 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 416 pages
...take them away : good guard, Until their greater pleasures first be known That are to censure them. Cor. We are not the first Who, with best meaning,...birds i' the cage : When thou dost ask me blessing I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness : so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 168 pages
...are not the first, Who, with best meaning, have incurred the worst. For thee, oppressed king, I am cast down ; Myself could else outfrown false fortune's...birds i' the cage : When thou dost ask me blessing, I 'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we 'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales,... | |
 | Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones - 1982 - 244 pages
...like all who love, Lear can now be bounded in a nutshell, yet count himself king of infinite space. 'Come, let's away to prison ; We two alone will sing...birds i' the cage : When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales,... | |
 | Denis Lane - 1990 - 290 pages
..."second childhood"; a state welcomed by Powys as a state of wisdom.10 These are the King Lear lines: Come, let's away to prison, We two alone will sing...birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness; so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales,... | |
 | Janet Adelman - 1992 - 396 pages
...We are not the first Who, with best meaning, have incurr'd the worst. For thee, oppressed King, I am cast down; Myself could else out-frown false Fortune's...away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds i' th'cage. . . . (5.3.3-9) "No, no, no, no": Lear does not want to believe that Cordelia is cast down... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 340 pages
...the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst. For thee, oppressed king, I am cast down, 5 Myself could else outfrown false fortune's frown....away to 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...(IV, vi) 83 When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. — (IV, vi) 84 ep your soul From spotted sight or sound. Live like...velvet mole; Go burrow underground. (1. 17—20) A I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 pages
...We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst. For thee, oppressed King, I am cast down; Myself could else out-frown false Fortune'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 ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live,... | |
 | Peter Schjeldahl - 1994 - 260 pages
...Lear occurs when, at death's door, the irascible patriarch attains something like moral perfection: Come, let's away to prison. We two alone will sing...birds i' the cage. When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 196 pages
...worst. 4 For thee, oppressed king, I am cast down; Myself could else outfrown false Fortune's frown. 6 Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?...away to 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... | |
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We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing 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;... 
