 Lear Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not: If you have poison for me, I will drink it. I know you do not love me/ for your sisters Have, as I do remember, done me wrong: YOU have some cause, they have not. Cordelia No cause, no cause.  The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 248by William Shakespeare - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Julian Markels - American fiction - 1993 - 180 pages
...in his returning sanity he nevertheless asks for poison because he thinks that is what he deserves: Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not: If...done me wrong; You have some cause, they have not. (IV.vii.71-75) Even now he cannot recognize Cordelia's love because even now he is bargaining merit... | |
 | Bennett Simon - Psychology - 1988 - 292 pages
...explicitly names Cordelia: Lear: For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. Cordelia: And so I am, I am. Lear: Be your tears wet? Yes, faith....weep not. If you have poison for me, I will drink it. (4.7.68-72) Tears, then, signify for Lear everything unacceptable to his fragile yet inflated sense... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1994 - 176 pages
...at me, For (as I am 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....done me wrong; You have some cause; they have not. CORDELIA No cause, no cause. LEAR Am I in France? KENT In your own kingdom, sir. LEAR Do not abuse... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 160 pages
...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 me, I will drink it. I know...done me wrong. You have some cause; they have not. CORDELIA No cause, no cause. LEAR Am I in France? KENT In your own kingdom, sir. 75 LEAR Do not abuse... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray weep not. If...done me wrong. You have some cause, they have not. CORDELIA No cause, no cause. No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison. We two alone will sing like... | |
 | Corinna Ruth - Study Aids - 2013 - 148 pages
...he now sees the world "feelingly." When he first sees Cordelia, he no longer makes demands on her. I know you do not love me, for your sisters Have (as...done me wrong: You have some cause, they have not. Cordelia promptly responds to his unselfish sentiment with "No cause, no cause." Thinking he has come... | |
 | John M. Dunaway, Eric O. Springsted - Literary Collections - 1996 - 260 pages
...daughter who truly loved him: I am a very foolish fond old man ... I fear I am not in my perfect mind. ... If you have poison for me, I will drink it. I know...your sisters Have, as I do remember, done me wrong; 5 FLN 102-103: "God is absent from this world, except in the existence in this world of those in whom... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - Drama - 1997 - 260 pages
...assurance ('and so I am, I am'), he poses his initial question again, although in a different key: 'I know you do not love me; for your sisters / Have,...done me wrong. / You have some cause, they have not' (iv. vii. 73-5). Gone is the arrogance of royalty - but the implicit demand remains: tell me that you... | |
 | Harold Schweizer - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 240 pages
...nature" (5.3.242-43) Lear, incorrigably clinging to his system of causality, protests even at the end: I know you do not love me; for your sisters Have,...done me wrong: You have some cause, they have not. (4.7.73-75) The point is, of course, that just as Cordelia has no cause not to love, she has no cause... | |
 | L. Kevin Hamberger - Health & Fitness - 1997 - 366 pages
...cautioned his people (Old Testament. Sirach3, 12-3). "I am mightily abused. I should even die with pity ... I know you do not love me; for your sisters have, as I do remember, done me wrong." With these words King Lear reproached his daughter, Cordelia (Shakespeare: King Lear, 1608). "As soon... | |
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