King Lear Act 3 quotes

Gentleman: Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea… Or swell the curled waters ‘bove the main, /That things might change or cease.
Lear: Blow winds and crack your cheeks!…And thou, all-shaking thunder Strike flat the thick rotundity o’the world
Lear: Crack nature’s moulds, all germens spill at once
Lear: A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man.
Lear: I am a man More sinned against than sinning.
Fool: Then shall the realm of Albion Come to great confusion.
Edmond: The younger rises when the old doth fall.
Lear: Wilt break my heart? Kent: I had rather break mine own.
Lear: this tempest will not… give me leave to ponder
Lear: Poor naked wretches…O, I have ta’en/ Too little care of this… Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel
Lear: pelican daughters.
Fool: This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
Edgar: One that slept in the contriving of lust and waked to do it.
Lear: Off, off, you lendings, come, unbutton here.
Kent: How fares your grace? Lear: What’s he?
Gloucester: Our flesh and blood, my lord, is grown so vile
Gloucester: The grief hath crazed my wits.
Lear: Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?
Fool: And I’ll go to bed at noon
King Lear: I will arraign them straight
Lear: And here’s another whose warped looks proclaim What store her heart is made on.
Edgar: Bless thy five wits.
Kent: trouble him not; his wits are gone.
Cornwall: Seek out the traitor Gloucester
Regan: Hang him instantly.
Gonerill: Pluck out his eyes!
Regan: (Regan plucks Gloucester’s beard)
Regan: the lunatic King
Gloucester: I would not see thy cruel nails Pluck out his poor old eyes
Gloucester: The winged vengeance overtake such children
Gloucester: Where’s my son Edmond?… Regan: Thou call’st on him that hates thee.
Regan: Go, thrust him out at gates and let him smell/ His way to Dover.
Third servant: Women will all turn monsters.
Lear: My wits begin to turn.
July 11, 2019