a tailor make a man
metaphor: Kent says that Oswald is no more than clothing made
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bestirred your
to wake up
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nature disclaims in thee
nature refuses to recognize you
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With you, goodman boy, if you please: come, I’ll flesh ye; come on, young master.
Kent now tries to initiate Edmund into the fight
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vanity the puppet’s
lady vanity was a regular character in morality plays
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carbonado
score meat, make parallel cuts for grilling
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barber-monger
constant go-er to the barbersalon (vain)
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cullionly
wretched
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sop
soggy piece of brain
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Draw
lets fight!
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brazen-faced varlet
shameless rascal
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if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition
if you deny any of the titles I called you
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one-trunk-inheriting slave
inheriting no more that would fit into a rock
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action-taking knave
take grievances to court
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hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking
stockings made out of cheap wool
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three-suited
3 articles of clothing given to servants
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broken meats
left-overs
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use me thus?
treat me in this way
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care for me
concern yourself with me
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Lipsbury pinfold
lip-town (between my teeth)
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mire
mud
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art of this house?
are you a member of the house?
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counsel
advice
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hence attend dispatch
are waiting to be sent back
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the several messengers
Oswald/Kent
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differences,
quarrels
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Occasions
matters
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out of season
unexpected time
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Natures of such deep trust
trust worthy people
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you shall be ours:
you will work for me
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make your own purpose, How in my strength you please
use my resources to do what you think is necessary
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bewray his practice
reveal his plot
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A child-like office.
highlights the importance of respect for parents, King Lear is set to pre-Christian Britain (pagan)
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’Tis they have put him
they have urged him
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No marvel
It's no wonder
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He whom my father nam’d? your Edgar?
Christian practice: god parent may pronounce the infant's name
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vengeance
punishment
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To make thee capable.
Edmund's scheme is working to his favour
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work the means
make legal arrangements
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ports I’ll bar
I'll close the sea ports
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got
fathered
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If they not thought the profits of my death Were very pregnant and potential spurs To make thee seek it.’
you must think people are stupid
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though thou didst produce My very character,—I’d turn it all 75 To thy suggestion, plot, and damned practice
Edmund passes on his entire scheme of Edgar's
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reposal
placement
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faith’d?
believed
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unpossessing
property-less
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discover
expose
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curst
angry
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dissuaded him
tried to dissuade
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He that conceals him, death.
foreshadows events to occur
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And found—dispatch
when he is found, kill him
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alarum’d spirits
courage aroused, as thought by a trumpet call signalling the start of battle
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rous’d to the encounter,
energized for the fight
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Bold in the quarrel’s right,
brave because of the justice needed
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he charges home
charges at my body
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fell motion,
deadly thrust
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parricides
people who murders close relatives, the word comes from patricides- killing of the father
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thunders bend;
revenger/anger
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loathly opposite
bitterly opposed
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revenging
avenging
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auspicious mistress.
look favourable upon him
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Mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon To stand auspicious mistress.
Edmund plays on Gloucester's superstitious beliefs
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I have seen drunkards Do more than this in sport.
refers to drunk men cutting themselves=> blood drips into cup so they can drink the health
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beget
give birth to the belief I fought
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Yield;—come before my father. Light, ho! here!
shouted so he will be overheard
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In cunning
as part of deception
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In cunning I must draw my sword upon you; Draw; seem to defend yourself; now ’quit you well.
question of how Edgar thinks this action of fighting him is helping=> Edmund's actions are so fast/frantic that Edgar is entirely confused
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Advise yourself.
think!
