King LearThe Floating Press, 2009 M01 1 - 226 pages King Lear is considered one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. King Lear decides to step down and divide his kingdom between his three daughters. When his youngest and favorite daughter refuses to compete and perform her love for him, he is enraged and disowns her. She remains loyal to him, however, though he slides into madness and his other children betray him. |
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Page 11
... true heart I find she names my very deed of love; Only she comes too short,—that I profess Myself an enemy to all other joys Which the most precious square of sense possesses, And find I am alone felicitate In your dear highness' love ...
... true heart I find she names my very deed of love; Only she comes too short,—that I profess Myself an enemy to all other joys Which the most precious square of sense possesses, And find I am alone felicitate In your dear highness' love ...
Page 13
... true. Lear. Let it be so,—thy truth then be thy dower: For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, The mysteries of Hecate, and the night; By all the operation of the orbs, From whom we do exist and cease to be; Here I disclaim all my ...
... true. Lear. Let it be so,—thy truth then be thy dower: For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, The mysteries of Hecate, and the night; By all the operation of the orbs, From whom we do exist and cease to be; Here I disclaim all my ...
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... sight! Kent. See better, Lear; and let me still remain The true blank of thine eye. Lear. Now, by Apollo,— Kent. Now by Apollo, king, Thou swear'st thy gods in vain. Lear. O vassal! miscreant! (Laying his hand on his sword.) 16.
... sight! Kent. See better, Lear; and let me still remain The true blank of thine eye. Lear. Now, by Apollo,— Kent. Now by Apollo, king, Thou swear'st thy gods in vain. Lear. O vassal! miscreant! (Laying his hand on his sword.) 16.
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... true As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base? Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take More composition and fierce quality Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed, Go to the creating ...
... true As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base? Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take More composition and fierce quality Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed, Go to the creating ...
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... true-hearted Kent banished! his offence, honesty!—'Tis strange. (Exit. ) Edm. 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 ...
... true-hearted Kent banished! his offence, honesty!—'Tis strange. (Exit. ) Edm. 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 ...
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