King Lear (Modern, Folio)

Introduction
2. Textual Introduction
Texts of this edition
1. King Lear (Folio, 1623)
3. Modern
5. Extended modern
7. Old-spelling transcription
8. King Lear (Quarto 1, 1608)
10. Modern
12. Extended modern
14. Old-spelling transcription
15. King Lear (Quarto 2, 1619)
17. Old-spelling transcription
Contextual materials
1. Sources for the Lear story
3. Holinshed on King Lear
5. The History of King Leir
7. Albion's England (Selection)
9. Hardyng's Chronicle (Selection)
11. Kings of Britain
13. Chronicles of England
15. Faerie Queene
17. The Mirror for Magistrates
18. Sources for the Gloucester plot
20. The Arcadia
22. A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures
23. Literary, political, and social contexts
25. Aristotle on tragedy
27. The Book of Job (Selections)
29. The Monk's Tale (Selections)
31. The Defense of Poetry
33. The First Blast of the Trumpet
35. Basilicon Doron
37. On Bastards
39. On Aging
40. King Lear's afterlife
42. King Lear (Adapted by Nahum Tate)
Facsimiles

[Scene 8 in Quarto]
 3.1.0.116143.1
 3.1.0.21615Storm still. Enter Kent [disguised] and a Gentleman, separately.
 3.1.11616Kent
 Who's there besides foul weather?
 3.1.21617Gentleman
 One minded like the weather, most unquietly.
 3.1.31618Kent
 I know you. Where's the King?
 3.1.41619Gentleman
 Contending with the fretful elements;
 3.1.51620Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea,
 3.1.61621Or swell the curlèd waters 'bove the main
 3.1.7162229That things might change or cease.29.1
 1623Kent
 That things might change or cease.  But who is with him?
 3.1.81624Gentleman
 None but the Fool, who labors to out-jest
 3.1.91625His heart-struck injuries.
 1626Kent
 His heart-struck injuries.  Sir, I do know you,
 3.1.101627And dare upon the warrant of my note
 3.1.111628Commend a dear thing to you. There is division,
 3.1.121629Although as yet the face of it is covered
 3.1.131630With mutual cunning, twixt Albany and Cornwall,
 3.1.141631Who have--as who have not that their great stars
 3.1.151632Throned and set high?--servants who seem no less,
 3.1.161633Which are to France the spies and speculations
 3.1.171634Intelligent of our state. What hath been seen,
 3.1.181635Either in snuffs and packings of the dukes,
 3.1.191636Or the hard rein which both of them hath born
 3.1.201637Against the old kind King, or something deeper,
 3.1.211638Whereof, perchance, these are but furnishings.
 3.1.221639Gentleman
 I will talk further with you.
 1640Kent
 I will talk further with you.  No, do not.
 3.1.231641For confirmation that I am much more
 3.1.241642Than my out-wall, open this purse and take
 3.1.251643What it contains. If you shall see Cordelia,
 3.1.261644As fear not but you shall, show her this ring,
 3.1.271645And she will tell you who that fellow is
 3.1.281646That yet you do not know. Fie on this storm.
 3.1.291647I will go seek the King.
 1648Gentleman
 I will go seek the King.  Give me your hand.
 3.1.301649Have you no more to say?
 3.1.311650Kent
 Few words but to effect more than all yet,
 3.1.321651That when we have found the King--in which your pain
 3.1.331652That way, I'll this--he that first lights on him
 3.1.341653Holla the other.
 3.1.34.131Exeunt [separately].31.1

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