 | Peter Robinson - 1972 - 312 pages
...perfect mind. Me thinkes I should know you, and know this man, Yet I am doubtfull : For I am mainely ignorant What place this is: and all the skill I have...last night. Do not laugh at me, For (as I am a man) I thinke this Lady To be my childe Cordelia. COR. And so I am: I am. Lear learns what love is as effectively... | |
 | S. L. Goldberg - 1974 - 212 pages
...Pray, do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more or less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect...a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. (ibid., 50-70) In Act I, we remember, the speech in which Lear disclaimed Cordelia had moved from the... | |
 | L. C. Knights - 1979 - 326 pages
...Gloucester sequence the play had moved well in the direction of a kind of Morality sparseness. Lear Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this...lady To be my child Cordelia. Cor. And so I am, I am. 196 Lear Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not; If you have poison for me, I will drink it.... | |
 | James C. Bulman - 1985 - 276 pages
...and know this man, Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skills I have Remembers not these garments, nor I know not...a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. (4.7.66-72) The grand cadences of Lear's earlier Marlovian idiom and the satiric invective of his rant... | |
 | Henry Gifford - 1986 - 132 pages
...Pray, do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more or less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect...a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. Lear cannot remember how he comes to be there, or know for sure who are the people round him. In that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1990 - 324 pages
...about what this place is, and even if l try very hard l can't remember these clothes; nor do l know Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady 70 To be my child Cordelia. Cordelia And so I am, I am. Lear Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray,... | |
 | Robert H. Binstock, Stephen G. Post, Peter J. Whitehouse - 1992 - 214 pages
...do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect...a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. You must bear with me: Pray you now, forget and forgive: I am old and foolish. (Craig, 1951, p. 1012)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 pages
...o'er me; No, sir, you must not kneel. LEAR Pray do not mock me; I am a very foolish fond old man, 60 And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect...a man) I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. CORDELIA And so I am: I am! 70 LEAR Be your tears wet? Yes, faith: I pray weep not. If you have poison... | |
 | Kenneth John Emerson Graham - 1994 - 260 pages
...do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect...a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. (59-69) Lear appears to sense that plainness is necessary for his new perception: only by letting go... | |
 | Michael Ignatieff - 1994 - 214 pages
...do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect...For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child . . . Methinks I should know you People kept asking me: Does she recognise you? As if recognition is... | |
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And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did... 
