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Work
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are treated as single work with 154 parts.
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the character name is "Poet."
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King Lear
[I, 1] |
Earl of Gloucester |
29 |
He hath been out nine years, and away he shall again.
[Sound a sennet.]
The King is coming.
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2 |
King Lear
[I, 1] |
Earl of Kent |
150 |
Let it fall rather, though the fork invade
The region of my heart! Be Kent unmannerly
When Lear is mad. What wouldst thou do, old man?
Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
When power to flattery bows? To plainness honour's bound
When majesty falls to folly. Reverse thy doom;
And in thy best consideration check
This hideous rashness. Answer my life my judgment,
Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least,
Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound
Reverbs no hollowness.
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3 |
King Lear
[II, 4] |
Lear |
1378 |
The King would speak with Cornwall; the dear father
Would with his daughter speak, commands her service.
Are they inform'd of this? My breath and blood!
Fiery? the fiery Duke? Tell the hot Duke that-
No, but not yet! May be he is not well.
Infirmity doth still neglect all office
Whereto our health is bound. We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind
To suffer with the body. I'll forbear;
And am fallen out with my more headier will,
To take the indispos'd and sickly fit
For the sound man.- Death on my state! Wherefore
Should he sit here? This act persuades me
That this remotion of the Duke and her
Is practice only. Give me my servant forth.
Go tell the Duke and 's wife I'ld speak with them-
Now, presently. Bid them come forth and hear me,
Or at their chamber door I'll beat the drum
Till it cry sleep to death.
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King Lear
[IV, 6] |
Edgar |
2656 |
Hadst thou been aught but gossamer, feathers, air,
So many fadom down precipitating,
Thou'dst shiver'd like an egg; but thou dost breathe;
Hast heavy substance; bleed'st not; speak'st; art sound.
Ten masts at each make not the altitude
Which thou hast perpendicularly fell.
Thy life is a miracle. Speak yet again.
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5 |
King Lear
[IV, 6] |
Gentleman |
2820 |
Most sure and vulgar. Every one hears that
Which can distinguish sound.
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6 |
King Lear
[V, 1] |
Edgar |
3072 |
Before you fight the battle, ope this letter.
If you have victory, let the trumpet sound
For him that brought it. Wretched though I seem,
I can produce a champion that will prove
What is avouched there. If you miscarry,
Your business of the world hath so an end,
And machination ceases. Fortune love you!
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7 |
King Lear
[V, 3] |
Duke of Albany |
3227 |
Thou art arm'd, Gloucester. Let the trumpet sound.
If none appear to prove upon thy person
Thy heinous, manifest, and many treasons,
There is my pledge [throws down a glove]! I'll prove it on thy
heart,
Ere I taste bread, thou art in nothing less
Than I have here proclaim'd thee.
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8 |
King Lear
[V, 3] |
Duke of Albany |
3248 |
She is not well. Convey her to my tent.
[Exit Regan, led. Enter a Herald.]
Come hither, herald. Let the trumpet sound,
And read out this.
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9 |
King Lear
[V, 3] |
Captain |
3252 |
Sound, trumpet! A trumpet sounds.
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10 |
King Lear
[V, 3] |
Herald |
3253 |
[reads] 'If any man of quality or degree within the lists of
the army will maintain upon Edmund, supposed Earl of Gloucester,
that he is a manifold traitor, let him appear by the third sound
of the trumpet. He is bold in his defence.'
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11 |
King Lear
[V, 3] |
Edmund |
3257 |
Sound! First trumpet.
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12 |
King Lear
[V, 3] |
(stage directions) |
3261 |
Enter Edgar, armed, at the third sound, a Trumpet before him.
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