ACT 2 Flashcards
(14 cards)
Goneril - ‘Tis his..’
‘Tis his own blame..and must needs taste his folly’
Regan - ‘How..’
‘How, in one house, should many people, under two commands, hold amity? Tis hard; almost impossible’
Lear - ‘You see..’
‘You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, as full of grief as age; wretched in both!’
Kent - ‘I am..’
‘I am no flatterer’
Cornwall - ‘Shut..’
‘Shut up your doors, my Lord; tis a wild night’
Edgar - ‘the country..’
‘the country gives me proof and precedent of Bedlam beggars’
Edmund - ‘This weaves..’
‘This weaves itself perforce into my business’
Kent - ‘Call not..’
‘Call not your stocks for me; I serve the King’
Fool - ‘Let go..’
‘Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill…the great one that goes upward, let him draw thee after’
Fool - ‘Fathers..’
‘Fathers that wear rags
Do make their children blind
But fathers who bear bags
Shall see their children kind’
Edgar - ‘Edgar..’
‘Edgar I nothing am’
Kent - ‘Fortune..’
‘Fortune, good night; smile once more, turn thy wheel!’
Edgar - ‘Am bethought..’
‘am bethought to take the basest and most poorest shape’
Regan - ‘You are..’
‘You are old; Nature in you stand on the very verge of her confine’
