Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou 'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! 310 Pray you, undo this button: thank you, sir. Edg. [Dies. He faints. My lord, my lord! Kent. Break, heart; I prithee, Edg. break! Look up, my lord. Kent. Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Edg. He is gone indeed. Kent. The wonder is he hath endured so long: He but usurp'd his life. Alb. Bear them from hence. Our present busi ness 320 Is general woe. [To Kent and Edgar] Rule in this realm and the gored state sustain. Kent. I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; My master calls me, I must not say no. Reynolds in the variorum Shakespeare, sustaining a contrary opinion; but, as Malone observes, "Lear from the time of his entrance in this scene to his uttering these words, and from thence to his death, is wholly occupied by the loss of his daughter. He is now in the agony of death, and surely at such a time, when his heart was just breaking, it would be highly unnatural that he should think of his Fool."-H. N. H. 312. "Look on her, look, her lips"; Johnson's emendation; F. 1 reads "Looke her lips"; Ff., "looke (or look) on her lips."-I. G. 315. "he hates him"; "he" is the subject of "that would"; "him" is Lear.-C. H. H. Alb. The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. [Exeunt, with a dead march. 325. This speech is given in the Ff. to Edgar, and probably it was so intended by the poet. It has been suggested that the first two lines should be given to Edgar, the last two to Albany.-I. G. GLOSSARY y ISRAEL GOLLANCZ, M.A. ABATED, diminished, 'eprived; II. ་ IV. vi. iv. 162. ABLE, uphold, answer for; 174. ABUSED, deceived; IV. i. 24. ACTION-TAKING, "resenting an injury by a law-suit, instead of fighting it out like a man of honor" (Schmidt); II. ii. 18. ADDITION, distinction, title; II. ii. 26; V. iii. 301. "Your a.", the title you have given him; V. iii. 68. ADDITIONS, outward honor, titles; I. i. 140. ADDRESS, address ourselves; I. i. 195. ADMIRATION, amazement, astonishment; I. iv. 261. ADVISE YOURSELF, consider; II. i. 29. AFFECTED; "had more a.", had better liked, been more partial to; I. i. 1. AFTER, afterwards; V. iii. 243. AIDANT, helpful; IV. iv. 17. ATTEND, await; II. i. 127. -, watch, wait; II. iii. 5. AURICULAR, got by hearing; (Qq., "aurigular"); I. ii. 103. AVERT, turn; I. i. 216. AVOUCH, own, acknowledge; II. iv. 241. AVOUCHED, asserted; V. i. 44. BACK, on his way back; IV. ii. 90. BALLOW, cudgel; (Q. 2, "bat"); IV. vi. 251. BALM'D, cured, healed; III. vi. 106. BANDY, beat to and fro (a term in tennis); I. iv. 93. BANS, curses; II. iii. 19. of -, debar, exclude; V. iii. 85. BARBER-MONGER, frequenter barbers' shops, fop; II. ii. 36. BEARING, Suffering; III. vi. 115. BECOMES, Suits, agrees with; II. iv. 156. BEDLAM, lunatic; III. vii. 104. BEDLAM BEGGARS, mad beggars; II. iii. 14. BEGUILED, deceived; II. ii. 119. BELIKE, it may be, perhaps; IV. v. 20. BEMADDING, maddening; III. i. 38. BE-MET, met; V. i. 20. BENCH, sit on the judgmentseat; III. vi. 41. BENDING, directing, raising; IV. ii. 74. BENISON, blessing; I. i. 270. BETHOUGHT; "am b.", have de- BESTOW'D, housed, lodged; II. iv. 293. BETWIXT, between; I. i. 143. BEWRAY, betray, reveal; (Qq., "betray"); II. i. 