King Lear by William Shakespeare
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a boy's love, or a whore's oath.
Lear. It shall be done; I will arraign them straight.-- [To Edgar.] Come, sit thou here, most learned justicer-- [To the Fool.] Thou, sapient sir, sit here. Now, you she-foxes!-- Edg. Look, where he stands and glares!--Want'st thou eyes at trial, madam? Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me,-- Fool. Her boat hath a leak, And she must not speak Why she dares not come over to thee. Edg. The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of a nightingale. Hoppedance cries in Tom's belly for two white herring. Croak not, black angel; I have no food for thee. Kent. How do you, sir? Stand you not so amaz'd; Will you lie down and rest upon the cushions? Lear. I'll see their trial first.--Bring in their evidence. [To Edgar.] Thou, robed man of justice, take thy place;-- [To the Fool.] And thou, his yokefellow of equity, |
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