leave the land

When all his crime was to see

And the courage to speak free

Ref.:

Dowerless Daughter

When Majesty falls

Dowerless Daughter now

When Majesty falls to folly

A Dowerless Daughter now you are

Once most loved a shining star

Fall from Grace what was holy

When Majesty falls to folly

3)

Cordelia disowned

Dowerless, forsaken

All her paramours gone

No fortune to be taken

4)

But the king of France still kneels

To beg her hand for all he feels

Love and joy to see her smile

To hear her sweet voice in a while

KING OF FRANCE

Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor;

Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised!

Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon:

Be it lawful I take up what's cast away.

Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect

My love should kindle to inflamed respect.

Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance,

Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France:

Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy

Can buy this unprized precious maid of me.

Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind:

Thou losest here, a better where to find.

Ref.:

Dowerless Daughter

When Majesty falls

Dowerless Daughter now

When Majesty falls to folly

A Dowerless Daughter now you are

Once most loved a shining star

Fall from Grace what was holy

When Majesty falls to folly