Lear: appearance vs reality

Question 1

Kent 1:4 I do profess …

Answer 1

“I do profess to be no less than I seem”

Question 2

Kent on Cordelia 1:1 Nor are … hollowness

Answer 2

Nor are those empty hearted whose low sounds
Reverb no hollowness.

Question 3

Kent to Lear 1:1 “See better … eye.

Answer 3

See better, Lear; and let me remain The true blank of thine eye.

Question 4

Kent to Lear 1:1 “Kill thy physician … disease.”

Answer 4

Kill thy physician and the fee bestow Upon the foul disease.

Question 5

Kent to G&R on their appearance vs reality 1:1 And your large …

Answer 5

And your large speeches may your deeds approve,

Question 6

Kents first goodbye 1:1 “He’ll shape …

Answer 6

He’ll shape his old course in a country new.

Question 7

Cordelia to Lear on false speech 1:1 If for I want … purpose not,

Answer 7

If for I want that glib and oily art To speak and purpose not.

Question 8

Cordelia to her sisters 1:1
“I know …
“To your professed …

Answer 8

I know what you are;
To your professed bosoms I commit him

Question 9

Cordelia to her sisters 1:1 Time shall unfold … derides

Answer 9

Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;
Who covers faults, at last with shame derides.