...garments. Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir; here's the place; — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles: Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his...

...garments. GLO'STER Methinks y'are better spoken. EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still; how fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers sampire — dreadful trade! GLO STER EDGAR GLO STER EDGAR GLO'STER...

...garments. GLOUCESTER Methinks y'are better spoken. 10 EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! 15 Methinks he seems no bigger than...

...mind two somewhat similar texts: Edgar's putative account of the view from Dover Cliffs in King Lear ("How fearful / And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes...the midway air / Show scarce so gross as beetles" [3.6.11-24]) and Johnson's comment on Edgar's speech to the effect that (to quote Bayley's footnote)...

...Methinks y'are better spoken. 10 EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And di22y 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! 15 Methinks he seems no bigger than...

...détails, de mesures précises, de repères familiers : Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; half-way down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than lus...

...so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade!...beach, Appear like mice; and yon tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on th'unnumber'd...

...Pyrochorax, when he has Edgar at Dover in King Lear pronounce Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...gross as beetles; half way down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Chapter Eight Which is mostly about choughs but has no choughs in it When...

...narration for a blind man who, after all, cannot see anything: Come on sir, here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, the dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than...

...from King Lear which might be suggested by one precipitous view: 'Here lies the place stand still. How fearful, and dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...and choughs, that wing the mid-way air, show scarce as gross as beetles.' The hea\y rain intensified a mood of Shakespearean tragedy. Mrs Hofland well...