CORDELIA: [kissing Lear] O, my dear father, restoration hang
Thy medicine on my lips, and let this kiss
Repair those violent harms that my two sisters
Have in thy reverence made.
KENT: Kind and dear princess.
– William Shakespeare
King Lear, Act 4, Scene 7. Cordelia again shows her selflessness and love when she bends over to kiss Lear. She hopes that her healing love will restore her father’s soundness of mind and repair the harm done to him by her two sisters. Even after banishment by her father, she is full of forgiveness. Lear calls her a kind princess.