Part of a title page to King Lear. It reads as follows: "M. William Shakespeare, his True Chronicle History of the life and death of King Lear, and his three daughters. With the unfortunate life of Edgar, son and heir to the Earl of Gloucester, and his sullen and assumed humour of Tom of Bedlam."

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