Truth Shall Prevail

I)

CORDELIA

We are not the first

Who, with best meaning, have incurr'd the worst.

For thee, oppressed king, am I cast down;

KING LEAR

No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison:

We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:

When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,

And ask of thee forgiveness:

II)

The battle lost and Cordelia and Lear

Taken prisoner by Edmund who fears

That they may down him in their honour and grace

So he plots their murder with inculpable face

III)

REGAN:

He led our powers;

Bore the commission of my place and person;

GONERIL:

In his own grace he doth exalt himself,

More than in your addition.

REGAN:

In my rights,

By me invested, he compeers the best.

GONERIL:

That were the most, if he should husband you.

REGAN:

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

IV)

Edmund philandered with both and hence hopes fly high

Hostility is nurtured between allies

Two serpents with their lust on fire

Would use all means just to still their desire

1)

Standing straight, the Duke of Albany

Through lies and lust he now can clearly see

Accuse his cheating wife, he holds the evidence her plans will fail

Goneril unmasked in the end the truth shall prevail.

Ref.:

Atrocity and schemes feeding bloodshed and anger

But over fraud oft the truth shall prevail

Lecherous prurience the loins rule the mindset

But in the end oft the truth shall prevail

2)

Edgar appears strikes Edmund down

The traitor beaten crouches on the ground

The sufferings of Gloucester all the lies and all the bale

Edmund unmasked in the end the truth shall prevail

Ref.:

Atrocity and schemes feeding bloodshed and anger

But over fraud oft the truth shall prevail

Lecherous prurience the loins rule the mindset

But in the end oft the truth shall prevail