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" And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man, Yet I am doubtful, for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the ... - Page 451
by William Shakespeare - 1805
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Hamlet and Other Shakespearean Essays

L. C. Knights - 1979 - 326 pages
...Gloucester sequence the play had moved well in the direction of a kind of Morality sparseness. Lear Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this...lady To be my child Cordelia. Cor. And so I am, I am. 196 Lear Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not; If you have poison for me, I will drink it....
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The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy

James C. Bulman - 1985 - 276 pages
...and know this man, Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skills I have Remembers not these garments, nor I know not...a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. (4.7.66-72) The grand cadences of Lear's earlier Marlovian idiom and the satiric invective of his rant...
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Poetry in a Divided World: The Clark Lectures 1985

Henry Gifford - 1986 - 132 pages
...Pray, do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more or less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect...a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. Lear cannot remember how he comes to be there, or know for sure who are the people round him. In that...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1990 - 324 pages
...about what this place is, and even if l try very hard l can't remember these clothes; nor do l know Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady 70 To be my child Cordelia. Cordelia And so I am, I am. Lear Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray,...
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Dementia and Aging: Ethics, Values, and Policy Choices

Robert H. Binstock, Stephen G. Post, Peter J. Whitehouse - 1992 - 214 pages
...do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect...a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. You must bear with me: Pray you now, forget and forgive: I am old and foolish. (Craig, 1951, p. 1012)...
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The Performance of Conviction: Plainness and Rhetoric in the Early English ...

Kenneth John Emerson Graham - 1994 - 260 pages
...do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect...a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. (59-69) Lear appears to sense that plainness is necessary for his new perception: only by letting go...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 pages
...o'er me; No, sir, you must not kneel. LEAR Pray do not mock me; I am a very foolish fond old man, 60 And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect...a man) I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. CORDELIA And so I am: I am! 70 LEAR Be your tears wet? Yes, faith: I pray weep not. If you have poison...
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Scar Tissue

Michael Ignatieff - 1994 - 214 pages
...do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect...For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child . . . Methinks I should know you People kept asking me: Does she recognise you? As if recognition is...
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The First Quarto of King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 pages
...this man; Yet I am doubtful, for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have 65 Remembers not these garments, nor I know not Where...a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. CORDELIA And so I am. LEAR Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not. 70 If you have poison for...
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Heidegger, Dilthey, and the Crisis of Historicism

Charles R. Bambach - 1995 - 316 pages
...do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect...a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. (59-69) Lear appears to sense that plainness is necessary for his new perception: only by letting go...
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