Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-21

| iSed all her gold and Jewels Tor the
recovery of the old king, Lear was soon
i'm a condition to see his daughter.
A tender sight it was to see the
meeting between this father and
the joy Of the poor old king at be-
holding again his once darling child,
and the shame at receiving such filial
kindness from her whom he had cast
off for so small fault in his displeas-
ure; both these passions struggled with
, the remains of his malady, which in
| his half -crazed brain sometimes made
| him that he scarce remembered where
he was. or who it was that so kindly
kissed him and spoke to him; and then
he would beg the standers-by not to
| laugh at him, if he were mistaken in
thinking this lady to be his daughter
| Cordelia! And then to see him fall on
| his knees to beg pardon of his child;
and she. good lady, kneeling all the
while to ask a blessing of him, and
telling him that it did not become him
| to kneel but it was her duty, for she
was his child. his true and very child
| Cordelia! And she kissed him Gas she
said) to kiss away all her sisters un-
| kindness, and said that they might be
ashamed of themselves, to turn their
old kind father with his white beard
out into the cold air. when her enemy's
dog. though it had bit her (as she pref
| tily expressed IT'D, should have stayed
| by her fire such night as that, and
| warmed himself. And she told her
| father how she had come from France
| with purpose to bring him some as
sstance: and he said that she must
| forget and forgive, for he was old and
foolish, and did not know what he did;
but that to be sure she had great cause
not to love him. but her sisters had
none. And Cordela said, that she had
no cause, no more than they had.
So we will leave this old king in
the protection of this dutiful and low
| ing child, where, by the help of sleep
and medicine, she and her physicians
at length succeeded in winding up the
untuned and jarring senses which the
cruelty of his other daughters had so
violently shaken. Let us return 10 say
a word or two about those cruel daugh-
| ters.
These monsters of ingratitude, who
had been so false to their old father,
could not be expected to prove more
faithful to their own husbands. They
soon grew tired of paying even the ap-
pearance of duty and affection, and In
an open way showed they had fixed
their loves upon another. 1t happened
that the object of their guilty loves
was the same 1t was Edmund, ma
tural son of the late earl of Gloucester.
who by his treacheries had succeeded
in disinheriting his brother Edgar, the
lawful heir, from his kingdom, and by
his wicked practices was now earl
himself a wicked man, and a fit OBJ
iect for the love of such wicked Great
ures as Goneril and Regan. 1t falling
out about this time that the duke or
Cornwall, Regan's husband, died, Re
gan Immediately declared her intention
of wedding this earl of Gloucester,
which rousing the jealousy of her Sis
ter. to whom as well as to Regan this
wicked earl had at sundry times pro-
fessed love, Goneril found means to
make away with her sister by poison;
but being detected in her practices,
and imprisoned by her husband the
duke of Albany for this deed, and for
her guilty passion for the earl, which
had come to his ears, she in fit OF
disappointed love and rage. shortly put
an end to her own life. Thus the JUS
tice of Heaven at last overlook these
wicked daughters.
While the eyes of all men were upon
this event, admiring the justice dis
played in their deserved deaths, the
same eyes were suddenly taken off
from this sight to admire at the mys-
terious ways of the same power in the
melancholy fate of the young and vir-
tuous daughter, the lady Cordelia,
whose good deeds did seem to deserve
more fortunate conclusion: but it is
an awful truth, that innocence and
piety are not always successful in this
world. The forces which Goneril and
! Eegan had sent out under the COM
mand of the bad earl of Gloucester
were victorious, and Cordelia, by the
practices of this wicked earl, who did
not like any should stand between
him and the throne. ended her life in
prison. Thus, Heaven took this inno-
cent lady to itself in her young years,
after showing her to the world an IL
lustrious example of filial duty. Lear
did not long survive this kind of child.
Before he died. the good earl of Kent,
who had still attended his old masters
steps from the first of his daughters
i'll usage to this sad period of his de-
cay, tried to make him understand
that 1t was he who had followed him
under the name of Caius; but Lears
care -craZed brain at that time could
not comprehend how that could be, or
how Kent and Caius could he the same
person: so Kent thought it needless to
trouble him with explanations at such
n time: and Lear soon after expiring,
this faithful servant to the king. be-
tween age and grief for his old mas
tcrs veXations, soon followed him to-
the grave.
How the Judgment Of Heaven over
took the bad earl of Gloucester, whose
| trcaSonS were discovered, and himself
slain in single combat with his broth
cr. the lawful earl; and how GoneriFS
husband, the duke Of Albany, who was
| innocent of the death of Cordelia. and
had never encouraged his lady i'm her
wicked proceedings against her father,
ascended the throne of Britain after
the death of Lear, is needless here to
narrate: Lear and his Three Daugh-
| tiers being dead, whose adventures