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King Lear
[I, 3] |
(stage directions) |
504 |
Enter Goneril and [her] Steward [Oswald].
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King Lear
[I, 4] |
Lear |
571 |
Follow me; thou shalt serve me. If I like thee no worse after
dinner, I will not part from thee yet. Dinner, ho, dinner!
Where's my knave? my fool? Go you and call my fool hither.
[Exit an attendant.]
[Enter [Oswald the] Steward.]
You, you, sirrah, where's my daughter?
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3 |
King Lear
[I, 4] |
Lear |
602 |
No more of that; I have noted it well. Go you and tell my
daughter I would speak with her. [Exit Knight.] Go you, call
hither my fool.
[Exit an Attendant.]
[Enter [Oswald the] Steward.]
O, you, sir, you! Come you hither, sir. Who am I, sir?
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4 |
King Lear
[I, 4] |
Goneril |
844 |
Pray you, content.- What, Oswald, ho!
[To the Fool] You, sir, more knave than fool, after your master!
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5 |
King Lear
[I, 4] |
Goneril |
852 |
This man hath had good counsel! A hundred knights?
'Tis politic and safe to let him keep
At point a hundred knights; yes, that on every dream,
Each buzz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike,
He may enguard his dotage with their pow'rs
And hold our lives in mercy.- Oswald, I say!
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6 |
King Lear
[I, 4] |
Goneril |
859 |
Safer than trust too far.
Let me still take away the harms I fear,
Not fear still to be taken. I know his heart.
What he hath utter'd I have writ my sister.
If she sustain him and his hundred knights,
When I have show'd th' unfitness- [Enter [Oswald the] Steward.]
How now, Oswald?
What, have you writ that letter to my sister?
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7 |
King Lear
[I, 4] |
Goneril |
868 |
Take you some company, and away to horse!
Inform her full of my particular fear,
And thereto add such reasons of your own
As may compact it more. Get you gone,
And hasten your return. [Exit Oswald.] No, no, my lord!
This milky gentleness and course of yours,
Though I condemn it not, yet, under pardon,
You are much more at task for want of wisdom
Than prais'd for harmful mildness.
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8 |
King Lear
[II, 2] |
(stage directions) |
1074 |
Enter Kent and [Oswald the] Steward, severally.
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9 |
King Lear
[II, 4] |
Regan |
1472 |
I know't- my sister's. This approves her letter,
That she would soon be here.
[Enter [Oswald the] Steward.]
Is your lady come?
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10 |
King Lear
[II, 4] |
Lear |
1502 |
Return to her, and fifty men dismiss'd?
No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
To wage against the enmity o' th' air,
To be a comrade with the wolf and owl-
Necessity's sharp pinch! Return with her?
Why, the hot-blooded France, that dowerless took
Our youngest born, I could as well be brought
To knee his throne, and, squire-like, pension beg
To keep base life afoot. Return with her?
Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter
To this detested groom. [Points at Oswald.]
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11 |
King Lear
[III, 7] |
Duke of Cornwall |
2127 |
Leave him to my displeasure. Edmund, keep you our sister
company. The revenges we are bound to take upon your traitorous
father are not fit for your beholding. Advise the Duke where you
are going, to a most festinate preparation. We are bound to the
like. Our posts shall be swift and intelligent betwixt us.
Farewell, dear sister; farewell, my Lord of Gloucester. [Enter Oswald the Steward.]
How now? Where's the King?
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12 |
King Lear
[III, 7] |
Duke of Cornwall |
2142 |
Edmund, farewell. [Exeunt Goneril, Edmund, and Oswald.]
Go seek the traitor Gloucester,
Pinion him like a thief, bring him before us. [Exeunt other Servants.]
Though well we may not pass upon his life
Without the form of justice, yet our power
Shall do a court'sy to our wrath, which men
May blame, but not control. [Enter Gloucester, brought in by two or three.]
Who's there? the traitor?
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13 |
King Lear
[IV, 2] |
Goneril |
2338 |
Welcome, my lord. I marvel our mild husband
Not met us on the way. [Enter Oswald the Steward.]
Now, where's your master?
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14 |
King Lear
[IV, 5] |
(stage directions) |
2550 |
Enter Regan and [Oswald the] Steward.
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15 |
King Lear
[IV, 6] |
(stage directions) |
2843 |
Enter [Oswald the] Steward.
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16 |
King Lear
[IV, 6] |
(stage directions) |
2866 |
[Oswald falls.]
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