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.
 30142829Gon. Hola, hola, that eye that told you so, lookt but a squint.
 30162830Reg. Lady I am not well, else I should answer
 30172831From a full flowing stomacke. Generall,
 30182832Take thou my soldiers, prisoners, patrimony,
 30202833Witnesse the world, that I create thee heere
 30212834My Lord and master.
 30222835Gon. Meane you to enioy him then?
 30232836Alb. The let alone lies not in your good will.
 30242837Bast. Nor in thine Lord.
 30252838Alb. Halfe blooded fellow, yes.
 30262839Bast. Let the drum strike, and proue my title good.
 30272840Alb. Stay yet, heare reason: Edmund, I arrest thee
 30282841On capitall treason; and in thine attaint,
 30292842This gilded Serpent: for your claime faire sister,
 30302843I bare it in the interestof my wife,
 30312844Tis she is subcontracted to her Lord,
 30322845And I her husband contradict the banes,
 30332846If you will marry, make your loue to me,
 30342847My Lady is bespoke. Thou art arm'd Gloster.
 30382848If none appeare to proue vpon thy head,
 30392849Thy hainous, manifest, and many treasons,
 30402850There is my pledge, Ile proue it on thy heart
 30412851Ere I tast bread, thou art in nothing lesse
 30422852Then I haue heere proclaim'd thee.
 30432853Reg. Sicke, ô sicke.
 30442854Gon. If not, Ile nere trust poyson.
 30452855Bast. Ther's my exchange, what in the world he is,
 30462856That names me traitor, villain-like he lyes,
 30472857Call by thy Trumpet, he that dares approach
 30482858On him, on you, who not, I will maintaine
 30492859My truth and honor firmely.
 30512860Alb. A Herald ho.
 3051.12861Bast. A herald ho, a herald.
 30522862Alb. Trust to thy single vertue, for thy soldiers
 30532863All leuied in my name, haue in my name tooke their discharge.
 30552864Reg. This sicknesse growes vpon me.
 30562865Alb. She is not well, conuey her to my tent,
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King Lear (Quarto 2, 1619)