King Lear Act 4

Question 1

The lowest and most dejected thing of Fortune
Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear:
The most lamentable change is from the best;
The worst returns to laughter

Answer 1

Edgar iv.i (3/4)

Question 2

World, world, O world!
But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,
Life would not yield to age

Answer 2

Edgar iv.i (10/12)

Question 3

I stumbled when I saw

Answer 3

Gloucester iv.i (19)

Question 4

As flies to wanton boys are we to th’Gods;
They kill us for their sport

Answer 4

Gloucester iv.i (36/37)

Question 5

Heavens…/Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man,
That slaves your ordinance, that will not see
Because he does not feel, feel your power quickly

Answer 5

Gloucester iv.i (66/69)

Question 6

I must change arms at home, and give the distaff
Into my husband’s hands

Answer 6

Goneril iv.ii (17/18)

Question 7

A fool usurps my bed

Answer 7

Goneril iv.ii (28)

Question 8

Tigers, not daughters… devil! Proper deformity shows not in the fiend so horrid as in woman… thou art a fiend a woman’s shape doth shield thee

Answer 8

Albany iv.ii (40/59/67)

Question 9

Milk-livered man! O vain fool! Marry your manhood- mew!

Answer 9

Goneril iv.ii (50/61/68)

Question 10

This shows you are above, you justicers

Answer 10

Albany iv.ii (78/79)

Question 11

You have seen sunshine and rain at once; those happy smilets that played on her ripe lip seemed not to know what guests were in her eyes; which parted thence, as pearls from diamonds dropped

Answer 11

Gentleman iv.iii (16/23)

Question 12

There she took thy holy water from her heavenly eyes

Answer 12

Gentleman iv.iii (29/30)

Question 13

The stars above us, govern our conditions

Answer 13

Kent iv.iii (33)

Question 14

Crowned with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, with hardocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow in our sustaining corn

Answer 14

Cordelia iv.iv (3/6)

Question 15

Bring him to our eye… soon may I hear and see him!

Answer 15

Cordelia iv.iv (8/29)

Question 16

Down from the waist they are centaurs, though women all above

Answer 16

Lear iv.vi (123/124)

Question 17

A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears

Answer 17

Lear iv.vi (147)

Question 18

Robes and furred gowns hide all… get thee glass eyes; and like a politician, seem to see things thou dost not

Answer 18

Lear iv.vi (163/170)

Question 19

You do me wrong to take me out o’th’grave; thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound upon a wheel of fire

Answer 19

Lear iv.vii (45/47)

Question 20

I am a very foolish, fond old man… I am old and foolish

Answer 20

Lear iv.vii (60/84)