109. BIAS OF NATURE, natural direction, tendency; I. ii. 127. BIDE, bear; III. iv. 29. BIDING, abiding place; IV. vi. 232. BIG, loud; V. iii. 210. BLAME, fault; II. iv. 294. BLANK, the white mark in the center of the butt at which the arrow is aimed; I. i. 163. BLOCK, fashion of a hat; IV. vi. 190. BLOOD, nature; III. v. 26. impulse, passion; (Theobald, "boiling blood"); IV. ii. 64. BLOWN, ambitious, inflated; IV. iv. 27. BOIL, inflamed tumor; (Qq., Ff., "bile," "byle"); II. iv. 227. BOLDS, encourages; V. i. 26. BOND, duty, obligation; I. i. 97. BONES; "young b.", i. e. unborn infant; II. iv. 166. Boor; "to b., and b.", for your reward (? "over and above my thanks"); IV. vi. 234. BOOTLESS, useless; V. iii. 294. BORDER'D, limited, confined; IV. ii. 33. Bosoм; "of her b.", in her confidence; IV. v. 26. "common b.", affection of the people; V. iii. 49. BOSOм'D, in her confidence; V. i. 13. BOUND, ready; III. vii. 11. -, limit, boundary; IV. vi. 57. BRACH, a female hound; (Ff., "the Lady Brach"; Qq., “Lady oth'e brach"; A. Smith, "Lye the brach"); I. iv. 126. BRAZED, brazened, hardened; I. i. 11. BRIEF; "be b. in it," be quick about it; V. iii. 247. BRITISH, (Ff. "English"); IV. vi. 260. BROW OF YOUTH, youthful brow; I. iv. 309. BROWN BILLS, browned halberds used by foot-soldiers; IV. vi. 92. BUOY'D, lifted itself; (Q. 1, Mus. per. and Bodl. 2, "bod"; Q. 1, Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1, "layd"; Qq. 2, 3, "laid"); III. vii. 61. BUR-DOCKS, the plant Arctrum Lappa; (Hanmer's emendation; Qq., "hordocks"; Ff. 1, 2, "Hardokes"; Ff. 3, 4, "Hardocks"; Farmer conj. 1778, "harlocks"; Collier Steevens conj. "hoar-docks"); IV. iv. 4. BUT, only; IV. vi. 130. Buzz, whisper; I. iv. 350. By, from; (Ff. "on"); I. ii. 139. CADENT, falling; (Qq. 1, 2, “accent"; Q. 3, "accient"); I. iv. 310. Caitiff, wretch; (Ff., “coward”); II. i. 64. CAMELOT, "I'd drive ye cackling home to C."; probably a proverb not yet satisfactorily explained; it is said that near Cadbury in Somersetshire, the supposed site of Camelot, there are large pools, upon which many geese are bred; II. ii. 92. CAN, can do; IV. iv. 8. CANKER-BIT, canker-bitten; V. iii. 123. CAPABLE, capable of inheriting; II. i. 87. CARBONADO, cut across like a piece of meat for broiling or grilling; II. ii. 42. CARRY, bear; III. ii. 49. , carry out, contrive; V. iii, 36. CARRY OUT MY SIDE, "be a winner, in the game" (Schmidt); V. i. 61. CASE, empty socket; IV. vi. 149. CAT, civet cat; III. iv. 111. CATARACTS, Water-spouts; (Q. 1, "caterickes"); III. ii. 2. CENSURE, judge, pass sentence upon; V. iii. 3. CENTAURS, fabulous monsters, half man, half horse; IV. vi. 128. CENTURY, troop of a hundred men; IV. iv. 6. CHALLENGE, claim as due; I. i. 56. CHALLENGED, claimed; IV. vii. 31. CHAMPAINS, plains, open country; I. i. 67. CHANCE, chances it; II. iv. 64. CHARACTER, handwriting; I. ii. 68. CHARGE, expense, cost; II. iv. 243. CHECK, censure, rebuke; II. ii. 151. CHE VOR YE, I warn you; IV. vi. 250. CHILD-CHANGED, changed by children's conduct; IV. vii. 17. CHILD ROWLAND, (v. Note); III. iv. 190. CHILL, I will; (Somerset or south-country dialect); IV. vi. 243. CHUD, I should, or I would (cp. "chill"); IV. vi. 247. CLEAREST, most pure, most glorious; IV. vi. 73. |