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Sennet.

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Enter one bearing a coronet, then Lear, / A1 S1

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Know that we have divided /

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In three our kingdom; and ‘tis our fast intent / To shake all cares and business from our age, / Conferring them on younger strengths, while we / Unburdened crawl toward death. / Lear A1 S1

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You see

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How full of changes his age is / Goneril A1 S1

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Sir, I do

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Love you more than word can wield the matter / Goneril A1 S1

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A love that

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Makes breath poor and speech unable / Goneril A1 S1

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We must do

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Something, and i’the heat / Goneril A1 S1

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Sir I am made

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Of that self mettle as my sister, / And prize me at her worth. In my true heart / I find she names the very deed of love: only she comes too short / Regan A1 S1

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‘Tis the

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Infirmity of his age, yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself / Regan A1 S1

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[aside]

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What shall Cordelia speak? / Cordelia A1 S1

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Nothing,

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My lord / Cordelia A1 S1

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Unhappy

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That I am, I cannot heave / My heart into my mouth. I love your majesty / According to my bond, no more or less. / Cordelia A1 S1

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So young and

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So untender? / So young, my lord, and true. / Lear/Cordelia A1 S1

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Here I disclaim

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All my paternal care, / Propinquity and property of blood, / Lear A1 S1

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Peace, Kent, /

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Come not between the dragon and his wrath! / Lear A1 S1

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Thy youngest daughter

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Does not love thee least, / Nor are those empty-hearted, whose low sounds / Reverb no hollowness / Kent A1 S1

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See better, Lear,

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And let me still remain / The true blank of thine eye / Kent A1 S1

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I know

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What you are / Cordelia A1 S1

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Love’s not love

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When it is mingled with regards that stands / Aloof from th’entire point / France A1 S1

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Time shall

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Unfold what plighted cunning hides / Cordelia A1 S1

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Thou, Nature,

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Art my goddess; to thy law / My services are bound / Edmund A1 S2

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Wherefore should I

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Stand in the plague of custom, and permit / The curiousity of nations to deprive me? / Edmund A1 S2

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Why bastard?

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Wherefore base? / Edmund A1 S2

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When my dimensions

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Are as well compact, / My mind as generous and my shape as true / As honest madam’s issue / Edmund A1 S2

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Why they brand us

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With base? With baseness, bastardy? Base, base? / Edmund A1 S2

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Who in the lusty
Stealth of nature take / More composition and fierce quality / Than doth within a dull stale tired bed / Edmund A1 S2
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I grow,
I prosper: / Now Gods, stand up for bastards! / Edmund A1 S2
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Abhorred villain!
Unnatural, detested, brutish, villain - worse than brutish! / Gloucester A1 S2
28
And the noble
And true-hearted Kent banished, his offence honesty! 'Tis strange, strange! / Gloucester A1 S2
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I should have
Been that I am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing / Edmund A1 S2
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All with
Me's meet that I can fashion fit. / Edmund A1 S2
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Who am I, sir? (Lear)
My lady's father / Oswald A1 S4
32
Dost thou
Call me fool, boy? / All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with. / Fool A1 S4
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I am
A fool, thou art nothing / Fool A1 S4
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E'er since
Thou mad'st thy daughters thy mothers; for when thou gav'st them the rod and putt'st down thine own breeches, / Fool A1 S4
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The hedge-sparrow
Fed the cuckoo so long / That it's had it head bit off by it young. / Fool A1 S4
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May not an
Ass know when the cart draws the horse? / Fool A1 S4
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Who is it
That can tell me who I am? FOOL: Lear's shadow / Lear/Fool A1 S4
38
Dry up in her
The organs of increase / And from her derogate body never spring / A babe to honour her / Lear to Goneril A1 S4
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That she may feel /
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child / Lear A1 S4
40
Old fond eyes, /
Beweep this cause again, I'll pluck ye out, / Lear A1 S4
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O let me
Not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! I would not be mad. / Lear A1 S5
42
Thou
Wouldst make a good fool / Fool to Lear A1 S5
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And of my land, /
Loyal and natural boy, I'll work the means / To make thee capable / Gloucester A2 S1
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No, you unnatural hags, /
I will have such revenges on you both, / That all the world shall - I will do such things - / What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be /The terrors of the earth! / Lear A2 S2
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You think I'll
Weep, / No, I'll not weep. [Storm and tempest.] / Lear A2 S2
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Blow
Winds and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow! / Lear A3 S2
47
Here I stand your slave,
A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man / Lear A3 S2
48
Let the great gods /
That keep this dreadful puddler over our heads / Find out their enemies now. / Lear A3 S2
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Tremble,
Thou wretch, / That hast within thee undivulged crimes, / Unwhipped of justice. Hide thee, thou bloody hand, / Lear A3 S2
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Caitiff,
To pieces shake, / That under covert and convenient seeming / Has practised on man's life. / Lear A3 S2
51
I am a
Man / More sinned against than sinning / Lear A3 S2
52
Alack,
Bareheaded? / Kent A3 S2
53
He that has and
A little tiny wit, / With heigh-ho, the wind and the rain, / Must make content with his fortunes fit, / Though the rain it raineth every day. / Fool A3 S2
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When the mind's free, /
The body's delicate: this tempest in my mind / Doth my senses take all feeling else, / Save what beats there, filial ingratitude/ Lear A3 S4
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I would not
See thy cruel nails / Pluck out his poor old eyes, nor thy fierce sister / In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs. / Gloucester A3 S7
56
O cruel!
O you gods! / Gloucester A3 S7
57
All dark
and comfortless? Where's my son Edmund? / Gloucester A3 S7
58
One side
Will mock another, th'other too / Regan A3 S7
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Go, thrust him
Out at gates and let him smell / His way to Dover / Regan A3 S7
60
Out,
Vile jelly, / Where is thy lustre now? / Cornwall A3 S7
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Tearing
At his clothes, he is restrained by Kent and the Fool / A3 S7
62
There she shook /
Holy water from her heavenly eyes, / Kent A4 S3
63
As mad
As the vexed sea, singing aloud / Crowned with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds / Cordelia A4 S4
64
Enter Lear
Mad [crowned with wild flowers] / A4 S6
65
They told me
I was everything; 'tis a lie, I am not ague-proof. / Lear A4 S6
66
I know you do not love me,
For your sisters / Have, as I do remember, done me wrong. / You have some cause, they do not. / No cause, non cause. / Lear/Cordelia A4 S7
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But his flawed
Heart, / Alack, too weak the conflict to support, / 'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief, / Burst smilingly. / Edgar A5 S3
68
Enter Lear with
Cordelia in his arms / A5 S3
69
Howl,
Howl, howl, howl! / Lear A5 S3
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Is this the
Promised end? / Kent A5 S3
71
O, let him pass.
He hates him / That would upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer / Kent A5 S3

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