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| Enter GLOUCESTER, LEAR, KENT disguised, FOOL, and EDGAR disguised |
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GLOUCESTER enters with LEAR, the FOOL, and KENT and EDGAR, both in disguise. |
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Here is better than the open air. Take it thankfully. I will |
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piece out the comfort with what addition I can. I will not be |
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long from you. |
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| GLOUCESTER |
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It's better here than outside. Be happy about it. I'll do what I can to make you even more comfortable. I won't be gone long. |
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| | KENT |
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All the power of his wits have given way to his impatience. |
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The gods reward your kindness! |
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| KENT |
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He can't bear his grief and so he's losing his mind. May God reward you for your kindness! |
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| | EDGAR |
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Frateretto calls me and tells me Nero is an angler in the lake |
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of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend. |
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| EDGAR |
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The devil Frateretto is telling me that the diabolical Roman emperor Nero
likes to go fishing in hell. Pray to the gods, you fool, and beware the foul devil. |
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| | FOOL |
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Prithee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a gentleman |
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or a yeoman? |
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Here's a riddle, uncle. Is the lunatic a gentleman or an ordinary guy? |
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| LEAR |
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He's a king, a king! |
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| | FOOL |
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No, he's a yeoman that has a gentleman to his son, for he's |
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a mad yeoman that sees his son a gentleman before him. |
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| FOOL |
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No, he's an ordinary guy who 's got a gentleman for a son, since someone would have to be crazy to let his son become a gentleman before he's achieved that distinction himself. |
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| | LEAR |
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To have a thousand with red burning spits |
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Come hissing in upon 'em! |
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I see Regan and Goneril in hell—A thousand hissing devils with sizzling red pitchforks come up to them! |
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| | EDGAR |
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The foul fiend bites my back. |
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| EDGAR |
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The nasty devil's biting my butt. |
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