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" I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 127
by William Shakespeare - 1804
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Elements of Literary Criticism

Charles Frederick Johnson - 1898 - 312 pages
...Labour 's Lost. " No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison ; We two alone will sing like birds in the cage. When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel...and we'll talk with them, too— Who loses and who gains, who's in, who's out; And take upon us the mystery of things As if we were God's spies. And we'll...
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William Shakespeare: A Critical Study, Volume 2

Georg Brandes - 1898 - 450 pages
...away to prison : We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage : When thou dost ask me blessing, Pll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live,...butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news." his days in agreeable leisure under the care of his daughter and son-in-law. Shakespeare does not take...
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Shakespeare's Art: Studies on the Master Builder of Ideal Characters

James Henry Cotter - 1902 - 218 pages
...meaning, have incurr'd the worst. For thee, oppressed king, I am cast down; Myself could else out-frown false fortune's frown. Shall we not see these daughters...loses and who wins, who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs...
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The Bookman, Volume 15

1902 - 680 pages
...gives us our greatest dramatic poet. There are pleasures of reading which do not belong to the stage. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales,...and who wins, who's in, who's out : And take upon the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies. Many of us, reading such a passage as that, after...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 148 pages
...that Lear's own words express his fatherhood in one of the most moving passages in all of Shakespeare: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage; When...talk with them too Who loses and who wins, who's in and who's out And take upon's the mystery of things As if we were God's spies. At this very moment,...
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Speak What We Feel: Not What We Ought to Say

Frederick Buechner - 2009 - 178 pages
...speak as if out of his own truth. Come, let's away to prison. We two alone will sing like birds i'th' cage. When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down...and who wins; who's in, who's out — And take upon 's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies; and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs...
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The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature

Pat Rogers - 2001 - 580 pages
...simply by being with Cordelia. Come, ler's away to prison. We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage. When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down...Who loses and who wins, who's in, who's out — And rake upon's the mystery of things As if we were God's spies; and we'll wear out In z walled prison...
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King Lear

Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - 2001 - 36 pages
...Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. Act iv Sc vii 24 Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing...butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news. Act v Sc iii Edgar, in another guise, volunteers to fight against Edmund, and beats him in combat....
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Kierkegaard: A Biography

Alastair Hannay - 2003 - 518 pages
...'twenty-five years old'. The Lear passage, quoted in the German translation by Ernst Ortlepp, is: ... so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales,...loses and who wins; who's in, who's out, And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out In a wall'd prison, packs...
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The Tragedie of Coriolanus

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 778 pages
...VERITY (Student's Sh.) : Compare Lear's words to Cordelia: 'Come, let's away to prison . . .' '. . . so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales,...too, Who loses, and who wins; who's in, who's out.' — V, iii, 11-15. 206. Who thriues . . . giue out] BADHAM (p. 9) gives this line as an example of...
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