| Pawn | My life I never held but as a pawn / To wage against thy enemies; nor fear to lose it, / Thy safety being the motive. |
| Cools | love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked ‘twixt son and father |
| Labours | Now, banish’d Kent, / If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn’d, / So may it come, thy master, whom thou lovest, / Shall find thee full of labours. |
| Fish | I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish. |
| Let | O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven / Keep me in temper: I would not be mad! |
| Begot | Good my lord, / You have begot me, bred me, loved me: I / Return those duties back as are right fit. |
| Relieved | Though I die for it, as no less is threatened me, the king my old master must be relieved. |
| Acknowledged | To be acknowledged, madam, is o’erpaid. / All my reports go with the modest truth; |
King Lear – loyalty quotes
July 14, 2019