Authors: William Shakespeare
5.2.1 tree
= F. Q = bush
14 SH GLOUCESTER And … too
. = F.
Not in Q
.
5.3.2 first
= F. Q = best
26 good years
= F. Q = goode
40 down
. = F. Q = down. /
Cap
. I cannot draw a cart, nor eate dride oats, / If it bee mans worke ile do’t.
48 send
= F. Q
uncorrected
= saue
retention
= F. Q
uncorrected
= retention and appointed guard
49 had
= F. Q = has
60 might
= F. Q = should
63 immediacy
= F. Q = imediate
67 addition
= F. Q = aduancement
70 SH ALBANY
= F. Q =
Gon
.
77 Dispose … thine:
= F.
Not in
Q
84 SH REGAN
= F. Q =
Bast
.
thine
= F. Q = good
86 thy arrest
= F. Q = thine attaint
87 sister
= Q. F = sister
88 bar
= Ed. F = bare
91 loves
= F. Q = loue
94 let … sound:
= F.
Not in
Q
95 person
= F. Q = head
97 make
= F. Q = proue
101 medicine
= F. Q = poyson
116 lists
= F. Q = hoast
117 by
= F. Q = at
120 SH HERALD
= F. Q =
Edmund
128–29 Yet … cope
= F. Q = yet are I mou’t / Where is the aduersarie I come to cope with all
136–37 my … honours —
= F. Q = the priuiledge of my tongue,
140 Despise
= F. Q = Despite
143 Conspirant
= F. Q = Conspicuate
145 below thy foot
= F. Q = beneath thy feet
147 are
= F. Q = As
152 tongue
= F. Q = being
153 What … delay
= F.
Not in
Q
154 rule
= F. Q = right
155 Back
= F. Q = Heere
156 hell-hated lie o’er-whelm
= F. Q = hell hatedly, oreturnd
157 scarcely
= Q. F = scarely
162 war
= F. Q = armes
wast
= F. Q = art
166 stop … sir=
F. Q = stople it
167 name
= F. Q = thing
172 SH EDMUND
= F. Q =
Gon
.
183 vices
= F. Q = vertues
184 plague
= F. Q = scourge
200 we
= F. Q = with
207 fault
= F. Q = Father
211 our
= F. Q = my
222 SH EDGAR
= F. Q =
Alb
.
223 SH ALBANY Speak, man
. = F.
Not in
Q
224 SH EDGAR
= F. Q
assigns line to Albany
226 O, she’s dead!
= F.
Not in
Q
227 Who … man
. = F. Q = Who man, speake?
229 confesses
= F. Q = hath confest
234 judgement
= F. Q = Iustice
235 is this
= F. Q = tis
265 you
= Q. F = your
281 you, murderers, traitors
= F. Q = your murderous traytors
287 SH GENTLEMAN
= F. Q =
Cap
.
290 him
= F. Q = them
295 This … sight
. = F.
Not in
Q
298 you that
= F. Q = that
302 first
= F. Q = life
309 says
= F. Q = sees
327 sir
. = F. Q = sir, O, o, o, o.
328–29 Do … there!
= F.
Not in
Q
331 SH KENT
= F. Q =
Lear
342 realm
= F. Q = kingdome
345 SH EDGAR
= F. Q =
Duke
Lines are numbered continuously, for ease of reference
.
Following 1.2.88:
EDMUND
Nor is not, sure
1
.
GLOUCESTER
To his father, that so tenderly and entirely loves him.
Heaven and earth!
Following 1.2.130:
as of
unnaturalness
4
between the child and the parent,
death,
dearth
, dissolutions of
ancient amities
,
divisions
5
in
state, menaces and
maledictions
6
against king and nobles,
needless
diffidences
, banishment of friends,
dissipation of
7
cohorts,
nuptial breaches
8
, and I know not what.
EDGAR
How long have you been a
sectary astronomical
9
?
EDMUND
Come, come,
Following 1.3.16:
Not
to be overruled.
Idle
11
old man,
That still would manage those authorities
That he hath given away! Now by my life
Old fools are babes again, and must be
used
14
With
checks as flatteries
, when they are
seen abused
15
.
Following 1.4.131:
FOOL
That lord that counselled thee to give away thy land,
Come place him here by me, do thou for him
stand
17
,
The sweet and bitter fool will
presently
18
appear:
The one in
motley
19
here, the other found out there.
LEAR
Dost thou call me fool, boy?
FOOL
All thy other titles thou hast given away, that thou
wast born with.
KENT
This is not
altogether fool
23
my lord.
FOOL
No, faith, lords and great men will not let me, if I
had a monopoly out, they would have part
on’t
25
: and ladies
too, they will not let me have all the fool to myself, they’ll be
Following 1.4.204:
I would learn that, for by the
marks
28
of sovereignty,
knowledge, and reason, I should be
false
29
persuaded I had
daughters.
