King Lear by William Shakespeare
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Lear. Let me alone. Kent. Good my lord, enter here. Lear. Wilt break my heart? Kent. I had rather break mine own. Good my lord, enter. Lear. Thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm Invades us to the skin: so 'tis to thee But where the greater malady is fix'd, The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'dst shun a bear; But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea, Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free, The body's delicate: the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.--Filial ingratitude! Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand For lifting food to't?--But I will punish home:-- No, I will weep no more.--In such a night To shut me out!--Pour on; I will endure:-- In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril!-- Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all,-- O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; |
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