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.
 1072911Glo. I serue you Madam, your Graces are right welcome.
 
 1075912Enter Kent, and Steward.
 1076913Steward. Good euen to thee friend, art of the house?
 1077914Kent. I.
 1078915Steward. Where may we set our horses?
 1079916Kent. In the mire.
 1080917Stew. Prethee if thou loue me, tell me.
 1081918Kent. I loue thee not.
 1082919Stew. Why then I care not for thee.
 1083920Kent. If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee care
 1084921 for me.
 1085922Stew. Why dost thou vse me thus? I know thee not.
 1086923Kent. Fellow I know thee.
 1087924Stew. What dost thou know me for?
 1088925Kent. A knaue, a rascall, an eater of broken meates, a base,
 1089926proud, shallow, beggerly, three shewted hundred pound, filthy
 1090927worsted stocken knaue, a lilly liuer'd action taking knaue, a
 1091928whoreson glasse-gazing superfinicall rogue, one trunke inheri-
 1092929ting slaue, one that would'st be baud in way of good seruice, &
 1093930art nothing but the composition of a knaue, begger, coward,
 1095931pander, and the sonne and heire of a mungrell bitch, whom I will
 1096932beate into clamorous whining, if thou deny the least sillable of
 1097933the addition.
 1098934Stew. What a monstrous fellow art thon, thus to raile on one
 1099935that's neither knowne of thee, nor knowes thee.
 1101936Kent. What a brazen fac'st varlet art thou, to deny thou know-
 1102937est me, is it two daies agoe since I beate thee, and tript vp thy
 1103938heeles before the King? draw you rogue, for though it be night
 1105939the Moon shines, ile make a sop of the Moone-shine a'you, draw
 940you whoreson cullyonly barber-munger, draw.
 1107941Stew. Away, I haue nothing to do with thee.
 1108942Kent. Draw you rascall, you bring Letters against the King, &
 1109943take Vanity the puppets part, against the royalty of her father,
 1110944draw you rogue, or ile so carbonado your shankes, draw you ras-
 1111945call, come your wayes.
 1112946Stew. Helpe, ho, murther, helpe.
Kent.

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King Lear (Quarto 2, 1619)