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This is most strange , That she , who even but now was your best object , The
argument of your praise , balm of your age , Most best , most dearest , should in
this trice of time Commit a thing so monstrous , to dismantle So many folds of
favour .
This is most strange , That she , who even but now was your best object , The
argument of your praise , balm of your age , Most best , most dearest , should in
this trice of time Commit a thing so monstrous , to dismantle So many folds of
favour .
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Not so young , Sir , to love a woman for singing ; nor so old , to dote on her for
any thing : I have years on my back forty - eight . Lear . Follow me ; thou shalt
serve me : if I like thee no worse after dinner , I will not part from thee yet . Dinner ,
ho ...
Not so young , Sir , to love a woman for singing ; nor so old , to dote on her for
any thing : I have years on my back forty - eight . Lear . Follow me ; thou shalt
serve me : if I like thee no worse after dinner , I will not part from thee yet . Dinner ,
ho ...
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I had rather be any kind o ' thing than a fool ; and yet I would not be thee , nuncle :
thou hast pared thy wit o ' both sides , and left nothing ' i ' the middle . Here comes
one o ' the parings . Enter GONERIL . Lear . How now , daughter ! what ...
I had rather be any kind o ' thing than a fool ; and yet I would not be thee , nuncle :
thou hast pared thy wit o ' both sides , and left nothing ' i ' the middle . Here comes
one o ' the parings . Enter GONERIL . Lear . How now , daughter ! what ...
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This is not Lear : 1. i . e . a mere husk , which contains in order to restore a
wholesome state nothing . The outside of a king remains , of things . but all the
intrinsic parts of royalty 4. This line is nothing but a fag are gone : he has nothing
to give .
This is not Lear : 1. i . e . a mere husk , which contains in order to restore a
wholesome state nothing . The outside of a king remains , of things . but all the
intrinsic parts of royalty 4. This line is nothing but a fag are gone : he has nothing
to give .
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... riotous inn : epicurism and lust Make it more like a tavern , or a brothel , Than a
grac'd palace . The shame itself doth speak For instant remedy : be , then , desir'd
By her , that else will take the thing she begs , A little to disquantity ; your train ...
... riotous inn : epicurism and lust Make it more like a tavern , or a brothel , Than a
grac'd palace . The shame itself doth speak For instant remedy : be , then , desir'd
By her , that else will take the thing she begs , A little to disquantity ; your train ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | King Lear: A Tragedy Issue 6 of Masterpieces of English literature |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Robert H. Westley |
| Publisher | G. Graebner, 1861 |
| Length | 113 pages |
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