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)
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The History of King Lear.
 14731272Dwels in the fickle grace of her he followes,
 14741273Out varlet, from my sight.
 14751274Duke. What meanes your Grace?
 
 14761275Enter Gonorill.
 14771276Gon. Who strucke my seruant? Regan, I haue good hope
 14781277Thou didst not know ant.
 14791278Lear. Who comes here? O heauens!
 14801279If you do loue olde men, if you sweet sway alow
 14811280Obedience, if your selues are old, make it your cause,
 14821281Send downe and take my part;
 14831282Art not asham'd to looke vpon this beard?
 14841283O Regan, wilt thou take her by the hand?
 14851284Gon. Why not by the hand sir, how haue I offended?
 14861285All's not offence that indiscretion findes,
 14871286And dotage tearmes so.
 14881287Lear. O sides, you are too tough,
 14891288Will you yet hold? how came my man i'th stockes?
 14911289Duke. I set him there, but his owne disorders
 14921290Deseru'd much lesse aduancement.
 14931291Lear. You; did you?
 14941292Reg. I pray you father being weake, seeme so,
 14951293If till the expiration of your moneth,
 14961294You will returne and soiourne with my sister,
 14971295Dismissing halfe your traine, come then to me,
 14981296I am now from home, and out of that prouision
 14991297Which shall be needfull for your entertainment.
 15001298Lear. Returne to her, and fifty men dismist?
 15011299No, rather I abiure all roofes, and chuse
 15021300To wage against the enmity of the ayre,
 15031301To be a Comrade with the Wolfe and Owle,
 15041302Necessities sharpe pinch, returne with her:
 15051303Why the hot blood in France, that dowerles
 15061304Tooke our yongest borne, I could as well be brought
 15071305To knee his Throne, and Squire-like pension beg,
 15081306To keepe base life afoote; returne with her?
 15091307Perswade me rather to be slaue and sumpter
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