King Lear (Modern, Quarto)

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 5 in Folio]
 12.0.11969[Scene 12]
 12.0.219701693Enter Cornwall and [the] Bastard.
 12.119711694Cornwall
 I will have my revenge ere I depart the house.
 12.219721695Bastard
 How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature 1973thus gives 1696way to loyalty, something fears me to 1974think of.
 12.319751697Cornwall
 I now perceive it was not altogether your 1976brother's 1698evil disposition made him seek his death, but 1977a provoking merit 1699set a-work by a reprovable badness 1978in himself.
 12.419791700Bastard
 How malicious is my fortune that I must 1980repent to be 1701just! This is the letter he spoke of, 1981which approves him an 1702intelligent party to the 1982advantages of France. O heavens, that his 1703treason were not, 1983or not I the detector!
 12.519841704Cornwall
 Go with me to the duchess.
 12.619851705Bastard
 If the matter of this paper be certain, you have 1986mighty 1706business in hand.
 12.719871707Cornwall
 True or false, it hath made thee Earl of 1988Gloucester. Seek 1708out where thy father is, that he may be 1989ready for our 1709apprehension.
 12.819901710Bastard
 [Aside] If I find him comforting the King, it will stuff 1991his 1711suspicion more fully. [Aloud] I will persevere in my course of 1992loyalty, 1712though the conflict be sore between that and 1993my blood.
 12.919941713Cornwall
 I will lay trust upon thee, and thou shalt find 1995a dearer 1714father in my love.
 12.30.132Exeunt.32.2

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