Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, That things might change, or cease: tears his white hair; Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, [couch, LEAR'S EXCLAMATIONS IN THE TEMPEST. Blow, wind, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts, and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Rumble thy belly full! Spit, fire! spout, rain! * Whose dugs are drawn dry by its young. + Quick as thought. § Obedience. But yet I call you servile ministers, That have with two pernicious daughters join'd Kent. Alas, sir, are you here? things that love night, Love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies And make them keep their caves: Since I was man, Unwhipp'd of justice: Hide thee, thou bloody hand; These dreadful summoners grace||.—I am a man, Kent. Alack, bare-headed! Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel; Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest. * Lear. Thou think'st 'tis much, that this conten. tious storm Invades us to the skin: so 'tis to thee; * Scare or frighten. Counterfeit. & Appearance. + Blustering noise. Favour. But where the greater malady is fix'd, The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'dst shun a bear: But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea, Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. mind's free, When the The body's delicate: the tempest in my mind No more of that, Kent. Good my lord, enter here. Lear. Pr'ythee, go in thyself; seek thine own ease; This tempest will not give me leave to ponder Nay, get thee in.—I'll pray, and then I'll sleep,- C C Enter EDGAR, disguised as a Madman. Edg. Away! the foul fiend follows me! Through the sharp hawthorn blows the cold wind.Humph! go to thy cold bed, and warm thee. Lear. Hast thou given all to thy two daughters? And art thou come to this? Now, all the plagues that in the pendulous air Hang fated o'er men's faults, light on thy daughters! Kent. He hath no daughters, sir. Lear. Death, traitor! nothing could have subdu'd nature To such a lowness, but his unkind daughters.- ON MAN. Is man no more than this? Consider him well: Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume:-Ha! here's three of us are sophisticated!—Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.-Off, off, you lendings. ACT IV. THE JUSTICE OF PROVIDENCE. That I am wretched, Makes thee the happier :- Heavens, deal so still! Let the superfluous, and lust-dieted man, That slaves your ordinance*, that will not see Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly; So distribution should undo excess, And each man have enough. PATIENCE AND SORROW. Patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Could so become it. LEAR'S DISTRACTION DESCRIBED. Alack, 'tis he; why, he was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea: singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumitert, and furrow weeds, With harlocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn. DESCRIPTION OF DOVER CLIFF. Come on, sir; here's the place;-stand still.How fearful [air, And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! to it. *i. e. To make it subject to us, instead of acting in obedience + Fumitory. Charlocks. § Daws. A vegetable gathered for pickling. |