King Lear (Modern, Folio)

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 18 in Quarto]
3.0.123484.3
3.0.22349Enter, with drum and colours, Cordelia, gentlemen, 2350and soldiers.
3.12351Cordelia
 Alack, 'tis he. Why, he was met even now,
3.22352As mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud;
3.32353Crowned with rank fumitor and furrow-weeds,
3.42354With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo flowers,
3.52355Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
3.62356In our sustaining corn. [To an officer] A century send forth.
3.72357Search every acre in the high-grown field
3.82358And bring him to our eye.
3.8.1[Exit soldier(s).]
 And bring him to our eye.  What can man's wisdom
3.92359In the restoring his bereavèd sense? He that helps him
3.102360Take all my outward worth.
 2361Gentleman
 Take all my outward worth.  There is means madam.
3.112362Our foster nurse of nature is repose,
3.122363The which he lacks; that to provoke in him
3.132364Are many simples operative, whose power
3.142365Will close the eye of anguish.
 2366Cordelia
 Will close the eye of anguish.  All blest secrets,
3.152367All you unpublished virtues of the earth,
3.162368Spring with my tears; be aidant and remediate
3.172369In the good man's distress. Seek, seek for him,
3.182370Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life
3.192371That wants the means to lead it.
3.19.12372Enter Messenger.
 2373Messenger
 That wants the means to lead it.  News, madam.
3.202374The British powers are marching hitherward.
3.212375Cordelia
 'Tis known before. Our preparation stands
3.222376In expectation of them.--O dear father,
3.232377It is thy business that I go about. Therefore great France
3.242378My mourning and importuned tears hath pitied.
3.252379No blown ambition doth our arms incite,
3.262380But love, dear love, and our agèd father's right.
3.272381Soon may I hear and see him.
3.30.143Exeunt.43.1

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