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Upon his party ’gainst
on his side
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i’ the haste,
in a hurry
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You have now the good advantage of the night.
easier to escape in the dark
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Intelligence is given where you are hid;
someone has told him
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queasy question,
sensitive nature
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Which I must act. Briefness and fortune, work!
personifies brevity and good luck
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This weaves itself perforce into my business.
this will tie perfectly with my schemes
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’twixt
between
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toward
threatened (1st suggestion that the 2 dukes intend to fight for 3rd kingdom)
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ear-kissing arguments
"whisper-worthy"
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Save thee, Curan.
common Elizabethan greeting=> "may God save you"
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maid
virgin
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O! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; Keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
moment of immense pathos, moment of sympathy for Lear from audience
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To take it again perforce!
take his kingdom back by force
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seven stars
constellation called pleiades
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leave his horns without a case.
metaphor to the cuckold's horns- cuckold is one whose lover is cheating on him, he is depicted wearing horns and doesn't know how absurd he looks
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Why, to put his head in; not to give it away to his daughters, and leave his horns without a case.
metaphor for Lear giving his land to his daughters
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She will taste as like this as a crab does to a crab
crabapple, she will behave like Goneril
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kindly
ironic: "kindly" meaning in keeping with the type=> Regan will treat him in the same kind
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kibes
frostbite, brings up imagery/associations of a brain sore and inflamed=> hints at Lear's slipping sanity
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thy wit shall not go slip-shod.
because you show you have no brains, even in your heels by journeying to Regan's
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Go you before to Gloucester with these letters.
some scholars believe it is an error, Kent's journey is 1st for Cornwall's palace for Regan
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Well, well; the event.
foreshadow of events set to occur
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Striving to better
Albany proves to be opposite of what Goneril accused- wisdom lacking
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Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.
we ruin current contentment
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You are much more attask’d for want of wisdom
more noticeable
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Though I condemn not, yet, under pardon,
possible more respect for her husband=> shift in values after marriage
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And hasten your return
let those under your command follow you
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compact it
reinforce it
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halter;
rope to lead a beast, rope to hang someone
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You, sir, more knave than fool, after your master.
to the fool
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To the great love I bear you.—
about to take Lear's favour
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When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails 225 She’ll flay thy wolvish visage.
marks Lear's oblivious nature to the 2 sister's scheming
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I have another daughter,
Regan
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To temper clay
to the Earth's soil
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fond
foolish
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Th’ untented woundings
wounds so deep, they CANNOT be cleansed
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Should make thee worth them.
Lear breaks off, gets distracted by Goneril who he then curses
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perforce
by force
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What’s the matter, sir?
theme of reduction to nothing is crucial at this point=> begins happening to Lear
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Within a fortnight?
fortnight= the duration he spent at Albany's castle (less than 2 weeks)
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clap,
instantly?
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Never afflict yourself to know the cause; But let his disposition have that scope That dotage gives it.
old-age/second childhood, its because of his mood caused by old age
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Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?
addresses the heavens
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How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have a thankless child!
refers to how he feels about how his daughters treat him
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contempt,
turns her cares into other's amusement
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Turn all her mother’s pains and benefits To laughter and contempt, that she may feel
medieval medicine, spleen was considered an organ that springs harsh temper
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cadent
falling
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child of spleen
child of ill-temper
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teem
conceive
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derogate
corrupted
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fruitful
able to conceive babies
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creature
Goneril
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dear goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose, if
addresses nature
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like an engine
simile
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Which, like an engine, wrench’d my frame of nature From the fix’d place, drew from my heart all love,
similar to the description of an instrument being thrown out of order
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choice and rarest parts,
chosen for rare talent/skills
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kite
savage bird
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More hideous, when thou show’st thee in a child,
more hideous when you show up as a child
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marble-hearted fiend,
hard-hearted fiend
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Ingratitude
Lear personifies ingratitude
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Woe, that too late repents;
who repent us of our actions too late
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Yet have I left a daughter.
Regan
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Which know themselves and you
knows you well and understand your needs
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besort
be suitable
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disquantity
reduce the size of Lear's soldiers
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epicurism
gluttony
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debosh’d,
morally corrupt
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I would learn that; for, by the marks of sovereignty, knowledge and reason, I should be false persuaded I had daughters.
would like to be persuaded that I'm Lear's shadow so that i'm not the father of these daughters
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new pranks
sarcastic remarks
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Who is it that can tell me who I am?
