The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
_Gon._ Come, sir,[2924]
I would you would make use of that good wisdom[2925][2926]
Whereof I know you are fraught, and put away[2925][2927]
These dispositions that of late transform you[2925][2928] 215
From what you rightly are.[2925]
_Fool._ May not an ass know when the cart draws the
horse? Whoop, Jug! I love thee.
_Lear._ Doth any here know me? This is not Lear:[2929][2930]
Doth Lear walk thus? speak thus? Where are his eyes?[2931] 220
Either his notion weakens, his discernings[2932]
Are lethargied--Ha! waking? 'tis not so.[2933]
Who is it that can tell me who I am?[2929][2934]
_Fool._ Lear's shadow.[2935]
_Lear._ I would learn that; for, by the marks of[2936][2937] 225
sovereignty knowledge and reason, I should be false[2936][2938]
persuaded I had daughters.[2936]
_Fool._ Which they will make an obedient father.[2936][2939][2940]
_Lear._ Your name, fair gentlewoman?[2939]
_Gon._ This admiration, sir, is much o' the savour[2941][2942] 230
Of other your new pranks. I do beseech you[2941]
To understand my purposes aright:[2941][2943]
As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.[2941][2944]
Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires;[2941][2945]
Men so disorder'd, so debosh'd and bold,[2941][2946] 235
That this our court, infected with their manners,[2941]
Shows like a riotous inn: epicurism and lust[2941][2947]
Make it more like a tavern or a brothel[2941][2948]
Than a graced palace. The shame itself doth speak[2941][2949]
For instant remedy: be then desired[2941][2950] 240
By her that else will take the thing she begs[2941]
A little to disquantity your train,[2941][2951]
And the remainder that shall still depend,[2941][2952]
To be such men as may besort your age,[2941]
Which know themselves and you.[2941][2953]
_Lear._ Darkness and devils![2941] 245
Saddle my horses; call my train together.[2941]
Degenerate bastard! I'll not trouble thee:[2941]
Yet have I left a daughter.[2941]
_Gon._ You strike my people, and your disorder'd rabble[2954]
Make servants of their betters.[2954] 250
_Enter_ ALBANY.[2955]
_Lear._ Woe, that too late repents,--[_To Alb._] O, sir,
are you come?[2956]
Is it your will? Speak, sir. Prepare my horses.[2957]
Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child
Than the sea-monster![2958]
_Alb._ Pray, sir, be patient.[2959][2960] 255
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