 | Daniel Fischlin - History - 1998 - 418 pages
...Doughtie's note, 449-51. 59. This same subordination is at the core of the concluding lines of King Lear: "The weight of this sad time we must obey, / Speak...young / Shall never see so much, nor live so long" (5.3.324-28; The Riverside Shakespeare, 1295; emphasis added). 60. Doughtie, Lyrics, 312. 61. Ibid.,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...sustain. KENT I have a journey, sir, shortly to go. My master calls me; I must not say no. EDGAR 330 The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...see so much, nor live so long. Exeunt with a dead march. 320 ghost spirit 321 rack a torture instrument 327 gored wounded FOR THE BEST IN PAPERBACKS,... | |
 | Laurie Rozakis - Fiction - 1999 - 406 pages
...lips! / Look there! Look there!" [He dies.] The last lines reinforce this hopelessness, as Edgar says: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. Will Power The story of King Lear is old and honored; as a result, Shakespeare wasn't the only one... | |
 | Ralph Berry - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...So it must be Albany and Edgar. The doubts about them surface into the last four lines of the play: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. The Quarto gives these lines to Albany. In the Folio, a virtually unchanged text assigns the lines... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 324 pages
...sustain. KENT I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; 320 My master calls, and I must not say no. ALBANY 321 The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest have borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. [Exeunt.] 311 ghost spirit... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 334 pages
...wounded, bloody KENT I have a journey, sir, shortly to go: My master calls, and I must not say no . ALBANY The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say . The oldest have borne most. We that are young 320 Shall never see so much, nor live so long. Exeunt carrying the... | |
 | Lloyd Cameron - English literature - 2001 - 114 pages
...speech, Edgar expresses his own sadness, and the feelings of melancholy felt by all those who remain: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. He appeals for truthfulness, and admits that those who are taking over the kingdom will never be faced... | |
 | Steve Bachmann - Law - 2001 - 224 pages
...lead him to investigate further the historical, theoretical, and political implications of Huey Long. The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never so see much, nor live so long.97 — William Shakespeare 92 For example, there is no record that Huey... | |
 | Peter Holland - Drama - 2002 - 436 pages
...form might that future action take? Fittingly of course Lear remains equivocal to the last: EDGAR : The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...see so much, nor live so long. Exeunt with a dead mardi. (5.3. 322-5) In the closing lines of the play 'feeling' and 'speaking', rather than feeling... | |
 | Michael J. Kiskis, Laura E. Skandera-Trombley - Fiction - 2001 - 264 pages
...sustain. KENT: I have a journey, Sir, shortly to go; My master calls me, — 1 must not say no. EDGAR: The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. T& htt preferred friend* he revealed fM true character* Mary Mason Fairbanks's Disguised Debate with... | |
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The weight of this sad time we must obey ; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most : we, that are young, Shall never see so much, nor live so long. 
