Lear: Quotations for discussion Thursday, 10 January 2019

Meantime … shall express our ……. purpose. (1.1.36) Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.

Come not between the….. and his ………. Come not between the dragon and his wrath. (1.1.124) 

I want that … and …. Art To speak and purpose not; since what I well intend, I'll do't before I speak. (1.1.227) I want that glib and oily art To speak and purpose not; since what I well intend, I'll do't before I speak. (1.1.227)

Fairest Cordelia, that art most …., being ….; Most choice, ………..; and most loved, despised! (1.1.253) Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! (1.1.253)

an admirable evasion of …………. man, to lay his ………… an admirable evasion of …………. man, to lay his …………. disposition to the charge of a ………..! (1.2.132) an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! (1.2.132)

Who is it that can tell me ….. .. …..? (1.4.230) Who is it that can tell me who I am? (1.4.230)

………………………….., thou ………………… fiend, More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child, Than the ……………….. (1.4.283) Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend, Than the sea-monster. (1.4.283)

O! let me not be mad, …….., sweet heaven; Keep me in temper; I ……… ….. ….. ……! (1.5.51) O! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; Keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

O, sir! you are old; Nature in you stands on the very verge Of her confine. (2.4.148)

O reason not the need! Our ……. beggars Are in the poorest thing …………. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is …….. … ……... (2.4.264) O reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Man's life is cheap as beast's. (2.4.264)

You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of ….. as ……; wretched in ……! (2.4.274) As full of grief as age; wretched in both!

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! … And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man! (3.2.1)

Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise man and a fool. (3 Marry, here's grace and a ………..; that's a ……. and a fool.

I am a man More sinned against than sinning. (3.2.57) More ………………………………………………..

He that has a little tiny ….., With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, Must make……………with his fortunes ………, Though the rain it raineth every day. (3.2.74) He that has a little tiny wit, Must make content with his fortunes fit,

Take physic, ………; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. (3.4.33) Take physic, pomp;

The prince of darkness is a………….. (3.4.148) The prince of darkness is a gentleman

I am tied to the……., and I must ………… … ….. I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course. (3.7.55)

I have no way, and therefore want no eyes; I stumbled when I saw. (4.1.18)

The worst is not, So long as we can say, ‘………………………...' So long as we can say, 'This is the worst.' (4.1.27)

As flies to ………………………, are we to the gods; They kill us for their ………... (4.1.36) As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport. (4.1.36)

Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice. (4.6.10)

Pray you now, ……….. and ………. (4.7.99) Pray you now, forget and forgive. (4.7.99)

We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: and we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses, and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon 's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies; and we'll wear out, In a walled prison, packs and sets of great ones That ebb and flow by the moon. (5.3.9)

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither: ………… is all. (5.2.9) Ripeness is all.

Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman. (5.3.275)

The weight of this ………. ……. we must obey; Speak what we feel, not ……. … …….. … ……... The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never …………………………………………. (5.3.325) The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. Shall never see so much, nor live so long.