Key concept/theme of the play=> main hero trying to find himself, could be a rhetorical question in the form of verbal irony
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lethargied
slowed down
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discernings
understanding
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notion weakens,
capacity for thought=> weak
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May not an ass know when the cart draws the horse?
uses a metaphor to explain that roles have been reversed between Lear and Goneril
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Where of I know you are fraught
which I know you have plenty of
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Are you our daughter?
rhetorical question...true daughter would not speak to him so rudely
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darkling.
in the dark
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discreet proceeding.
sensible course of action
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that then necessity
when seen how necessary it is
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That you protect this course, and put it on By your allowance;
support the behaviour and give it your permission
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Would not ’scape censure,
would not go unnoticed
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wholesome weal,
healthy state of affairs
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safe redress
sure remedy
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carp
find fault with us
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He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all, shall want some.
possible foreshadow of Lear's actions
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O without a figure
a zero with a figure in front has no values
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Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to care for her frowning
the days when you were in charge
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How now, daughter! what makes that frontlet on?
why are you frowning
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Fool.
the fool's truth spoken is conveyed obliquely through jokes and songs=> doesn't offend Lear
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one o’ the parings
pun on pairing (sisters, Goneril and Regan)
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pared
peeled down (stripping down motif)
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And I for sorrow sung, That such a king should play bo-peep, And go the fools among.
I cried as the king became a fool
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daughters thy mothers; for when thou gavest them the rod and puttest down thine own breeches,
metaphor of parenting (ever since you made your daughters into your mother, gave them all your power, and pulled your pants down)=> to get spanked
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you wont to be
in the habit of being
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know not how their wits to wear
they are not intelligent
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thou borest thine ass on thy back o’er the dirt
refers to one of Aesop's fables (a man carries his donkey to the market instead of the opposite)
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meat
yoke
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and ladies too: they will not let me have all fool to myself; they’ll be snatching.
great ladies and lords play the part of the fools
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This is not altogether fool, my lord.
his joking has gone too far
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that thou wast born with.
all titles except your title of fool=> that you were born with
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Dost thou call me fool, boy?
unsure of the fool's intent
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The other found out there.
implies that the bitter fool is Lear (points at Lear)
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motley
multi-coloured
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Come place him here by me
there was no Lord that counselled Lear=> it was Lear's own decision
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the rent of his land comes to
his rent comes to nothing because he no longer has land to rent
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nothing
idea of nothing-being stripped to no materials
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Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ride more than thou goest, Learn more than thou trowest, 75 Set less than thou throwest; Leave thy drink and thy whore, And keep in-a-door, And thou shalt have more Than two tens to a score.
the point of the poem is to help Lear "see better", silly poems are expected from fools=> however, the fool phrases it as instructions (attempts to mentor Lear)
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A pestilent gall to me!
a diseased sore in my mind, foreshadows Lear's sanity breakdown
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Truth’s a dog must to kennel
metaphor (truth is a dog that must be whipped and sent to its kennel)
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Lady the brach
bitch hounds
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Take heed, sirrah; the whip.
Lear threatens punishment
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blessing against his will
he implies that Kent has done Cordelia a favour by banishing her
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you were best take my coxcomb
a gesture that says "go ahead, take my job"=> sarcasm, echo of Lear giving away his authority
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Sirrah,
an inferior version of sir- Fool is joking that the new servant is truly inferior in intelligence
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coxcomb.
fool's cap
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earnest
sum of money to secure contract
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measure your lubber’s length again
want to be thrown onto the ground/knocked down
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base football player
Kent kicks him, suggesting he was suited for football -only aristocrats played tennis, whereas the lower class played football
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I’ll not be struck,
refuses to be Lear's tennis ball
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bandy l
metaphor of the game of tennis in which players "bandy" the ball between each other
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My lady’s father.
considered disrepectful
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I beseech you, pardon me, my lord, if I be mistaken; for my duty cannot be silent when I think your highness wronged.
knight's beg for forgiveness may be a result of Lear's rash firing when Kent was honest (scene I)
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much pined him away
been depressed
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very pretence and purpose
actual intention
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general dependants
servants
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abatement
decrease
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ceremonious affection
ceremony=> due to a king affection=> due to father
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roundest manner
bluntly
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mar a curious tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message bluntly
Kent expressed that he has a skill of speaking the truth
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mongrel
dog
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clotpoll
blockhead
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