King Lear D2 Act 2

1. Act 2 scene 2 (at end of scene when Cornwall and Regan have him in stocks) Kent : Nothing almost sees miracles but misery: I know ’tis Cordelia who hath most fortunately been informed of my obscured course.
2 Kent: All weary and o’erwatch’d, take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold this shameful lodging. Fortune, good night: Smile once more: turn thy wheel!
3. Act 2 scene 3 Edgar: I will preserve myself: And am bethought to take the basest and most poorest shape that every penury, in contempt of man, brought near to beast: … Edgar I nothing am.
4. Act 2 scene 4 Lear: O, How tis mother swells up toward my heart! Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow.
5 Lear (About Goneril) Beloved Regan, thy sisters naught: o Regan, she hath tied sharp-tooth’d unkindness, like a vulture, here: (Points to his heart)
6 Regan: I pray you father, being weak, seem so.
7 Lear(To Goneril): We’ll no more meet, no more see one another: but yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter; or rather a disease that’s in my flesh, which I must needs call mine.
8 (When convincing Lear that he does not need to have his knights with him) Regan: what need one?
9 King Lear: Oh, reason not the need: Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous: allow not nature more than nature needs, man’s life’s as cheap as beasts: … You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, as full of grief as age; wretched in both! If it be you that stirs these daughters hearts against their father, fool me not so much to bear it tamely;
9 Continued. Touch me with noble anger, and let not women’s weapons, water drops stain my man’s cheeks! I will have such revenges on you both, that all the world shall -I will do such things, what they are, yet I know not: but they shall be the terrors of the earth. You think I’ll week no, I’ll not weep.
July 3, 2019