King Lear (Quarto 2, 1619)

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

The History of King Lear.
 605543daughter, I would speake with her, go you call hither my foole;
 606544O you sir, you sir, come you hither, who am I sir?
 609545Stew. My Ladies Father.
 610546Lear. My Ladies Father, my Lords knaue, you whoreson dog,
 611547 you slaue, you curre.
 612548Stew. I am none of this my Lord, I beseech you pardon me.
 614549Lear. Do you bandy lookes with me you rascall?
 615550Stew. Ile not be strucke my Lord.
 616551Kent. Nor tript neither, you base football plaier.
 617552Lear. I thanke thee fellow, thou seru'st me, and ile loue thee.
 619553Kent. Come sir, ile teach you differences, away, away, if you
 620554will measure your lubbers length againe, tarry, but away, you
 621555haue wisedome.
 622556Lear. Now friendly knaue I thanke thee, there's earnest of
 623557thy seruice.
 
 624558Enter Foole.
 625559Foole. Let me hire him too, here's my coxcombe.
 626560Lear. How now my pretty knaue, how dost thou?
 627561Foole. Sirra, you were best take my coxcombe.
 628562Kent. Why Foole?
 629563Foole. Why for taking ones part that's out of fauour, nay and
 630564thou canst not smile as the winde sits, thou't catch colde shortly,
 631565there take my coxcombe; why this fellow hath banisht two of
 632566his daughters, and done the third a blessing against his will, if
 633567thou follow him, thou must needs weare my coxcombe, how
 634568now nunckle, would I had two coxcombes, and two daughters.
 636569Lear. Why my boy?
 637570Foole. If I gaue them any liuing, ide keepe my coxcombe my
 638571selfe, theres mine, beg another of thy daughters.
 640572Lear. Take heed sirra, the whip.
 641573Foole. Truth is, a dog that must to kennell, he must bee whipt
 642574out, when Lady oth'e brach may stand by the fire and stinke.
 644575Lear. A pestilent g[u]ll to me.
 645576Foole. Sirra, ile teach thee a speech.Lear. Do.
 647577Foole. Marke it Vnckle; haue more then thou shewest, speake
 649578lesse then thou knowest, lend lesse then thou owest, ride more
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King Lear (Quarto 2, 1619)