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 4, scene 3 in Folio]
0.12348[Scene 18]
0.223492150Enter Cordelia, Doctor, and others.
123512151Cordelia
 Alack, 'tis he. Why, he was met even now,
223522152As mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud;
323532153Crowned with rank fumitor and furrow-weeds,
423542154With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo flowers,
523552155Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
623562156In our sustaining corn. [To an attendant] A century send forth.
723572157Search every acre in the high-grown field
823582158And bring him to our eye.
8.1[Exit attendant.]
 And bring him to our eye.  What can man's wisdom
923592159In the restoring his bereavèd sense?
10He that can help him 23602160take all my outward worth.
1123612161Doctor
 There is means, madam.
1223622162Our foster nurse of nature is repose,
1323632163The which he lacks; that to provoke in him
1423642164Are many simples operative, whose power
1523652165Will close the eye of anguish.
 23662166Cordelia
 Will close the eye of anguish.  All blest secrets,
162367All you unpublished virtues of the earth,
1723682167Spring with my tears; be aidant and remediate
1823692168In the good man's distress. Seek, seek for him,
1923702169Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life
2023712170That wants the means to lead it.
 2372Enter [a] messenger.
 23732171Messenger
 That wants the means to lead it.  News, madam.
212374The British powers are marching hitherward.
2223752172Cordelia
 'Tis known before. Our preparation stands
2323762173In expectation of them.--O dear father,
2423772174It is thy business that I go about. Therefore great France
2523782175My mourning and important tears hath pitied.
2623792176No blown ambition doth our arms incite,
2723802177But love, dear love, and our agèd father's right.
2823812178Soon may I hear and see him.
28.142Exeunt.42.1

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