before the Court;Globe;Whitehall;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Gent. | Gen.
Words
676
Characters
3634
Typicality
0.14 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A11978
BritDrama no.
1486
Cluster
Cluster 10 — Mourners, mothers & doleful voices
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 10 (earine, jarbus, alack, vapours, mishap, hapless…). Matches are highlighted.
there she shook, The holy water from her heavenly eyes, And clamour moistened her, then away she started, To deal with grief alone. No. No, since. Why good sir? Alack poor Gentleman. 'Tis so they are a foot. Oh here he is, lay hands upon him sirs, your most deer You shall have any thing. You are a royal one, and we obey you.
Full speech
Yes Madam. He's coming Madam I hear him. Very well Madam. One minded Like the weather most unquietly. Contending with the fretful element, Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters above the main That things might change or cease, tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts with eyles rage Catch in their fury, and make nothing of, Strives in his little world of man to outscorne, The too and from conflicting wind and rain, This night wherein the cub-drawne Bear would couch, The Lion, and the belly pinched Wolf Keep their surre dry, unbonneted he runs, And bids what will take all. None but the fool, who labours to out-iest His heart struck injuries. I will talk farther with you. Give mey our hand, have you no more to say? Oh my good Lord the Duke of Cornwals dead, slain by his servant, going to put out the other eye of Gloucester. Both, both my Lord, this letter Madam craves a speedy answer, 'Tis from your sister. Come with my Lady hither. No my good Lord I met him back again. I my good Lord it he informed against him, And quit the house on purpose that there punishment Might have the freer course. Something he left imperfect in the state, which since his coming forth is thought of, which imports to the Kingdom, So much fear and danger that his personal return was most re quired and necessary. The Marshal of France Monsieur la Far. I say she took them, read them in my presence, And now and then and ample tear trilled down Her delicate cheek, it seemed she was a queen over her passion, Who most rebel-like, sought to be King over her. Not to a rage, patience and sorrow stream, Who should express her goodliest you have seen, Sun shine and rain at once, her smiles and tears, Were Like a better way those happy smilets, That played on her ripe lip seem not to know, What guests were in her eyes which parted thence, As pearls from diamonds dropped in brief, Sorrow would be a rarity most beloved, If all could so become it. Faith once or twice she heaved the name of father, Pantingly forth as if it pressed her heart, Cried sisters, sisters, shame of Ladies sisters: Kenned, father, sisters, what ith storm ith night, Let pity not be beleeft there she shook, The holy water from her heavenly eyes, And clamour moistened her, then away she started, To deal with grief alone. No. No, since. Why good sir? Alack poor Gentleman. 'Tis so they are a foot. Oh here he is, lay hands upon him sirs, your most deer You shall have any thing. You are a royal one, and we obey you. A sighed most pitiful in the meanest wretch, passed spea king of in a king: thou hast one daughter who redeems nature from the general curse which twain hath brought her to. Sir speed you, whats your will. Most sure and vulgar every one here's that That can distinguish sense. Near and on speed fort the main descries, Standest on the hourly thoughts. Though that the Queen on special cause is here, His army is moved on. Good madam be by, when we do awake him I doubt not of his temperance. Holds it true sir that the Duke of Cornwall was so slain? Who is conductor of his people? They say Edgar his banished son is with the Earl of Kenned in Germany. The arbiterment is Like to be bloody, fare you well sir. Help, help, Its hight it smokes, it came even from the heart of Your Lady sir, your Lady, and her sister By her is poisoned, she hath confessed it. A servant that he bred, thralled with remorse, Opposed against the act, bending his sword To his great master, who thereat enraged Flew on him, and amongst them, felled him dead, But not without that harmful stroke, which since Hath plucked him after.
Plot summary
Plot — King Lear
King Lear intends to divide his kingdom between his sons-in-law: they will become the effective rulers, while he remains titular king with a retinue of knights, residing with each by monthly turns. His elder daughters, Goneril and Regan, are already married to dukes of the north and west of Britain; his youngest, Cordelia, is being courted by two suitors from mainland Europe. Lear requires that each daughter make a public statement of her love for him, to determine her merit and therefore her share of the kingdom. Goneril and Regan give it their all, but Cordelia refuses to make a self-serving and insincere statement which will encroach on the rights of her future husband. In consequence, she gets nothing, and the Earl of Kent is banished when he tries to intervene; the King of France marries her anyway, without a dowry. Kent stays in the kingdom, disguises himself, and gets himself a place in Lear’s service. Lear proves a difficult house-guest, and Goneril an ungracious hostess. When she asks him to reduce his retinue, he angrily moves on early to stay with Regan. Father and daughter both send letters ahead to explain the situation, carried by Kent and Oswald respectively; Goneril’s messenger meets with a better reception. Kent brawls with Oswald and is put in the stocks, which offends Lear when he arrives, closely followed by Goneril. The two daughters demand progressively greater diminutions in the number of Lear’s knights. Rather than stay with either of them, he furiously goes out into a storm, and goes mad. Meanwhile, Edmund the bastard, envious of his legitimate brother Edgar, uses a forged letter to persuade their father, the Earl of Gloucester, that Edgar is plotting to murder him. He induces Edgar to flee as if he were guilty. Edgar evades the hue and cry, disguises himself as a beggar, Poor Tom, and meets Lear in a hovel. The French army lands in Britain near Dover. Kent sends a gentleman with a message to Cordelia, and Gloucester confides in Edmund that he has received secret information about the invasion. He goes out into the storm to help Lear, disobeying Cornwall’s orders to the contrary, and helps him to escape onto the Dover road to join Cordelia and the French. Edmund betrays his father and is created Earl of Gloucester; Cornwall sends him to liaise with Albany about war preparations. The elder Gloucester is arrested, interrogated, and blinded, despite a servant’s efforts to save him; Cornwall is wounded in the struggle, and…