King Lear by William Shakespeare
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Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,
Such groans of roaring wind and rain I never Remember to have heard: man's nature cannot carry Th' affliction nor the fear. Lear. Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipp'd of justice: hide thee, thou bloody hand; Thou perjur'd, and thou simular man of virtue That art incestuous: caitiff, to pieces shake That under covert and convenient seeming Hast practis'd on man's life: close pent-up guilts, Rive your concealing continents, and cry These dreadful summoners grace.--I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning. Kent. Alack, bareheaded! Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel; Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest: Repose you there, whilst I to this hard house,-- More harder than the stones whereof 'tis rais'd; Which even but now, demanding after you, Denied me to come in,--return, and force Their scanted courtesy. Lear. |
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