...much the same in both versions. The only significant change is the addition in the Folio of the lines Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice...straw doth pierce it. None does offend, none, I say; I'll able 'em: Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal th' accuser's lips. (4.6.165-69)...

...(Drama, 354).5 Cohen links Lear on "the economics of justice" (" 'The usurer hangs the cozener .... Plate sin with gold, / And the strong lance of justice...hurtless breaks; / Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it' ") with Winstanley 's question: " '[H]ath not Parliaments . . . made laws ... to strengthen...

...hangs the cozener. Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; 165 Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it. 168 None does offend, none - I say none! I'll able 'em. 169 Take that...

...townships and elsewhere, hearing Lear's identification of the materialist basis to power and justice: Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of Justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it (4.6.167-9) may be invited - without our betraying the Shakespeare text - to juxtapose...

...cozener. Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; 163 Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sins with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. 166 None does offend, none, I say none. I'll able 'em. 16? Take that of me, my friend,...

...sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none, I say, none, I'll...that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal th'accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou...

...world of judgment and accusation. It is neither curse nor blessing, yet keeps a strange generosity: None does offend, none, I say none. I'll able 'em;...that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal th' accuser 's lips . . . Now, now, now, now, pull off my boots; harder, harder, so. (164 69)7' This...

...of the cause Which makes men curse and ban [utter maledictions].42 The sentiments are familiar — "Plate sin with gold, /And the strong lance of justice...hurtless breaks; / Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it"43 — though the style is quite different from Shakespeare's iambic eloquence. Even...

...memorable blank verse: Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide alL Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it. (4.6.164-67) Iconographically across Europe (for good practical reasons)...

...man bargains for. Empson finds Lear's "most distinct expression of the scapegoat idea" in the lines None does offend, none; I say none. I'll able 'em:...friend, who have the power To seal the accuser's lips. (IV.vi, 170-172) Empson reads: "The royal prerogative has become the power of the outcast to deal directly...