Paper 1 - King Lear quotes

Question 1

“meantime we shall express our…

Answer 1

…darker purpose”

Question 2

“come not between…

Answer 2

… a dragon and his wrath”

Question 3

“time shall unfold what…

Answer 3

…plaited cunning hides”

Question 4

“how sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is/…

Answer 4

…to have a thankless child”

Question 5

“here I stand, your slave/…

Answer 5

…a poor, infirm, weak and despised old man”

Question 6

“ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,/…

Answer 6

…more hideous, when thou show’st thee in a child,/ than a sea monster”

Question 7

“O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven;/…

Answer 7

…keep me in temper; I would not be mad!”

Question 8

“I am bound/ upon a wheel…

Answer 8

…of fire, that mine own tears/ do scald like molten lead”

Question 9

“I fear I am not in my…

Answer 9

…perfect mind”

Question 10

“pray you now,…

Answer 10

…forget and forgive”

Question 11

There was good sport at…

Answer 11

…his making, and the whoreson must be acknowledged

Question 12

What shall Cordelia do?….

Answer 12

…love and be silent.

Question 13

I love your majesty according….

Answer 13

…to my bond, nor more nor less

Question 14

Mend your speech…

Answer 14

…a little, lest it may mar your fortunes

Question 15

Reverse thy doom, and in thy best…

Answer 15

…consideration check this hideous rashness

Question 16

‘Tis the infirmity of his age;…

Answer 16

…yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself

Question 17

The quality of nothing hath…

Answer 17

…not such need to hide itself. Let’s see. Come, if it be nothing then I shall not need spectacles.

Question 18

These late eclipses in the sun and moon…

Answer 18

…portend no good to us.

Question 19

Let me, if not by birth,…

Answer 19

…have lands by birth

Question 20

This fellow two on’s daughters and done a third a blessing…

Answer 20

…against his will. If thou follow him, thou must needs to wear my coxcomb.