King Lear (Quarto 1, 1608)

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

[Act 3, scene 3 in Folio]
 17521506Enter Gloster and the Bastard with lights.
 17531507Glost. Alacke alacke Edmund I like not this,
 1508Vnnaturall 1754dealing when I desir'd their leaue
 1509That I might pitty him, 1755they tooke me from me
 1510The vse of mine owne house, charg'd 1756me on paine
 1511Of their displeasure, neither to speake 1757of him,
 1512Intreat for him, nor any way sustaine him.
 17581513Bast. Most sauage and vnnaturall.
 17591514Glost. Go toe say you nothing, ther's a diuisiõ be1760twixt (the Dukes,
 1515And a worse matter then that, I haue 1761receiued
 1516A letter this night, tis dangerous to be spoken,
 17621517I haue lockt the letter in my closet, these iniuries
 1518The 1763King now beares, will be reuenged home
 1519Ther's part of 1764a power already landed,
 1520We must incline to the King, I 1765will seeke him, and
 1521Priuily releeue him, goe you and 1766maintaine talke
 1522With the Duke, that my charity be not of 1767him
 1523Perceiued, if hee aske for me, I am ill, and gon
 1524To 1768bed, though I die for't, as no lesse is threatned me,
 1525The King 1769my old master must be releeued, there is
 1526Some strãge thing 1770toward, Edmund pray you be careful.  Exit.
 17711527Bast. This curtesie forbid thee, shal the Duke 1772instãly (know
 1528And of that letter to, 1773this seems a faire deseruing
 1529And must draw me 1774that which my father looses, no lesse
 1530Then all, 1775then yonger rises when the old doe fall.  Exit.

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