The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: King Lear. Timon of AthensGinn & Heath, 1881 |
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... dost mistake me . I take to witness that Sun which you see , that nothing is so welcome to me as the publishing of my shame . Therefore know you , gentlemen , that whatsoever my son hath said is true . But , besides , this also is true ...
... dost mistake me . I take to witness that Sun which you see , that nothing is so welcome to me as the publishing of my shame . Therefore know you , gentlemen , that whatsoever my son hath said is true . But , besides , this also is true ...
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... dost evil . Lear . Hear me , recreant ! On thine allegiance , hear me ! 28 " Let my life be answerable for my judgment , " or , " I will stake my life on the truth of what I say . " 29 Reverbs for reverberates ; probably a word of the ...
... dost evil . Lear . Hear me , recreant ! On thine allegiance , hear me ! 28 " Let my life be answerable for my judgment , " or , " I will stake my life on the truth of what I say . " 29 Reverbs for reverberates ; probably a word of the ...
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... dost stand condemn'd , - So may it come ! —thy master , whom thou lovest , Shall find thee full of labours . Horns within . Enter LEAR , Knights , and Attendants . Lear . Let me not stay a jot for dinner ; go get it ready . [ Exit an ...
... dost stand condemn'd , - So may it come ! —thy master , whom thou lovest , Shall find thee full of labours . Horns within . Enter LEAR , Knights , and Attendants . Lear . Let me not stay a jot for dinner ; go get it ready . [ Exit an ...
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... Dost thou know me , fellow ? Kent . No , sir ; but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master . Lear . What's that ? Kent . Authority . Lear . What services canst thou do ? Kent . I can keep honest counsel , ride ...
... Dost thou know me , fellow ? Kent . No , sir ; but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master . Lear . What's that ? Kent . Authority . Lear . What services canst thou do ? Kent . I can keep honest counsel , ride ...
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... dost thou ? Fool . Sirrah , you were best take my coxcomb . Kent . Why , Fool ? Fool . Why , for taking one's part that's out of favour . Nay , an thou canst not smile as the wind sits , 10 thou'lt catch cold shortly : there , take my ...
... dost thou ? Fool . Sirrah , you were best take my coxcomb . Kent . Why , Fool ? Fool . Why , for taking one's part that's out of favour . Nay , an thou canst not smile as the wind sits , 10 thou'lt catch cold shortly : there , take my ...
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Albany Alcib Alcibiades Apem Apemantus Athens better Burgundy Caph CAPHIS Collier's second folio Cord Cordelia Corn Cornwall correction daughters dear dost thou doth duke Duke of Albany Duke of Cornwall Edgar Edmund Enter Exeunt Exit eyes Faerie Queene father Flavius follows Fool foot-note fortune friends Gent gerundively give Glos Gloster gods gold Goneril hand Hanmer hast hath hear heart honour Kent King King Lear knave lady Lear live Lord Timon Lucullus madam master meaning nature night noble nuncle old text original reads OSWALD Pain passage PHRYNIA pity play Poet Poet's poor pr'ythee pray probably quartos Regan SCENE Senators sense Serv Servants Servilius Shakespeare sister slave speak speech Stew Steward sword tell thee Theobald There's thine thing thou art thyself Troilus and Cressida villain Walker word wretched
Popular passages
Page 87 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 138 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For (as I am a man) I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 14 - Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all ? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty : Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Page 159 - LEAR And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!
Page 99 - Lear. Then let them anatomize Regan ; see what breeds about her heart. Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts...
Page 138 - Lear. Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful...
Page 130 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Page 145 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses,- and who wins ; who's in, who's out ; And take...
Page 76 - You see me here, you Gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age, wretched in both, If it be you that stir these daughters...
Page 27 - ... by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on : an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star ! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa major ; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on...