FOOL
Which they will make an obedient father.
Following 2.2.137:
His fault is much, and the good king, his master,
Will
check
him for’t: your purposed
low correction
33
Is such as basest and
’temnest
34
wretches
For
pilf’rings
and most common
trespasses
35
Are punished with.
Following 3.1.7:
tears his white hair,
Which the impetuous blasts with
eyeless
38
rage
Catch
39
in their fury, and make nothing of,
Strives in his little world of man to out-scorn,
The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain:
This night wherein the
cubdrawn
bear would
couch
42
,
The lion and the
belly-pinchèd
43
wolf
Keep their fur dry,
unbonneted
44
he runs,
Replaces 3.1.16–23:
But true it is, from France there comes a
power
46
Into this
scattered
47
kingdom, who already
Wise in
our negligence, have secret
feet
48
In some of our best ports, and are
at point
49
To show their open banner.
Now to you:
If
on my
credit
52
you dare build so far
To make your speed to Dover, you shall find
Some that will thank you,
making just report
54
Of how unnatural and
bemadding
55
sorrow
The king hath cause to
’plain
56
.
I am a gentleman of
blood
57
and breeding,
And from some knowledge and
assurance
58
,
Offer this
office
59
to you.
Following 3.6.16:
EDGAR
The foul fiend bites my back.
FOOL
He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a
horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath.
LEAR
It shall be done, I will
arraign
them
straight
63
,
To Edgar
Come sit thou here most learnèd
justice
64
.—
To the Fool
Thou,
sapient
65
sir sit here.
No, you she foxes—
EDGAR
Look where he stands and glares.
Want’st thou
eyes
67
at trial, madam?
Come o’er the
bourn
69
, Bessy, to me—
Sings
And she must not
speak
71
Why she dares not
come over
72
to thee.
EDGAR
The
foul
73
fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of a
nightingale,
Hopdance
74
cries in Tom’s belly for two white
herring,
Croak not
black angel
76
, I have no food for thee.
KENT
How
do
you sir? Stand you not so
amazed
77
,
Will you lie down and rest upon the
cushings
78
?
LEAR
I’ll see their trial first, bring in their evidence.—
To Edgar
Thou robèd man of justice, take thy place—
To the Fool
And thou, his
yoke-fellow of equity
81
,
To Kent
Bench
by his side:— you are
o’th’commission
82
,
Sit you too.
EDGAR
Let us deal justly.
Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd?
Thy sheep be in the corn,
And
for one blast of thy
minikin
87
mouth,
Thy sheep shall take no harm.
Purr
89
, the cat is grey.
LEAR
Arraign her first, ’tis Goneril. I here take my oath
before this honourable assembly, she kicked the poor king
her father.
FOOL
Come hither, mistress. Is your name Goneril?
LEAR
She cannot deny it.
FOOL
Cry you mercy
, I took you for a
joint-stool
95
.
LEAR
And here’s
another
whose
warped looks
96
proclaim
What
store
her heart is made
on
97
: stop her there!
Arms, arms, sword, fire! Corruption in the place!
False justicer
, why hast thou let her
scape
99
?
Following 3.6.55:
KENT
Oppressed
100
nature sleeps:
This rest might yet have
balmed thy broken sinews
101
,
Which, if
convenience
102
will not allow,
To Fool
Stand in hard cure
103
.— Come help to bear thy master:
Thou must not stay behind.
Exeunt. [Edgar remains]
EDGAR
When we our betters see
bearing our woes
105
,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
Who alone suffers, suffers most i’th’mind
107
,
Leaving
free
things and
happy shows
108
behind,
But then the mind much
sufferance
doth
o’erskip
109
,
When grief hath mates, and
bearing
110
fellowship:
How light and
portable
111
my pain seems now,
When that which makes me bend, makes the king
bow
112
:
He childed as I fathered
113
. Tom away!
Mark the
high noises
and thyself
bewray
114
When false opinion, whose wrong thoughts defile thee,
In thy just proof
116
repeals and reconciles thee.
What will hap more tonight, safe scape the king
117
:
Lurk
118
, lurk.
Exit
Following 3.7.109:
SERVANT
I’ll never care what wickedness I do,
If this man come to good.
SECOND SERVANT
If she live long,
And in the end meet the
old course of death
122
,
Women will all turn monsters.
FIRST SERVANT
Let’s follow the old earl, and get the
Bedlam
124
To lead him
where he would
125
: his madness
Allows itself to
126
anything.
SECOND SERVANT
Go thou: I’ll fetch some
flax and whites of eggs
127
To apply to his bleeding face. Now heaven help him!