King Lear Exam

1.
Quote: "Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave/My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty/According to my bond; nor more nor less." (1.1)
Speaker: Cordelia

2.
Quote: "Let it fall rather, though the fork invade/The region of my heart: be Kent unmannerly/When Lear is mad. What wilt thou do, old man?/Think’st thou that duty shall have dread to speak,/When power to flattery bows? To plainness honor’s bound,/When majesty stoops to folly." (1.1)
Speaker: Kent

3.
Quote: "Is it but this,—a tardiness in nature/Which often leaves the history unspoke/That it intends to do? My lord of Burgundy,/What say you to the lady? Love’s not love/When it is mingled with regards that stand/Aloof from the entire point. Will you have her?/She is herself a dowry." (1.1)
Speaker: King of France

4.
Quote: "There is further compliment of leavetaking between/France and him. Pray you, let’s hit together: if our father/carry authority with such dispositions as he bears, this last/surrender of his will but offend us." (1.1)
Speaker: Goneril

5.
Quote: "Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law/My services are bound. Wherefore should I/Stand in the plague of custom, and permit/The curiosity of nations to deprive me,/For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines/Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?/When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true,/As honest madam’s issue?" (1.2)
Speaker: Edmund

6.
Quote: "This is the excellent foppery of the world,/that, when we are sick in fortune—often the surfeit of our own behavior,—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion." (1.2)
Speaker: Edmund

7.
Quote: "I do serve you in this business./A credulous father! and a brother noble,/Whose nature is so far from doing harms/That he suspects none: on whose foolish honesty/My practices ride easy! I see the business./Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit:/All with me’s meet that I can fashion fit." (1.2)
Speaker: Edmund

8.
Quote: "Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to/care for her frowning; now thou art an O without a figure:/I am better than thou art now; I am a fool, thou art nothing." (1.4)
Speaker: Fool

9.
Quote: "Doth any here know me? This is not Lear:/Doth Lear walk thus? speak thus? Where are his eyes?/Either his notion weakens, his discernings/Are lethargied—Ha! waking? ‘tis not so./Who is it can tell me who I am?" (1.4)
Speaker: King Lear

10.
Quote: "That such a slave as this should wear a sword,/Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,/Like rats, oft bite the holy cords a-twain/Which are too intrinse to unloose; smooth every passion/That in the natures of their lords rebel:" (2.2)
Speaker: Kent

11.
Quote: "O, sir, you are old./Nature in you stands at the very confine: you should be ruled and led/By some discretion, that discerns your state/Better than yourself. Therefore, I pray you,/That to our sister you do make return;/Say you have wronged her, sir." (2.4)
Speaker: Regan

12.
Quote: "Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!/Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters:/I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;/I never gave you kingdom, called you children,/You owe me not subscription: then let fall/Your horrible pleasure: here I stand, your slave,/A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man:/But yet I call you servile ministers,/That have with two pernicious daughters joined/Your high engendered battles ‘gainst a head/So old and white as this. O! O! ‘tis foul!" (3.2)
Speaker: King Lear

13.
Quote: "Poor naked wretches, whereso’er you are,/That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,/How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,/Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you/From seasons such as these? O, I have ta’en/Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp,/Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,/That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,/And show the heavens more just." (3.4)
Speaker: King Lear

14.
Quote: "Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer/with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is/man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest/the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the/cat no perfume. Ha! here’s three on ’s are sophisticated!/Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no/more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art. Off,/off, you lendings! come unbutton here." (3.4)
Speaker: King Lear

15.
Quote: "Because I would not see thy cruel nails/Pluck out his poor old eyes; nor thy fierce sister/In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs. The sea, with such a storm as his bare head/In hell-black night endured, would have buoyed up,/And quenched the stelled fires:/Yet, poor old heart, he holp the heavens to rain./If wolves had at thy gate howled that stern time,/Thou shouldst have said ‘Good porter, turn the key,’/All cruels else subscribed: but I shall see/The winged vengeance overtake such children." (3.7)
Speaker: Gloucester

16.
Quote: "Hold your hand, my lord:/I have served you ever since I was a child;/But better service have I never done you/Than now to bid you hold." (3.7)
Speaker: Servant

17.
Quote: "I have no way, and therefore want no eyes;/I stumbled when I saw: full oft ‘tis seen,/Our means secure us, and our mere defects/Prove our commodities. O dear son Edgar,/The food of thy abused father’s wrath! Might I but live to see thee in my touch,/I’d say I had eyes again." (4.1)
Speaker: Gloucester

18.
Quote: "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods./They kill us for their sport." (4.1)
Speaker: Gloucester

19.
Quote: "Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile:/Filths savor but themselves. What have you done?/Tigers, not daughters, what have you performed?/A father, and a gracious aged man,/whose reverence even the head-lugged bear would lick,/Most barbarous, most degenerate! have you madded./…If that heavens do not their visible spirits/Send quickly down to tame these vile offences,/It will come,/Humanity must perforce prey on itself,/Like monsters of the deep." (4.2)
Speaker: Albany

20.
Quote: "You are much deceived: in nothing am I changed/But in my garments." (4.6)
Speaker: Edgar

21.
Quote: "Hadst thou been aught but gossamer, feathers, air,/So many fathom down precipitating,/Thouedst shivered like an egg; but thou dost breathe;/Hast heavy substance; bleed’st not; speak’st; art sound./Ten masts at each make not the altitude/Which thou hast perpendicularly fell:/Thy life’s a miracle. Speak yet again." (4.6)
Speaker: Edgar

22.
Quote: "What, art mad? A man may see how this world/goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond/justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear:/change places; and handy-dandy,/which is the justice, which is the thief? Thou hast seen a farmer’s dog bark at/a beggar?... And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst/behold the great image of authority: a dog’s/obeyed in office." (4.6)
Speaker: King Lear

23.
Quote: "To both these sisters have I sworn my love;/Each jealous of the other, as the stung/Are of the adder. Which of them shall I take? Both? one? or neither? Neither can be enjoyed/If both remain alive:…/…As for the mercy/Which he intends to Lear and to Cordelia,/The battle done, and they within our power,/Shall never see his pardon; for my state/Stands on me to defend, not to debate." (5.1)
Speaker: Edmund

24.
Quote: "We are not the first/Who, with best meaning, have incurred the worst./For thee, oppressed king, am I cast down;/Myself could else out-frown false fortune’s frown." (5.3)
Speaker: Cordelia

25.
Quote: "The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices/Make instruments to plague us." (5.3)
Speaker: Edgar