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Lear 1:1 Nothing …

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Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.

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Lear 1:1 Come not …

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Come not between a dragon and his wrath.

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Goneril 1:1 We must …

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We must do something, and i’ th’ heat.

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Edmund 1:2 Now, …

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Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

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Lear 1:1, Better thou Hadst not …

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Better thou Hadst not been born than not t’have pleased me better.

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Gloucester 1:2, We have seen …

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We have seen the best of our times: machinations, hollowness, treachery and all ruinous disorder follow us disquietly to our graves.

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Goneril 1:3, His knights …

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His knights grow riotous, and himself unbraids us On every trifle.

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Fool to Lear on his ignorance 1:4, Nay, and thou canst …

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Nay, and thou canst not smile as the wind sits,
thou’lt catch cold shortly: there, take my coxcomb.

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Lear 1:4, Why no, boy; …

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Why no, boy; nothing can be made out of nothing.

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Fool 1:4, All thy other …

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All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with.

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Lear on children 1:4, How sharper …

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How sharper than a serpents tooth it is
To have a thankless child!

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Lear to Fool 1:5, O! Let me … be mad!

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O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; Keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

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Reagan 2:2, Till noon!…

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Till noon! till night, my Lord; and all night too.

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Edgar 2:3, I’ll grime with …

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I’ll grime with filth, Blanket my loins, elf all my hairs in knots.

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Lear 2:4, O! How this mother … sorrow!

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O! How this mother swells up toward my heart; Hysterica passio! Down, thou climbing sorrow!

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Fool’s ABAB rhyme 2:4, That sir which serves … the storm

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That sir which serves and seeks for gain
And follows but for form
Will pack when it begins to rain,
And leave thee in the storm.

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Lear on his daughter’s cruelty 2:4, O Reagan! She … his heart]

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O Reagan! She hath tied
Sharp-toothed unkindness, like a vulture, here. [Points to his heart]

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Lear to Goneril 2:4, Thou art a … blood

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thou art a boil,
A plague-sore, or embossed carbuncle,
In my corrupted blood.

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Lear in speech to daughters 2:4, You see me … in both!

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You see me here, you Gods, a poor old man,
As full of grief as age; wretched in both!

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Lear prophetic fallacy and madness 2:4, I have full cause of … go mad.

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I have full cause of weeping, [Storm heard at a distance] but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws Or ere I’ll weep. O Fool! I shall go mad.

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Kent on Lears suffering 3:1, Of how unnatural … to plain.

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Of how unnatural and bemadding sorrow
The King hath cause to plain

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Lear 3:2, Blow, winds … the cocks!

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Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Til you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!

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Lear to the storm 3:2, here I stand, your … old man.

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here I stand, your slave,
A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.

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Lear to the Fool 3:2, Come on, my … cold?

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Come on, my boy. How dost, my boy? Art cold?

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Lear 3:2, I am a man …

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I am a man
More sinned against than sinning

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Lear 3:4, O! I have …

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O! I have ta’en Too little care of this.

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Lear to Poor Tom 3:4, First let me …of thunder?

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First let me talk with this philosopher.
What is the cause of thunder?

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Lear 3:6, Then let them anatomize …

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Then let them anatomize Regan, see what breeds about her heart.

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Edgar 3:6, When that which … I fathered!

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When that which makes me bend makes the king bow;
He childed as I fathered!

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Gloucester to Reagan 3:7 Because I would not … boorish fangs.

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Because I would not see
Thy cruel nails pluck out his poor old eyes;
Rash boorish fangs.

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Regan to Cornwall 3:7, One side will…

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One side will mock another; th’other too.

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Gloucester 4:1 As flies to … sport.

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

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Goneril 4:2 O! The difference of … my bed.

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O! The difference of man and man.
To thee a woman’s services are due:
A fool usurps my bed.

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Albany to Goneril 4:2 It will come, … the deep.

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It will come,
Humanity must perforce prey on itself,
Like monsters of the deep.

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Goneril to Albany 4:2 Whilst thou, a … so?

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Whil’st thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries
‘Alack! Why does he so?

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Edgar on his treatment of his father 4:6 Why I do trifle …

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Why I do trifle with his despair
Is done to cure it.

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Gloucester to the gods (suicide) 4:6 O you mighty … off

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O you mighty Gods!
This world I do renounce, and in your sights
Shake patiently my great affliction off;

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Lear 4:6 Nature’s above …

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Nature’s above art in that respect.

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Lear 4:6 When the rain came … ‘em out.

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When the rain came to wet me once and the wind to make me chatter, when the thunder would not peace at my bidding, there I found ‘em, there I smelt ‘em out.

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Lear 4:6 they told me I was every …

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they told me I was every thing; ‘tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.

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Lear 4:6 Let copulation … sheets.

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Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester’s bastard son
Was kinder to his father than my daughters
Got ‘tween the lawful sheets.

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Lear 4:6 There is a sulphurous … pah!

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There is the sulphurous pit - burning, scalding,
Stench, consumption; fie, fie, fie! Pah, pah!

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Lear 4:6 The great image …

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The great image of Authority:
A dog’s obeyed in office.

44
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Lear 4:6 Get thee glass …

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Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see things thou dost not.

45
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Cordelia praying for her father 4:7 O you kind …

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O you kind Gods,
Cure this great breach in his abused nature!

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Lear to Cordelia on his fate 4:7 I am bound Upon …

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I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.

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Goneril on her sister and Edmund 5:1 [Aside] I had rather lose …

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[Aside] I had rather loose the battle than that sister
Should losen him and me.

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Edmund 5:1 Neither can be …

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Neither can be enjoyed If both remain alive:

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Edmund on ruling 5:1 For my state …

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For my state Stands on me to defend, not to debate.

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Lear 5:3 We two alone …

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We two alone will sing like birds i’ th’ cage.

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Reagan 5:3 Jesters do …

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Jesters do oft prove prophets.

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Albany 5:3 Edmund, I arrest …

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Edmund, I arrest thee On capital treason; and in thy attaint,
This gilded serpent.

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Edgar 5:3 Know, my name is … canker-bit

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Know, my name is lost;
By treason’s tooth bare-gnawn, and canker-bit

54
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Edgar 5:3 The Gods are …

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The Gods are just, and out of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us;

55
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Lear 5:3 Howl …

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Howl, howl, howl! O! you are men of stones

56
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Kent on the chaos of Act 5 5:3 Is this the …

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Is this the promised end?

57
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Albany 5:3 Friends of my … state sustain

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Friends of my soul, you twain
Rule in this realm and the gored state sustain.

58
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Final couplet by Edgar (or Albany?)
obey
say
young
long

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The weight of this sad time we must obey;
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
The oldest hath borne most, we that are young
Shall never see so much nor live so long.

59
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Final image

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Exuent, with a dead march

60
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Lear 1:1 This coronet …

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This coronet part between you.

61
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Lear 1:1 The bow is …

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The bow is bent and drawn; make from the shaft.

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