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.
 7262Be this perpetuall. What saies our second daughter?
 7363Our deerest Regan, wife to Cornwall, speake.
 7464Reg. Sir I am made of the selfe-same mettal that my sister is
 7565And prize me at her worth in my true heart,
 7666I finde she names my very deed of loue, onely shee came short,
 7867That I professe my selfe an enemy to all other ioyes,
 7968Which the most precious square of sence possesses,
 8069And finde I am alone felicitate in your deere highnesse loue.
 8270Cor. Then poore Cordelia, and yet not so, since I am sure
 8471My loue's more richer then my tongue.
 8572Lear. To thee and thine hereditary euer
 8673Remaine this ample third of our faire kingdome,
 8774No lesse in space, validity, and pleasure,
 8875Then that confirm'd on Gonorill; but now our ioy,
 8976Although the last, not least in our deere loue,
 9177What can you say to win a third, more opulent
 9278Then your sisters.
 9379Cor. Nothing my Lord.
 9680Lear. How, nothing can come of nothing, speake againe.
 9781Cor. Vnhappy that I am, I cannot heaue my heart into my
 9882mouth, I loue your Maiesty according to my bond, nor more
 9983nor lesse.
 10084Lear. Go too, go too, mend your speech a little,
 10185Least it may marre your fortunes.
 10286Cord. Good my Lord,
 10387You haue begot me, bred me, loued me,
 10488I returne those duties backe as are right fit,
 10589Obey you, loue you, and most honour you,
 10690Why haue my sisters husbands, if they say they loue you all,
 10791Haply when I shall wed, that Lord whose hand
 10892Must take my plight, shall carry halfe my loue with him,
 10993Halfe my care and duty, sure I shall neuer
 11094Marry like my sisters, to loue my father all.
 11195Lear. But goes this with thy heart?
 11296Cor. I good my Lord.
 11397Lear. So young and so vntender?
 11498Cor. So young my Lord, and true.
Lear.
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