No Fear Shakespeare
King Lear
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 1, Scene 4, Page 3
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You, you, sirrah, where’s my daughter?
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You, sir, where’s my daughter?
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OSWALD
So please you—
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OSWALD
I beg your pardon, sir—
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Exit OSWALD
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LEAR
What says the fellow there? Call the clotpoll back.
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LEAR
What did that guy say? Call the numbskull back in here.
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Exit FIRST KNIGHT
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Where’s my fool, ho? I think the world’s asleep.
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Where’s my fool? You’d think everyone was asleep.
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Enter FIRST KNIGHT
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How now? Where’s that mongrel?
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So what’s going on? Where’s that dog?
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FIRST KNIGHT
He says, my lord, your daughter is not well.
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FIRST KNIGHT
He says your daughter’s not feeling well, my lord.
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LEAR
Why came not the slave back to me when I called him.
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LEAR
Why didn’t the jerk come back to me when I called him?
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FIRST KNIGHT
Sir, he answered me in the roundest manner he would not.
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FIRST KNIGHT
Sir, he told me quite bluntly that he didn’t feel like it.
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LEAR
He would not?
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LEAR
Didn’t feel like it?
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FIRST KNIGHT
My lord, I know not what the matter is, but to my judgment
your highness is not entertained with that ceremonious
affection as you were wont. There’s a great abatement of
kindness appears as well in the general dependants as in the
duke himself also, and your daughter.
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FIRST KNIGHT
My lord, I don’t know what’s going on, but it seems to me that your highness isn’t being treated as politely as before. The servants, the duke, and your daughter all seem to be treating you less kindly.
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LEAR
Ha! Sayest thou so?
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LEAR
Huh! Do you really mean that?
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FIRST KNIGHT
I beseech you pardon me, my lord, if I be mistaken—for my
duty cannot be silent when I think your highness wronged.
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FIRST KNIGHT
Please forgive me if I’m mistaken, my lord—but I can’t keep quiet when I think you’re being insulted.
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