‘that future strife may be prevented now’ - lear, 1.1
‘which of you shall say doth love us most?’ - lear, 1.1
‘but now our joy, what can you say to draw a third more opulent than your sisters’ - lear, 1.1
‘nothing will come of nothing’ - lear, 1.1
‘here i disclaim all my paternal care, propinquity and property of blood’ - lear, 1.1
‘as thou my sometime daughter’ - lear, 1.1
‘peace kent, come not between the dragon and his wrath’ - lear, 1.1
‘i loved her most, and thought to set my rest on her kind nursery’ - lear, 1.1
‘the bow is bent and drawn’ - lear, 1.1
‘but now her price is fallen’ - lear, 1.1
‘does any here know me?’ - lear, 1.4
‘whoisit that can tell me whoIam?’ - lear, 1.4
‘ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend, more hideous when thou show’st thee in a child than a sea-monster’ - lear, 1.4
‘lear, lear, lear! beat at this gate and let thy folly in’ - lear, 1.4
‘into her womb convey sterility, dry up her organs of increase’ - lear, 1.4
‘how sharper than a serpents tooth it is to have a thankless child' - lear, 1.4
'monster ingratitude' - lear, 1.4
'keep me in temper, i would not be mad' - lear, 1.5
‘if thou should’st not be glad, I would divorce me from thy mother’s tomb, sepulchring an adultress’ - lear, 2.4
'sharp toothed unkindness' - lear, 2.4
‘necessity’s sharp pinch' - lear, 2.4
‘but yet thou art my flesh, my books, my daughter or rather a disease that’s in my flesh, which I must needs call mine’ - lear, 2.4
‘o reason not the need! our basest beggars are in the poorest things superfluous; allow not nature more than nature needs, man’s life is cheap as a beast’s’ - lear, 2.4
‘but for true need- you heavens, give me that patience, patience I need’ - lear, 2.4
‘crack nature’s moulds, all germans spill at once' - lear, 3.2
‘here I stand, your slave, a poor, infirm, weak and despised old man’ - lear, 3.2
‘no, I will be the pattern of all patience, I will say nothing’ - lear, 3.2
‘I am a man more sinned against than sinning' - lear, 3.2
‘how dost my boy? art cold?’ - lear, 3.2
‘this tempest in my mind’ - lear, 3.4
'filialingratitude' - lear, 3.4
‘poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are. that bide the pelting of this pitiless storm’ - lear, 3.4
‘take physic, pomp, expose thyself to feel what wretches feel that thou mayst shake the superflux to them and show the heavens more just’ - lear, 3.4
‘have his daughters brought him too this pass?’ - lear, 3.4
‘Those pelican daughters’ - lear, 3.4
‘Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.’ - lear, 3.4