Lear

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Meanwhile we shall express our darker purpose.

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Lear

Front 2

Here I disclaim all my paternal care, / propinquity and property of blood, /

And as a stranger to my heart and me / hokd thee, from this, forever.

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Lear

Front 3

Truths a dog must to kennel; he must be whipp'd out, when the lady's brach may stand by th' fire and stink

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Fool

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Peace, Kent!

Come not between the Dragon and his wrath.

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

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Lear

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Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave

My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty

According to my bond; no more nor less.

(Lear' "mend your speech a little")

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Cordelia

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Which of you shall we say doth love us most?

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Lear

Front 7

Doth any here know Me? This is not lear:

Doth Lear walk thus? Speak thus? Where are his eyes?

Who is it that can tell me who I am?

Fool: Lears shadow

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Lear

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Thou, nature art my goddess; to Thy law

My services are bound. Wherefore should I stand in the plague of custom?

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Edmund

Front 9

Why brand they us

With base? Wifh baseness? Bastardy? Base? Base?

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Edmund

Front 10

Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides:

Who cover faults, at last with shame derides.

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Cordelia

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Loves not love

When it is no glad with regards that stand

Aloof from the entire point

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France

Front 12

See better, Lear; and let me still remain

The true blank of thine eye

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Kent

Front 13

Sir, I am made

Ifbghe self mettle as it sister,

And prize me at get worth. In my true heart

I find she names my very deed of love;

Only she comes too short

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Regan

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Sir I love you more than worlds can wield the matter:

Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty;

Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare;

A love that makes breath poor, and speech unable;

Beyond all manner of so much i love you.

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Goneril

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...now thou art am o without a figure. I am better than thou art now; I am a fool, thou art nothing.

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Fool

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O, sir, you are old.Nature in you stands on the very vergeOf her confine: you should be ruled and ledBy some discretion, that discerns your stateBetter than you yourself.

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Let the great gods,That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads,Find out their enemies now.and…I am a manMore sinn’d against than sinning

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That which my father loses; no less than all:The younger rises when the old doth fall.

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Anagnorisiz

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O, I have ta'enToo little care of this! Take physic, Pomp;Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,

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Lear

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Hang him instantly.Pluck out his eyes. Go thrust him out at gates, and let him smell his way to Dover.

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Lear

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What have you done?Tigers, not daughters, what have you perform'd?andHumanity must perforce prey on itself,Like monsters of the deep.

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Albany

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They flattered me like a dog

And

they told me I was every thing; 'tis a lie, I am not ague-proof. A dog’s obey’d in office. and Robes and furr’d gowns hide all.

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Lear