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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 dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr., embracing a ... - Page 110
by William Shakespeare - 1851
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Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Literature, Volume 16

Craig Kallendorf - 1999 - 276 pages
...capture shows: No, no, no, no! 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...loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon 's the mystery of things, As if we were Gods' spies; and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1999 - 196 pages
...prison. We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage. When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down 10 And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray,...Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out And take upon's the mystery of things 11 Ripeness is all ie, the gods decree when fruit is ripe and falls; coming...
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King Lear: The 1608 Quarto and 1623 Folio Texts

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 324 pages
...LEAR No, no, no, no. Come, let's away to prison. We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage. 10 When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down And...loses and who wins, who's in, who's out, And take upon's the mystery of things 17 As if we were God's spies; and we'll wear out is In a walled prison...
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The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 334 pages
...prison. We two alone will sing like birds i'th' cage . When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down 10 And ask of thee forgiveness; so we'll live, And pray,...too — Who loses and who wins, who's in, who's out, 15 And take upon ' s the mystery of things As if we were God's spies; and we'll wear out In a walled...
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Adaptations of Shakespeare: A Critical Anthology of Plays from the ...

Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - 2000 - 330 pages
...we'll live, And Pray, and Sing, and tell old Tales, and Laugh At gilded Butter-flies, hear Sycophants Talk of Court News, and we'll talk with them too,...And take upon us the Mystery of Things As if we were Heav'ns Spies. CORDELIA Upon such Sacrifices The Gods themselves throw Incense. LEAR Have I caught...
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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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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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