King Lear by William Shakespeare

Author:William Shakespeare
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3, pdf
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.

Gloucester. O you mighty gods!

He kneels.

This world I do renounce, and in your sights

Shake patiently my great affliction off:

If I could bear it longer and not fall

To quarrel° with your great opposeless° wills,

My snuff° and loathèd part of nature should

Burn itself out. If Edgar live, O bless him!

Now, fellow, fare thee well.

He falls.

Edgar. Gone, sir, farewell.21 unnumb‘red idle pebble innumerable pebbles, moved to and fro by the waves to no purpose

23-24 the deficient sight/Topple my failing sight topple me

27 upright i.e., even up in the air, to say nothing of forward, over the cliff

29 Fairies (who are supposed to guard and multiply hidden treasure)

33-34 Why ... if I play on his despair in order to cure it

37-38 fall/To quarrel with rebel against

38 opposeless not to be, and not capable of being, opposed

39 snuff the guttering (and stinking) wick of a burnt-out candle

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