Excerpt from King Lear's Wife: Play in One Act Shield me from rooting cancers and from madness: Shield me from sudden death, worse than two death-beds; Let me not lie like this unwanted queen, Yet let my time come not ere I am ready Grant space enow to relish the watcher's tears And give my clothes away and calm my features And streek my limbs according to my will, Not the hard will of fumbling corpse washers. [she prays silently] [king lear, a great, golden-bearded man in the full maturity of life, en ters abruptly by the door beyond. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.