“O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry house is better than this, rain-water out o’door. Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters’ blessing; here’s a night pities neither wise men nor fools.” #kinglear_2025
“Shut up your doors: He is attended with a desperate train; And what they may incense him to, being apt To have his ear abus’d, wisdom bids fear.” #kinglear_2025
“O, sir, you are old; Nature in you stands on the very verge Of her confine: you should be rul’d, and led By some discretion that discerns your state Better than yourself.” #kinglear_2025
“Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed, And my invention thrive, Edmund the base Shall top th’legitimate. I grow, I prosper. Now, gods, stand up for bastards.” #kinglear_2025
“but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values most; for equalities are so weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice of either’s moiety.” #kinglear_2025
