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" Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man: But yet I call you servile ministers, That have with two pernicious daughters join'd Your high-engender'd battles 'gainst a head So old and white as this. "
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 pages
...bellyful! Spit fire, spout rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters. I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness: I never gave you kingdom,...slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man; 20 But yet I call you servile ministers, That will with two pernicious daughters join Your high-engendered...
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The First Quarto of King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 pages
...with unkindncss. 15 I never gave you kingdom, called you children. You owe me no subscription. Why then, let fall Your horrible pleasure. Here I stand...slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. But yet I call you servile ministers, 20 That have with two pernicious daughters joined Your high engendered...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...bellyful. Spit, fire. Spout, rain. Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters. I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness. I never gave you kingdom,...slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. But yet I call you servile ministers, That will with two pernicious daughters join Your high-engendered...
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Rita Welinkar

Shanta Gokhale - 1995 - 192 pages
...lines to puny petulance. 'I tax not you, you elements with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children. You owe me no subscription; then let...slave, a poor, infirm, weak and despised old man.' How close those beings of centuries ago were to nature. Recipients, every day, of its warm gifts and...
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The Beauty that Saves: Essays on Aesthetics and Language in Simone Weil

John M. Dunaway, Eric O. Springsted - 1996 - 260 pages
...commanding the elements to destroy the earth, and to do their worst even to him: they owe him no kindness ("Here I stand your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man" [3.3.19-20]); and yet they are slavish servants, after all, to join his daughters in opposing him so...
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Great Scenes from Shakespeare's Plays

John Green, Paul Negri - 2000 - 68 pages
...fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness,I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then let...slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man: But yet I call you servile ministers, That have with two pernicious daughters join'd Your high-engender'd...
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The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 334 pages
...elements, with unkindness . I never gave you kingdom, called you children. You owe me no subscription. Why then, let fall Your horrible pleasure. Here I stand...slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man, 20 But yet I call you servile ministers, That have with two pernicious daughters joined 8 germens]...
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Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism

Millicent Bell - 2002 - 316 pages
...retainer, he declares, to the rain, wind, thunder, and fire he now thinks of as kinder than his daughters, "Here I stand your slave, a poor, infirm, weak and despised old man" — as though he has lost his name. As he enters the storm after Regan's denial, he cries out, "You...
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Playing Lear

Oliver Ford Davies - 2003 - 224 pages
...elements, with unkindness. I never gave you kingdom, called you children; You owe me no subscription. Why then, let fall Your horrible pleasure. Here I stand...slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man. But yet I call you servile ministers That will with two pernicious daughters join Your high-engendered...
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Goodnight Children Everywhere and Other Plays

Richard Nelson - 2004 - 446 pages
...(Screaming): I told you before, to just leave us alone!!!!! (Pause.) MACREADY (Continuing): . . . you elements, with unkindness. I never gave you kingdom,...slave. A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. (He stops, continues to stare out. Ryder has entered upstage, he carries a cape. Pause.) RYDER: Mr....
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