King Lear (Modern, Extended 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]
 2348[Scene 18]
 23492150Enter Cordelia, Doctor, and others.
 23512151Cordelia
 Alack, 'tis he. Why, he was met even now,
 23522152As mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud;
 23532153Crowned with rank fumitor and furrow-weeds,
 23542154With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo flowers,
 23552155Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
 23562156In our sustaining corn. [To an attendant] A century send forth.
 23572157Search every acre in the high-grown field
 23582158And bring him to our eye.
 [Exit attendant.]
 And bring him to our eye.  What can man's wisdom
 23592159In the restoring his bereavèd sense?
 He that can help him 23602160take all my outward worth.
 23612161Doctor
 There is means, madam.
 23622162Our foster nurse of nature is repose,
 23632163The which he lacks; that to provoke in him
 23642164Are many simples operative, whose power
 23652165Will close the eye of anguish.
 23662166Cordelia
 Will close the eye of anguish.  All blest secrets,
 2367All you unpublished virtues of the earth,
 23682167Spring with my tears; be aidant and remediate
 23692168In the good man's distress. Seek, seek for him,
 23702169Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life
 23712170That wants the means to lead it.
 2372Enter [a] messenger.
 23732171Messenger
 That wants the means to lead it.  News, madam.
 2374The British powers are marching hitherward.
 23752172Cordelia
 'Tis known before. Our preparation stands
 23762173In expectation of them.--O dear father,
 23772174It is thy business that I go about. Therefore great France
 23782175My mourning and important tears hath pitied.
 23792176No blown ambition doth our arms incite,
 23802177But love, dear love, and our agèd father's right.
 23812178Soon may I hear and see him.
 42Exeunt.42.1

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