King Lear (Folio 1, 1623)

Introduction
2. Textual Introduction
Texts of this edition
1. King Lear (Folio, 1623)
3. Modern
5. Extended modern
7. Old-spelling transcription
8. King Lear (Quarto 1, 1608)
10. Modern
12. Extended modern
14. Old-spelling transcription
15. King Lear (Quarto 2, 1619)
17. Old-spelling transcription
Contextual materials
1. Sources for the Lear story
3. Holinshed on King Lear
5. The History of King Leir
7. Albion's England (Selection)
9. Hardyng's Chronicle (Selection)
11. Kings of Britain
13. Chronicles of England
15. Faerie Queene
17. The Mirror for Magistrates
18. Sources for the Gloucester plot
20. The Arcadia
22. A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures
23. Literary, political, and social contexts
25. Aristotle on tragedy
27. The Book of Job (Selections)
29. The Monk's Tale (Selections)
31. The Defense of Poetry
33. The First Blast of the Trumpet
35. Basilicon Doron
37. On Bastards
39. On Aging
40. King Lear's afterlife
42. King Lear (Adapted by Nahum Tate)
Facsimiles

[Scene 12 in Quarto]
 1969Scena Quinta.
 1970Enter Cornwall, and Edmund.
 1971Corn. I will haue my reuenge, ere I depart his house.
 1972Bast. How my Lord, I may be censured, that Nature
 1973thus giues way to Loyaltie, something feares mee to
 1974thinke of.
 1975Cornw. I now perceiue, it was not altogether your
 1976Brothers euill disposition made him seeke his death: but
 1977a prouoking merit set a-worke by a reprouable badnesse
 1978in himselfe.
 1979Bast. How malicious is my fortune, that I must re-
 1980pent to be iust? This is the Letter which hee spoake of;
 1981which approues him an intelligent partie to the aduanta-
 1982ges of France. O Heauens! that this Treason were not;
 1983or not I the detector.
 1984Corn. Go with me to the Dutchesse.
 1985Bast. If the matter of this Paper be certain, you haue
 1986mighty businesse in hand.
 1987Corn. True or false, it hath made thee Earle of Glou-
 1988cester: seeke out where thy Father is, that hee may bee
 1989ready for our apprehension.
 1990Bast. If I finde him comforting the King, it will stuffe
 1991his suspition more fully. I will perseuer in my course of
 1992Loyalty, though the conflict be sore betweene that, and
 1993my blood.
 1994Corn. I will lay trust vpon thee: and thou shalt finde
 1995a deere Father in my loue.  Exeunt.

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King Lear (Folio 1, 1623)