阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空。
King Lear, in his old age, decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia. He devices a “love test” so that he can tell which daughter loves him most.       loves him the most will get the most land. Goneril and Regan show him with sickening drops of praise and      (admire). When Cordelia      (ask) how much she loves the king, she says she loves the king, “no more or less”   she should. So he divides the kingdom     Goneril and Regan, and leaves Cordelia with      . The duke of Burgundy,     is Cordelia’s suitor, decides to leave her because she no longer has any wealth. The King of France decides to marry her instead.
Lear’s friend Gloucester has an     (adopt) son named Edmund as well as a true son named Edgar. Edmund wants to be in charge, so he makes Gloucester      (believe) that Edgar is trying to kill him. Edgar has to run away. Kent stays by the king and continues being his loyal servant. Later, Lear begins to see that Goneril is not such a good daughter       he thought that she was. Lear sends Kent as a messenger to Gloucester.