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King Lear
[I, 1] |
(stage directions) |
1 |
Enter Kent, Gloucester, and Edmund. [Kent and Gloucester converse. Edmund stands back.]
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King Lear
[I, 1] |
(stage directions) |
32 |
Enter one bearing a coronet; then Lear; then the Dukes of Albany and Cornwall; next, Goneril, Regan, Cordelia, with Followers.
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3 |
King Lear
[I, 1] |
(stage directions) |
201 |
Flourish. Enter Gloucester, with France and Burgundy; Attendants.
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4 |
King Lear
[I, 2] |
(stage directions) |
333 |
Enter [Edmund the] Bastard solus, [with a letter].
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5 |
King Lear
[I, 2] |
(stage directions) |
356 |
Enter Gloucester.
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6 |
King Lear
[I, 2] |
Edmund |
442 |
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are
sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make
guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if
we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion;
knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical pre-dominance;
drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of
planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine
thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay
his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father
compounded with my mother under the Dragon's Tail, and my
nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and
lecherous. Fut! I should have been that I am, had the
maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
Edgar-
[Enter Edgar.]
and pat! he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy. My
cue is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o' Bedlam.
O, these eclipses do portend these divisions! Fa, sol, la, mi.
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7 |
King Lear
[I, 3] |
(stage directions) |
504 |
Enter Goneril and [her] Steward [Oswald].
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8 |
King Lear
[I, 4] |
(stage directions) |
534 |
Enter Kent, [disguised].
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9 |
King Lear
[I, 4] |
Earl of Kent |
535 |
If but as well I other accents borrow,
That can my speech defuse, my good intent
May carry through itself to that full issue
For which I raz'd my likeness. Now, banish'd Kent,
If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd,
So may it come, thy master, whom thou lov'st,
Shall find thee full of labours.
Horns within. Enter Lear, [Knights,] and Attendants.
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10 |
King Lear
[I, 4] |
Lear |
571 |
Follow me; thou shalt serve me. If I like thee no worse after
dinner, I will not part from thee yet. Dinner, ho, dinner!
Where's my knave? my fool? Go you and call my fool hither.
[Exit an attendant.]
[Enter [Oswald the] Steward.]
You, you, sirrah, where's my daughter?
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King Lear
[I, 4] |
Lear |
578 |
What says the fellow there? Call the clotpoll back.
[Exit a Knight.] Where's my fool, ho? I think the world's
asleep.
[Enter Knight]
How now? Where's that mongrel?
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12 |
King Lear
[I, 4] |
Lear |
602 |
No more of that; I have noted it well. Go you and tell my
daughter I would speak with her. [Exit Knight.] Go you, call
hither my fool.
[Exit an Attendant.]
[Enter [Oswald the] Steward.]
O, you, sir, you! Come you hither, sir. Who am I, sir?
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13 |
King Lear
[I, 4] |
(stage directions) |
624 |
Enter Fool.
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14 |
King Lear
[I, 4] |
(stage directions) |
711 |
Enter Goneril.
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15 |
King Lear
[I, 4] |
(stage directions) |
781 |
Enter Albany.
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16 |
King Lear
[I, 4] |
(stage directions) |
821 |
Enter Lear.
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17 |
King Lear
[I, 4] |
Goneril |
859 |
Safer than trust too far.
Let me still take away the harms I fear,
Not fear still to be taken. I know his heart.
What he hath utter'd I have writ my sister.
If she sustain him and his hundred knights,
When I have show'd th' unfitness- [Enter [Oswald the] Steward.]
How now, Oswald?
What, have you writ that letter to my sister?
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King Lear
[I, 5] |
Lear |
918 |
O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!
Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! [Enter a Gentleman.]
How now? Are the horses ready?
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19 |
King Lear
[II, 1] |
(stage directions) |
926 |
Enter [Edmund the] Bastard and Curan, meeting.
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20 |
King Lear
[II, 1] |
Edmund |
939 |
The Duke be here to-night? The better! best!
This weaves itself perforce into my business.
My father hath set guard to take my brother;
And I have one thing, of a queasy question,
Which I must act. Briefness and fortune, work!
Brother, a word! Descend! Brother, I say!
[Enter Edgar.]
My father watches. O sir, fly this place!
Intelligence is given where you are hid.
You have now the good advantage of the night.
Have you not spoken 'gainst the Duke of Cornwall?
He's coming hither; now, i' th' night, i' th' haste,
And Regan with him. Have you nothing said
Upon his party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?
Advise yourself.
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