 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 526 pages
...wert my Fool, nuncle, I'd have thee beaten for being old before thy time. Lear. How's that ? . Fool. Thou should'st not have been old before — ^thou...been wise. Lear. O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet leaven ! Keep me in temper : I would not be mad ! — Enter Gentleman. How now ! Are the horses ready... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1863 - 382 pages
...beaten for being old before thy tune. Lear. How 's that ? Fool. Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. Lear. O let me not be mad, not...horses ready ! Gent. Ready, my lord. Lear. Come, boy. ACT IL SCENE L — A Court within the Castle of the EARL OP GLOSTER. Enter EDMUND, and CUBAN, meeting.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 868 pages
...thou wert my fool, nuncio, I'd have thee beaten for being old before thy time. LEAH. How's that? FOOL. Eeady, my lord. LEAR. Come, boy. FOOL. She that's a maid now, and laughs at my departure, Shall not... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...his head in ; not to give it away to his daughters, and leave his horns without a case. — Sc. 5. Lear. O ! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I would not be mad ! — Id. Cornwall. Why art thou angry ? Kent. That such a slave as this should wear a sword, Who wears... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 168 pages
...beaten for being old before thy time. Lear. How's that ? Fool. Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. Lear. O let me not be mad, not...horses ready ? ; Gent. Ready, my lord. Lear. Come, boy. [Exeunt. 1 To take't again perforce /] Lear perhaps here refers to Goneril's threat: ' Be then desired... | |
 | Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 116 pages
...to drive his master mad. At the end of the Act Lear has his first serious premonition of insanity: O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper: I would not be mad ! The second great shock comes in the second act when Lear f1nds Kent in the stocks. This causes the... | |
 | Lillian Feder - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 356 pages
...himself overwhelmed by his own impulses and emotions. He struggles for psychic control, but his cry: O! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! (i, v, 47-48) is an acknowledgement of unknown forces within which have begun to undermine his customary... | |
 | Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz, Gayle Greene, Carol Thomas Neely - Feminism and literature - 1980 - 364 pages
...Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws Or ere I'll weep. O Fool, I shall go mad! (11.iv. 279-83) O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! (1^.45-46) It is not Lear who annihilates his enemies, calling down curses on the reproductive organs... | |
 | Dieter Mehl - Drama - 1986 - 286 pages
...overwhelming experience, an experience too radical to be absorbed by the usual process of mental adjustment: O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! (1.5.43-4) Unlike Othello, Lear is so completely uprooted by his disillusioning experience that the... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - English literature - 1989 - 370 pages
...beaten for being old before thy time. Lear: How's that? Fool: Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. Lear: O, let me not be mad,...sweet heaven! Keep me in temper: I would not be mad. (Lv.37-51) Nor may we sidestep the Fool's relationship with the developing tradition that looms behind... | |
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Lear. O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper : I would not be mad ! — Enter Gentleman. 
