 | L. C. Knights, Lionel Charles Knights - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 308 pages
...Gloucester sequence the play had moved well in the direction of a kind of Morality sparseness. Lear Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this...lady To be my child Cordelia. Cor. And so I am, I am. 196 Lear Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not; If you have poison for me, I will drink it.... | |
 | Andrew K. Kennedy - Drama - 1983 - 283 pages
...ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not 64 Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me;...a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. CORDELIA: And so I am, lam. LEAR: Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not: If you have poison... | |
 | James C. Bulman - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 254 pages
...and know this man, Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skills I have Remembers not these garments, nor I know not...a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. (4.7.66-72) The grand cadences of Lear's earlier Marlovian idiom and the satiric invective of his rant... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1990 - 314 pages
...about what this place is, and even if l try very hard l can't remember these clothes; nor do l know Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady 70 To be my child Cordelia. Cordelia And so I am, I am. Lear Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray,... | |
 | Robert H. Binstock, Stephen G. Post, Peter J. Whitehouse - Medical - 1992 - 184 pages
...do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect...a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. You must bear with me: Pray you now, forget and forgive: I am old and foolish. (Craig, 1951, p. 1012)... | |
 | Kenneth John Emerson Graham - History - 1994 - 232 pages
...do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect...a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. (59-69) Lear appears to sense that plainness is necessary for his new perception: only by letting go... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 176 pages
...o'er me; No, sir, you must not kneel. LEAR Pray do not mock me; I am a very foolish fond old man, 60 And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect...a man) I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. CORDELIA And so I am: I am! 70 LEAR Be your tears wet? Yes, faith: I pray weep not. If you have poison... | |
 | Michael Ignatieff - Fiction - 2000 - 199 pages
...do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect...For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child . . . Methinks I should know you People kept asking me: Does she recognise you? As if recognition is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 141 pages
...this man; Yet I am doubtful, for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have 65 Remembers not these garments, nor I know not Where...a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. CORDELIA And so I am. LEAR Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not. 70 If you have poison for... | |
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And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man, Yet I am doubtful, for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did... 
