Quotes Act 3

Question 1

Lear - “blow

Answer 1

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!

Question 2

Lear - “singe

Answer 2

singe my white head!

Question 3

Fool - “ask thy

Answer 3

ask thy daughter’s blessing; here’s a night pities neither wise men nor fools

Question 4

Lear - “rumble

Answer 4

rumble thy bellyful! spit, fire! spout, rain!

Question 5

Lear - “here i

Answer 5

here i stand, your slave, a poor, infirm, weak and despis’d old man

Question 6

Lear - “i am

Answer 6

i am a man more sinned against than sinning

Question 7

Lear - “come on

Answer 7

come on, my boy. How dost, my boy? Art cold?… I have one part in my heart that’s sorry yet for thee

Question 8

Gloucester - “if i

Answer 8

if i die for it, as no less is threatened me, the king, my master, must be reliev’d

Question 9

Edmund - “that which

Answer 9

that which my father loses, no less than all: the younger rises when the old doth fall

Question 10

Lear - “in boy

Answer 10

In, boy; go first. You houseless poverty, nay, get thee in

Question 11

Lear - “Oh i have

Answer 11

O i have taken too little care of this! Take physic, Pomp; expose thyself to feel what wretches feel

Question 12

Lear - [tearing

Answer 12

[tearing off his clothes]

Question 13

Lear - “first let

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Lear - _______ philosopher

Answer 14

Noble philosopher

Question 15

Lear - “bring in

Answer 15

Bring in their evidence. [To Edgar] Thou robed man of justice, take thy place; [To fool] And thou, his yoke-fellow of equity, bench by his side. [To Kent] You are o’th’commission, sit you too

Question 16

Lear - “false

Answer 16

False justicer, why hast thou let her ‘scape

Question 17

Lear - “the little

Answer 17

The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.

Question 18

Lear/ fool - “we’ll go

Answer 18

L - We’ll go to supper i’th’morning
F - And i’ll go to bed at noon

Question 19

Regan/Goneril - “hang

Answer 19

R - hang him instantly
G - pluck out his eyes

Question 20

Cornwall - “out

Answer 20

Out, vile jelly! where is thy lustre now?

Question 21

Gloucester - “O my

Answer 21

O my follies! Then Edgar was abus’d. Kind gods, forgive me that, and prosper him!

Question 22

Regan - “go thrust

Answer 22

go thrust him out at gates, and let him smell his way to dover

Question 23

Servant - “go thou

Answer 23

Go thou; i’ll fetch some flax and whites of eggs to apply to his bleeding face