Read the excerpt from Act 1, Scene 1, of The Tragedy of King Lear and examine the painting King Lear: Cordelia's Farewell . (80) CORDELIA: The jewels of our father, with wash'd eyes Cordelia leaves you : I know you what you are; And like a sister am most loath to call Your faults as they are nam'dLove well our father To your professed bosoms I commit him: (85) But yet, alas , stood I within his grace would prefer him to a better place. So farewell to you both