No Fear Shakespeare
King Lear
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 4, Scene 7, Page 4
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Yet I am doubtful, for I am mainly ignorant
What place this is, and all the skill I have
Remembers not these garments. Nor I know not
Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me,
For as I am a man, I think this lady
To be my child Cordelia.
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but I’m not sure. I don’t know where I am. I don’t remember these clothes. I can’t recall where I slept last night. Don’t laugh at me, but I swear I think this lady is my child Cordelia.
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CORDELIA
And so I am, I am.
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CORDELIA
And I am, I am.
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LEAR
Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not.
If you have poison for me, I will drink it.
I know you do not love me, for your sisters
Have, as I do remember, done me wrong.
You have some cause; they have not.
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LEAR
Are your tears wet? Yes, indeed they are. Please don’t cry. If you have poison for me, I’ll drink it. I know you don’t love me. If I remember, your sisters did me wrong for no reason. But you didn’t, even though you had every reason.
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CORDELIA
No cause, no cause.
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CORDELIA
I had no reason, no reason.
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LEAR
Am I in France?
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LEAR
Am I in France?
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KENT
In your own kingdom, sir.
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KENT
You’re in your own kingdom, sir.
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LEAR
Do not abuse me.
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LEAR
Don’t deceive me.
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DOCTOR
Be comforted, good madam. The great rage,
You see, is killed in him. And yet it is danger
To make him even o'er the time he has lost.
Desire him to go in. Trouble him no more
Till further settling.
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DOCTOR
You can relax, ma'am. His insane period is over. But it’s dangerous to make him try to make sense of the time he lost. Ask him to go in. Don’t trouble him further until his mind is more settled.
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CORDELIA
Will ’t please your highness walk?
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CORDELIA
Would your highness like to take a walk?
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LEAR
You must bear with me.
Pray you now, forget and forgive.
I am old and foolish.
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LEAR
You’ll have to bear with me. Please forgive and forget. I’m old and foolish.
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Exeunt |
They exit. |
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Manent KENT and GENTLEMAN
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KENT and the GENTLEMAN remain. |
